Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers

Utah Section Local Announcements

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Local News

Utah Engineers Council Engineers Week Awards Event 2010

Online Registation Tool:

Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair

March 25-26, 2010     
If you are interested in volunteering to be a judge and to view the full schedule:
http://slvsef.org/the-event/

http://slvsef.org/participate/judge/registration.php

FIRST Robotics

 Congratualtions to West High FIRST Robotics team for their 2009 competition and continued success in 2010.  This is a major accomplishment with lots of resources expended by all participants. 

Note Salt Lake City will be hosting a regional FIRST competition for the first time in 2010 with many local teams competing.

Utah 2010 FIRST Robotics Regionals in Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City will be hosting a regional US FIRST Robotics competition for the FIRST time in 2010.  Please come see the robots the teams are currently working on at the competition

March 18, 2010 - March 20, 2010 
Venue: Huntsman Center

http://www.usfirst.org/default.aspx
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/event/2010ut

http://www.xmission.com/~dmcguire/FRC/index.htm

IEEE Utah Section Communications

We have numerous ways of contacting our section members in addition to our mass enotice.  Our most current and accurate information is found on the website here.  We also target specific chapters, such as Computer Society members with targeted enotices, Power and Energy Society has a specific list kept by the chair.

The Utah Section has created a Linkedin group to improve our membership communication. If you do not have a LinkedIn account please consider creating one so that you can take advantage of the Linkedin Utah Section group features. You can also use this free tool to develop your professional network with local and global professional who share your expertise and interests.  If you would like to be added please This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or add the following IEEE Utah Section Group to an existing account.

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 Past Events

Thanks to all of our recent speakers:

Thank you to the Power and Energy Society for the 1-29-2010 Lecture by Dr. G. Michael Curley on the power grid failures of August 14, 2003 and the reliability changes made afterwards. 

Thank you to our great speakers on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Grant Morgan, Altera FAE, Lee Draper, Lattice FAE and Don Schaeffer, Xilinx FAE.

Chris A. Perry for Home networking tutorial.

Thanks to Douglas L. Datwyler PE for the good presentation and discussion on professional licensure in Utah and future trends.  We hope to have this presentation on the website in the near future.

All involved with the recent GOLD and SPAC event help at the Univerisity of Utah.

All involved and attendees of the Computer Society tour of BYU data center.

Dr. Donahoe, for his excellent technical presentation, Thermal Aspects of LED Headlamps.

John Tyson, for sharing his experiences in the Entrepreneur Seminar.

Jeffery G. Lewis, for our July GOLD meeting on Financial Health.  

Thank you to all whom participated in our August Senior Member Elevation Event.

Thank you to the Utah Section Computer society for sponsering the Agile Roots conference.

The IEEE USA Annual meeting in Salt Lake City was well received with numerous technical presentations, networking of ideas and exceptional keynote speakers.  Please find archived information including a humorous video with Governor Huntsman at the following link.

http://www.ieeeusa.org/calendar/conferences/annualmeeting/2009/video/default.asp

Past Social Events

Thanks to all whom organized and attended December's Holiday dinner social network event in Orem and Jeff Cold for organizing.

Thanks to all whom organized and attended August's summer picnic social network event in Clearfield and Dan Christenson for organizing.

Download photos from the 2009 Utah Engineers Council banquet and download the UEC Journal pdf below.  Also, be sure to see their local engineers event calendar.

• http://utahengineerscouncil.org/index.html

A special thanks to all that attended the 2009 Awards banquet, to our guest speaker, Cleon Anderson, Chris Perry for organizing and all the award winners.

• You can view the pictures from the 2009 Award winners on the new dedicated web page here.

New local Utah Section Technical Society Chapter, EMC and IAS formation

There is currently an interest to start a local IEEE Utah Section EMC Society.  If you are interested in having this local groups form and would attend activities or would like to volunteer please contact e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

Thanks to all who signed the petition to start a Utah Section Power and Energy Society Chapter.  This was approved on January 30th, 2009.  Please see the Utah Section PES website here .

- Download Recent Presentation Electromagnetics for the working Engineer here

2010 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2010)

Please be advised that the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society will sponsor the conference entitled "2010 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2010)".  This conference will be held September 5-7, 2010.

Please note that IEEE MFI 2010 will not take place at Snowbird as originally intended.  The location of the conference will be: Fort Douglas, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.  

The URL for the conference is www.cs.utah.edu/mfi2010

For further information, please contact,

Thomas C. Henderson
50 S. Central Campus Dr, 3190 MEB
School of Computing
University of Utah
Salt Lake City UT 84112
Ph : +1 801 581 3601
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