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Venture ExpoVenture Expo is a semi-annual showcase of "Investor-Ready" startups from The University of Texas at Austin and Central Texas.The companies include all current TVL Accelerator members as well as a select group of past TVL companies and companies from partner organizations. |
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Talk &
group chat: IoT data with Haskell, SQL, and
GraphQLWhat's the deal with GraphQL? How do you write clean, and reusable SQL queries in a safe way? What about 3rd party APIs? And how can I do all that in Haskell? This talk is all about finding out the answers. |
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O'Reilly
Open Source Convention (OSCON)OSCON is where the open source community gathers to celebrate achievements, spark new ideas, and map the future of open computing through collaboration, education, and connecting people with technology. |
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Electronics Symposium at AMD, Tuesday May 9,
2017 Central Texas Electronics Association Electronics Design, Manufacturing & Test Symposium |
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Austin Maker
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IEEE Virtual
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NI Week 2017Join NI at NIWeek 2017, the ultimate learning environment that gives you the tools and knowledge to increase your proficiency and develop applications faster, smarter, and more cost-efficiently. |
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International
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2017
ACM/IEEE International Workshop on System
Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP)High speed chip-to-chip interconnect design • Design and analysis of chip package interfaces • Power consumption of interconnects • 3D interconnect design and prediction • Emerging interconnect technologies • Applications of interconnects to social, genetic, and biological systems • Co-optimization of interconnect technology and chip design |
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Design Automation
Conference (DAC)Advance registration for the premier conference for the Design & Automation of Electronic Systems is now open. DAC consists of a Research Track, Designer Track, and IP Track on the following themes: Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Electronic Systems & Software (ESS), Design, Intellectual Property (IP), Internet of Things (IoT), Automotive, and Security. DAC offers outstanding training, education, exhibits and superb networking opportunities for designers, researchers, tool developers and vendors. |
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2017 19th
International Conference on Intelligent System
Application to Power Systems (ISAP)ISAP is a unique forum where two scientific communities meet: power systems and intelligent systems, and also where scientists and engineers and economists working in the industry align their vision on the needs and demands of the power industry. The Conference welcomes papers on Intelligent Systems Application to Electric Power and Energy Systems (Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Markets, Operations, and Planning) |
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2017
ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on
Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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2017 IEEE
Accelerated Stress Testing & Reliability
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2017
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LASCON 2017
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2018 IEEE
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GreenTech
2018 of Smart CityCall for Participations/Volunteers GreenTech 2018 |
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IEEE R5
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2018 IEEE
International Workshop Technical Committee on
Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR
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2018 IEEE
Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC)This conference papers are dealing with application, development, analysis, testing, and service experience with electrical insulation in electrical and electronic equipment around but not limited to the following themes: rotating machines, transformers, cables, variable speed drives, testing, outdoor insulation, nanodielectrics, switchgear, new materials, etc. |
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2019 IEEE
Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference
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2019 IEEE
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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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PHASE-LOCKED FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS AND MODULATION FOR MODERN WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS |
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Woogeun Rhee Woogeun Rhee received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2001. From 1997 to 2001, he was with Conexant Systems, Newport Beach, CA, where he was a Principal Engineer and developed low-power, low-cost fractional-N synthesizers. From 2001 to 2006, he was with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY and worked on clocking area for high-speed I/O serial links, including low-jitter phase-locked loops, clock-and-data recovery circuits, and on-chip testability circuits. In August 2006, he joined the faculty as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and became a Professor in December 2011. His current research interests include short-range low-power radios for next generation wireless systems and clock/frequency generation circuits for wireline and wireless communications. He holds 23 U.S. patents. Dr. Rhee is currently an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society (2016-2017) and serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE JSSC. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE TCAS-II (2008-2009) and a Guest Editor for IEEE JSSC Special Issue in November 2012 and November 2013. He has served as a member of several IEEE conferences, including ISSCC (2012-2016), CICC, and A-SSCC. He was the co-recipient of the “Silkroad Award” at the 2008 IEEE ISSCC, the “Best Student Paper Award” at the 2012 IEEE RFIT, and the “Best Paper Award” at the 2014 VLSI-DAT. He was the recipient of the “IBM Faculty Award” in 2007 and the “Advanced Employee Award” from Tsinghua University in 2012, and has been listed in “Marquis Who’s Who in the World” since 2009. |
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Frequency synthesis and modulation by the DS
fractional-N PLL are essential in modern
wireless transceivers. In addition to loop
parameter variability, leakage current, and
matching problems, the DS fractional-N PLL needs
to deal with quantization noise and nonlinearity
in consideration of phase noise, spur, and
settling time. In this talk, various
fractional-N PLL architectures
(analog/digital/hybrid) and recent circuit
techniques for mitigating quantization and
nonlinearity will be presented. Also, PLL-based
modulation methods (1-point/2-point/2+-point)
will be discussed. |
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Kofi Makinwa is a Professor at Delft University
of Technology. His main research interests are in
the design of analog circuits and sensor
interfaces. This has resulted in over 200
publications. He is an IEEE fellow, an ISSCC
top-10 contributor, and a co-recipient of 14 best
paper awards, from the JSSC, ISSCC, ESSCIRC,
Transducers and ISCAS among others. |
Abstract |
Micropower ADCs, i.e. ADCs that dissipate less
than 1mW, are critical components of the
autonomous systems that constitute the IoT. In
this talk, recent developments will be discussed,
in particular how successive approximation and
over-sampling techniques can be combined to
realize hybrid ADCs that can efficiently achieve
both low power dissipation and high (> 14-bit)
resolution. |
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04 May 2017 Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
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Pushing the Envelope of RF/mm-Wave Power
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Hua Wang received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2007 and
2009, respectively. He worked at Intel Corporation
and Skyworks Solutions. He joined the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at
Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant
professor in 2012. Dr. Wang is interested in innovating mixed-signal, RF, and mm-Wave integrated circuits/systems and hybrid biotic-abiotic/biology-electronics systems. Dr. Wang received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015, the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2017, the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award in 2016, the DURIP Award in 2014, the Georgia Tech ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award in 2015, and the Lockheed Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015. He currently holds the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship of the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. His research group Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) lab has won multiple best paper awards, including the IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Awards in 2014 (1st Place) and 2016 (2nd Place), the IEEE CICC Best Student Paper Awards in 2015 (1st Place), the 2016 IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2016 IEEE SENSORS Best Live Demo Award (2nd Place), as well as multiple best paper award finalists at IEEE conferences. Dr. Wang is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL). He is currently a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member for IEEE ISSCC, RFIC, CICC, BCTM, and BioCAS conferences. He is the Chair of the Atlanta’s IEEE CAS/SSCS joint chapter that won the IEEE SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award in 2014. |
Abstract |
Spectrum efficient modulations with high
peak-to-average-power ratios (PAPR) are widely
employed in many high-performance wireless
communication systems from low-GHz
software-defined radios to 5G mm-Wave links. This
growing trend has posed stringent requirements on
next-generation power amplifier (PA) designs and
transmitter architectures. Going beyond more
conventional PA design paradigms that mostly focus
on peak output power and peak efficiency,
next-generation RF/mm-Wave PAs should achieve both
power efficiency and linearity in the entire power
back-off region (PBO) to amplify the large-PAPR
signals with high efficiency and fidelity.
Moreover, it is increasingly important to explore
PA carrier frequency reconfiguration and support
large modulation bandwidth that will enable future
multi-functional transmitters. This seminar talk will present several new RF and mm-Wave PA architectures and their silicon-implementations recently developed at Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System (GEMS) lab. In addition, I will demonstrate a multi-feed antenna concept that achieves direct low-loss on-antenna power combining of multiple mm-Wave PAs for high-power long-range mm-Wave communications. |
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Ultra-low Voltage/Power VCO-based ADC; “The Road Less Travelled”. |
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Dr. Narasimman obtained his Bachelor of
Technology degree in electronics and communication
from Mahatma Gandhi University, India in 2007.
