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The 2+ days of BDYHAX include conference sessions and discussions focused on everything from information security in wearable tech to the sense of touch being integrated into prosthetics. You’ll have the opportunity to meet biohackers augmenting the human sensory experience in their DIY labs, hear debates on ethics in human augmentation, and build your own tDCS device for at-home brain hacking. Check out the cutting edge of cosmetic surgery, the latest buzz in tattooing, and far more amazing things than we could ever hope to possibly write about in a single paragraph.
BodyHacking Con’s official 2016 home is Exhibit Hall 5 in the Northeast corner of the Austin Convention Center. Conferences will be held in the North side of 4th floor in Ballrooms F&G, and Meeting Rooms 12A and 12B.
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Celebrate how engineers make a world of difference. Pledge now!February 29, 2016: SPE DSATS/IADC ART Symposium Human Integration with Automation and Machine Intelligence
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Omni Fort Worth Hotel
1300 Houston St, Fort Worth, Texas 76102
Monday, 29 February 2016
1300–1700
Networking Reception
1700–1900
DSATS (SPE’s Drilling Systems Automation Technical Section) and ART (IADC’s Advanced Rig Technology Committee) will hold a half-day symposium featuring 3 keynote presentations on human integration with automation and machine intelligence. The symposium will open with an update from SPE DSATS and IADC ART describing progress of various working groups and the outlook for future activities. The annual DSATS officer and board selection will take place.
Three industry leading speakers will address the integration of humans with automation from their own experiences in non-oil and gas drilling environments with the opportunity for audience Q&A after each speech.
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The Austin VMUG UserCon is bigger and better than ever. Mark your calendar now. You even have the opportunity to share your own virtualization story! Visit the VMUG Customer Spotlight page for your opportunity to present at the Austin VMUG UserCon.
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2016 Youth in STEAM Conference
This is the 4th year for this conference. It will be held 8:30 AM unti 3:00 PM February 7 at Round Rock High School. Registration for the event begins at 8:00 AM. Attendees will be the 7th thru 12th grade students from RRISD. Area partners (companies and STEM organizations) will be available with a booth and hands on demonstrations. See this link for more information.
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.
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.
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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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Shanthi Pavan of IIT Madras Shanthi Pavan obtained the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engg from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1995 and the M.S and Sc.D degrees from Columbia University, New York in 1997 and 1999 respectively. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Texas Instruments in Warren, New Jersey, where he worked on high speed analog filters and data converters. From 2000 to June 2002, he worked on microwave ICs for data communication at Bigbear Networks in Sunnyvale, California. Since July 2002, he has been with the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of high speed analog circuit design and signal processing. Dr.Pavan is the recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award (2009), the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship (from the Government of India) , the Young Faculty Recognition Award (from IIT Madras for excellence in teaching), the Technomentor Award from the India Semiconductor Association (2010). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Part I - Regular Papers. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. |
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An analog/mixed-signal designer encounters time
varying circuits everywhere - sample-and-holds,
chopper stabilized amplifiers, mixers,
switched-capacitor amplifiers and filters,
discrete and continuous-time delta sigma
modulators, N-path filters. The analysis of
signals and noise in these circuits is often
associated with messy mathematics and algebra. This talk aims to demystify linear (periodically) time varying circuits. Starting from first principles, intuition behind the equations one commonly encounters in time-varying system theory will be given. This intuition is illustrated with several case studies of practical circuits and systems like switched capacitor track and holds and continuous-time delta sigma converters. |
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Design Techniques for High Performance Continuous-time Delta Sigma Modulators |
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Shanthi Pavan of IIT Madras Shanthi Pavan obtained the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engg from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1995 and the M.S and Sc.D degrees from Columbia University, New York in 1997 and 1999 respectively. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Texas Instruments in Warren, New Jersey, where he worked on high speed analog filters and data converters. From 2000 to June 2002, he worked on microwave ICs for data communication at Bigbear Networks in Sunnyvale, California. Since July 2002, he has been with the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, where he is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of high speed analog circuit design and signal processing. Dr.Pavan is the recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award (2009), the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and the Swarnajayanthi Fellowship (from the Government of India) , the Young Faculty Recognition Award (from IIT Madras for excellence in teaching), the Technomentor Award from the India Semiconductor Association (2010). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Part I - Regular Papers. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. |
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The designer of a continuous-time delta sigma
modulator is faced with a myriad choices - how
should I choose the oversampling ratio, order of
the noise transfer function, and number of
quantizer levels in my design? What architecture
should I employ for the loop filter? What DAC
should I use? What kind of opamp(s) are apt?
