The Analog is the monthly newsletter of the Central Texas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. New issues are published around the first of each month. The deadline for inclusion of material is the 26th of the month. Send submissions, comments, questions to John Purvis, Editor, john.purvis@ieee.org. Archives of The Analog can be found on the CTS web site here.
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The CEDA chapter normally meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at the website. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact zhuoli@ieee.org.
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New tricks in Analog to Digital conversion |
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Michael P. Flynn , Ph.D of Berkeley Design Automation,
Inc. Michael P. Flynn was born in Cork, Ireland. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. He was with National Semiconductor in Santa Clara, CA, from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Member of Technical Staff with Texas Instruments, DSP R&D lab, Dallas, TX. During the four-year period from 1997 to 2001, he was with Parthus Technologies, Cork. Dr. Flynn joined the University of Michigan in 2001 and is currently professor. Michael Flynn is a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow. He received the 2011 Education Excellence Award and the 2010 College of Engineering Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award from the University of Michigan College from Engineering. He received the 2005-2006 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received the NSF Early Career Award in 2004. He received the 1992-93 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Pre-doctoral Fellowship. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC). |
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Although analog-to-digital converters have existed for
more than 70 years, new ADC techniques continue to emerge. ADC
architectures are evolving to deliver higher performance and also to
take advantage of improved process performance. This presentation will
discuss three new ADC architectures. A noise-shaping scheme shapes
comparator noise and quantization noise in a SAR ADC. A bandpass ADC
architecture enables efficient IF digitization. A new ring amplifier
structure improves the resilience and efficiency of the ring amplifier
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06-March-2014 6:00 to 6:30 pm -- Networking and refreshments (pizza and water) 6:30 to 8:00 pm – Seminar |
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The Annual Review of the ISSCC Conference: Analog and
RF Summary |
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Ramin Poorfard & Axel Thomsen Dr. Ramin K. Poorfard received his Ph.D. from University of Toronto in 1995. Consequently, he joined Bell Labs in March of 1995 where he was involved in the GSM base-band product development for cellular phones. In 1999, he was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. In July of 2000, he joined Silicon Laboratories Inc. in Austin TX where he worked on ADSL products and more recently on Satellite receiver front ends. Since, Jan. 2007, Dr. Poorfard was promoted to the rank Principal Designer managing the design of Satellite receiver line of products. Dr. Poorfard’s interests are RF IC architectures and their building block integrations as well as mixed-signal design. Axel Thomsen was born in Hamburg, Germany on 1/16/65. He attended the Polytechnical University of Braunschweig, Germany, from 1984 to 1988. From 1988 to 1992 he attended Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering in the area of analog IC design. From 1993 to 1995 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. From 1995 to 2001 he was a design engineer and manager at Cirrus Logic in Austin where he worked on high resolution data-acquisition ICs, ADCs, DACs and amplifiers. He is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Silicon Laboratories, where he has worked on low jitter timing circuits, PLLs, power and isolation ICs and MCUs. Occasionally he teaches analog IC design at UT Austin. He holds about 40 patents and has published 20 papers. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee at ISSCC. |
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18-March-2014 6:00 to 6:30 pm -- Networking and refreshments (pizza and water) 6:30 to 8:00 pm – Seminar |
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The Annual Review of the ISSCC Conference: Digital,
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Betty Prince & Eric Fluhr Dr. Betty Prince is CEO of Memory Strategies International and has 35 years engineering experience in the semiconductor industry. She is author of several books in the semiconductor memory area. She is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer. She has been active in standardization and has been on the Technical Advisory Board of several memory companies. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas with doctoral dissertation on fractal modeling. Eric Fluhr joined IBM in 1996 after graduating with BSCS and MSEE degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Eric began his career in circuit design and verification on the POWER3 and POWER4 series. He switched to microarchitecture and logic design for POWER5, with a focus on data prefetch. For POWER6®, Eric was the Load/Store-Unit circuit lead and, later, chip characterization lead. As the POWER6+™processor head engineer he was responsible for all chip design changes and hardware characterization for frequency and yield, as well as the technical interface to technology development, system product bring-up, and manufacturing teams. He was recently the next-generation POWER®core circuit lead, also responsible for implementing statistical timing for IBM’s 32nm and 22nm server processors. Eric is currently a chip circuit lead for IBM’s POWER®design team. |
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25-March-2014 6:00 to 6:30 pm -- Networking and refreshments (pizza and water) 6:30 to 8:00 pm – Seminar |
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Heterogeneous Computing: Promises and Challenges |
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Peter. J. Zievers is the Chief Technical Officer at
Xcelemor, Inc. His research interests include analysis and design of
heterogeneous computing systems, resource management for computing
systems, and high-performance digital communications for parallel
distributed computing systems. He received his BS in electrical
engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his master
of science and PhD. degrees in electrical engineering from the
University of Texas at Austin. At AT&T and Lucent Technologies, he
participated in central office design, ATM and ethernet transport
network switch design and wireless system development, with
responsibilities including chip and card design, system cabling,
ethernet subsystem software, and system diagnostics. Before starting up
Xcelemor, he consulted on software projects spanning broadband
wireless, secured radio, personal messaging, and broadband
infrastructure switching systems, responsibilities including
diagnostics, 3rd party feature package integration, and system
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The user community benefits from heterogeneous
computing technologies today more than ever. These benefits include
vastly improved per-function performance at a fraction of the power
consumption compared to comparable software functions executing on a
microprocessor. Despite all contributions and considerable potential as
an alternative, designers relegate heterogeneous computing to an
assistant role. Scalable heterogeneous computing has ample range to
satisfy generic application needs while slashing power consumption.
