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Volume 51-9 September 2007 |
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Newsletter of the Central Texas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Published monthly (Deadline for inclusion is the 25th day of the previous month). Dawn Roberson, Editor, (robersondj@ieee.org). Have a question or comment? Contact us. Central Texas Section calendar IEEE Intl Conference on Image Processing 2007 (ICIP) will be held Sept 16-19 in San Antonio. The Call for Papers can be found on the conference website.
2007 IEEE Intl Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER) will be held Sept 17-20 in Austin. https://www.cluster2007.org
2007 8th IEEE/ACM Intl Conference on Grid Computing (GRID) will be held 19-21 Sept at the Omni Hotel in Austin. https://www.grid2007.org
2007 Power Architecture Developer Conference (first ever!) will be held 24-25 Sept in Austin. Austin Convention Ctr https://www.power.org/devcon/07
2007 IEEE International Workshop on Microprocessor Test and Verification (MTV) will be held 2-5 Dec in Austin. https://mtv.ece.ucsb.edu/MTV/
2008 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2008) will be held in Austin Feb 24-28. (no website listed)
2008 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC) will be held in San Antonio on Sept 3-5. https://www.elet.polimi.it/conferences/msc08/
Are you a PE and need your annual Ethics PDH? The Bexar Chapter TSPE October meeting, titled "Public Health, Safety, Welfare and the Environment... Responsibilities of the Engineer," will count for that credit. October 1, 11:30a-1p, at LaVillita Assembly Bldg (CPS Round House). $20 for TSPE members and $40 for non-members. RSVP to Paula Frost (210 372-1315) or pfrost@frostgeosciences.com. Reservations required! If you're interested in more presentations in Austin, the Austin Chamber has started a newsletter, called "TechBytes from the Human Capital”. Free signup at www.austinhumancapital.com.
IEEE Activities and Links Calls for Papers To contribute information to this electronic newsletter, please send it by e-mail to robersondj@ieee.org. |
3. IEEE Info
August was a busy month in Central Texas Section. There was the IEEE 2007 International Engineering Management Conference (IEMC), the Signal Processing and Communications Chapter’s Wireless Hive Network Symposium and the Central Texas Section 2007 fall planning meeting. All of this activity was lead by IEEE volunteers just like you and each was a big success.
At the Section fall planning meeting, I took the opportunity to recognize Sherry Gillespie. She has been a wonderful leader for the Central Texas Section and will now have even greater influence during her year in Washington serving as an adviser to members of the U.S. Congress. Sherry was chosen to serve as the 2008 IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow and will begin her fellowship in January.
Upcoming opportunities include the IEEE USA 2007 Annual Meeting, "Capitalizing on Global Opportunities,” over Labor Day weekend in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the Maker Faire is coming to Austin in October, 2007.
Be sure to consult the Central Texas Section Website, https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ for meetings, conference dates, and news, and try the myIEEE at https://www.ieee.org. It is a portal to IEEE services and products customized to your specific membership profile.
Thanks to all who volunteer their time and skill to the Central Texas Section of IEEE. Please let me know how I can help you participate.
Clif Denny Chairman Central Texas Section
c.denny@ieee.org
An upgraded BRAIN for the BEST computers! The CTS Board was approached to donate some money to the San Antonio BEST organizers. As a result of this donation, they have prototyped a new controller platform (now called BEST Robotics Advanced Instruction Node) and is now quite mature. The first example robots were built in the Spring and a prototype competition (May 5th at Auburn University) of the 2007 game was held with 3 of the robots using the prototype controllers. Some changes were made from this event, and improvements added for the first production run. This development was all done by volunteer efforts since last October/November when IEEE and AIAA provided funds for production of the first few printed circuit boards. These new functions will not be used in this Fall's competitions (not everyone got the upgrade), but will be available for experimentation by the student groups.
The cost to the student groups has not changed significantly, which was the intent for the upgraded capability. As IEEE members, we contribute to society in many ways - some this way, and Austin BEST is looking for mentors for the Fall competitions (see Calls for volunteers) - put together a team of mentors, and have fun with the student groups!
New Affinity Group CTS officially now has a Life Members Affinity Group. Scott Atkinson is listed as chair. Please contact him if you need more details about meetings. I heard a rumor that it will be in mid-August. Stay tuned for more details!
