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March 27th Dinner/Meeting The guest speaker of the March 27th, 2008 meeting was Dr. Yan Fernandez an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Fernandez topic was "The Spitzer Space Telescope's View of the Solar System." The Spitzer Space Telescope is one of NASA's four Great Telescopes and is designed to provide an unprecedented infrared view of our Solar System. The Spitzer telescope was launched in 2003 and placed in an orbit around the sun that trails the earth in it's orbit. In the 1500 hours of observation time the telescope has observed near Earth asteroids, unusual comments, icy asteroids beyond Neptune and the cloud of dust that forms in the wake behind the earth's voyage through space. Dr. Fernadez indicated that the hydrogen on the telescope will only last through next year, but NASA has a replacement telescope with improved sensitivity and range in development to replace the Spitzer when it reaches it's end of life. Life Member Tour to Flager Emergency Center The Daytona Section's Live
Member Chairman Ron Gedney, has arranged a tour of the new Flagler
Emergency Center on April 30 at 10:30 AM. This will be a great
opportunity to see the latest in communications equipment and how our
emergency services work. For more information contact R on Gedney
at (386) 478-1204 or email r.gedney@ieee.org.
GAVRT Workshop Presentation
On April 9, 2008 Dr. Diane Sartore, a teacher at the Pine Ridge High School in Deltona, Florida provided a lecture on the remote operational capability of the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope at Emery Riddle University. The Goldstone Radio Telescope was at one time was NASA's premier radio telescope for tracking deep space probes. A few years ago NASA decommissioned the telescope and turned it over to the Lewis Center for Educational Research. The Lewis Center periodically conducts workshops to provide educators with hands on operation of the Goldstone Telescope. This program known as GAVRT permits graduates to schedule several hours a year on the telescope. During this observation time the user can remotely gather and reduce the collected data. Diane recently completed the GAVRT program and demonstrated how this remote data collection capability can be applied in the secondary class room environment. A
computer Society Chapter to be affiliated with the Daytona IEEE Section
is still in the organizational stage. To be a member you must
hold membership in both the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.
If you can meet this requirement, and wish to join, contact Dr.
Tim Wilson at |
Welcome to the Daytona Section of
the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). Small Radio Telescope
Project
In
February the Small Radio Telescope (SRT) Program, funded by the IEEE
Life Member Committee, placed the initial purchase orders necessary to
obtain a commercial small radio telescope instrument.
The purpose of the SRT Program is to acquire, assemble and calibrate a small radio telescope and then deploy this device in a comprehensive educational and scientific research programs. At the SRT meeting on March 27th it was decided acquire a multiple cavity narrowband filter and have it added to the antenna system between the antenna feed and the Low Noise Amplifier. Minutes of the March 27 meeting can be found in the SRT Program page of this website. SoutheastCon 2008
On April 4th through 6th, Tracy Wichmann and Charlie Husbands attended the IEEE SoutheastCon2008 in Huntsville, Alabama. SoutheastCon brings together representatives of all the IEEE sections within the southeastern portion of the United States and the country of Jamaica. In addition to conducting Region 3 business a large parallel portion of the conference is dedicated to competitive IEEE Student Branch activities. The IEEE Student Branch from Emery Riddle Aeronautical University represented the Daytona Area in the robotic contest. This year the team was extremely competitive and managed to successfully work their way into fourth position in a field of forty one competitors. The Daytona Section is proud of their success. Representatives of the team will discuss their robot and the challenge at the IEEE Dayton Section's April dinner/meeting on April 24, 2008. Details on this presentation can be found on the Calendar of Events page of this website. Future Meeting Dates
The scheduled meeting
date for the remainder of the 2007-2008 Season Calendar year
is:
April 24th, September 25th, October 23rd, and December 2nd.
Please mark your calendar.
Changes of meeting dates or
location, if necessary, will be posted on this
website.
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