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From the Central Texas Section Chair
I hope everyone is
enjoying the summer and you have a fun and save 4th of
July. There are many chapter meetings in the summer
months and I look forward to joining you at them. See
below for dates and details.
August will be a busy month starting with the NIWeek
Conference 3-6 Aug. IEEE has a booth in the exhibition
hall. As last year, CTS will be manning the IEEE booth
for the four days of the conference. If you can spare
time to help man our booth for a few hours in exchange
for an exhibit pass, please email Don Drumtra at drumtra@ieee.org .
On September 23 the IEEE Computer Society Rock Stars of
Wearables will be in Austin at Brazos Hall in Austin.
Register now at https://www.computer.org/web/rock-stars/wearables.
Kenny Rice
Chairman, Central Texas Section
krice@ieee.org
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Membership
Development
HALF PRICE IEEE
MEMBERSHP
That’s right half price IEEE
membership. Join IEEE for the first time and pay
only ½ annual dues. If you have been looking to
join, but waiting for a good excuse, now is it.
Go to https://www.ieee.org/join
for details.
If you are currently unemployed and have not renewed
your membership for 2015, you can also receive IEEE
membership at ½ price. Simply go to: https://www.ieee.org/renew.
Did you know about IEEE – myIEEE
Did You Know –
You can find out what are the most accessed documents
in IEEE Xplore for the month. By selecting the
Knowledge Tab in myIEEE, you will see the IEEE Xplore
module located in the middle column. Here you will
find a list of the top 10 documents accessed this
month. Citations and their Abstract are available with
quick links to the full article. IEEE Xplore has over
two million documents on emerging and revolutionary
technologies.
GO TO myIEEE now at https://www.ieee.org/myieee
Joe Redfield
CTS Membership Development Chair
J.Redfield@ieee.org
210-744-2968
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Section and Chapter
Nominations and Elections
There are still some elected Section officer positions
without nominations. The Treasurer and Vice Chair
- San Antonio positions are open. If you have
suggestions for those positions, please communicate them
to Tom Grim at t.grim@IEEE.org.
The schedule and term of office requirements for our
election were discussed in the April Analog. A
call for nominations was published at that time.
The rest of the schedule is as follows.
The nominations committee will communicate a slate
of nominees to the CTS Executive Committee by August
15th, for ratification at the Executive Committee
meeting at the end of August. The ratified slate
will be published in the September Analog newsletter,
and petition candidates will be accepted until October
15th. The modified slate will be announced to section
members in the October Mid Month Reminder.
The election will be announced in the November
Analog. The election will begin on November
1. We intend to use the IEEE vTools election
process for contested races in the election.
Chapters and Affinity Groups should be on the same
schedule, although their nominations do not go to the
Section Executive Committee. Every chapter should
have a slate of officers in the September Analog.
Note that Section 9.6.D of the MGA Operations Manual (It
can be found at here
) states that terms of office for chapter officers are
one year, and the consecutive service of a chapter
officer is limited to two years in a particular office,
so please avoid nominating chapter officers for a third
consecutive year.
Tom Grim
Nomination Committee Chair, Past Section Chair
t.grim@IEEE.org
News of Interest to the
Section
Free E-Book to IEEE Members Features Topics
that have Perplexed Engineers for Years
IEEE-USA E-books is in July offering “The
Best of Backscatter from Today’s Engineer -- Volume
3,” by Donald Christiansen.
In this volume, Christiansen covers topics that have
concerned (and sometimes perplexed) engineers for
years, if not decades. Among them are how to manage
careers, the future of the profession and how the
public views engineers.
In “Make or Buy?,” Christiansen discusses factors an
engineering team may face when deciding what hardware
and software it should develop in-house or outsource.
“Math … What Good Is It?” probes the question many
grade-school children ask. Unlike students of an
earlier generation, Christiansen writes, “they find
math exercises boring, because they see no connection
to the real world.”
“The Mouse that Wouldn’t Quit” recounts the story of
IEEE Spectrum’s Amazing MicroMouse Maze Contest, which
originated in 1977 and has since given rise to an
international phenomenon.
Other titles include: “So What Do I Do,” “Going Pop”
and “Feeling Obsolete? Stay Tuned.”
From 1 July to 15 August, you can get your free e-book
to download by going to https://shop.ieeeusa.org/usashop/product/views/76382.
Log in with your IEEE Web account.
2014 IEEE PES Chapters High Performing Chapters
Program
A record number of submissions were received
for the IEEE PES Chapters Annual Report / High
Performing Chapter Program (HPCP), a total 129! Thank
you for all the information and outstanding work it
represents.
Among the 84 chapters that met the HPCP criteria was
the Austin Chapter of PES. Congratulations to these
chapters and their volunteers for providing wide
ranging services and benefits to their local chapter.
