IEEE SCOOP

IEEE - SCOOP Quarterly Issue Published for Section and Chapter Chairs

Vicki Waldman, Editor; Tracy Hawkins, Manager S/CS

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IN THIS ISSUE:

- INTERNET CONFERENCING SERVICE AVAILABLE

- IEEE DISPLAYS

- RESPONDING TO STUDENT NEEDS WORLDWIDE.

- NEW CAREER NEWSLETTER BEGINS PUBLICATION

- IEEE MEMBERS BENEFIT FROM RECRUITING NEW MEMBERS

- IEEE MEMBERS RECEIVING RENEWAL PACKAGES

- OCTOBER BRAIN TEASER, SEPTEMBER SOLUTION

- BRAIN TEASER CHALLENGE SOLUTION

- OCTOBER BRAIN TEASER

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INTERNET CONFERENCING SERVICE AVAILABLE

There is a great tool for available for Sections to use in reducing

conference costs! PlaceWare, Inc. has been engaged by the IEEE to provide

Internet conferencing services to all IEEE volunteers and entities (for

conducting IEEE business). Essentially, the attendees of an Internet

Conference see on their computer the content that is being discussed during

a live teleconference. The result is an efficient, appealing and effective

meeting at a minimal expense.

For a nominal fee and the cost of a phone call, you can host a session

providing live discussion, PowerPoint presentations, hold votes, poll the

audience, tour websites and share applications. Anyone with a phone and a

web browser can participate.

Each conference incurs a fee of $50 that includes use of the application

for a scheduled conference, administration of invitations and other

arrangements. The only other cost is the phone charge. For more

information about Internet conferencing, visit

https://www.ieee.org/web/webconf/. If you have any question or comments

about this program, please email to web-conf@ieee.org

IEEE DISPLAYS

Formerly known as the IEEE Cooperative Display Program, the new IEEE

Partnering Display Program offers support to conference efforts and member

recruitment. The program allows organizers to design their own display by

providing:

* IEEE brochures, catalogs, flyers and magazines

* IEEE membership applications and promotional gifts

* Free IEEE Society membership to new higher-grade members joining at the

conference

The IEEE Partnering Display Program will premier at the 2002 IEEE Sections

Congress, 18 ? 21 October, so check it out if you go! For more information

on the program, contact Beverly Banks, IEEE Sales & Marketing,

b.banks@ieee.org.

RESPONDING TO STUDENT NEEDS WORLDWIDE.

Through its Rapid Response Program, the IEEE Foundation is able to quickly

respond to funding requests under US$5,000 for projects and activities

related to IEEE student and young professional members. Three such

projects - a robotics competition in Chile, a four-day student workshop in

Spain, and student leadership conference in the United States, were awarded

a total of US$10,400 during September 2002. To learn more about how to

apply for a grant from the IEEE Foundation, go to

https://www.ieee.org/organizations/foundation/html/funding.html.

NEW CAREER NEWSLETTER BEGINS PUBLICATION

"IEEE Career Alert," a new weekly opt-in online newsletter, written by

"IEEE Spectrum" editors, is now available. The publication focuses on

issues such as professional growth opportunities, continuing education,

management and the engineering workplace. It also will include related

articles from "IEEE Spectrum," other IEEE resources and the Web. You can

For additional information, contact Elizabeth A. Bretz, IEEE Spectrum,

telephone +1 212 419 7552, e.bretz@ieee.org.

"IEEE Spectrum Online" also has revamped the IEEE Web site career section,

found at https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers, to include easier navigation

and an articles archive, plus links to the IEEE Job Site at

https://jobs.ieee.org/index.html.

IEEE MEMBERS BENEFIT FROM RECRUITING NEW MEMBERS

The annual IEEE Member-Get-A-Member and Student-Get-A-Student recruitment

campaigns were launched 1 September. The campaigns, which will run through

the 2003 dues year, are designed to encourage members to recruit their

colleagues for IEEE membership. Recruitment incentives include credit

vouchers toward IEEE dues, IEEE Society fees, IEEE products and services,

and a chance to win one free year of IEEE membership. For more

information, visit https://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/mgm.html.

IEEE MEMBERS RECEIVING RENEWAL PACKAGES

Current IEEE members have begun receiving their 2003 renewal information

and are also able to renew their memberships online at

https://www.ieee.org/renewal. Members may subscribe to the new IEEE Member

Digital Library when they renew.

OCTOBER BRAIN TEASER, SEPTEMBER SOLUTION - Butch Shadwell

EDITOR'S NOTE, correction: in the September issue of SCOOP, Butch

Shadwell's Section was incorrectly identified. While Butch's Brain Teaser

Challenges appear regularly in the IEEE Florida West Coast Section's

newsletter (The Suncoast Signal), Butch is a long-time volunteer and

current Chair of the Jacksonville Section in Florida. Quang Tang is the

current Chair of the Florida West Coast Section.

BRAIN TEASER CHALLENGE SOLUTION (September 2002 SCOOP)

Floyd had a great party in spite of the reduced balloon sizes. As it turns

out, 33 feet of water is about one atmosphere of pressure, so at that depth

the pressure on the balloon has doubled. If you will recall the ideal gas

law - PV=nRT. In our scenario all of the right-hand terms are constant so

we can write our equation as P1V1=P2V2. With this relationship defined, it

is obvious that as the pressure is doubled the volume must be halved. So,

the subsurface volume of the balloons is 0.5 cubic feet. Using the

equation for the volume of a sphere (4/3*pi*r3) we can calculate the

diameter of the balloon at the surface as 14.9". Repeating the calculation

for 0.5 cu ft we get 11.8" for a difference of 3.1". But I bet you already

knew that.

OCTOBER BRAIN TEASER

Tony had been dancing since before he could walk. Some even referred to

him as a dancing fool, but just not to his face. Tony may have been dealt

a few cards short of a full deck, but he wouldn't have anyone pointing it

out to him.

Besides dancing, Tony also liked scary sci-fi movies like "Alien". In the

trailers for that movie they used to say that "in space, no one can hear

you scream". Which of course is true. Tony was fond of pointing out to

folks that if they were watching him tap dance in space they wouldn't be

able to hear him, unless of course he was actually tap dancing on their

heads. It should go without saying that Tony, having these interests in

scary sci-fi movies and dancing, would also be a bit of a pyromaniac. (I'm

using some poetic license here. Give me a break.) So while discussing his

interests in dance, fire and outer space, it naturally came up what would

happen if a room with a smoke detector were suddenly vented into outer

space? In this scenario, there is no smoke in the room, just normal air at

STP, prior to the venting event. When the atmosphere is suddenly vented

would the smoke detector go off or not, regardless of whether anyone could

hear it? For this problem lets say it is an ionization type smoke detector

(not optical) and the humidity is zero. For extra credit, what if it was

an optical smoke detector?

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