It has been my pleasure to serve as your IEEE Piedmont Section Chair for the past two years. I believe that we have accomplished a lot, especially with respect to the section's involvement with engineering students during my terms. I would like to thank all of you who gave me your support. I encourage you all to make an effort to become more involved within the engineering community and to help promote engineering as an honorable and respected career path for all young people. I ask that you please support Jerry Clark in his new role as the 2007 Piedmont Section Chair, Louis Hapeshis as Vice Chair, and our new Secretary/Treasurer, Owen Parks. Thank you again for allowing me to serve and have a Happy New Year!
As usual, we're starting off our New Year with our annual Student Paper Competition. Each year our section sponsors a competition between the students in our section. Usually, the students come from Clemson; however, this is not part of the rules. It can be any student member of the Piedmont Section of the IEEE in an EE type of undergraduate program (i.e. Computer Engineering is ok also). We devote one of our meetings to this competition where the students are to present their paper to the people present. There will be a few members who will volunteer as judges, which will make the final call on placement. There are cash prizes awarded to the first, second, and third placeholders. The students are judged on more than technical content. The categories (weight) are:
The top placeholder is invited to take their presentation to the next level of competition where they will compete against others from around the region. This is a great chance for the students to get a feel for speaking about their profession in front of a group of their peers without the pressure of a job loss or other pressure and for members of the section to get the scoop on new and emerging technologies. We encourage discussion on how the speaker has done and can potentially improve on his/her speaking skills. Please make a point to come out to support our young IEEE professionals.
Dinner will be served in classic college style with multiple varieties of pizzas. The meeting will be held on the campus of Clemson University in the EIB building. The building is to the back and right of the ECE department building. Dinner is free for students, $5 for non-students.
Meeting Details:
6:30pm Dinner/Social 1/2 Hour
7:00pm Meeting begins
Please email Louis Hapeshis or Jerry Clark if you plan to attend and
especially
if you plan to eat. We will be ordering the pizza's and need to know how
many
to buy.
Jerry's email address is: jclark89@hotmail.com
Louis' email
address
is: louis.hapeshis@us.schneider-electric.com
Directions from Anderson or Greenville: turn left on Hwy 93 (either from Hwy 123 or Hwy 76). Come to the second light (from Hwy 76) and make a left. Proceed straight through the stop sign and follow the road around a slight left curve. Straight through another stop sign and the ECE building is straight ahead. After making a sharp right turn, take the next left. Down to the end of this road, the EIB building is across the street. It is marked the "Fluor Daniel Building". Parking passes will be provided inside the meeting room #132.
Directions from Seneca: Exit on Hwy 76 from Hwy 123. Follow the above directions from there.
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Partial Officer List (full list is online):
CHAIR:
Jerry Clark
(864) 918-2535
jclark89@hotmail.com
VICE-CHAIR:
Louis Hapeshis
(864)886-1383
louis.hapeshis@us.schneider-electric.com
Secretary/Treasurer:
Owen Parks
Owen.Parks@us.schneider-electric.com