More details on the HPCP program (and other chapter
award programs) can be found on the IEEE PES Chapters
web site in the Chapters Awards section here.
Texas Board of Professional Engineers Ethics Webinars
The next ethics webinar is on September 2,
2015. Each event is limited to 1,000
attendees. Registration links for all webinars
are posted at: https://engineers.texas.gov/webinar
one month prior to each event.
Highlight reel for IEEE YP - SXSW 2015
Devon Ryan prepared this 'highlight'
video of Young Professional activities at SXSW
2015.
IEEE CONGRATULATES OUR NEW SENIOR MEMBERS!
Congratulation to the following CTS member
who was elevated to Senior Member at the IEEE A&A
Review Panel meeting held on 23 May in Alexandria, VA:
In-Hyouk Song.
Ross Baldick Receives the IEEE PES Outstanding Power
Engineering Educator Award
Dr. Baldick teaches at UT and is a frequent
presenter to our group. His IEEE PES Outstanding Power
Engineering Educator Award was due to his
“contributions to power system engineering for
restructured electricity markets.” He is currently
scheduled to present to us again in September 2016 but
don’t wait to congratulate him on his well-deserved
award.
Dr. Bladick’s award and the other 2015 award winners
are shown here.
Economic Impact of the Cleantech Sector In the
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos MSA
This project, commissioned by CleanTX and
supported by the Austin Technology Incubator, part of
the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at
Austin, and Civic Analytics, represents the first
attempt at describing and quantifying the clean
technology (cleantech) sector in Central Texas. See
the full report here.
Women in Power: Melissa C. Lott
[This
is an article about Austinite Melissa C. Lott
currently on The Power and Energy Society’s website.]
Melissa C. Lott has worked for more than a decade to
improve our understanding of the impacts that come
with changes in the energy system. She is a student
member of IEEE and the IEEE’s Power & Energy
Society “Women in Power.”
CleanTX Internship – Community Management &
Engagement Team
Unpaid.
Available for June 1 start, preferably available to
continue after summer.
As an intern with CleanTX you will build an
exceptional network of corporate community leaders,
non-profits, and leading academics in the regional and
statewide CleanTX industry. Our team of interns will
be tasked with managing our vibrant community of
guests, members, and sponsors to ensure that we’re
hearing the voice of our community and responding in a
timely and thoughtful manner. This internship isn’t
about filing papers or running to Starbucks. This is
real work that makes a real difference. You’ll be
directly involved in planning high-profile events,
writing content read by thousands of people, and
compiling information that supports the growth of a
cutting-edge industry.
Texas Museum of Science & Technonogy (TXMOST) Now
Open
Did you know that the Austin Area now has a
Museum of Science & Technology? As of June, we do!
TXMOST opened last month at 1220 Toro Grande Drive,
Cedar Park, 78613.
Would you like to know how to help them grow? To
create a much larger and permanent Museum of Science
and Technology, chock full of world-class exhibits and
a full-size planetarium where lots of friends
and families to learn and share? To create a
destination that people from around the world will
travel to?
First, come to our interim facility! Your presence
counts as we try to spread the word. We are a
nonprofit and every visitor, every comment makes a
huge difference.
Second, like us on Facebook.
Tweet
your comments. Tell your friends, neighbors, family
members, co-workers and the guy in the grocery
check-out line that we at last have a Science and
Technology Museum and they should come visit.
See more on their website.
Austin's Best Places to Work: How Technology Pointe
topped all other micro companies
Technology Pointe, a Round Rock-based
information technology company, has a single mission:
to keep its customer turnover as low as possible. So
far that’s working out. It boasts a 99 percent
customer retention rate over the past three years,
according to company officials. Read
more . . .
Forbes: Austin still a job-creating juggernaut
despite 2014 dip, study shows
Despite its impressive job growth in the
past five years, Austin has slipped one spot to No. 4
on Forbes annual list of the best U.S. cities for
jobs.
The report ranked each of the metro areas in the U.S.
on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics looking at
near-and-long-term job growth projections. Read
more . . .
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Call for Volunteers
Young Professional’s Voice: It’s About Time
[Reprinted from IEEE
USA InSight]
What is the one thing you can do to position yourself
to excel? We all know the transition from student to
young professional can be daunting. Doubts and
uncertainties can create many barriers to succeeding
in your new work environment.
Well, I have good news for you. One important thing
comes to mind that can help you make leaps and bounds
toward breaking down those uncertainties sooner,
rather than later, and accelerate your career.
Out of all the advice people can and will give you,
you should always be cognizant of one thing. Hint:
It’s not confidence (although I am a huge advocate of
confidence), and it’s relative. What is it? It’s time.