After all, every published work seems to
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Asynchronous SAR ADC: Past, Present and Beyond |
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Mike Chen of USC Mike Shuo-Wei Chen received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and 2006, all in Electrical Engineering. As a graduate student, he proposed and demonstrated the asynchronous SAR ADC architecture, which has already been adopted today in industry. Since 2006, he has been working on mixed-signal and RF circuits for various wireless standards at Atheros communications (now Qualcomm-Atheros). He joined EE department at University of Southern California since 2011, and currently holds Colleen and Roberto Padovani Early Career Chair position. His research group is having fun with exploring the limit of analog mixed-signal, RF ICs, Bio-inspired electronics, and signal processing techniques for circuits and systems. Dr. Chen received an honourable mention in the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, 1994. He was the recipient of NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) both in 2014, UC Regents’ Fellowship at Berkeley in 2000 and Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award for recognition in IC design in 2006. |
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The demand of low-power and high-speed ADC has
been escalating in the past decade due to
emerging low-power applications with wide
bandwidth requirement, including both wireless
and wireline systems. Historically,
the ADC in this targeted specification regime
has been dominated by Flash topology, where all
the level comparisons are accomplished in
parallel. However, the associated complexity
prevents it from a true low-power solution.
About a decade ago, the asynchronous successive
approximation (SAR) architecture was proposed to
minimize the overall converter complexity while
improving the speed of the binary search
algorithm. The first proof-of-concept silicon
prototype in 130nm CMOS achieved the
order-of-magnitude improvement in power
efficiency. Since then, this low power ADC
architecture has been widely adopted for various
power-constraint, high-speed, medium to high
resolution applications, such as the recently
published 90GS/s ADC. In this tutorial
talk, we will review the evolution of this ADC
architecture, including the recent trend and
potential extensions. The related design issues
of such ADC architecture will also be examined
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Rethinking Analog-Digital Interface Circuit Architectures |
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Mike Chen of USC Mike Shuo-Wei Chen received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and 2006, all in Electrical Engineering. As a graduate student, he proposed and demonstrated the asynchronous SAR ADC architecture, which has already been adopted today in industry. Since 2006, he has been working on mixed-signal and RF circuits for various wireless standards at Atheros communications (now Qualcomm-Atheros). He joined EE department at University of Southern California since 2011, and currently holds Colleen and Roberto Padovani Early Career Chair position. His research group is having fun with exploring the limit of analog mixed-signal, RF ICs, Bio-inspired electronics, and signal processing techniques for circuits and systems. Dr. Chen received an honourable mention in the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad, 1994. He was the recipient of NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) both in 2014, UC Regents’ Fellowship at Berkeley in 2000 and Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award for recognition in IC design in 2006. |
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The trend of modern electronic systems in both
wireless and wireline applications demands
increasing bandwidth, dynamic range, and
reconfigurability but low power and cost. On the
other hand, the technology scaling is slowing
down its pace and incurs significant cost
particularly for analog designs. Those factors
have driven the mixed-signal design community to
pursue new circuit architectures towards
unprecedented performance, power efficiency and
flexibility. In this talk, we will examine
several such attempts in ADC, DAC, and PLL
designs recently demonstrated by our group
members, just as examples. Several initial CMOS
prototypes achieve encouraging performance and
power efficiency in comparison with the state of
the arts. More importantly, they tout the
potential for many future extensions, and
hopefully enable more low-cost high-performance
analog-digital interface circuits to transform
future electronic system designs. |
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Building Relationship with Future Workforce at
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Revathi Balakrishnan Revathi Balakrishnan works with gifted students at Patsy Sommer Elementary in Round Rock ISD. She was recently chosen as the 2016 Texas Teacher of the Year and will represent about 335,000 teachers in the National Teacher of the Year program. Revathi’s undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Economics. After 14 years as a systems analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance and watching her own children grow, she decided that it was much more fun being around children than being around computers. She got her teaching certification from Texas State University and was hired by Forest North Elementary in RRISD to revamp their gifted education program. In 2008, she helped open Patsy Sommer Elementary where she created and established a similar program that aimed to provide a rigorous and relevant education and one that helped students build resilience and relationships. In Round Rock ISD, she is known for providing opportunities for students in math, Shakespeare, chess, robotics and coding. She is often called upon to use her computer skills to automate processes. Her latest venture is to establish a teacher induction and mentoring program at her school, which she hopes will be the prototype for her school district and eventually, all Texas schools. Revathi has presented in many conferences including Texas Association for Gifted and Talented, Texas State Writing Conference and the RRISD Google Ninja Academy. She has led many district professional development courses and is constantly looking for ways to help teachers improve their quality of teaching. In her spare time, Revathi works with Soroptimist International , which helps to promote the welfare and education of women and girls. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading world news (also known as surfing the web!), blogging and creating her own websites. |
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Partnership between schools and businesses are
vital in the development of a future workforce
that is ready to take on jobs that require
critical thinking, creativity and innovation.