San Antonio Engineering Management Society Chapter We are in the process of collecting the needed signatures on a petition to form a San Antonio EMS Chapter (which will become a San Antonio Technology Management Council on January 1st). If you are an EMS member and have not already signed the petition, please contact Nils Smith at nils.smith@ieee.org. NEED CEUs? The University of Texas at Austin offers a wide array of continuing engineering education opportunities geared towards Texas engineers. All of the training awards continuing education units (CEUs) which Texas PEs are now required to submit for their annual renewal. We event boast CEU Conferences where you can get all required 1.5 CEUs – including 1 hour of engineering ethics – in just a few days! Visit www.UTclee.org for more information.
The student branches presented great plans for
the upcoming academic year at our fall planning meeting. Many discussed
re-invigorating their robotics contests and collaborating with neighboring
branches. There may be many opportunities for members to work with students
as guest speakers or hosting tours. We also generated interested in organizing
Student Professional Awareness Conferences (S-PAC). Each school expressed
gratitude for Central Texas Section's continued financial support. St Mary's University -
San Antonio (for
more information) Trinity University - San Antonio Faculty Adviser: Farzan Aminian, email: farzan@engr.trinity.edu Branch President: Katherine Avakian, email: Katherine.avakian@trinity.edu
University of
Texas at
Austin (for
more information) University of Texas at San Antonio (for more information) Faculty Adviser: Yufang
Jin, Email:
Yufang.Jin@utsa.edu
Austin BEST needs mentors! On September 15th teams from 20 area high schools will receive a box of parts and a challenge: within six weeks, transform these parts into a radio-controlled robot capable of completing a task while competing against the other teams. The teams rely on the guidance and experience of technical professionals like you. As a mentor, you spend a few hours per week helping teams through the engineering process. For more information contact: Joe Brown Joe.Brown@freescale.com Mentor Coordinator. For more details on the competition, try www.capitol-best.org.
Maker Faire Austin The Austin Children's Museum is pleased to help present the first-ever Maker Faire Austin on Saturday, October 21 and Sunday October 22 at the Travis County Expo Center. Organizers were delighted with the response to mid-July auditions and meetings with potential participating organizations. They expect 200 makers and 30-40 sponsors and commercial exhibitors to be involved and up to 25,000 people to attend. If your company would like to participate, register at www.makerfaire.com. If you would like to volunteer,
Multiple Chapters Joint Circuits and Systems/Solid-State Circuits Topic or Presentation Title: Vacuum Nanoelectronics/THz Sources Speaker: Dr Mark Eaton Date and Time: Tuesday, Sept 11 , 6:30PM Cost: Reservations: not required Meeting Location: UT Campus - ACES 2.402 Auditorium
This month we are pleased to
have Dr. Mark Eaton present on vacuum
nanoelectronics using cold cathode field emission to generate direct current
in vacuum in a variety of useful devices. A number of applications have
been developed in displays, microscopy sources and miniature X-ray tubes,
while others are being researched in novel sensor applications, imaging and
MEMS. Field emission sources will be discussed, as will some of the more
interesting applications.
The joint Circuits & Systems/Solid State Circuits Societies meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ssc_css/. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact seningen@ieee.org or dferguson@ieee.org.
Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Topic or Presentation Title: TBD Speaker: Date and Time: Thursday, September 6, 6:00-7:30pm Cost: Free 7700 W Parmer Lane, Austin 78729. The organizational meeeting was held in August, and officers elected. They are: Chair: Om P Mandhana, Freescale Treasurer: Jonathan Burnett, Freescale Technical Program Co-Chairs: Moises Cases, and Paul M Harvey, both of IBM
Computer Society - Austin [for more information] Topic or Presentation Title: Speaker: Date and Time: Wednesday, , 6:30-8:30p Cost: Free
See https://austin-cs.org/ for detailed directions and for last minute information. This presentation is open to the public.
Computer Society - San Antonio [for more information] Topic or Presentation Title: Beyond the System Shall: A Journey from Good to Great Requirements Speaker: Mike Alexander, Seilevel Date and Time: Thursday, September 20 6:30 p.m. - Networking; 7:00 p.m. - Dinner; 8 p.m. - presentation Cost: $10 members/ $2 students /$13 non-members Reservations: Email Yu Zhang by Mon, September 17, (210) 999-7399 Location: Skyline Room, Coates Center, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. Directions: Please note that we have parking instructions on the Web site. The Alamo Stadium parking is reserved for Alamo Stadium Event parking. Please check out the instructions at https://www.ieee-cs-cts.org/meeting_details.htm for the parking by Laurie Auditorium.
