IEEE Central Texas Section - Power Engineering Society

IEEE
Central Texas Section
Power Engineering Society
Austin Chapter

October Meeting Announcement

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Date:	Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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Time:	6:00 PM Social 6:30 to 7:00 PM Dinner 7:00 to 7:30 PM Business Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 PM Program 9:00 PM room closes for the benefit of long distance drivers and early risers
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Location:	El Gallo Mexican Restaurant 2910 S Congress (directions below) Austin, Texas 512-444-2205
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Dinner:	Dinner is free for full time students $12.00 for IEEE members and accompanying spouses $15.00 for non-IEEE members

Menu	The bar will be available to those who care to purchase a drink or beer. In fact, there is a service window, so we don't even have to leave the party room. The menu will be a choice of eight meals; selection will be done at time of ordering. The meal includes tea or coffee, and dessert.
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RSVP:	Please RSVP - if you plan to attend please reply to this invitation. To reply or for further information, please contact Stan Friend via email at stan.friend@us.schneider-electric.com.
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Speaker:	Dr. Tommy Darwin, University of Texas. Dr. Darwin is the Director of Professional Development and Community Engagement, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin. With more than ten years teaching and consulting experience, he currently teaches Entrepreneurship, Design, Consulting, Writing and Communication, and Ethics. In addition, Dr. Darwin facilitates workshops on effective collaboration, ethics and leadership, and community engagement. A published scholar in rhetoric, communication, and health and healing, he is currently researching ways to use design methods to address community issues and ways to create and sustain collaborations between Universities and their local communities.
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Presentation:	Engineering Ethics—A Design Approach to Making Ethical Judgments. Many ethics training sessions and modules provide an overview of codes of ethics or standards of ethical conduct with guidelines on how to apply them in different situations. This session takes a different approach to ethics and “being ethical.” It offers an approach to resolving ethical problems in which it is not at all clear what the solution is, what the choices are, or even what standards apply. It assumes that an engineer’s most important asset in resolving an ethical problem is the ability to think creatively about the problem and to generate options. In other words, it takes a design approach to ethical problems.

El Gallo Mexican Restaurant

Parking:	There is a large parking lot in front of and on the south side of the restaurant. The meeting will be held in the party room to the left of the cashier’s counter.

Directions	Map

	From I-35: Exit at Oltorf and drive west. At S. Congress, turn left (south). El Gallo is about 500 feet past the next traffic light (Cumberland), on the right (west) side of Congress, directly across from the entrance to St. Edward’s University.

	From Ben White Blvd. (US 290/SH 71): Exit at S. Congress Avenue and drive north. El Gallo is about 600 feet past the next traffic light (Woodward), on the left (west) side of Congress directly across from the entrance to St. Edward’s University.

Updated 2007 September 23 by Don Drumtra