Revathi will discuss the ways in which members of
IEEE can take on the very important role of
nurturing schools. This does not happen by chance.
It must be carefully designed and implemented. A
successful relationship between schools and you,
the leaders of the community, can not only make
learning very relevant for students but might also
mean the difference between dropping out and
graduating. |
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24-February-2016 6:30 p.m. Networking and Gathering (with free food, drinks) 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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| Topic/Title | FPGA Soft Core Processors: getting to “Hello
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| Speaker | Jim Brakefield, Life Senior Member, IEEE Assembly language programming on over a dozen processors FPGA projects: small, medium and not that large Circuit board design including microprocessors and FPGAs Email: jim.brakefield@ieee.org |
| Abstract | One of the rites of passage in FPGAs is
implementing a processor. This can be very difficult. The purpose of the talk is getting a fast start. The talk will cover FPGA resource utilization, instruction set design, data path considerations, getting to “Hello World”, and completing the implementation. |
| Date/Time | 16-February-2016 Time: 07:00PM to 08:30PM |
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| Location | St. Mary's University University Center Conference Room B (Upstairs) 1 Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, TX |
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Discover Engineering: Encouraging School
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John Purvis IEEE LSM, PE John Purvis earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1973 and a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. He has worked at TRW, Texas Instruments, National Instruments, IBM and HostGator. He has also served on the Computer Sciences faculty at St. Edward's University. John has been the author or co-author of over 60 articles, papers or technical presentations. His professional experience spans system engineering, programming, product management, college lecturer and Unix/Linux system management. He has been a member of IEEE for 48 years and an active volunteer with the Central Texas Section since 2000. He served as IEEE Central Texas Section Chair for 2004-5, as Austin IEEE Computer Society Chapter Chair 2008-9 and is currently on the IEEE Region 5 Executive Committee. John has also served nearly 10 years on the board of Discover Engineering and on the Board, and is currently Vice President, of the Capital Macintosh User's Group (CapMac). |
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Each year Discover
Engineering recruits engineers as role
models from the local engineering community to
encourage the children of Central Texas to pursue
technology careers. Discover Engineering has been
active in STEM outreach in the greater Austin area
for over a decade. We look for a diverse group of
engineers to visit classrooms and lead hands-on
activities that demonstrate teamwork and logical
processes while discussing their jobs and their
enthusiasm for engineering. John Purvis will
tell us more about the Discover Engineering story,
and lead us in a hands-on activity like the ones
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24-February-2016 6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program |
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Life Members https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38089 CTCN |
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Pok-e-Jo's Smorekhouse 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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Joint meeting with Consultant's Network and
Austin Life Members Chapters |
Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
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Discover Engineering: Encouraging School
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John Purvis IEEE LSM, PE John Purvis earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1973 and a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. He has worked at TRW, Texas Instruments, National Instruments, IBM and HostGator. He has also served on the Computer Sciences faculty at St. Edward's University. John has been the author or co-author of over 60 articles, papers or technical presentations. His professional experience spans system engineering, programming, product management, college lecturer and Unix/Linux system management. He has been a member of IEEE for 48 years and an active volunteer with the Central Texas Section since 2000. He served as IEEE Central Texas Section Chair for 2004-5, as Austin IEEE Computer Society Chapter Chair 2008-9 and is currently on the IEEE Region 5 Executive Committee. John has also served nearly 10 years on the board of Discover Engineering and on the Board, and is currently Vice President, of the Capital Macintosh User's Group (CapMac). |
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Each year Discover
Engineering recruits engineers as role
models from the local engineering community to
encourage the children of Central Texas to pursue
technology careers. Discover Engineering has been
active in STEM outreach in the greater Austin area
for over a decade. We look for a diverse group of
engineers to visit classrooms and lead hands-on
activities that demonstrate teamwork and logical
processes while discussing their jobs and their
enthusiasm for engineering. John Purvis will
tell us more about the Discover Engineering story,
and lead us in a hands-on activity like the ones
conducted during school visits. |
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24-February-2016 6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program |
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$5.00 minimum cost for the restaurant.
