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           IEEE Wichita Section News                       

                                       July, 2009

IEEE Energy Fly-In 

IEEE-USA and IEEE members with an interest in Energy Policy were in Washington on 15 and 16 June for our First Annual Energy Fly-In. This unique event gives IEEE members an unparalleled opportunity to directly influence the direction of Energy Policy in Washington

Energy underlies and connects three converging challenges that face the United States in the early 21st century: security, prosperity, and the environment.  To address these issues, President Barack Obama and Congress have vowed to make energy issues a priority this year. This is your opportunity to have a direct impact on this critical process.
Our Region 5 Government Activities Chairman is Jim Jefferies

jjefferies@ieee.org

Technical Presentations in Wichita

We in the professional section have been privileged to conduct two joint technical presentations with the Wichita State University Student Section.  The first, on February 2nd, was a very well attended presentation on Cognitive Radio by KU Professor Dr Joseph B. Evans.

 http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~evans/



Dr Evans Lecture to a Packed House

His presentation is available here:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/cognetsummit/presentations/evans.ppt#275,11,KU Agile Radio Enables

Well over 100 students and professional section members attended and pizza was provided by the professional section. 
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The second was a presentation by our own Dr Ward Jewell
http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=ece&p=/faculty/Jewell/

(in conjunction with the Power & Energy Society) on Grid Architecture for Green Power Sources.  While the crowd was smaller, there were numerous opportunities to ask questions and explore the challenges inherent in power transmission and distribution in the 21st century (and plenty of Pizza)

IEEE Foundation Announces 2008 Application Deadlines

The Wichita Council of Engineering Societies held their annual banquet on February 19th at the Hawker-Beechcraft Activities Center.


Left to Right:  Paul Ditty, George Dean and Mark Olive

Finally, the Region 5 Leadership Conference was held in Lubbock, TX (just outside Texas Tech University) on April 18th in Conjunction with the 2009 IEEE Green Technology Conference.  Both Jim Jefferies, Region 5 Government Activities Chairman and Rich Painter, Vice President of Painter Engineering declared their candidacy for 2011 Region 5 Director (Elections to be held later in 2009) A full day of committee reports was capped off with the region 5 awards banquet.  Our own Vinod Namboodiri was the recipient of Region 5’s Outstanding Student Branch Counselor Award for his work at Wichita State University.