Yes, you heard me right, time.
It’s limited and scarce, and for the majority of your
life, you have most likely abused it and/or wasted it.
It’s Ok—we’ve all wasted time. The key is to realize
it, as soon as possible, and take steps to correct
it. Don’t get me wrong, confidence is a valuable
trait to have, but it takes experience to build
confidence—and that will happen in “due time.”
The key is to optimize your time, so you are able to
build your confidence faster. In other words,
confidence is a function of time, and being more
conscientious of time will expedite building your
confidence.
As long as I can remember I have always been a
punctual person, but I haven’t always been a morning
person. When I started my first job out of college, I
struggled to wake up early; but once I got used to it
(and it took a long time), I was able to accomplish so
much more during the day before it was even noon. Now,
I wake up every morning, and begin tackling my
objectives for the day. That way, if anything out of
the ordinary happens (which usually does) I have
already accomplished my main objective. That’s how you
get ahead…faster.
Think back to high school. Was there something you
either did or didn’t do that makes you wish you knew
what you know now—so you could go back and do it--or
do it sooner? What about college? Many students waste
their freshman year partying, and figuring out what
degree to pursue for their careers. Now that you are
close to graduating (or already have), you might
reflect, and wish you had known what to do--sooner.
You could have gotten a head start on your career.
That’s my point. I encourage you not to make the same
mistake twice, or expect success to happen by
fostering the same patterns.
Be early in everything. Successful people not only
show up, they show up early. Whether you are trying to
develop a talent, or start a business, starting it
earlier almost always give you an advantage. You
either fail sooner, or you develop a special niche
market before anyone else does. Think about it. Would
you like to start your own Google search engine now?
Or would you like to start it back when the Internet
was young…
You might see infographics floating around the web
showing all the successful people who started
late. Well, that’s great, but I call that
“comforting inspiration.” You are just wasting
your time reading that stuff. Tailored for late
bloomers, those infographics are for the people who
continued with the same mindset after college, and
realized 20 years after graduating that they should
have started earlier. Would you rather be in their
situation? Or would you rather take action now
to position yourself for a better future?
Patience is still a virtue, but you have to have
balance--a sense of urgency is vital, if you want to
be successful. I challenge you to focus on being more
aware and having control over your schedule. Focus on
positioning yourself so that you can have an impact
sooner rather than later.
It really is about time.
Continuing Education
IEEE Provided
Spectrum Tech
Insider Webinars
Learn from industry experts about latest
technology advances via our free Tech Insider
Webinars. This page lists upcoming and available 'on
demand' Tech Insider webinars. All the live webinars
are archived and are available on demand for 12
months. IEEE members can also earn PDH certificates
for each webinar.
Computer Society Webinars
Register now for our latest free live
technical webinars. Or check out our past webinars at
your convenience. See this site
for
more information.
Computer Society 2014 Professional Development
Courses
Expand your knowledge base by taking a
professional development course in your area of
technical interest. Half-day webcast formats (3.5
hours) enable you to quickly get up to speed in a
specific technology area without leaving your desk.
And each are at a low cost of $49. For a limited time,
sign up for three courses and receive the fourth one
for free. See the list
of training courses.
ComSoc Training
See this calendar
for
a list of upcoming courses.
Other learning opportunities
IEEE
e-Learning Library
IEEE Online
Education Portal
IEEE-USA Webinars
(attendees can earn professional development hours --
PDHs)
Other Sources
CodeAcademy
Learn to code
interactively for free
Corsea.org
A web site that provides
an aggregate of university course offerings. Their tag
line is "Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For
Free." They have 16 course categories, most in
technology areas from 16 major universities.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course
content. OCW is open and available to the world and is
a permanent MIT activity. More can be learned here.
Saylor.org: Free
Education
The tag line of the
Saylor website is "Harnessing Technology to Make
Education Free." Although Saylor.org does not grant
degrees, students can download a certificate of
completion for successfully passing the exam at the
end of each course. There are thirteen areas of study
that visitors can choose to explore, including
Computer Science, Chemistry, Mathematics, and
Mechanical Engineering.
University of Texas
Professional Development
UT Center for Lifelong Education provides
several courses (these are NOT free). The list can be
found here.
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Career
Articles
of possible interest
CTS
Job
listing
The Central Texas
Section receives job postings from time to time. These
are posted on the Section Web site. If you have a job
to post to the site, send the information to cts-webmaster@ieee.org
IEEE
ResumeLab
IEEE members have a new
tool to help gain a competitive edge in the employment
process. IEEE ResumeLab is a new online service that
allows IEEE members to develop a resume or curriculum
vitae using specialized tools tailored for each step
of the job seeking process. This new product is added
to the list of offerings that assist members as they
find jobs and develop their careers.
