To attend this follow up plant tour, you must RSVP by April 4, 2008 using the waiver form ( including drivers license number) so that Austin Energy may perform a background check. The completed form must be faxed to 512-972-9534.

This will be one of the few opportunities you will have to walk around a non-operational facility and see what it looks like up close.

Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:00 P.M.

For more information see announcement.

For our February program, the chapter will sponsor two National Electric Code update classes on Thursday and Friday, February 21 and 22. The IBEW was kind enough to let us use their Austin Joint Apprenticeship and Training Center in south east Austin, the same place we had the class two years ago.

The Thursday class is scheduled from 5-9 PM and will focus on material needed by electricians. The Friday class scheduled from 8 AM to 5 PM and will focus on material needed engineers. Attendees may attend both classes if they would like.

The classes will be led by a member of the Stallcup family, which has trained over 250,000 students in workshops, seminars, and in-house training, and continually receiving international recognition for our comprehensive and painstakingly illustrated publications. Stallcup's Illustrated Code Changes, 2008 edition, will be provided to students as a study guide.

We are expecting an attendance of about 90 engineers and electricians. If your company would like help sponsor the event with a table and display your products, please contact Mike Noth, mnoth@skaneng.com , or Stacy Smith, stacy.smith@austin.utexas.edu

More information see the announcement.
Fees: Thursday - $30 for Electricians (No Book from Grayboy)
Friday - $100 for IEEE Members, and $125 for Non-Members

Email or telephone the Chapter Secretary, Stan Friend, stan.friend@us.schneider-electric.com, 512-834-3079, and let him know what classes you will be attending, what books you will be buying, and how and when you plan to pay it. He will provide you confirmation and, when he receives notification that funds have been received, a receipt for the amount paid. Payment may be made at your convenience using one of the following methods:

1. Cash: Give cash to Bobby Speer, the Chapter Treasurer, at the January 22 meeting, at the NEC Update Class, or whenever anytime you see him. Do not send cash through the mail.
2. Check or money order: Make check or money order payable to "IEEE CTS" and give to or mail Bobby Speer, P.O. Box 7459, Austin TX 78713.
3. Credit Card: Instructions to be provided.

The books are available from Gilbert at the JATC if you would like to pick them up early. If you do, you must pay for them by cash or check when you pick them up; Gilbert cannot process credit cards. Please let Gilbert know if you have ordered the books from Stan so that he does not double order. Directions to the JATC are available on the announcement.

Through the courtesy of the IBEW, we are able to provide a limited number of reduced cost copies of the 2008 National Electric Code (NEC) and the 2008 NEC Handbook to NEC class participants who would like to pre-order them. Prices are as follows:
National Electric Code: soft cover, $60; CD ROM, $85.
National Electric Code Handbook: hard cover $90; CD ROM, $150.
If you are interested in any of these, please send an email to Stan Friend, stan.friend@us.schneider-electric.com . Copies will be available at the class with priority given to those who have paid. Payment may be made by check or money order made payable to IEEE Central Texas Section or by cash. Mail to Robert G. (Bobby) Speer at P.O. Box 7459. Austin, Texas 78713.

Many thanks to James Stallcup Sr., of President of the Electrical Section of NFPA, Chairman of Code Making Panel 14 and principal member of several technical committees, for leading our February general meeting of 2008 on National Code Updates.

We appreciate him taking time from his administrative schedules to share his thoughts with us.

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