Central Georgia IEEE Section 2011 Meeting History


February Meeting
The Executive Committe met on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, to discuss the next year's activities. Several will attend the Southeastern Conference in Nashville. We are working up several meeting ideas. We have asked the Mercer Robot team for report on their robot competition. We plan an Area 3 picnic in the fall at Robins AFB.

March Meeting Curtis Lee and Dan Bishop attended the IEEE Southeastern Conference in Nashville TN. It was a good weekend to be in Nashville. The student robot competition was a difficult one this year. The theme was to use a robot to find a person/body in a building.

March Meeting
The March meeting was a joint meeting with a visit to the Dixie Crows vendor exhibits at their Spring conference on Tuesday, the 22nd of March. Thanks go to Nikki Davis, Dixie Crows registration chair, for getting us in their conference. The exhibits were at at the Robins AFB Museum of Aviation.
We got to visit with some Dixie Crow familar faces including retired Dennis Maloney and Mike Jordan from Teledyne. Teledyne gave us an excellent presentation on travelling wave tubes a few years back. Many defense companies were represented and there is a fair bit of overlap with some of the IEEE members and Dixie Crows.
Thanks again to Nikki and the Dixie Crows for allowing us to attend.

May Meeting The May meeting of the IEEE Central Georgia Section was a presentation on the mining industry in Georgia and kaolin in particular. Lee Lemke, Vice President of the Georgia Mining Association gave the presentation on Tuesday, the 10th of May at 6:30 PM. We met at their office conference room in north Macon. Lee brings enthusiasm and an orientation to numbers in his role as promoter of mining interests in Georgia. Lee is pro-business and pro-manufacturing. Thanks go to Michael Ivey for putting us on the trail to this industry association.
Afterwards, we had dinner at Logan's Roadhouse on Arkwright Road.
We confirmed the leadership slate for the next year.

June meeting The June meeting was a presentation of measurement equipment from Mike Brown with Agilent. Engineer Jeff Murphy and Mike Brown spoke to us. Agilent was spun off from Hewlett-Packard about ten years ago. Agilent provides metering and measurement equipment. The meeting was on the 28th of June at 6:30 PM.

July meeting The July meeting was on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) by Ed Hawkins of Flint Energies. The presentation was a Thursday evening,, the 28th of July, at 6:30 PM at 494 Perry Parkway Perry GA at the Flint Energy offices. GIS is a system that Flint Energy uses to support its electrical distribution system. Ed Hawkins is certified GISer ans works for Flint Energies. Former memeber, Scott Barfield, attended this meeting.
The website is: www.flintenergies.com/
Thanks go to Curtis Lee for setting up this meeting.



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