The IEEE
Job
Site
The IEEE Job Site has
undergone a makeover with new features and easier
navigation to better serve IEEE members. Its still
easy for IEEE members or IEEE member job seekers to
conduct job searches or create and upload a resume,
but with the use of HTML5 technology, the site boasts
a cleaner layout and crisp contemporary design making
the IEEE Job Site more user-friendly.
The IEEE-USA
Career Manager is organized into eight
categories designed to help you manage and advance in
your career:
* Career Management
Interactive Workshop
* Salary Service
* Consulting and Entrepreneurship
* Professional Development Webinars
* Employment Assistance and Job Search
* IEEE Online Distance Learning
* E-Book Library
* IEEE.tv
THE POWER SYSTEM DILEMMA
A flash of light in the sky, Bird, wind
damage, trees falling down or any natural phenomena on
earth can cause an unexplained short circuit in the
power grid in any place in the world. Over 6kV can flow
into the electrical circuit to the ground leading to
power failure. Engineers estimated a diversity of
reasons and answers for these situations including years
and millions spent on research, studies on the best way
to guard people from electrical risks, insulation
categories, grounding, protection devices, and how to
protect people from overhead lines but till now,
Lightning still causing un expected huge damages, and
the exposure to magnetic fields still can cause
childhood cancer.
Safety and Power System Protection are the main deal in
designing and building the power lines and distribution
systems. Coordination studies have always to be
completed to help protecting the power systems from
faults through the separation of faulted parts from the
rest of the electrical grid and to keep the power system
safe and stable. Major costs are added to every project
we design and build.
Solutions to this dilemma are in developing, fostering
initiatives and advance research, on other sources for
energy like solar energy, and studies on how to
understand and control phenomena like lightning.
Solar energy is the right way:
The sun glosses nearly everywhere and can become a main
energy source for the world. A lot of work and
research should be done before that can be achieved such
as finding new methods to connect the power of the sun
and deliver safe energy. The good news are that
engineers are developing new ways to increase the
solar power efficiency and new designs that use 3D
panels, which takes full advantage of the gathering
power of each panel, and these panels are expected to
provide more than twice the energy output and
should substitute the flat models completely in
few years.
Can we stop Lightning?
Engineers in different part of the world are trying to
understand and find out the cause of lightning. Recent
studies showed that lightning is being produced in a
process similar to the supernovae explosion toward the
earth and interact with other molecules and generate the
electric field and the lightning strike as we see
it. If this is right, the fall of electrons should
also produce radio signal. Engineers are trying now to
detect these radio signals by using arrays of atom
detectors and working on developing equations that
describe the electron induced electric field. The goal
is creating electrical breakdown of lightning discharge
and leaves the path open to stop the lightning
strike.
Finally, more research and collaborations are required
and in few years a big goals can be achieved.
Tips, Tools and Gadgets
If you have younger kids
or grand kids and are looking for an indoor destination
that they will think is fun, yet builds on concepts of
STEM (Sceince Technology Engineering and Mathematics),
you might want to look into Austin's Thinkery.
As the Thinkery websight proclaims " The Thinkery is
an evolution of Austin Children’s Museum. It’s
Austin’s sparkling new home for “why” and “how.” A
place where science and families play side by side.
Where people connect with ideas by doing, making and
experiencing. It’s a foundry for a new generation of
innovators and creative problem solvers. And it’s a
heck of a good time.
The Thinkery plays a vital role in developing future
generations of creative problem solvers through
science, technology, engineering, arts and math
(STEAM). Exhibit galleries revolve around educational
experiences curated by staff, so each trip with your
family will be different from the last. Each gallery
supports hands-on learning, with activities and
content appropriate for visitors with children of all
ages."
The Thinkery is located
in the development at the old Mueller airport
property.
If you have comments, or suggestions as to something I
should mention in a future issue, please let me know at
john.purvis@ieee.org.
I look forward to reading your comments and
suggestions.