More information on the program is available at our Web site https://www.ieee-cs-cts.org. This meeting is open to the public - please come and see what the graduating students have been doing!
Consultants Network [for more information] Topic:
Tomorrow's Email Systems - A Crystal Ball Cost: $5.00 minimum
charge for the restaurant.. Supper is at optional extra cost
A survey of the field of competing communication systems vs. today’s protocols e.g. POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, SMAP and SMTP, with consideration of their convenience, anti-spam robustness, security and future importance
Speaker: Chris Baker, Consultant Information Technology specialist with major interest in networking A+ Microsoft Professional Certification
Please bring a colleague to help us grow the Consultants Network attendance.
The Consultants web directory is to be found at https://www.alesu.com/xltrp/ieeecons/listzero.htm Electromagnetic Compatibility Society [for more information] Topic or Presentation Title: Power distribution network design for high-speed printed circuit boards Speaker: Dr Jun Fan Date and Time: Wednesday, Sept 19, food at 6:30, speaker at 7:00 *new date* Cost: Reservations: Meeting
Location: Professional Testing, Austin EMC Laboratory,
11400 Burnet Road,
Bldg 045, 10 m chamber *new location*
Abstract: In modern high-speed digital circuit designs, power distribution network plays a very important role in maintaining signal integrity and minimizing electromagnetic radiation. This presentation will discuss PDN design objectives and strategies in multi-layer printed circuit boards, in particular decoupling capacitor selection and placement, as well as power and ground layer design.
Speaker bio: Dr. Fan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 2000. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla. In his previous life, he worked for NCR Corporation, San Diego, CA, as a Consultant Engineer from 2000 to 2007. His research interests include signal integrity and EMI designs in high-speed digital systems, dc power-bus modeling, PCB noise reduction, differential signaling, and cable/connector designs. Dr. Fan received the Conference Best Paper Award from the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society in 2000. He serves as Chair of the TC-9 Computational Electromagnetics Committee of the IEEE EMC Society.
Neither IEEE nor EMC membership is required and all visitors are invited to attend. For additional information, including map to the meeting location, please see our web site at https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/chapters/centraltexas/index.html Electron Devices Society [for more information]
Topic or Presentation Title: The needs and challenges of the $100 Laptop Speaker: Date and Time: Wed, Sept 12 - 6:30-9:30p Reservations: RSVP to nshuvalov@appliednanotech.net Meeting Location: Dell Inc, Technology Briefing Center, Parmer South 3, 701 E Parmer Lane, Austin, 78753 Directions:
This is a joint meeting with the Society for Information Display Texas Chapter.
Topic or Presentation Title: 4th Intl Symposium on Advanced Gate Stack Technology (Keynote) Speaker: Prof Hiroshi Iwai, Tokyo Inst of Technology "Gate Stack Technology for the next 25 years" Date and Time: Sept 26-28 Meeting Location: Sematech Directions: www.sematech.org/meetings/announcements/8060 Please register for the conference at the meeting location link. Engineering in Medicine and Biology {for more information]
Topic or Presentation Title: State of the College and State of BME in San Antonio Speaker: Dr C Mauli Agrawal, Dean of Engineering, UTSA Date and Time: Wed, Sept 19, 2007 6:30 p.m. - Networking; 7:00 p.m. - Dinner; 8:00 p.m. - Program Cost: $10 members/ free for students/$15 non-members Reservations: RSVP to Garrett Polhamus Meeting Location: BSE 2.102 on the UTSA campus, 1 UTSA Blvd, San Antonio Directions: Map available: www.utsa.edu/maps/1604/
Royce, Garrett and myself would like your inputs for Fall and Spring presenters! For further information, please contact Dawn Roberson, 210-458-5520. Engineering Management [for more information]
Topic or Presentation Title: Speaker: Date and Time: Wednesday, , 6:30p-8:00pm Cost: $15 includes dinner and tea or coffee RSVP: lmartinich@ieee.org Meeting Location: Echelon Building IIII, Suite 200, 9420 Research Blvd, Austin Directions: For more info: https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ems/
For other information about the Engineering Management Society activities, see the the web site: https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ems/ For information regarding chapter activities (and those wanting to volunteer), contact Leslie Martinich (leslie@competitivefocus.com) (512-423-5121). Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Topic or Presentation Title: Speaker: Date and Time: Thursday, , 6p Cost: RSVO: Jason Polendo jpolendo@ieee.org for San Antonio Meeting Location: Directions:
Laser and Electro Optics Society Topic or Presentation Title: Speaker: Date and Time: Cost: Reservations: Meeting Location: Directions: For more information, contact Ray Chen raychen@uts.cc.utexas.edu. Topic or Presentation Title: Speaker: Date and Time: Cost: Reservations: Meeting Location: Directions: For more information, contact Scott Atkinson Power Engineering Society - Austin [for more information] Topic or Presentation Title: Stat-com Power Speaker: Arastou Oskiui, Austin Energy Date and Time: Tuesday, September 25, 6-8:30 Cost: $12 IEEE Members and accompanying spouses, $15 non-IEEE members, free for full-time students Reservations: Please RSVP to Stan Friend or go to our web site at https://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/centraltexas/index.htm. Meeting Location: El Gallo Mexican Restaurant at 2910 S Congress Directions:
For further information, please contact Stan Friend Future meetings: Oct 23: Power Quality - Mike Noth and Greg Lado (Square D) November: Fayetteville Power Plant tour (field trip to La Grange, TX) Dec: no meeting - Merry Christmas
Power Engineering Society - San Antonio [for more information] Topic or Presentation Title: Low Voltage - Neural Point Clamped VFD's Speaker: Bobby Richard with Yaskawa Date and Time: Thursday, Sept 27 6:00 Social, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Program Cost: $8 members, $12 non-members, **FREE for students** (Cash only please, no checks or credit cards) Meeting Location: Grady's, 6510 San Pedro, San Antonio (210 806-8036) New location! Directions: Available on our website. Reservations: Meal: BarBQ meal includes 2 meats, 2 sides and tea/water. RSVP: Please RSVP to Steven Mouser @ 210-658-7250. For more information go to our web site at https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/centraltexas/sanantonio/index.html
As always you do not have to be an IEEE member to attend. For more information go to our web site at https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/centraltexas/sanantonio
Product Safety Engineering Society [for more information]
Topic or Presentation Title: Speaker: Date and Time: Tuesday, Time: TBD Cost: Reservations: Please RSVP if you plan to attend (see below) Meeting Location: Directions: Call Dale Ritzen (512) 651-5338 for details and directions.
We encourage you, others in your organization, or other interested parties to participate in our meetings. The PSES meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30, with the program starting at 7pm. Instead of a regular meeting in November or December, a combined monthly meeting is held in early December to allow members and guests to enjoy the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. For further information about the PSES, please contact Dale Ritzen at (512) 651-5338.
Chapter Chair: Gary Schrempp(gary_schrempp@dell.com).
Joint
Signal Processing/Communications Society [for more
information] Topic or Presentation Title: Voice and Video over Wireless Networks Speaker: Dr Jerry Gibson, University of California - Santa Barbara Date and Time: Thursday, Sept 20, 2007 at 6:30pm *special time* Cost: Free; Sandwiches and soft drinks will be served Reservations: RSVP to Steve Crowl stevenc@stedwards.edu Meeting Location: National Instruments *special location* Room 1S13 Building C 1500 N Mopac Expy, Austin, TX 78759 Directions:
https://maps.yahoo.com/index.php#q1=11500+N+Mo+Pac+Expy%2C+Austin+TX%2C+us&mag=4 Topic:
Wireless
networks are rapidly becoming part of our networking infrastructure, and
although these networks have been designed primarily with data in mind, it is
clear that they will be required to support the reliable transport of voice
and video traffic as well. While considerable work has been performed to
accommodate voice and video in these networks, there are several important
issues that are not widely recognized nor considered in the design and
analysis of these networks to support voice and video. We investigate the
transmission of voice and video traffic over IEEE 802.11a wireless local area
networks (WLANs) for a realistic fading channel model and calculate the
maximum voice capacity of a WLAN when considering transmitted bit rate,
channel conditions, throughput, payload size, retransmissions, packet loss
rate, and delivered voice quality. . Women in Engineering [for more information] Topic or Presentation Title: Speaker: Date and Time: Thursday Cost: Reservations: Meeting Location: Women in Engineering has been an Affinity Group of the Central Texas Section since the Fall of 2002. Additional information is on the WIE website at https://www.austin-wie.org..