From 2007 to 2012 he worked as an ASIC physical
design engineer and consultant in India and
USA. From 2012 to 2016 he worked towards his
PhD thesis, titled “Data Converters using
Continuous Time delta sigma modulators with
VCO-based integrators and quantizers for Ultra-low
power applications”. He is now a
research scientist in Institute of
Microelectronics (IME), A-Star, Singapore working
on energy efficient, high-resolution interface for
Inertial Measurement Sensors. His research
interest include energy efficient Analog and Mixed
signal circuits, Sigma Delta modulators and Sensor
Interfaces for Ultra-low power applications. He
has published many articles in international peer
reviewed publications and also holds one patent on
Ultra-low Power Capacitive Sensor Interface. |
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VCO-based ADCs have become quite popular in the
recent past. Its almost digital architecture
brings out the “time-domain” advantage in mixed
signal design, which aids the technology scaling
in CMOS devices. Even though VCO-based ADCs have
received a lot of attention in the wide
bandwidth, high performance wireless
applications, not much focus has been placed on
its ultra-low Voltage/Power capabilities. With
growing interest towards ultra-low power
wearable devices and battery-less sensor nodes,
the need for ultra-low voltage/power data
converters has become indispensable. This talk
aims to grab the attention of researchers in the
direction of ultra-low power data converter
design, using VCO-based integrators and
quantizer. In this talk the speaker would
discuss the current state of ultra-low powers
data converters and about the technical
challenges/existing solutions in ultra-low power
VCO-based ADCs. Talk would be concluded with
some thoughts towards future directions. |
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Memoryless Analog-to-Digital Conversion Using Delta-Sigma Modulators Without Reset |
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Nagendra Krishnapura obtained his BTech from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and
his PhD from Columbia University, New York. He has
worked as an analog design engineer at Celight,
Multilink, and Vitesse semiconductor. He has
taught analog circuit design courses at Columbia
University as an adjunct faculty. He is currently
an associate professor at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras. His interests are analog and
RF circuit design and analog signal processing. |
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Delta-Sigma architectures are usually the best
choice for high resolution analog-to-digital
converters. But when the input is multiplexed
from a number of inputs, they cannot be used
directly. The memory in the modulator and the
decimation filter results in inter-sample
interference. To eliminate this, the conversion
cycle has to be made long enough for the impulse
response of the modulator and decimator to die
out before applying the next sample. This
results in a substantially lower sampling rate
than when the Delta-Sigma ADC is used
continuously. Alternatively, the modulator and
decimation filter can be reset to realize an
incremental delta-sigma modulator. In this case,
there is an SNR penalty since the filter has a
lower stopband attenuation. We demonstrate
memoryless analog-to-digital conversion using
Delta-Sigma modulators without resetting the
modulator or decimation filters. This is done by
constraining the combined signal transfer
function for the modulator and a decimation
filter to satisfy Nyquist intersymbol
interference criterion. This architecture
enables memoryless operation over the entire
signal bandwidth of the Delta-Sigma modulator
which is significantly higher than the bandwidth
in incremental architectures in which the
modulator is reset. A two-channel ADC with
sampling rate of fs/64 per channel is built
using a third order 32x oversampled
switched-capacitor modulator. The
prototype in 0.18um CMOS occupies 2.1mmsq. At
64MHz sampling rate for the DSM, the standalone
modulator consumes 25mW and has a
DR/SNRmax/SNDRmax of 85/82/80.3 dB. The
sample-and-hold required for multi-channel
operation consumes 20 mW. In two-channel mode,
with 1 MHz sampling rate per channel, the
DR/SNRmax/SNDRmax of 80/76/75 dB. The crosstalk
between channels is less than -85 dB. The total
power consumption for two channels is 45 mW. |
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Topic/Title | The Changing Face of Network Security Management - Packet Delivery Platforms |