Student Branches and Activities
St Mary's
University - San Antonio (https://engineering.stmarytx.edu/ieee/)
Faculty Adviser: Djaffer Ibaroudene, email: dibaroudene@stmarytx.edu
Branch Chair: Stephanie Shu, email: sshu@mail.stmarytx.edu
Texas State University
- San Marcos
Faculty Adviser: Larry Larson, email: Larry.Larson@txstate.edu
Branch Chair: Kyle Paul, email: kp1352@txstate.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TXST.IEEE
Trinity University
- San Antonio
Faculty Adviser: Farzan Aminian, email: faminian@trinity.edu
Branch Chair: Niti Nararidh, email: nnararid@trinity.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrinityIEEE
University of Texas at
Austin (https://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/)
Faculty Adviser: Sriram Vishwanath, email: sriram@ece.utexas.edu
Branch Chair: Josh Frazor, email: chair@ieeeut.org
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/ieeeut
University of Texas at
San Antonio (https://ieeeutsa.com/)
Faculty Co-Adviser: Paul Morton, email: PaulMorton@utsa.edu
Faculty Co-Adviser: Lars Hansen, email: Lars.Hansen@utsa.edu
Branch Chair: Patrick Stockton, email: pstockton@ieee.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeeutsa
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Useful IEEE Links
Other Region 5 Section Newsletters
Conferences,
Meetings and Events
Local IEEE Conferences, Events
or Workshops
- July 18, 2015: Central Texas Section Strategic
Planning Meeting
08:30-13:00
The Central Texas Section updates its Stratigic Plan
every three years. The last time the plan was updated
was in 2012. The Section Committee will meet to review
and update the CTS Strategic Plan
Contact Central Texas Section Chair Kenny Rice (krice@ieee.org) for
further details.
- September 21-23, 2015: 2015
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal
Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE)
Peter O'Donnell Building (POB)
The University of Texas at Austin
201 E. 24TH St.
Austin, TX, USA
MEMOCODE's objective is to bring together researchers
and industry practitioners interested in all aspects
of computer system development, to exchange ideas,
research results and lessons learned. MEMOCODE seeks
research contributions on all aspects of methods and
models for system, hardware, and software design and
development: formal foundations, engineering methods,
tools, and experimental case studies.
Final submission deadline: 07 Aug 2015
Notification of acceptance date: 17 Jul 2015
See the web
site for further information
- September 22, 2015: Rock
Stars of Wearables
Attend the IEEE Computer Society’s Rock Stars
of Wearables, where you’ll learn from top
industry experts who are driving this disruptive
technology. This one-day event will be packed
with real-world experience and actionable solutions
that address both technology and business problems –
plus the opportunity to network over lunch and
cocktails and receive an approved 8 hours of PDH
credit.
See https://www.computer.org/web/rock-stars
for further information
Wednesday, September 23rd at Brazos Hall in downtown
Austin
Click
HERE to register today—Regular pricing is $499
for non-members, $429 for members, but current early
discount pricing gets you $100 OFF—and if you enter
promo code RSW-CT50 – receive an additional $50
discount! (That means a total savings of $150!)
- September 27-30, 2015: 2015
Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)
University of Texas at Austin
FMCAD 2015 is the fifteenth in a series of conferences
on the theory and applications of formal methods in
hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a
leading forum to researchers in academia and industry
for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods,
technologies, theoretical results, and tools for
reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD
covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design
including verification, specification, synthesis, and
testing.
See https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD15/index.shtml
for more details
- November 2-6, 2015: International Conference on
Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
ICCAD is the premier forum to explore emerging
challenges, present cutting-edge R&D solutions,
record theoretical and empirical advances, and
identify future roadmaps for design automation. More
information about the International Conference on
Computer-Aided Design can be found at https://iccad.com/
- November 15-20, 2015: 2015
SC - International Conference for High Performance
Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
Austin Convention Center
SC has been at the forefront in gathering the best and
brightest minds in supercomputing together, with our
unparalleled technical papers, tutorials, posters and
speakers. SC12 will take a major step forward not only
in supercomputing, but in super -conferencing, with
everything designed to make the 2012 conference the
most you friendly conference in the world. We re
streamlining conference information and moving to a
virtually real -time method of determining technical
program thrusts. No more pre -determined technical
themes picked far in advance. Through social media,
data mining, and active polling, we ll see which
technical interests and issues emerge throughout the
year, and focus on the ones that interest you most.
- December 1-4, 2015: 2015
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
San Antonio, TX, USA
The IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) is the
premier conference in the area of real-time systems,
presenting innovations in the field with respect to
theory and practice. RTSS provides a forum for the
presentation of high-quality, original research
covering all aspects of real-time systems design,
analysis, implementation, evaluation, and experiences.
RTSS’15 continues the trend of making RTSS an
expansive and inclusive symposium, looking to embrace
new and emerging areas of realtime systems research.
RTSS’15 welcomes submissions in all areas of real-time
systems, including but not limited to operating
systems, networks, middleware, compilers, tools,
modeling, scheduling, QoS support, resource
management, testing and debugging, design and
verification, hardware/software co-design, fault
tolerance, security, power and thermal management,
embedded platforms, and system experimentation and
deployment experiences.
