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Orlando
Section Monthly
- SCOOP, December
2002
Published for IEEE Section
Chairs
Vicki Waldman, Editor; Tracy Hawkins, Manager
Section/Chapter Support
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- * Showcase Your
Newsletter!
- * Section Volunteer
Virtual Community
- * RAB Industry
Relations Contacts Project
- * IEEE Fellow Class of
2003
- * E-Week 2003 Kits Now
Available
- * "Accessing IEEE
Technical Information" Free Web
Conference
- * Brain Teaser
Solution (October)
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- SHOWCASE YOUR
NEWSLETTER!
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- IEEE Corporate Communications would like to
showcase Section/Region
- newsletters, Web sites and other materials
in a new IEEE global identity
- display. If your Section has already adopted
the IEEE Master Brand, please
- send newsletters and other samples to
Corporate Communications at the
- Operations Center address (445 Hoes Lane,
Piscataway, NJ 08854) or by email
- to corporate-communications@ieee.org.
All Sections that haven't yet done so
- are encouraged to implement the approved
IEEE Master Brand in 2003. Samples
- (or Web site URLs) can be submitted
throughout the year. Here are some
- references to make the change as easy as
possible for you.
-
- * The IEEE Master Brand Reference Guide
(distributed as a card at Sections
- Congress) https://www.ieee.org/identitystandards
- * Downloadable images -- https://www.ieee.org/masterbrand
- * Web Templates for Sections -- https://www.ieee.org/web/developers/design
- * IEEE Identity Standards -- https://www.ieee.org/identitystandards
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- For usage questions, contact
corporate-communications@ieee.org
or
- copyrights@ieee.org.
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-
- SECTION VOLUNTEER
VIRTUAL COMMUNITY,
- SHARE YOUR BEST
PRACTICES AND SUCCESSFUL VENTURES
-
- With the year nearly over, most Section
Chairs now have eleven months, or
- more, of experience running a Section, with
all of the accompanying good
- times and difficulties that the job entails.
You can share what you have
- learned with incoming officers, not just in
your Section, but also around
- the world, by signing onto the virtual
community established for your use,
- the IEEE Section/Chapter Volunteer Forum
Virtual Community and adding your
- comments. You can access the forum by going
to
- https://www.ieeecommunities.org/section-chapter_vol
(if you have trouble
- accessing the page via the link, please cut
and paste the URL). Once
- there:
- 1. Click on "Join".
- 2. Choose "Option A: Create a new
account".
- 3. Complete all fields marked with a red
asterisk.
- 4. Read the Terms of Service and check the
box to indicate agreement.
- 5. Click the "Join Now" box.
-
- The virtual community was rolled out at
Sections Congress in October.
- There are currently 159 members in the
community and the list is expected
- to keep growing. In future issues of SCOOP,
we will encourage the incoming
- 2003 Section Chairs to log in and read your
comments. Your best practices
- and successful ventures will be most
welcome. Help our new Chairs face the
- challenges of the upcoming year well
prepared with your guidance!
-
- If you have questions about the IEEE
Section-Chapter Volunteer Forum,
- contact Denise Maestri at +1 732 562 5505 or
d.maestri@ieee.org.
For more
- information on why IEEE is developing
virtual communities or which
- communities are currently in development, go
to
- https://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/lc/index.htm
or
- https://www.ieeecommunities.org/.
For technical support, send an email to
- ieeecommunities@ieee.org.
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- RAB INDUSTRY RELATIONS
CONTACTS PROJECT
-
- In early November 2002, the RAB Industry
Relations Committee (IRC) asked
- for your help in identifying local
industry/corporate firms segmented by
- IEEE Sections, that you, IEEE Section
Chairs, had been in contact with in
- support of your Section's activities, or one
that you would like to reach
- out to for their support. We had a deadline
date for responses and offered
- $25US to the first response to our request
and $25US to the response with
- the longest list of industry contacts.
-
- On behalf of the RAB IRC Chair Joe Kalasky,
we are pleased to announce our
- two winners and Congratulations to
each!
