R3 SoutheastCon 2010 Report (December 2008)

We had our latest meeting on Saturday, December 6. Planning is progressing
well.

The hotel contract has been signed by IEEE HQ and the hotel. Rooms will be
$149 a night (plus tax) with up to 6 person occupancy for student rooms. Rooms
include free breakfast and a free manager’s reception. We will also have free
internet throughout most of the hotel (conference area and individual rooms).
We will use about 32,000 sq feet of the hotel’s 42,000 sq. feet of meeting
space for all activities. If our activities need more space, we are able to
rent additional meeting rooms.

The committee is urging that the formal R3 meeting be shorter so that R3
volunteers have ample opportunity to visit student competitions and attend
technical presentations.

A call for papers is complete and will be published in the R3 newsletter and
our website soon.

The hardware contest has been scoped and will not require as much mechanical
engineering effort as previous contests. Several different ECE disciplines
will be needed to complete a contest entry. Universities should not discard
their green carpets they are using for the 2009 contest – it will likely be
needed for 2010!

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James M. Conrad, PhD, PMP, Associate Professor, jmconrad @ uncc.edu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  UNC-Charlotte
Woodward 246, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223
Office 704-687-8597, Fax 704-687-4762  www.coe.uncc.edu/~jmconrad