See https://2015.rtss.org/
for more details
- January 24-27, 2016: 2016
IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS)
JW Marriott Austin
110 2nd Street
Austin, TX, USA
This is a set of five conferences with a focus on
wireless components, applications, and systems that
effect both now and our future life style. These
conferences main niche is to bring together
technologists, circuit designers, system designers,
and entrepreneurs at a single event. It was and is the
place where these worlds meet, where new processes and
systems can be bench-marked against the needs of
circuit designers at the bleeding edge of RF systems,
where today’s design compromises can trigger
tomorrow’s advanced technologies. Where dreams can
become a reality.
Abstract submission deadline: 24 Jul 2015
Final submission deadline: 06 Nov 2015
Notification of acceptance date: 16 Sep 2015
- May 14-22, 2016: 2016
IEEE/ACM 38th IEEE International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE)
Renaissance Austin Hotel
9721 Arboretum Blvd
ICSE 2016 is the premiere worldwide forum for
professionals interested in all aspects of software
engineering research. Over 1000 academic, industrial,
and governmental researchers from dozens of
countries—including over a hundred students—attend
ICSE. The three-day main conference has multiple
tracks reporting on innovative research results as
well as on software engineering education and
practice. Tutorials, workshops and other collocated
events are held before and after the main conference
to allow in-depth presentations and discussions of
specific topics in software engineering.
Abstract submission deadline: 28 Aug 2015
Full Paper Submission deadline: 28 Aug 2015
Final submission deadline: 13 Feb 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 15 Dec 2015
See https://2016.icse.cs.txstate.edu/
for more details
- June 2-10, 2016: 2016
53nd ACM/EDAC/IEEE Design Automation Conference
(DAC)
Hilton Austin
500 East Fourth Street
Austin, TX, USA
The world's premier EDA and semiconductor design
conference and exhibition. DAC features over 60
sessions on design methodologies and EDA tool
developments, keynotes, panels, plus the NEW User
Track presentations. A diverse worldwide community
representing more than 1,000 organizations attends
each year, from system designers and architects, logic
and circuit designers, validation engineers, CAD
managers, senior managers and executives to
researchers and academicians from leading
universities.
See https://www.dac.com/
for further details
- October 23-26, 2016: 2016 IEEE Compound
Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)
Non-IEEE Meetings and Events of interest
suggested by the membership
See the Door64 calendar for
other local tech events
Texas
Tech Pulse Calendar of Texas High Tech Events
Second & Fourth Friday of evey month: TechRanch
Austin, Campfire
Come join our
entrepreneurial community every 2nd and 4th Friday of
the month.
Want to connect and network with local tech
entrepreneurs? Validate your business idea? Interested
in getting more involved with Tech Ranch? Come out for
a Campfire!
Campfire is all about connecting you to the larger
tech startup community. Every 2nd and 4th Friday at
3:30 PM, we gather interesting, accomplished people
from across Austin’s vast entrepreneur ecosystem so
you can get the introductions, insight, and help you
need to move your business forward, while also helping
others.
August 21 & 22, 2015: Texas Linux Fest 2015
It's that time... TxLF 2015 is here!
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Are you as excited as we are for the 6th annual Texas
Linux Fest?!
We are going to be at the San Marcos Convention Center
August 21st and 22nd!
This year we are planning to do two full days of expo
floor! We are already accepting registration
for this year's event!
We are now accepting registration for this year's
event. Sign up now!
Call for papers is officially open!
If you would like to submit a talk, please check
here for more info.
If you are staying at the embassy suites, we have a
special group rate for Texas Linux Festival attendees
and it can be redeemed using the following booking
code online or by calling and using over the phone: TXLinux2015
or click
here for more information
Want to be a vendor? Have an awesome idea? Maybe you
want to volunteer to help out?
For any other questions, feel free to shoot an email
over to info@texaslinuxfest.org
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Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics (STEM) Events and Information
Women in
Science and Mathematics (WiSM)
While the express goal of this website is to
recruit and retain women students in sciences and
mathematics at Eastern Illinois University, there is
plenty of good information on the site for the rest of
us. Readers may like to start with Further Reading,
where they can link to media coverage of women in
science from around the web. From there, they may select
Biographies of Women in Science, where they can access
dozens of biographies of women who have made
contributions to fields as diverse as chemistry,
primatology, biophysics, and astronomy. In addition, the
site features links to half a dozen other websites on
the topic, from the Smithsonian's photo portraits of
women scientists to the San Diego Supercomputer Center's
coverage of women scientists from around the world.
STEMblog
STEMconnector is both a resource and a service
that is designed “to link those advocating science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education
across disciplines and distances.” It seeks to connect
diverse educators, professionals, and government
officials together based on a love of applied science.