Control plane performance considerations focus requirements for the
successful solution. AAXE technology enables scalable, economical,
powerful heterogeneous systems to handle generic applications by
managing heterogeneous computing resources for efficient deployment. |
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March 19th, 2014 6:30 - 8:30 PM, with food/drinks
(membership not required to attend) 6:30 p.m. Networking and Gathering (Pizza, Salad, drinks provided - free) 6:50 p.m. Call to Order, Announcement 7:00 p.m. Presentation, with Q/A 8:30 p.m. Meeting Evaluation, Adjourn |
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https://bit.ly/PA804c) Room Number: Suite 100 12357-C Riata Trace Parkway Bldg 7, Suite 100 Austin, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | Solving Engineering’s Grand Challenges |
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| Speaker | Todd Venable is Central/South Texas District Sales
Engineer for National Instruments. Todd has been with National
Instruments for 6 1/2 years - first as R&D Engineer, then as
Applications Engineer and most recently as Field Engineer. |
| Abstract | Upon graduation, engineering students face a variety of
challenges as they enter the workplace. The systems that they interact
with and develop will be increasingly involved and require a global,
multidisciplinary approach. The Grand Engineering Challenges presented
by the National Academy of Science exemplify the types of challenges
that they will likely face. Come hear how NI is empowering engineering
educators and industry with the necessary tools to solve these
challenges. |
| Date/Time | Tuesday, March 18, 2014; Dinner 6:30, Networking 7:15,
Program 7:30 |
| Location | Conference Room D, University Center, St. Mary’s
University, San Antonio, TX |
| Cost | Dinner will be in the St. Mary’s Cafeteria downstairs
in the University Center. They have an all you can eat buffet for
$8.50 plus tax. Each person will pay for his or her own
meal. We will have a block of tables so we can sit together –
look for Small IEEE Computer Society Signs on the tables. Dinner
is optional. You are welcome to skip dinner and come only to the
technical presentation. |
| Reservations | Not Required but for head count please email Dr.