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The series follows two teams of high school students, mentored by professional engineers, as they compete to design and build a functional machine. The show's producers at WGHB, Boston, Mass. are seeking projects that would be visually interesting, serve a client with a specific need and provide the opportunity for multiple solutions. Past projects have included building a machine that makes pancakes and designing a summer sled for LL Bean.
Ideas for new shows may be emailed to the show's executive producer, Marisa Wolsky, at "MailTo:marisa_wolsky@wgbh.org". To learn more about "Design Squad," visit <https://pbskids.org/designsquad/>. IEEE-USA Seeks Award Nominations!IEEE-USA's Awards and Recognition Committee is seeking nominations for its 2007 awards for professionalism, technical achievement and literary contributions to public awareness and understanding of the engineering profession. Because of our Web site's technical difficulties earlier in the year, the deadline for nominations has been extended to 14 September 2007. IEEE-USA Awards are given to recognize, professionalism, technical achievement and literary contributions to public awareness and understanding of the engineering profession in the United States. Professionalism is characterized by efforts which advance the standing of members in the professions served by IEEE. Example activities are: Promotion of science and math education in precollege education Promotion of professional awareness with college students Educating members on non-technical skills to advance and maintain their careers Educating the public on the positive impact of the professions served by the IEEE IEEE-USA awards include: Professionalism Robert S. Walleigh Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism Award Award for Distinguished Public Service Citation of Honor Precollege Education Committee Teacher-Engineer Partnership Award Regional/Divisional Professional Leadership Award
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Don't see an award that fits your nominee here? The IEEE has many other award categories available. Check out the following links for listings: https://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/index.html https://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/othawd.htmlFor more information, contact Sandra Kim at mailto:s.kim@ieee.org or 202-530-8330.New Search portal for science and technology – scitopia.orgScitopia.org, the free, federated search portal created by leading science and technology scholarly societies, officially launched 3 June at the Special Libraries Association's Annual Conference. The service commences with 15 participating Societies including two new partners, the American Vacuum Society and Acoustical Society of America providing users with an even broader array of high quality results to their sci-tech search queries.
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Titles Needed for Journal Legacy ProjectThe IEEE Legacy Project is an effort to digitally convert the entire back-file for each IEEE periodical beginning with the first issue. These digital archives will be loaded into IEEE Xplore improving the depth of information available to members and customers. Currently about 50,000 articles have been converted and loaded into IEEE Xplore. There are about 30,000 additional articles in the queue for scanning and digitization. However, there are gaps in the back-file materials. The following list contains all the periodical issues still being sought for this legacy project. If you have copy of any of these issues, please contact Karen McLean, Senior Product Manager, Electronic Products at +1 732 562 6333 or k.mclean@ieee.org. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems: Transactions of the Institute Technical Group on Aerospace of AIEE (1962) IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Navigational Electronics (1965) IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Newsletter (1961-1985) IEEE Computer Society: Annals of the History of Computing (1979-1987) IEEE Computers in Physics (1987) IEEE Computer Group News (1966-1970) IEEE Expert (1986) IEEE Engineering Management: Transactions of the IRE Professional group on Engineering Management (1953-1954) IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility: IEEE Transactions on Radio Frequency Interference (1963) IRE Transactions on Radio Frequency Interference (1959-1962) IEEE Industry Applications: IEEE Industry Applications Newsletter (1967-1987) IEEE Transactions on Applications and Industry (Mar 1963-Nov 1964) Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Part 2: Applications/Industry (1952-Jan 1963) Instrumentation and Measurement: IRE Professional Group on Instrumentation Society Newsletter (1958-1962) Power Engineering: Power Apparatus and Systems (1952-1963) Transactions of the American Institute of Elec. Engineers, Part 3:Power Appar. & Systems (1952-1962) Social Implications of Technology: IEEE Technology and Society Magazine (1986-1987) Technology and Society (1977-1982) IEEE CSIT Newsletter (1972-1976) IEEE UCE/SPAM Filtering Service to Change from "Opt-In" to "Opt-Out"To help reduce the increasingly large volume of unsolicited commercial email messages - commonly known as spam - being sent to ieee.org email addresses from outside sources, the IEEE UCE/spam filtering service will be changing from the current "opt-in" policy to an "opt-out" policy. On 20 August 2007, a default spam filtering level, expected to reduce the volume of email sent to ieee.org addresses by 30 percent, will be applied to all IEEE email aliases. It is designed to filter out email that is extremely likely to be UCE/spam. In the past, this filtering service had to be individually activated by each user. However, those who do not wish to have the default spam filtering level applied to their IEEE email alias can select to "opt-out" at https://uce.ieee.org and choose the "No UCE/Spam filtering" option, or select a more aggressive filter level. After choosing this option, click on the "Set UCE/Spam Filtering Level" button to save the changes. If no action is taken by 20 August, the default spam filtering level will be activated. Subscribers can opt-out of the filtering service at any time.For more details on why the new policy was implemented, how the policy will improve email delivery through internet service providers and the aggressiveness of the service, visit https://uce.ieee.org/opt-out-info.html. Questions can be directed to member-services@ieee.org.The Institute seeks Section, Region and Society NewsThe IEEE Institute member newspaper is seeking more Section, Region and Society news items in an effort to broaden its coverage and help these entities publicize their activities.