The STEMblog, a project of STEMconnector, is updated
regularly and focuses its energies on the relationship
between business and STEM subjects. Recent articles, for
example, have alerted readers to corporate-sponsored
prizes for high school science teachers, a recognition
of National Engineers Week, and the math behind a new
Android app. For readers who are looking to make
connections between STEM subjects and industry partners,
the STEMblog is an informative site to check back on
regularly.
Texas Girls Collaborative Project
TryEngineering.org
IEEE’s online engineering
education resource for pre-university educators, parents
and students, is now available in a new mobile-friendly
format. Visitors can now access the TryEngineering
content they love, anywhere, any time on virtually any
device including desktops, tablets and smart phones.
Starry Sky Austin
Starry
Sky
Austin is an educational astronomy program for
all. The mission of Starry Sky Austin is to share the
enthusiasm and knowledge of the universe with others and
in doing so, bring about a sense of wonder and
appreciation for our universe. Starry Sky Austin offers
programming, stargazing classes, Girl Scout badges, and
other exciting ways to get everyone curious about
astronomy through an informal approach.
CODE@TACC
The mission of the Texas
Advanced
Computing Center (TACC), at the University of
Texas at Austin, is to enable discoveries that advance
science and society through the application of advanced
computing technologies. TACC offers STEM programming for
students of all ages, building the pipeline for the next
generation of innovators. CODE@TACC (Jr. SCI) is a
two-week, summer program that exposes rising high school
juniors and seniors to a variety of STEM careers by
teaching the principles of high performance computing.
TACC's K-12 Education Programs Coordinator and FabFem, Mariel
Robles, is passionate about increasing the
understanding and appreciation of STEM careers as well
as promoting gender equity and minority participation in
science and engineering. Applications for CODE@TACC open
Winter 2015. Stay connected to TACC through Facebook,
Twitter
and LinkedIn.
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Local Chapter Activities
The IEEE is organized into Societies and Special Interest
Groups. The full list as well as a link to join each
can be found here.
The
Central Texas Secion has several Society and Special
Interest Group Chapters with their own local activities as
listed below. Note that some Joint Chapters represent more
than one Society.
You can subscribe to an RSS feed of all Central Texas
Section meetings that have been scheduled through vTools here
Click Meetings to see the next 180 days of
planned CTS activity.
The
Central Texas Section Chapters
Antennas &
Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques (AP/MTT)
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Join
CTS CEDA on LinkedIn
NOTE: Being a member of the following IEEE Societies makes
you eligible to be a member of CEDA: AP, CAS, C, ED, MTT
and SSC. However, you need to go to the IEEE
web site and sign in to be added as a FREE member of
CEDA. See this PDF
for detailed instructions.
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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Systems/Solid-State Circuits (CAS/SSC)
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The joint Circuits & Systems/Solid State Circuits
Societies normally meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.
This meeting is open to the public and interested parties.
Additional details will be posted at the website. IIf you
have any questions about this meeting or this group,
please contact zhuoli@ieee.org.
Components, Packaging and
Manufacturing Technology (CPMT)
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Computer Society (C)
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Cybersecurity programs at TAMU-SA |
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Dr. Carolyn Green |
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Texas A&M-San Antonio offers a BBA in
Computer Information Systems, a BS in Computer
Science and a BAAS (Bachelor of Applied Arts &
Science) with an emphasis in Information
Technology. Students pursuing these degrees
have the option of choosing a concentration in
Information Assurance and Security, Project
Management or Enterprise Resource Planning
Systems. The degree that we have referred to
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July 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm |
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Conference Room B
Bldg: University Center
St. Mary’s University
1 Camino Santa Maria
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Central Texas Consultants
Network Affinity Group
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Bridges: They’re Really Very Safe
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James Mercier
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James J. Mercier, P.E. is retired from the Texas
Department of Transportation where his jobs have
included Highway Lighting Engineer, Traffic Signal
Engineer, and more recently a Hydraulics Engineer
specializing in open channels and storm drains.
James graduated from the IBEW electrical
apprenticeship program in 1979 as a Journeyman
Electrician. Afterwards, he returned to college to
graduate from the University of Cincinnati with a
BS in Civil Engineering (1986). James is a
licensed Professional Engineer in Texas and five
other states, and a Texas licensed Master
Electrician.
James joined IEEE and ASCE as a student member at
the University of Cincinnati, and has remained
active in both. He was the Chair of the Austin
Chapter of the PES, now (PI)², for 2001 and 2002.
Three months ago, the (PI)² Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
moved to Colorado, so James stepped in to fill
that vacancy.
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James will show photographs of the several
different bridge styles in Texas, along with some
explanation on them. Then, he will explain what
the terms “Functionally Obsolete” and
“Structurally Deficient” really mean and why our
bridges are not as bad as has been commonly
reported. He will also discuss some recent bridge
related incidents with the explanation of what
happened and why the incident was actually very
unusual. Overall, bridges in Texas and the US are
very safe in spite of the media hype.