Supper is optional at extra cost.
Reservations are not required. All
interested parties are invited to attend. |
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https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38136
Life Members https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38089 CTCN |
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Pok-e-Jo's Smorekhouse 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | Report on the 2015 Tech Tour of Europe |
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Tour of Europe and will report on the
experience. The presentation will consist of
a SnapFish photo album, made up of photos taken by
Susanne and Tom O'Brien on the tour of France,
Switzerland, and Germany. The photo album
will be shown on the large screen in the Lion
& Rose "Dungeon" meeting room. The tour
consisted of ten days of group travel, with visits
to IEEE Milestones sites and other historical
sites, such as museums. Susanne will make
the photo album viewable online (before the
meeting) by other Central Texas participats, who
may bring their own photos, video, and comments |
| Date/Time | 18-February-2016 11:30 Announcements 12:00 Presentation 1:00 Adjourn |
| Location | Lion & Rose English Pub Dungeon room 842 NW Loop 410 (Park North) San Antonio, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | Issues of Sustainable Energy |
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| Speaker | Dr. Mark Ehsani (Distinguished Lecturer) of
Texas A&M M. Ehsani received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, all in electrical engineering. From 1974 to 1977 he was with the Fusion Research Center, University of Texas, as a Research Engineer. From 1977 to 1981 he was with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, as a Resident Research Associate, while simultaneously doing the doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in energy systems and control systems. Since 1981 he has been at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas where he is now a Professor of electrical engineering and Director of Advanced Vehicle Systems Research Program and the Power Electronics and Motor Drives Laboratory. He is the author of over 300 publications in pulsed-power supplies, high-voltage engineering, power electronics, motor drives, and advanced vehicle systems and is the recipient of the Prize Paper Awards in Static Power Converters and motor drives at the IEEE-Industry Applications Society 1985, 1987, and 1992 Annual Meetings, as well as numerous other honors and recognitions. In 1984 he was named the Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year by the Brazos chapter of Texas Society of Professional Engineers. In 1992, he was named the Halliburton Professor in the College of Engineering at A&M. In 1994, he was also named the Dresser Industries Professor in the same college. In 2001 he was selected for Ruth & William Neely/ Dow Chemical Faculty Fellow of the College of Engineering for 2001-2002, for “contributions to the Engineering Program at Texas A&M, including classroom instruction, scholarly activities, and professional service”. In 2003 he was selected for BP Amoco Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Engineering. He was also selected for the IEEE Vehicular Society 2001 Avant Garde Award for “Contributions to the theory and design of hybrid electric vehicles”. In 2003 he was selected for IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award “For outstanding contributions to advanced curriculum development and teaching of power electronics and drives.” In 2004 he was elected to the Robert M. Kennedy endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. In 2005 he was elected as the Fellow of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). He is the co-author of twelve books on power electronics, motor drives and advanced vehicle systems, including Vehicular Electric Power Systems, Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2003 and “Modern Electric Hybrid Vehicles and Fuel Cell Vehicles – Fundamentals, Theory, and Design”, CRC Press, 2004. He has over 23 granted or pending US and EC patents. His current research work is in power electronics, motor drives, hybrid vehicles and their control systems. Dr. Ehsani has been a member of IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) AdCom, past Chairman of PELS Educational Affairs Committee, past Chairman of IEEE-IAS Industrial Power Converter Committee and past chairman of the IEEE Myron Zucker Student-Faculty Grant program. He was the General Chair of IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference for 1990. He is the founder of IEEE Power and Propulsion Conference, the founding chairman of the IEEE VTS Vehicle Power and Propulsion and chairman of Convergence Fellowship Committees. In 2002 he was elected to the Board of Governors of VTS. He also serves on the editorial board of several technical journals and is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE, an IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Industry Applications Society and Power Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is also a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. |
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| Date/Time | 23-February-2016 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 |
| Location | El Gallo Mexican Restaurant 2910 S Congress Austin, Texas |
| Cost | Choose from a select menu of soups, salads and
dinner plates. Cost: • 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 purchase a beer or other alcoholic beverage |
| Reservations | If you plan on attending, please RSVP by sending
