Evansville-Owensboro Section (Part of Region 3)

The UE Engineers Week Banquet will be held at 6:00PM in EyKamp Hall in the Ridgway Center.   The dress is business casual.  There will be door prize drawings.

Speaker:

Butch Shadwell

Butch Shadwell has been working in electronics since he was 12 years old.  Starting with vacuum tube technology, he has designed systems through the evolution of transistors, SSI, MSI, and LSI.  In his extraordinary career he has worked with almost every kind of technology in the electronics industry.  Including applied R&D in nuclear medicine, opto-electronics, electronic warfare, robotics, industrial automation, machine vision, artificial intelligence, digital television, special sensors and embedded microcontrollers. A senior member of the IEEE, for the last fifteen years Mr. Shadwell has been authoring the Brain Teaser Challenge, a monthly humorous column with a technical challenge inside.  It is published in a number of IEEE newsletters and magazines worldwide.   He has conducted sponsored research at Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Institute and received over $1.5 million in grants for his work in machine vision.  For the past ten years he has had a successful consulting practice developing new technologies for over a dozen companies.  His clients include multi-billion dollar companies, and as an active volunteer in IEEE has been a featured speaker at many universities, sections, and student branches around Region 3 and Jamaica.