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This initial meeting will be held from 10am - 3pm on Monday, 7 June 2004, at the IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting held in Denver, Colorado, USA. For further questions, please contact Sue Vogel (s.vogel@ieee.org) or Edward Rashba (e.rashba@ieee.org).

The Texas Symposium on Software Engineering (TSSE) Austin, Texas, August 27-28, 2004

TSSE is a new software engineering conference, providing a forum for managers, practitioners, researchers and educators to discuss the most recent trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software systems engineering. In order to accelerate community learning, this conference will focus on identifying and discussing successes, failures and lessons learned in software systems development. This will help crystallize the critical issues impacting software engineering professionals and their organizations for the next decade.

TSSE will be held at the UT Pickle Research Campus (Commons Building) in Northwest Austin, TX. For more information about the location venue please see: https://www.utexas.edu/facilities/commons/attendees.html


Student Paper Competition

The next event for the Women in Engineering Chapter will be the WIE Student Poster Competition at the Texas Symposium on Software Engineering.

Title: Student Poster Competition

Date: August 28, 2004

Place: Pickle Research Campus, Austin

Time: In conjunction with the Texas Symposium on Software Engineering

See the WIE website for more details on the competition

Note: There will be no WIE meeting in July.


2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems

The 2004 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS' 04) is an annual workshop that is co-sponsored by the Signal Processing Society and the Circuits and Systems Society. SiPS' 04 will be held in Austin, Texas on October 13-15.

2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop

The IEEE Information Theory Society will sponsor the conference entitled "2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) (#9676)". This conference will be held October 24-29, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas.

For further information, please contact, Ms. Sonny C. Matous, Texas A&M University, Electrical Engineering Dept., Room 237 WERC, College Station, TX 77843 3128, +1 979 862 8657, +1 979 862 4630 (Fax), sonny@ee.tamu.edu or Conference Services Dept., at IEEE Operations Center at +1 732 562 3878.


Bexar Chapter TSPE October Meeting & Engineering Ethics Course


Speaker: Jimmy H. Smith, Ph.D., P.E.

Subject: Engineering Ethics

Date: October 4, 2004

Time: Registration & Social Gathering: 11:00 am to 11:30 am

Meeting: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

Location: Villita Assembly Building (City Public Service)

NE Corner of S. Presa St. & Villita St.

Address: 401 Villita Street, San Antonio, Texas

Cost: $ 20 for TSPE members, $ 40 for non-members

(A box lunch will be provided)

RSVP (Deadline: September 17, 2004) (No shows will be required to pay)

Contact: Carolyn Cornish by email: ccornish@pape-dawson.com

or phone 210-375-9000

Provide: Name (Name that will appear on certificate), Company, Phone number, Member/Non-Member Status

Speaker: Dr. Jimmy Smith is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas Tech



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