IEEE
Orlando Section Monthly
Welcome
to the IEEE Orlando Section web site.
Established in 1959 and serving
over 1,400 members in
Orange,
Osceola,
Seminole,
Lake
and Sumter
counties
Vol.
XLII 
No. 03
March
2009
www.ieee.org/orlando
- Call
for Volunteers for Chapter Officers and
Chapter Officers Elections
- Orlando
Section has Chapters for the following
societies:
- Aerospace
and Electronics Systems
- Antennas
and Propagation
- Microwave
Theory and Techniques
- Computer
- Communications
- Signal
Processing
- Components,
Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology
- Control
Systems
- Robotics
and Automation
- Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics
- Electron
Devices
- Lasers
and Electro-Optics
- Power
Energy
- Industry
Applications
- Power
Electronics
If
you are a member of any of the above
societies, we urge to volunteer for chapter
activities. Each Chapter has Chair, Treasurer/
Secretary and other positions available.
Please send you chapter officer candidate
nomination or self-nomination to each
chapter Chair or Section Chair, Donghui
Wu .
Election will be hold at each Chapter's next
meeting or one of Section meetings. for more
information about existing chapters, please
visit https://www.ieee.org/orlando
STATE
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR (SSEF) 2009
IEEE
members are needed who will be willing to
serve as judges. This is a statewide
event, and members donating a day to the
cause will be helping our future engineers
and scientists. There are cash
prizes for the senior and junior
categories.
SSEF 2009 will be held at the downtown
Lakeland Center on Thursday, April 16th
from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Address
is 701 W. Lime St., Lakeland, FL, 33815
Visit the web site at https://www.floridassef.net/FFFS.htm
and Florida Council web site https://ewh.ieee.org/r3/fc/
For information, or to volunteer,
contact Karl Lohman, k.l.lohman@ieee.org,
or 407-644-4411
RFID
Conference Needs Student Volunteers
The
Orlando Section has agreed to be a
technical co-sponsor for the IEEE RFID
2009 conference being held at the Disney
Swan and Dolphin hotels Monday/Tuesday
April 27-28. https://www.ieee-rfid.org/2009/index.html
This is the third annual RFID conference.
RFID technology is growing rapidly in new
applications, including U.S. passports,
access control, animal tagging, inventory
control, and even baggage handling at
airports for faster retrieval and delivery
(fewer lost bags).
As Publicity Chair, I have also agreed to
coordinate volunteer support for the
conference. We are targeting student
members for this support. Volunteers
should arrive by 7:30 a.m. each day for
orientation, then expect to work a minimum
of 4 hours or more to qualify for exhibits
access, a CD of the papers, free visitor
parking (usually $10), and lunch. The normal student registration costs $250
to $300, so volunteering is a good return
on your time.
The exhibits will open for the reception
after the technical papers on the first
day, then be available the second day.
There will be three parallel technical
sessions after the opening plenary session
and each will need volunteer support.
We will need about 10 volunteers per day
to do the following:
- Load
speaker presentations on laptops
- Hand
out session survey forms
- Serve
as session monitor (count heads in the
room, etc.)
- Serve
as runner for the registration desk
- Staff
the IEEE membership table
- Keep
the IEEE-USA display loaded with
literature
- We
need to hear from interested students
and getting commitments from them so we
can build a schedule
Members from nearby sections interested
in volunteering should contact George
McClure to be placed on the list. Note date preferences as well.
Email
, with RFID in the subject line, or call
407-647-5092 for further information.
Orlando
Section 50th Anniversary Celebration
Call for proposals/suggestions/articles and sponsorship
The IEEE Orlando Section was established on May 13th 1959, and 2009 will be its 50th anniversary. The very same
day is also the 125th Anniversary of IEEE. The Section is planning a series of
major celebration events. We are
calling for proposals for celebration events, activities, suggestions, ideas, and other contributions for the big
celebration. Currently we are planning an exhibitions showing the 50-year history of
the Orlando Section, and publication of a collection of articles from former and current Section members. We are collecting ideas,
suggestions, and possible exhibition items, e.g. photos, stories about major events or prominent section members,
etc. Articles and other contributions from former section officers are particular welcome and encouraged. Please
send your responses and comments to Donghui
Wu
Presently the Section is planning to have an exhibition and banquet at
the Orlando Science Center on May 13th, 2009 to
celebrate the 125th anniversary of IEEE and
the 50th anniversary of the Orlando Section. At the banquet the section will
also recognize section members' achievements in its 50-year history, and present awards to outstanding and/or
long-time section members.
The section is also call for financial sponsorship for this event. Sponsorship level as following:
- $2500 Platinum Sponsor
- $1500 Gold Sponsor
- $1000 Silver Sponsor
- $500 Bronze Sponsor
Sponsors will be able to setup booth or place post-board at the exhibit and banquet, or sponsor other items
throughout the event. Please check out with your employer for possible sponsorship. IEEE will hold events
throughout the year to celebrate its 125th anniversary. For details please contact
Donghui
Wu or Udaya Silva
Member
Profile
The IEEE Orlando Section Monthly is proud to
feature a distinguished member each month in
the Section's Profile. If you have
contributed greatly to your profession
and/or to our ranks of the IEEE we would
like to hear from you.
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