A Newsletter of the Central Texas Section (www.ieee.org/CTS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
Published monthly (Deadline is the 25th day of the previous month), John R. Purvis, Editor (j.purvis@computer.org).

Quick Links

Section Activities	Chapter Activities
The Chairman's Column	Communications/Signal Processing Societies	Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
The Next Section Meeting	Computer Society	Power Engineering Society
Other Important Events and Notes of Interest	Consultant's Network	Women in Engineering
Editor's Notes	Electromagnetic Compatibility Society	Student Branches
Email List	Engineering Management Society

The Chairman's Column

Senior Member Upgrade Event

The Senior Member Event was a huge success. Over 60 members attended the Senior Member event to fill out applications to upgrade their membership to Senior Member. In 2002, our Central Texas Section was the #1 Section in Senior Member Upgrades. We are on target to repeat this honor as it represents serving our members well. The Section will be supporting each senior member application by a nomination from the Section plus providing the necessary Senior Member References (2 per application). Any Section Senior Member willing to participate in the reference writing activity should contact J.redfield@ieee.org.

San Antonio Computer & Technology Showcase

The Section provided an IEEE booth at the San Antonio Computer and Technology Showcase on May 29-30. Although we donât know if it resulted in any new members, it provided publicity as to who we are and what we do to many attendees.

Awards Program

We now have an ongoing Awards program with the appointment of a new Awards Chairman: Garrett Polhamus, garrett.polhamus@brooks.af.mil, (210) 536-1306. Please contact him if you have any questions concerning awards or you wish to nominate someone for an award or recognition.

Future Events

Upcoming are numerous activities that involved the Section including:
• An Executive Committee meeting June 14th (Section Officers and Chapter Chairs); results will be presented at the August Section Planning Meeting.
• A Section Planning Meeting in August.
• Planning for a âState of the Technologyâ in Austin during the Fall
• An Engineering Management Workshop co-sponsored with the Center for LifeLong Engineering Education at UT Austin.

Volunteers: the backbone of the IEEE

We always have opportunities for volunteers: at the Chapter and Section level here in Central Texas, at the Region 5 Level, and yes even at the national and international levels. There are many opportunities, you just need to make up your mind to get involved. The IEEE provides a lifelong professional organization for those of us in electrical and associated engineering fields with continuing technical education, networking, financial benefits and developing our leadership and management skills.

As Always

We continue to work to get you involved. We welcome your feedback: s.atkinson@ieee.org. Please let all our leaders know how we are doing and make many suggestions and recommendations.

T. Scott Atkinson
Chairman

The Next Section Meeting

No Section meetings are planned for June.

Student Chapter Activities

Paul Kaschube, the Section's Student laison, attended the Region 5 conference held in New Orleans last April, and has prepared a series of reports on the student activities. The second report is on the student paper contest held at the conference.

The full text can be found here on the CTS Web site.

Other Important Events and Notes of Interest

Section Member Survey Continues

We will continue conducting the survey of the IEEE Central Texas Section membership for a few more weeks. This web-based survey is quick and easy, just go to http: //www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/centex-member-survey.html and submit your information. In the interest of providing better service to our new and current members of the IEEE CTS, we'd like just a little information about you to help us know more about this Section's membership.

Note: We will NOT be using this information for any other purpose!

For further information, contact Emily Sopensky (emily@iriscompany.com).

UT/IEEE Central Texas Section Engineering Management Workshop

The 4th annual UT/IEEE CTS Engineering Management Workshop, "Management of Product Liability", will be held August 14-15 in the large auditorium at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Commons building. Registration is $165 on or before July 17, $195 after. Visit www.UTclee.org or call 512-471-3506 to reserve your seat. For more information click here

15th Annual Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference

The 15th Annual Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards (HENAAC) will be held October 16-18, 2003 in Austin, Texas, and the academic host is the University of Texas. It includes workshops for students and professionals; a Career Fair; a summit where national leaders from the various Hispanic technical organizations meet annually; and a national awards show to honor recipients of the HENAAC annual awards.

For more information on HENAAC visit their Web site at https://www.henaac.org, or contact Gerald Garcia at gerald.garcia@ieee.org.

Sections Congress 2002 Report

Most of the leadership of the CTS attended the Sections Congress held last October in Washington D.C. The final report from SC 2002 has been published on the web at https://www.ieee.org/sc. Click on "SC2002" and then "Final Report" in the left menu bar. This is a large pdf file because of photos and charts that are included.

