August Meeting, Tuesday, August 28, All Day Field Trip to the Graybar Technology Showcase and Round Rock Express Baseball

All IEEE members are invited to participate with Graybar and a long list of suppliers on Tuesday, August 28, in the Greater Austin Graybar Technology Showcase 2007 at the United Heritage Center, followed by an evening of Baseball between Round Rock Express and the Albuquerque Isotopes at the Dell Diamond, Round Rock, Texas. The all day program begins with registration at 8:30 AM and ends with the conclusion of the ball game before 10 PM. Registration includes selected seminars in five sessions, two in the morning, lunch, two in the afternoon, and dinner presentation. It also includes a pass to the ball game. Families are invited to the ball game and family member tickets may be obtained through Wayne Hachenberg, 426-4561.

For details on the seminars and other information on this event please see the announcement.

If you plan to attend, you must register and select your seminars.

The Chapter Committee is pleased to announce that the meetings for the remainder of the year have been confirmed and committee members have begun working in programs for 2008 such as a National ELectric Code class for February. If have topics you would like to see presented of would like to provide your colleagues the latest technology at work in your industry, please contact any member of the chapter officers . As always you are welcome to attend and present your ideas at the Chapter Committee meetings scheduled the second Tuesday of each month at Catfish Parlour on East Ben White.

IEEE PES has established an engineer of the year program that will us to recognize the outstanding contributions of one of our chapter members each year to power engineering and PES. The peer recognition of the winner will be embellished by an IEEE PES Plaque documenting the award. Details are provided in a Powerpoint presentation. In order to participate we need a selection committee of three to:

• Determine the criteria our chapter's award
• Develop forms and procedures
• Evaluate submissions

If you would like to help your colleagues obtain this prestigious award and at the same time gain leadership experience by participating on this committee, please send Mike Noth an email at mennoth@sbcglobal.net.

Many thanks to Sergio Garza of LCRA for his interesting presentation on Transmission Planning. There is a lot of work that must go into planning five years into the future and LCRA is known for doing it well. We appreciate Sergio showing us both the principles of planning and specific examples on how it is carried out in practice.

Certificates. Mike Noth will be emailing certificates to all attendees to January's meeting that checked "yes" on the sign in sheet. You may also pick up your CE certificate at February's meeting.

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