Appropriate subjects include: * Recognitions that members receive such as promotions, appointments, awards, or honors from their community or government. * Recognition that members receive from an IEEE entity, such as an award * Interesting jobs or hobbies for member profile pieces. * News about IEEE student members, student branches, student activities, and competitions. * New products, services, or activities that the Society, Section, Region or Student Branch is offering. * Successful social or technical events or meetings. * Obituaries on members. Send the basic "who, what, when, where, and how," and the Institute editors will be in contact if more information is needed.
The editors are also looking for suggestions for topics to write about, whether it's IEEE related or something about the engineering field. Email your news to: theinstitute@ieee.org. IEEE-USA Offers Resources to Assist Tech-Based EntrepreneursThe new IEEE-USA Entrepreneurs Village is an online portal designed to provide high-tech entrepreneurs with tools and resources conducive to innovation and company growth. The portal links high-tech entrepreneurs with their peers, and prospective entrepreneurs with mentors. Village members can seek advice and information on such topics as organization, funding, marketing, human resources, asset requirements, growth, best practices, and legal and government issues. A search engine will assist you in finding the right match for your needs. Experienced entrepreneurs are encouraged to become mentors. To read the related news release, visit: https://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/2682/135523 Visit the Village at: https://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/2683/135523. IEEE Teams with IBM to Launch TRYENGINEERING.ORGIEEE and IBM have collaborated to launch a new website that combines interactive activities with information on careers in engineering. TryEngineering.org is designed to educate a variety of audiences about the different engineering disciplines and the impact engineers have on society. Targeted toward teachers, school counselors, parents and students, TryEngineering.org lets site visitors explore how to prepare for an engineering career, ask designated experts engineer-related questions and play interactive games. Tools for teachers include lesson plans and engineering projects as well as a list of student competitions and science and engineering-oriented summer camps. The site will be launched on 5 June with a searchable list of accredited engineering programs in the U.S. and Canada, and will be expanded to include programs in other English-speaking countries as well as Germany and France. For more information contact Doug Gorham, Educational Activities, at d.g.gorham@ieee.org or +1 732 562 5483 or Allison Ickowicz at a.m.ickowicz@ieee.org or +1 732 562 5496. IEEE membership portalWe hope all Section members are taking advantage of the IEEE Membership Portal. Visit it at https://www.ieee.org/myieee. To ensure that you receive your 2007 IEEE Annual Election ballot materials, please verify that your IEEE member profile contains your current postal and e-mail addresses. Please make sure that your member profile information is updated by 12:00 noon EDT (16:00 GMT) on Friday, 29 June 2007. All eligible voting members will be mailed a ballot based on this information on or before 1 September 2007. To access and update your profile, visit myIEEE (https://www.ieee.org/myieee) or the Update Profile Application (https://www.ieee.org/coa). If you encounter any problems, contact IEEE Member Services at member-services@ieee.org or at +1 800 678 4333 or +1 732 981 0060. This year's annual election ballot has 18 categories and 42 nominated candidates. To view the slate of nominated candidates, and those seeking to be petition candidates, please visit https://www.ieee.org/election. Individuals seeking petition candidate status need to submit all required signatures to the IEEE Board of Directors by 12:00 noon EDT (16:00 GMT) on Friday, 8 June 2007. If you have a question about an IEEE issue that you would like to ask the President-Elect candidates, send it to corp-election@ieee.org by 15 May 2007. Responses to select questions will be broadcast over the IEEE Election Website, and on IEEE.tv, during the voting period. |
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