2012 meeting dates:
January 31
February 28
March 27
April 24
May 29
June & July: summer break; no meetings
August 28
September 25
October 30
November 27
December: Holiday break; no meeting
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The 2012 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI 2012) will take place in Santa Fe on April 22-24, 2012. For information, go to http://www.ssiai.org/ or contact Dr. Brian Nutter at brian.nutter@ttu.edu.
Oct. 23, 2010 — The Region 6 Southwest Area Meeting was held at UNM's Centennial Engineering Center on Saturday, October 23, 2010. Highlights included presentation of the Region 6 Southwest Area awards, leadership training, and updates from the region, area, sections and chapters as well as the student branches. Board members and their significant others also enjoyed each other's company over dinner at Yanni's on Friday.
March 5, 2009 — The Albuquerque Section welcomed a new joint chapter in February 2009, the Communication and Signal Processing Societies. The effective date of the new chapter's formation was Feb. 12, 2009, and it is chaired by Professor Balu Santhanam of UNM's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. For information, contact Dr. Santhanam at bsanthanamATece.unm.edu.
The causes of global warming are the topic of a talk on Feb. 16, 2012, at 5 p.m. at the UNM Conference Center, Room C. The invited speaker is the director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project at the University of Virginia, Professor S. Fred Singer. He has titled his talk "Testing the Hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming."
Dr. Singer's specialty is atmospheric and space physics. For more information about his talk, the flyer is here. A meet & greet will start at 4:30 p.m. The UNM Conference Center is on Albuquerque's University Blvd. north of main campus, in the UNM Continuing Education building. Parking is free in the adjacent lot at 1634 University Blvd. This is a Science & Society Distinguished Public Talk co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Section of IEEE and its Life Members Affinity Group, Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), the UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy, the UNM College of Arts & Sciences, the UNM University Honors Program, and the UNM Division of Continuing Education.
On Nov. 29, 2011, Dr. Everett Farr will discuss antenna performance in the time domain — Reservations will be accepted until noon Tues., Nov. 29, for the IEEE Joint Chapter's Nov. 30 dinner meeting featuring Dr. Farr discussing "A Standard for Characterizing Antenna Performance in the Time Domain." More information is provided on this PDF. To reserve a seat for dinner, please contact Mike Harrison at harrisonmgabq@comcast.net or 239-2663. A reservation is not required if you will attend the talk only. Members of the IEEE Albuquerque Section and Sigma Xi are invited to attend.
The social gathering will begin at 5:45 pm at Four Hills Country Club, 911 Four Hills Road SE in ABQ. Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm, and Dr. Farr will begin the discussion at 7:30. For those joining the dinner, the Joint Chapter asks that you pay $20 ($10 for IEEE student members) to cover the cost of the meal.
Section meeting set for Nov. 8, 2011 — The second ABQ Section meeting of 2011 will be held at 6 p.m. at Yanni's Restaurant. The invited speaker is Dr. Ted Dellin, whose topic is "The End Game of Moore's Law." This PDF has information about the topic and about Dr. Dellin. The meeting cost is $10 per person, which includes dinner. Guests are welcome and, as always, the meeting is free for IEEE student branch members. Please make your reservation and payment online at www.123signup.com/Register?id=ccphn.
The first Albuquerque Section meeting of 2011 — March 31, 6 p.m., at Yanni's. The invited speaker is Steven F. Glover, who will talk about "Programmable Pulsed Power Systems for Isentropic Compression Experiments." This PDF has information about the topic and the speaker. The meeting cost is $10 per person (includes dinner) and guests are welcome. As always, the meeting is free for IEEE student members. Please reserve your meal online with credit card payment at https://www.123signup.com/register?id=vnrmn.
August 4, 2010 — Discount on training in power system s/w: ETAP Enterprise Software Solution for Power Systems is offering a "Design, Analysis & Operation of Power Systems" training class in Albuquerque on August 24. Seating is limited. Additional information and registration information can be found at: http://etap.com/events/2010/101-tour/.htm
ETAP offers a 10 percent discount for IEEE members off the regular registration fees for training events (U.S. events only). To register using the IEEE 10% discount, e-mail training@etap.com or call (949) 900-1084: the IEEE discount is not available for online registrations.
ETAP is an analysis software platform for designing, simulating, operating, and controlling all types and sizes of power systems, including generation, transmission, distribution in industrial fields ranging from oil and gas, to manufacturing, cement, mining, and nuclear facilities.
June 14, 2009 — The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) now has an Albuquerque Section coordinator. Professor Jamesina Simpson of UNM's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department can be reached at simpson-at-ece-dot-unm.edu. A WIE Affinity Group is in formation and will serve the specific needs of New Mexico's female engineering students and professionals. WIE is also partnering with the UNM student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
VLA Tour June 7, 2008 — The IEEE Albuquerque Section toured the Very Large Array (VLA) radio astronomy observatory on US 60 west of Socorro. Dedicated in 1980, the VLA is one of the world's premier astronomical observatories. Dr. Peter Napier, who has served as an engineer and manager for the VLA for more than 30 years, and Clint Janes (cjanes@ieee.org), who served as a division head for 12 years, will conduct the tour. Included in the tour: the ALMA Test Facility, a prototype two-element interferometer test bed for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA is a 50-antenna array operating at frequencies up to 900 GHz that is currently in construction at an altitude of 16,500 ft. in Northern Chile. The observatory has been used to make key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way's center, probed the Universe's cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. See www.aoc.nrao.edu/evla.Jan. 25, 2008, Topic: Neurosystems Engineering — Neurosystems engineering was the topic of a lecture and lunch on January 25 co-hosted for students by UNM, MIND, and the IEEE Albuquerque chapter of the Engineers in Medicine and Biology Society. The presentation, by Sandia National Labs' Dr. Gerold Yonas, was held at the MIND Institute on the UNM campus. Click here for a PDF describing the event.
Albuquerque Section General Meeting, Dec. 2007 — The Albuquerque Section held a general meeting on Dec. 12, 2007, at Four Hills Country Club. Dr. Simon Barriga and Dr. Gilberto Zamora discussed modeling and simulation of "wicked-hard" problems using UMBRA. Click here for a PDF of the event abstract.
The 2011 officers of the Joint Chapter are listed here.
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