Djaffer Ibaroudene, dibaroudende@stmarytx.edu
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| Topic/Title | Photovoltaic System Design and Market Fundamentals |
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| Speaker | D.J. Rosebaugh |
| Speaker Bio | D.J. is a 20 year veteran of Motorola & Freescale
Semiconductor, primarily holding roles in marketing, strategy,
portfolio planning and product management. In 2009, D.J. was
driven by a desire to bring more meaning to his career and decided to
transition into the renewable energy industry and became the Director
of Training for ImagineSolar, a local school dedicated to training
installers, sales professionals and engineers the knowledge and skills
needed in the PV industry. Seeing strong growth opportunities in 2012, D.J. began working with Lighthouse Solar developing national business development strategies and leading their commercial & utility scale solar PV sales efforts. |
| Abstract | While PV (Photovoltaic) system installations are still
a small percentage of overall power production, growth in the market
has been tremendous over the last 5 years. This talk will cover
some of the history of PV, market influences, and then dive into the
fundamentals of PV system design, component selection, and impacts on
system performance. In addition, financial models for both
residential and commercial projects will be discussed |
| Date | March 26, 6:30 p. m. |
| Location | PoK-e-Jo's Restaurant, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight
Village, Austin TX 78727 |
| Cost | $5 minimum cost for restaurant, supper optional at
extra cost. |
| Reservations | Not required. All interested parties are invited
to attend. For more information, go to: https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/cn/index.html https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/24545 |
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Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
More information on Consultants Networks: https://www.ieeeusa.org/business/whatis.asp
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Make the World a Better Place: An Association-Industry-Academia Partnership |
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The Education Society Chapter is leading an effort to
excite and train the next generation of engineers by giving them the
opportunity to see how to turn their ideas into things, using the maker
space at Tech Shop in Round Rock. Tech Shop has a wood shop, a metal
shop, 3-D printers, laser cutters, water cutters, finishing equipment,
an electronics shop, and injection molding equipment. You can make
anything from key chain fobs to robots to car parts. You design it
using their CAD/CAM software, and build it using their equipment. We're working with High School kids from Dripping Springs High School, their teachers, faculty from Texas State University and instructors at Tech Shop to make this a reality. How can you get involved in this project? We need: * Mentors for the students in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship * Videographers (the students already have some film) * Web site design for this project * Help with creating a "How To" manual to teach other communities how to implement this in their towns * Speakers for our "Outreach Event" on April 15 * Planners for a "Summer Camp" for High School science teachers to introduce them to the concepts and equipment and curriculum (project managers? here's your chance!) We will detail the program initiated by IEEE Central Texas Section Education Society Chapter to stimulate passion among high school students for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and helping to build the foundation for a future generation of entrepreneurs and engineers. Join us! |
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| Topic/Title | IEEE Young Professionals Mixer |
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IEEE Young Professionals is an international community
of enthusiastic, dynamic, and innovative members and volunteers. IEEE
is committed to helping young professionals evaluate their career
goals, polish their professional image, and create the building blocks
of a lifelong and diverse professional network. |
| Abstract | Are you looking to meet new people and build meaningful
connections with other young professionals like yourself? Are you trying to meet that significant industry contact to land your dream job? Are you interested in learning about new and exciting opportunities in the areas of engineering, finance, law, marketing, and many more? Come join us for a night of networking at Hampton Inn & Suites @ The University of Texas/Capitol for Young Professionals - Central Texas! This event is FREE for all attendees! There will be free appetizers and a cash bar. In addition, two special guests will be attending the mixer: - Glenn Zorpette. Glenn is the Executive Editor for IEEE Spectrum. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1983 from Brown University and has been an IEEE member since August 2001. Glenn has flown on the "Vomit Comet" and been a guinea pig in various human-physiology experiments. - Dr. Robin Murphy. Robin is an expert in search and rescue drones. Dr. Murphy received a B.M.E. in mechanical engineering, a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science. She was named one of the Fast Company's most influential women. Special Thanks to Union Pacific for providing the excellent location. |
| Date/Time | Monday March 10th, 2014 from 6:30PM to 9:00PM |
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| Location | Hampton Inn & Suites @ The University of
Texas/Capitol 1701 Lavaca St Austin, TX 78701 |
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More information on GOLD: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/gold/index.html
GOLD Launches Mentoring
Connection Webinar
Are you interested in becoming a mentor
or finding a mentor to help with your professional
development?
If the
answer is yes, check out a free new IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade
(GOLD) webinar aimed at
helping mentors and mentees connect with each other. Learn more at https://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/17953/32170
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LabVIEW Hands-On Training |
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Courtney Lessard, National Instruments Courtney Lessard is a LabVIEW Product Manager at National Instruments. She joined National Instruments in as an Applications Engineer, and supported Northern California as a Field Engineer before transitioning to the LabVIEW team in 2012. Courtney holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. |
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Join us for free LabVIEW Hands-On training. During this
training, you will become acquainted with LabVIEW through a short
hands-on activity. You will get to build your own LabVIEW application
to acquire and analyze data. We will provide the hardware. After the
hands-on activity, continue learning with a presentation that covers:
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For more information, contact Mikhail Belkin
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| Topic/Title | Cloud Computing: Concepts and Energy Research |
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| Speaker | Dr. Jeff Prevost, UTSA John Jeffery Prevost received his first B.S. degree from Texas A&M in Economics in 1990. He received his second B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in December, 2009. In 2012 he received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, also from the University of Texas at San Antonio along the way to earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in December, 2013. |
| Abstract | Cloud computing has become the standard architecture
for provisioning compute resources in the modern datacenter.