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Speaker | Allen Hébert of Gigamon Inc. With over 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Allen Hébert serves as a senior technical member of Gigamon’s Field Sales Team providing support for Texas and Louisiana customers. Allen sits on the board of directors for the Capitol of Texas Chapter of ISSA. Prior to Gigamon, Allen held various senior system engineering positions and consulting roles at Brocade, AT&T, Marconi, IBM Global Services and Motorola. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. |
Abstract | In recent years, huge strides in network
management have been made with the advancement of
visibility tools, application layer filtering, and
centralized management yet many networks are
running with the same tools and methodology that
were used 15 years ago. This talk will
provide an overview of the ISO standard of FCAPS
for network management, provide insights of how to
best deploy new network security tools and show
the value of a comprehensive network management
framework in the field of Cybersecurity. The challenge for security and performance monitoring of the computing environment is providing these tools visibility across all the areas of the network that need to be monitored. Traditionally, these tools have been deployed inline at the connection to the Internet or in monitor only mode, they are connected to a SPAN port on a switch or router. Device based management of your computing environment is no longer sufficient, the next generation of performance and security tools require visibility into the packets passing through the network. Employing the use of a Packet Visibility Platform provides the means to aggregate all sources of network traffic (inline Bypass, SPANs, TAPs, Virtual), sending the right data to the right tool through filtering, cleaning up the data streams by transforming the packet flows and most importantly sending the data to all the tools or tool groups that need to see those packets. The computing environment is not only an essential component of every major company, it can also provide a competitive edge and be a differentiator in the industry. The ability to deploy new cybersecurity tools in a timely fashion is key to not only protecting your company from cyber attacks, but also saves time and money. |
Date/Time | 24 May 2017 6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking 6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program |
Location | 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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sponsoring an Antenna Workshop on September 27. See IEEE Events for details.
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Date/Time | Tuesday May 16 2-4PM |
Location | Pok-e-Jo's 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
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Details are still being worked out for the
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Topic/Title | The Evolution of Engineering from a Trade to a Profession, and to an Academic Discipline |
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Speaker | C. Sidney Burrus is Professor Emeritus of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and former
dean of engineering at Rice University. He
has authored 5 books and over 250 articles on
Digital Signal Processing, received teaching
awards from Rice, and research awards from the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
and others. This includes the Kilby Medal for
signal processing. The OpenStax Project started in
1999 at Rice University to apply modern technology
and theory to education. Burrus has been closely
involved with it since its founding and has
lectured and published widely on it. Prof. Burrus received his PhD from Stanford, has held visiting positions at MIT and the University of Erlangen in Germany, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Beijing Jiaotong University. He was on the founding committee for International University Bremen in Germany; was a consultant on the founding of Tan Tao University in Vietnam; and is on the advisory board of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan. Most recently, he was on the managing board of an international conference on “Humans, Machines, and the Future of Work” or, “when robots can do everything humans can do, what will humans do?” |
Abstract | Ask a person what engineering is and you will
get a wide variety of answers. We will
discuss how engineering and technology evolved
from a craft to a trade to a profession and now to
an academic discipline. We will look as how
the early days of engineering education were to be
an apprentice then one was a trainee and, more
recently, a university student maybe with a
graduate degree. The modern idea of an
engineer centers on design, innovation, and
creation. The modern practice of engineering
is close to the entrepreneur and venture
capitalist and start-up company creator.