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July 22, 2015
6:00 to 6:30pm — Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm —
Business and Program
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PoK-e-Jo’s Smokehouse
2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave.
Austin, Texas
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$5.00 minimum cost for the restaurant. Supper is
at optional extra cost. Reservations are not
required. All interested parties are invited to
attend.
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https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/34954
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Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the
Consultants Network.
More
information
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Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Young Professionals
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Devon Ryan prepared this 'highlight'
video of Young Professional activities at SXSW 2015.
Follow the Young Professionals on Facebook
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Instrumentation and Measurement
Society (IM)
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Photonics Society (PHO)
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Life Members (LM) Affinity Group
Life members must be at least 65 years of age and
have been a member of IEEE or one of its predecessor
societies for such a period that the sum of his/her age
and his/her years of membership equals or exceeds 100
years. When an individual achieves Life member (LM)
status, their basic membership dues and Region
assessments are waived on 1 January of the year
following attainment of LM status.
More information on LM
Austin
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San Antonio
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What Really Happened at Chernobyl?
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John Michael “Mike” Harris, Generation
Performance Manager at CPS Energy
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Mr. Harris has worked in fossil fueled (gas, oil
and coal) electric power plants for his 27-year
career. Wanting to understand what really
happened at the V.I. Lenin Power Plant near
Chernobyl, Ukraine, Mr. Harris spent about one
year researching the nuclear basics used in the
power industry, the Western nuclear power
industry, the Russian nuclear power plant design
used at this site, and eventually worked out a
thorough explanation about this disastrous
event. Mr. Harris will walk us through a
number of items regarding nuclear reactions that
must be understood first and then will go through
the events that led to the disaster in such a way
that the physics of the accident are clearly
understood. He has presented this material
to the Torch Club of San Antonio, ASME San Antonio
Section and one other section of IEEE.
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Jul 23 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
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Lion and Rose Pub
842 NW Loop410
San Antonio, Texas
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Power and Energy Society - Austin
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A tour of Active Power’s manufacturing facility.
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A tour of Active Power’s manufacturing facility,
likely preceeded by a short presentation.
Additional Information:
- This tour has limited numbers of
registrations available and you must RSVP to
attend.
- There is no charge to attend and you do not
need to be a member of IEEE.
- A light dinner from Rudy’s BBQ and drinks
will be provided at no charge.
- Kids over 8 will be allowed on the tour if
they are accompanied by an adult and are on
the RSVP list.
- Tour information may change after you
register; please watch your email for updates.
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July 7, 2015 @ 6:00 pm to 08:30PM
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2128 W. Braker Lane
Austin, Texas
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Exploring Wireless Power Transfer via Magnetic
Resonance
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Brad Martin
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Wireless power transfer technologies have been
around for more than 100 years, with varying
degrees of success. From Tesla’s experiments at
the Wardenclyffe Tower to the recent
induction-based wireless
charging systems, the public has been fascinated
with “cutting the cord” for devices ranging from
mobile phones to electric vehicles.
But the issues surrounding these traditional
wireless power transfer systems have limited
adoption and mainstream acceptance. These issues
include restrictive positioning, inefficient power
transfer, and difficulty in supporting multiple
devices simultaneously. Enter highly resonant
wireless power transfer, or magnetic resnoance.
Invented by scientists at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), magnetic resonance
offers a host of benefits over other wireless
power transfer systems, including:
- Spatial Freedom – Magnetic resonance allows
for positional freedom in the X, Y, and Z axes
- Multi-Device Support – Charge or power
multiple devices from a single source,
including devices with differing power
requirements or with differing coil sizes
- Installation Flexibility – Sources can be
installed anywhere, allowing charging through
common building materials, including wood,
granite, plastic, and concrete, and even
through water
In this presentation, Brad Martin, director of
integrated products at WiTricity Corporation, will
provide a technical overview of the basics of
wireless power transfer via magnetic resonance as
well as the current state of the wireless power
market.
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July 28, 2015
Time: 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
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El Gallo Mexican Restaurant, 512-444-2205 2910 S
Congress (directions below) Austin, Texas
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- IEEE Members and accompanying spouses: $11
to $17 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants)
Visitors (non-IEEE members): $14 to $20 for
dinners ($5 non-meal participants)
- IEEE Student Members: $3 for dinner (no
charge for non-meal participants)
- Student Visitors (non-IEEE members): $6 to
$10 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants)
- All: $2 for non-alcoholic beverages
- A bar is available for those who care to
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Product Safety Engineering Society
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Systems, Man & Cybernetics
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Technology Management Council
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Women in Engineering Affinity Group
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