Unfortunately, the energy requirements of providing access to cloud
resources have grown along with its popularity. Amazon recently
estimated that the cost of energy for its data centers reached 42% of
the total cost of operation. In 2006 it was estimated that the total
energy consumption of data centers worldwide was the equivalent of 1.5%
of the energy consumed by the United States, which represented over
$4.5 billion. This presentation will present the basic concepts that
define Cloud Computing and will present current research into a way to
minimize the amount of energy required by the cloud while maintaining
the performance guarantees (SLAs) demanded by the consumers of cloud
resources. |
| Date/Time | March 20, 2014. 11:30 AM |
| Location | 842 NW Loop 410, San Antonio (Park North Shopping
Center) |
| Cost | We will order from the regular menu, and the restaurant
will provide separate checks. |
| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/24427 |
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| Topic/Title | Finding Root Cause and Improving Reliability |
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| Speaker | David Costello David Costello graduated from Texas A&M University in 1991 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He worked as a system protection engineer at Central Power and Light and Central and Southwest Services in Texas and Oklahoma and served on the System Protection Task Force for ERCOT. In 1996, David joined Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. as a field application engineer and later served as a regional service manager and senior application engineer. He presently holds the title of technical support director and works in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas. David has authored more than 30 technical papers and 25 application guides and was honored to receive the 2008 Walter A. Elmore Best Paper Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology Protective Relaying Conference. He is a senior member of IEEE, a registered professional engineer in Texas, a member of the planning committees for the Conference for Protective Relay Engineers at Texas A&M University, the Modern Solutions Power Systems Conference, and the I-44 Relay Conference. |
| Abstract | There are literally thousands of wires, terminations,
and settings in a modern power system control building or switchgear
lineup. A mistake with just one, missed in commissioning tests,
can lead to hazardous and unsafe working conditions, equipment damage,
and power outages. Several case studies, all local events - an
often-repeated setting problem, a tricky wiring problem, and an even
more challenging case involving several issues - will highlight the
high stakes and complexity of our tasks. In today's landscape of
increased competition, lawsuits, and NERC compliance audits and fines,
it has become more difficult for good people, trying to do the right
thing, to share what they know, learn lessons, and implement solutions
to improve power system reliability. What can we do to learn from
other industries, make changes, and improve how we find root cause and
improve reliability? |
| Date/Time | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 6:00 to 6:30 PM Social 6:30 to 7:00 PM Dinner 7:00 to 7:30 PM Business Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 PM Program 9:00 PM room closes for the benefit of long distance drivers and early risers |
| Location | El Gallo Mexican Restaurant, 512-444-2205 2910 S Congress (directions below) Austin, Texas |
| Cost | Choose from a select menu of soups, salads and dinner
plates. Cash Only Cost:
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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 6:30pm, with the program starting at 7:00pm. For further information about the PSES, please contact Dale Ritzen at (512) 651-5338.
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Harnessing Electrical Demand Flexibility for a
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Mr. Mahdi Kefayati, ECE Department of the University of
Texas at Austin Mahdi Kefayati is currently a PhD candidate and research assistant at the ECE Department of the University of Texas at Austin where he has been working on various problems from wireless communications and networks to energy systems and smart grids. He has received his MS in Information Technology and BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran in 2004 and 2007 respectively. He has worked as a software engineer at Electrical Power Engineering (EPE) Consultants focusing on automated analysis and optimization of electrical distribution networks. He has also served as research intern for Fujitsu Labs of America on Demand Response technologies and algorithms. He has co-authored more than 15 publications and has served as session chair for INFORMS general meeting in 2013. |
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In the first part of this talk (Feb. 20), I presented
the core concepts of how the grid and its associated market work, the
challenges of integrating significant amounts of renewable and how
flexible loads can help. Moreover, I presented an open loop policy that
can turn the negative impacts of transportation electrification on the
grid to positive ones with minimal changes in the vehicles and no
sacrifice of user comfort. In the second part, I am presenting more
advanced setups where flexible loads are managed more dynamically in a
closed loop format to increase the economic efficiency of the system
and improve system stability by providing demand response and other
ancillary services to the grid. |
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20-March-2014 06:00PM to 09:00PM |
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AT&T Labs , 9505 Arboretum, Austin,
Texas 78729 |
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For further information, please contact IEEE COMSOC/SP
Austin Chapter Chair Fawzi Behmann at f.behmann@ieee.org |
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Aging, Brain Science, and the Future of Health Care |