Science discovers, describes, and explains what is
and engineering designs, creates, and invents what
is not. |
Date/Time | 18 May 2017 Time: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM |
Location | 842 NW Loop 410 San Antonio, Texas United States 78216 Building: The Lion and Rose Room Number: The Dungeon |
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Topic/Title | Life at the edge:
Operating and designing a whole home residential
microgrid |
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Speaker | Scott Hinson of Director of
Engineering at Pecan Street Inc. Scott leads the development of the Pike Powers Commercialization Lab. He worked at a thin film CIGS solar module manufacturer where he led module packaging, performance, certification and reliability efforts. Prior efforts include work in the military, medical, consumer and oil industries developing power supplies, precision measurement equipment and inductive heating technologies. Scott received his B.S.E.E. from The University of Texas at Austin with undergraduate specializations in both communications systems and power distribution. |
Abstract | The presentation will cover
design basics, data collected during operation and
lessons learned from operating two 9.6kWh energy
storage systems/microgrids in Austin residential
structures with solar and electric vehicles. |
Date/Time | 23 May 2017 Registration, Dinner and : 6:00 to 6:30PM Social & Business Meeting: 6:30 to 7:00 PM Program 7:00 to 8:30 PM |
Location | Cover3 2700 West Anderson Lane Austin, Texas |
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Topic/Title | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN UTILITIES POWER PLANT
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Speaker | Rossen Tzartzev of University of Texas Associate Director - Electrical Distribution & Elevator Services - UT Austin Utilities & Energy Management |
Abstract | Often described as the largest and most
integrated microgrid in the U.S., the UT Austin
Carl J. Eckhardt Combined Heat and Power plant
(CHP) is capable of generating 135 MW (megawatts)
power (63 MW peak) and 1.2 million lb/hr (pounds
per hour) of steam (300,000 peak). The single
largest electrical load on campus is the cooling
system that can provide 60,000 tons (33,000 tons
peak) of chilled water to the campus. The Power
Complex provides 100 percent of campus electricity
and heating. Our five chilling stations and 9.5
million gallons of chilled water in two thermal
storage tanks satisfy the cooling requirements for
17 million square foot in more than 150 campus
buildings serving 70,000 faculty, students and
staff. The complex provides the university with an
independent utility system with full islanding
capabilities and has electrical ties to the City
of Austin electrical grid as an emergency backup
source of power. |
Date/Time | 27 May 2017 Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
Location | 215 East 24th Street Austin, Texas |
Cost | cost is $10 for IEEE members and $20 for non-IEEE members and is non-refundable |
Reservations | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45084 |
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Membership in the Sensor Council is free if you are already a member of one of the sponsoring IEEE Societies. Those Societies are: AES, AP, BT, CAS, COM, CPMT, C, DEI, ED, EMB, EMC, IE, IA, IM, MAG, MTT, OE, PE, PHO, RA, SP, SSC, UFFC, and VT.
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MEMS IN AUSTIN – DAYS OF DISRUPTION, MARKET CREATION AND INDUSTRY GROWTH |
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Austin’s MEMS & Sensors industry started
with joint ventures between the Microelectronics
and Computer Technology Corporation (known as
MCC), IBM and Raytheon in the late 1990’s.
