Central Texas Section Society and Affinity Group Chapter Activities

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

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Topic: TBD

Speaker: TBD

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

Reservations: David G. Kilpatrick, P.E., 210-6951406, d.kilpatrick@ieee.org, or John R. Purvis III, P.E.,

512-823-7654, j.purvis@computer.org, before 1/13

Location: Palmer's, 216 West Moore, San Marcos, 512, 353-3500

For information contact David Kilpatrick

Power Engineering Society [for more information]

Topic: Load Shedding Schemes

Mr. Dalke will be discussing load shedding and its use as a tool to prevent or reduce the impact of power system disturbances that can lead to blackout. His presentation will include example of using frequency based load shedding which was implemented on the USA power grid after the blackouts of November 9, 1965 and what we might expect in the way of new methods of load shedding due to the blackouts of August 14, 2003.

Mr. Dalke will also present a short overview of the equipment being manufactured at the Basler Taylor Texas factory. This factory began operations in June 2003.

Speaker: Gerald Dalke - Basler Electric

Date: June 22 2004

Time: 6:00PM Social

6:30 to 7:00PM Dinner

7:00 to 7:30PM Business Meeting

7:30 to 8:30PM Program

Cost: Dinner is $10.00 - IEEE Members

$12.00 - Non-IEEE Members

Free for students.

Reservations: For further information, please contact Susan Thornton at

512-326-3380 or Steve Kanetzky 512-442-8085 or go to our web site at https://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/centraltexas/

Location: El Gallo Mexican Restaurant, 2910 S. Congress Ave, Austin, Tx