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Wayne is the Founder and Senior Editor of Modern Health
Talk, where he writes about tech solutions for keeping seniors safe at
home and avoiding costly institutional care. As a retired technologist,
futurist and marketer with IBM, Dell, Siemens and his own consulting
firm, Wayne knows the positive effect digital technologies can have on
society and the challenges of adopting them. He introduced IBM to the
Digital Home market and only left after the company got out of consumer
markets. After IBM, Wayne established CAZITech Consulting, held
leadership roles in Wireless & Home Gateway standards
organizations, volunteered with the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee,
successfully lobbied the Texas legislature to protect the rights of
municipalities to install public Wi-Fi networks, co-founded a nonprofit
consumer advocacy to enact new consumer protection laws and abolish an
abusive state agency, and founded Modern Health Talk. These days, Wayne
is also helping a colleague launch a new sleep wellness business. |
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While it’s important to live longer, it’s even more
important to live well. This talk looks at the future of health care
from several perspectives. First is the demographic of aging baby
boomers who are living longer but aren’t necessarily healthy and the
effect that will have on our healthcare system. Next is the
effect that Moore’s Law and shrinking circuits will have on improving
care and reducing costs. And the final segment explores the convergence
of engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry and mathematics
with cellular, molecular, cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, based
on my interview with Dr. Metin Akay, who spoke to this group several
months ago. Dr. Akay is Founding Chairman of the new Biomedical
Engineering Department and the John S. Dunn professor of biomedical
engineering at the University of Houston. |
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17-April-2014 06:00PM to 09:00PM |
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AT&T Labs , 9505 Arboretum, Austin,
Texas 78729 |
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Cloud Computing: Concepts and Energy Research |
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Dr. Jeff Prevost, UTSA, IEEE member |
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Dr. Prevost will discuss the concepts of Cloud
Computing and current research to optimize energy consumption of Cloud
Computing providers. |
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March 20, 2014. 11:30 AM |
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842 NW Loop 410, San Antonio (Park North Shopping
Center) |
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S.atkinson@ieee.org;
Tel: 210-410-0382 |
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
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| Topic/Title | Toyota Motor Manufacturing Plant Tour |
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| Abstract | Opportunity to tour the Toyota Motor Plant which builds
the Toyota Tundra and Tacoma. The Plant tour will take 1.5 hours. Toyota representatives will discuss the Toyota Production System – the process on which it builds its vehicles. |
| Date/Time | Wednesday, March 19 at 1:30 pm. |
| Location | Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, Inc Visitor & Education Center 1 Lone Star Pass building 47 San Antonio, TX 78264-3413 Phone: 210-263-4002 |
| Cost | None |
| Registration | Please RSVP by Wednesday, March 12 to Dr. William
Flannery at 210-458-5372 https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/24353 |
| Notes | We will meet at the Toyota Visitor and Education Center
at 1:00 pm for check-in on March
19. |
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| Topic/Title | Make the World a Better Place: An Association-Industry-Academia Partnership | |
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| Abstract | The Education Society Chapter is leading an effort to
excite and train the next generation of engineers by giving them the
opportunity to see how to turn their ideas into things, using the maker
space at Tech Shop in Round Rock. Tech Shop has a wood shop, a metal
shop, 3-D printers, laser cutters, water cutters, finishing equipment,
an electronics shop, and injection molding equipment. You can make
anything from key chain fobs to robots to car parts. You design it
using their CAD/CAM software, and build it using their equipment. We're working with High School kids from Dripping Springs High School, their teachers, faculty from Texas State University and instructors at Tech Shop to make this a reality. How can you get involved in this project? We need: * Mentors for the students in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship * Videographers (the students already have some film) * Web site design for this project * Help with creating a "How To" manual to teach other communities how to implement this in their towns * Speakers for our "Outreach Event" on April 15 * Planners for a "Summer Camp" for High School science teachers to introduce them to the concepts and equipment and curriculum (project managers? here's your chance!) We will detail the program initiated by IEEE Central Texas Section Education Society Chapter to stimulate passion among high school students for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and helping to build the foundation for a future generation of entrepreneurs and engineers. Join us! |
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| Date/Time | 03-March-2014 12:00PM to 01:30PM |
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| Location | Building: b500 Room Number: l&d 420 7171 Southwest Parkway Austin, Texas |
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| Registration | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/24449 |
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| Notes | Joint meeting with EdSoc |
Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
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