Other companies and universities soon became
involved including Cypress Semiconductor, Texas
Instruments, Rockwell, Lockheed Martin, Harris
Corporation, Hughes Research Labs, UCLA, UC
Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2000, MCC spun out Austin’s first MEMS company
and today the Central Texas region benefits from
numerous companies that make up the regional
industry and a robust MEMS & Sensors value
chain. Today everyone reading this abstract
benefits from more than one form of MEMS
technology. MEMS & Sensors are key enabling
technologies for smart phones, autonomous
vehicles, wearable electronics, drones, robotics,
oil & gas telemetry, biomedical and health
informatics devices. This talk will cover the
history of Austin’s strategic innovation in MEMS,
market creation and regional industry growth. |
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17 May 2017 Time: 06:00 PM to 09:25 PM |
Location |
2706 Montopolis Drive Austin, Texas |
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https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45332 |
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AESS Chapter of the Year Award
2016 for US-based chapters
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Topic/Title | CTS LEADERSHIP READING GROUP: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A GREAT LEADER? |
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Abstract | Leadership Reading Group: a Monthly Discussion
Group hosted by IEEE Technology and Engineering
Management in the Central Texas Section (Austin) Discussion Topic: What Does it Take to be a Great Leader in the 21st Century? Join us for a snacks, beverages, good company and a fantastic discussion group, focused on developing your leadership skills. In this inaugural meeting, we'll discuss a provocative 10 minute TED Talk: What It Takes to Be a Great Leader. How can you adapt your leadership style to take your career to the next level? You will leave with new ideas for yourself! For further background thoughts on your leadership style, take a look at Leadership Styles. It is definitely more 20th Century than 21st. We'll discuss what you think, and decide what to discuss in June. No charge for the event. Bring a friend! And make new ones! |
Date/Time | 11 May 2017 6:30 Snacks and networking 7:00 Discussion 8:00 Adjourn to BlackFinn for a complimentary Happy Hour! |
Location | Microsoft Store at the Domain 3309 Esperanza Crossing #104 Austin, Texas |
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Registration | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45302 |
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
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Topic/Title | CTS WOMEN IN ENGINEERING MONTHLY BOOK CLUB SAN
ANTONIO: NEGOTIATING YOUR SALARY |
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Abstract | SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE TECH INDUSTRY: A
Monthly Book Club for Women in Engineering in the
Central Texas Section (San Antonio) Book / Article Discussion: Negotiating Your Salary Join us for a snacks, beverages, good company and a fantastic book club, focused on SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE TECH INDUSTRY. We'll discuss two short articles: "Get the Most From Your Next Salary Negotiation" and "Make More Money, Be More Valued." And perhaps we'll try some practice conversations! No charge for the event. Bring a friend! And make new ones! |
Date/Time | 10 May 2017 6:30 Snacks and networking 7:00 Discussion 8:00 Adjourn |
Location | Microsoft Store 15900 La Cantera Parkway San Antonio, Texas United States 78256 Room Number: Suite 6560 |
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Registration | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45175 |
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Topic/Title | CTS WOMEN IN ENGINEERING MONTHLY BOOK CLUB SAN
ANTONIO: NEGOTIATING YOUR SALARY |
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Abstract | SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE TECH INDUSTRY: A
Monthly Book Club for Women in Engineering in the
Central Texas Section (San Antonio) Book / Article Discussion: Negotiating Your Salary Join us for a snacks, beverages, good company and a fantastic book club, focused on SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE TECH INDUSTRY. We'll discuss two short articles: "Get the Most From Your Next Salary Negotiation" and "Make More Money, Be More Valued." And perhaps we'll try some practice conversations! No charge for the event. Bring a friend! And make new ones! |
Date/Time | 25 May 2017 6:30 Snacks and networking 7:00 Discussion 8:00 Adjourn to BlackFinn for a complimentary Happy Hour! |
Location | Microsoft Store at the Domain 3309 Esperanza Crossing #104 Austin, Texas |
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Registration | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45304 |
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Topic/Title | CTS WOMEN IN ENGINEERING MONTHLY BOOK CLUB SAN
ANTONIO: NEGOTIATING YOUR SALARY |
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Abstract | SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE TECH INDUSTRY: A
Monthly Book Club for Women in Engineering in the
Central Texas Section (San Antonio) Book / Article Discussion: Negotiating Your Salary Join us for a snacks, beverages, good company and a fantastic book club, focused on SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE TECH INDUSTRY. We'll discuss two short articles: "Get the Most From Your Next Salary Negotiation" and "Make More Money, Be More Valued." And perhaps we'll try some practice conversations! No charge for the event. Bring a friend! And make new ones! |
Date/Time | 30 May 2017 6:30 Snacks and networking 7:00 Discussion 8:00 Adjourn |
Location | Cirrus Logic 800 W. 6th St. Austin, Texas |
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Registration | https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45323 |
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about WIE.