Toledo Section Activities

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Engineers Week Banquet

This year's Engineers Week Banquet will be on Thursday February 23 2012 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Perrysburg, 6:00pm to 9:30pm. The cost will be $20 for IEEE Toledo members.

The banquet speaker is Dr. Rickey J. Shyne , Director of the Facilities and Test Directorate, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland.

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Cloud Computing Lecture Will Be On Feb 29 2012

There will be a distinguished lecture on Cloud Computing by Dr. Mazin Yousif on February 29 from 5:30pm to 9:00pm. The lecture will take place at the Electrical Industries Building (TECA Office),727 Lime City Road, Rossford, Ohio. This lecture counts for 1 PDH. The cost for this event (including dinner) is $20 for members and guests and $10 for students.

Dinner includes meat and cheese lasagna, chicken marsala, green beans with red pepper strips, yellow and orange carrots, tossed salad with ranch and french dressing, garlic bread, fudge brownies and assorted soft drinks.

Further details on the lecture topic and the speaker can be found in this flyer. Please make your reservation by Wednesday February 22.

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IEEE 2011 Institute Night was on November 10

This year's featured speaker was Jeffrey Liedel.

Jeff Liedel, CIO of OnStar, provided an overview of the Mobile Applications at General Motors and OnStar. He discussed the technologies used to provide these services and the benefits of mobile applications and a connected vehicle. The technology and benefits of connecting the Chevrolet Volt, an Electric Vehicle with Extended Range, to a nationwide Smart Grid was presented.

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