-
- *Cody W. Tews, IEEE Spokane Section with the
first response
- *Michael A. Miller, IEEE New York Section,
with the longest list response
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- Our prizes may have been given away, but if
you are working on a list of
- industry contacts, please continue working
and send it along to us. Send
- any additional industry contacts to
c.downer@ieee.org.
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-
- IEEE FELLOW CLASS OF
2003
-
- The new Fellows report is now available on
the web at
- https://www.ieee.org/fellows.
The links include the necessary information
- to contact the new Fellows should you wish
to send congratulatory letters
- from the Section.
-
- If you have any questions, wish to obtain
the list by Section, or would
- like information for incorporation into
recognition speeches, contact
- Marybeth Denike, Awards/Fellow Activities at
phone: +1 732 562 3842 or
- email:
m.denike@ieee.org
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-
- E-WEEK 2003 KITS NOW
AVAILABLE
-
- Planning kits for National Engineers Week
2003 (16-22 February) are now
- available from IEEE-USA and the E-Week
Website. The kit will guide you on
- conducting E-Week activities in your area.
It includes 50 ways you can
- participate in E-Week, a planning calendar,
publicity program, E-Week
- poster and a product catalog and order
form.
-
- The Discover "E" program provides
information for engineers who visit
- classrooms to help improve student interest
in science, technology,
- engineering and mathematics. Information is
also included on Introduce a
- Girl to Engineering Day and the Future City
Competition.
-
- To request your kit, contact Helen Hall at
202-785-0017, ext. 8354 or
- h.hall@ieee.org.
You can also get one by visiting
- https://shop.eweek.org/eweek/
and clicking "Promotional Materials."
-
-
- "ACCESSING IEEE
TECHNICAL INFORMATION"
- FREE WEB CONFERENCE
COMING IN FEBRUARY
-
- The IEEE will host a live Web Conference,
"Accessing IEEE Technical
- Information: The IEEE Member Digital
Library" on 11 February 2003 at 7:30am
- PST/10:30am EST, from the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference in
- San Francisco, CA, USA. As Internet
attendance is limited, IEEE Sections
- and Chapters are encouraged to invite
members to central locations to view
- the Web Conference to allow as many members
to view the presentation as
- possible.
-
- IEEE members and others interested in
viewing the free Web conference can
- register at https://www.ieee.org/ieeemdl
(cut and paste the URL if the link
- does not work).
-
- For more information on the Web Conference,
please contact Barbara Soifer,
- IEEE Sales & Marketing, at b.soifer@ieee.org
or IEEE Member Services at
- mdlhelp@ieee.org.
-
-
-
- BRAIN TEASER CHALLENGE
SOLUTION, OCTOBER 2002 Butch
Shadwell
-
- To my surprise and delight, there were
actually a couple of correct answers
- submitted to last months BTC. If you recall,
dancing Tony was interested
- in the response of a nuclear/ionization type
smoke detector to the sudden
- decompression of a room in space. In order
to answer this I must review
- the operation of the typical ionization
smoke detector. First, the sensor
- in one of these units is composed of two
chambers with a metal partition
- between them. This partition normally has a
tiny piece of Americium 241, a
- radionuclide, mounted in the center such
that the flux of alpha particles
- it emits will ionize the air both above and
below the metal partition.
- Next, the sensor has upper and lower
electrodes that are oppositely charged
- so inducing a current flow through the
ionized air in the sensor. With the
- metal partition in the center of this
current path, the voltage with
- respect to either of the end plates is
approximately v/2 under normal
- circumstances. One last important feature of
this sensor is that one side
- of this divided chamber allows for very free
airflow while the other does
- not. So, when smoke gets into the open side
of the chamber, the particles
- tend to adsorb or impede the flow of ions
causing a higher resistance on
- that side of the chamber. This produces a
voltage shift at the center
- partition that can be measured and thus an
alarm is detected.
-
- When our spacecraft is decompressed, it
would have a similar result in that
- most of the ionized air in the open side of
the chamber would quickly exit.
- Thus, resulting in the same sort of voltage
change that the unit would
- detect for smoke. So, even though no one may
be able to hear it, the alarm
- would go off.
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