Kudos for CTS Members

• Dr. Robert H. Bishop, P.E., professor and holder of the Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in engineering, has been named the chair-elect of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin.
• Thanks to all those who participated in Engineering Week 2003 activities. Among those from CTS participating were: Faizul Alam, Charles Foldes, John Griessen, Phillip Hekmati, Daniel Henderson, Sandra Johnson, Gregory Ledenbach, Yue Luo, Christina Lynch, Cherly Malatras, Bob Minns, Elmer Moreno, M. John Peterson, Mathew Rankin, John Reysa, Laucresha Salmon, Marty Schmooklerlmartins, Ed Seymour, Bill Taylor, Madeline Vega, Carl Wentzel and Ronald Woan.
• CTS member and IEEE Fellow Dr. Russell D. Dupuis, a professor of Electrical Engineering at UT Austin, is the 2004 recipient of the John Bardeen Award, given by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. He also received the Alumni Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Engineering from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• CTS recognized by IEEE for Senior Member Upgrade efforts. Click here for full article

Central Texas Section Society and Affinity Group Chapter Activities

Communications/Signal Processing Societies Topic: Enabling Enterprise Remote Netorks through VPNs Why VPN - the drivers that are causing enterprises to consider and switch to VPN from traditional remote access technologies VPN classifications - the different segments and the different flavors of VPN Enterprise VPN Technologies - a discussion of how the different VPNs (specifically MPLS and IPsec) handle authentication, access control, confidentiality, and data integrity Enterprise VPN Solutions - Mobile Office, Home Office and Branch Office scenarios Speaker: Nizam "Nick" Uddin, CCIE Date: June 19 Time: 6:30om - 9:00pm Location: SBC Technology Resources, Inc. (SBC-TRI)m 9505 Arboreturm Blvd., Austin, TX Reservations: If you plan to attend, please send Email to Howard Headrick at hfrjr@swbell.net for planning purposes.

Computer Society - San Antonio [for more information] Topic: No meeting is scheduled for June Speaker: Date: Time: Cost: Reservations: Contact Kevin Nickels, knickels@engr.trinity.edu, 210-999-7543 Location:

Computer Society - Austin [for more information] No meeting is scheduled for June

Consultant's Network [for more information] Topic: How to Avoid Semiconductor Failure When the physics of failure mechanisms are understood, reliability can be imporved by how we use or design semiconductors. Semiconductors can fail because of heat, voltage (electric fields), current (magnetic fields), humidity or temperature cycling. Some examples will be shown and discussed. Speaker(s): Bill Thorpe, P.E., co-founder of Executronics Date: Thursday, June 12 Time: 6:30pm - Networking, 7:00pm - Program Location: China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290E, Austin, Texas, located at the north east corner of IH-35 and 290E The consultants' web directory has been updated. The directory is to be found at https://www.alesu.com/xltrp/ieeecons/listzero.htm

Electromagnetic Compatibility Society [for more information] Topic: TBD Speaker: Date: Time: Location:

Engineering Management Society [for more information]  If you are interested in the Engineering Management Society, contact Steve Prough, Vice-Chairman, sdprough@aol.com. Of interest may be the Graziadio Business Analysis site at Pepperdine University [These materials are the responsibility of the authors and publisher of the newsletter and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of IEEE]

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society [for more information]

Power Engineering Society [for more information] Topic: UPS Technologies, and when each should be used Speaker: Mahesh Morjaria, Phd. Date: Tuesday, June 24 Time: 6:00 - Social, 6:30 - Dinner, 7:00 - Business meeting, 7:30 - program Cost: $10, free for students Reservations: For further information, please contact Susan Thompton or Steve Kanetsky, at 512-326-3380 Location: El Gallo Mexican Restaurant, 2910 S. Congress Ave, Austin, TX

Women in Engineering [for more information] The Women in Engineering Chapter of Central Texas is planning to meet on the first Tuesday of every other month in Austin. Topic: To Be Determined Speaker: Debra Winegarten, author Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Time: 6:00-8:00pm Location: To Be Determined

CTS Student Branches St. Mary's University [for more information] Trinity University University of Texas at Austin [for more information] University of Texas at San Antonio [for more information]

Editor's Notes

The goal of this newsletter is to provide the more than 4700 members of the Section with up-to-date and meaningful information. We welcome contributions and suggestions that will improve the newsletter. Please contact the editor, John Purvis at j.purvis@computer.org if you have any thoughts or suggestions. The deadline for submission is the 25 th of the month.
 

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