an e-mail to ieee.pi2.austin@zxtech.net. https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35655 |
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| Topic/Title | Engineering Ethics |
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| Speaker | David Howell, P.E. of TEXAS
BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS David Howell has been the Deputy Executive Director for the Texas Board of Professional Engineers since November 2013 and served as Director of Licensing prior to that. He has over 25 years of engineering experience working for the State of Texas, ten of them with the Board. As the Deputy Executive Director, he helps oversee all agency functions including Enforcement and Licensing activities. He is responsible for legislative reporting and implementation, rule development, budget and policy issues, and represents the Board at statewide and national functions. David has been selected to represent the Texas Board on several national taskforces and committees related to engineering licensure, public outreach and exams. He prepares and gives Licensing and Ethics live and webinar presentations to engineering organizations, universities and other groups. David has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso. Prior to coming to the Board, his work was primarily in the field of environmental engineering. |
| Abstract | Engineering ethics
discussion new rules and findings |
| Date/Time | 25-February-2016 Time: 06:00PM to 08:00PM |
| Location | Acadiana Cafe West Dining wing 1289 SW Loop 410 San Antonio, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | Global Energy Requirements |
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| Speaker | Gary Verdun, Dell Environmental Affairs Group |
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| Date/Time | Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Meeting starts at 7pm, but arrive earlier for some networking and some snacks! |
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| Reservations | Please RSVP to Dale Ritzen if you plan to
attend. Email address: daler@austinmfg.com |
| Location | Dell Parmer South Campus, Building PS-4. Meeting
in the "Victoria" conference room just inside the
door. |
| Notes | If you need directions to the meeting, please
contact Dale. |
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Crystal Parrott of Southwest Research Institute Ms. Parrott has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, electrical and control system design, process improvement consulting and system integration. She has working knowledge of robotics, industrial automation, machine vision, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), data acquisition equipment, material handling equipment, welding equipment, paint equipment, sensors, and other manufacturing components. Ms. Parrott is an experienced project manager, and since joining Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in April of 2007, has performed automation research, specification development, electrical design, testing and implementation for many projects within the Automation and Data Systems Division. Before joining SwRI, Ms. Parrott provided engineering solutions for a variety of manufacturing companies utilizing a wide array of process improvement techniques such as TQM, ISO, FMEA, Benchmarking, Lean Manufacturing, MIS and FIS. She has project experience as both a manager as well as technical engineer for a wide variety of manufacturing system projects. The following list highlights a few of the diverse set of projects: Engineering Services Support – Toyota Texas, Laser Welding System – GM, Paint Mix Bank Software Development – GM, SMART-EYE Conveyor Tracking System – GM & AT&T, Flexible Underbody Assembly System – Daimler Chrysler. Ms. Parrott has technical expertise with PLC ladder logic software, robot software, AutoCAD software for electrical design, HMI software, Microsoft Office software packages including Microsoft Project, and recently completed OSHA 30 Hour Construction Safety Training certification. |
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Robotic automation is being applied more
frequently in non-traditional applications such as
large-scale assembly, inspection and surface
processing (painting, depainting, polishing, etc.)
These applications typically have requirements
(reach, payload, hazardous environment, etc.) that
preclude the use of standard commercial robots. Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) specializes in the development and support of large, custom robotic platforms for these special applications. Since the early 1990s, SwRI has fielded production systems for the servicing and maintenance of U.S. Air Force F-15, F-16, A-10 and C-130 aircraft. These systems were designed for maximum flexibility and are scalable and adaptable for a variety of processes. |
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23-February-2016 Time: 12:00PM to 01:00PM |
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For those not able to participate in person, you
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| Topic/Title | Internet of Things |
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| Abstract | The Technology & Engineering Management
Society will host a series of meetings focused on
the Internet of Things. Join us for these lectures and discussions. |
| Date/Time | 22-February-2016 6:00 Networking 6:30 Food and beverages 7:00 Talk 8:00 Adjourn |
| Location | IBM Austin, Texas |
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| Registration | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/38178 |
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
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