Spring Meeting & MicroMouse Contest 2009
Date & Time
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, March 28, 2009Online Registration & Deadline
All section officers and contest participants should register online before March 22, 2009.
Keynote talk and MicroMouse, Student Paper and Design contests are open to the public and no registration is required. Food catering is provided to section officers and student contest participants only.
Location & Direction
University of California Santa Cruz
Baskin Engineering Building Room 152 & Engineering 2 Building Simularium E2-180.
Direction to the campus.
Free on-campus parkings on weekends
Hotels in Santa Cruz
for participants.
See Region 6 Policy for Travel Expense Reimbursement & claim form
Submit claim to: tom[at]tomcoughlin[dot]com or
Tom Coughlin
665 Willowmont Ave
San Jose, CA 95124
Agenda
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7:30 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM Registration 8:30 AM Introduction 8:45 AM Region 6 News 9:15 AM Section and Student Branch Reports 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM Student Paper and Design Contest Micromouse teams preparation for afternoon race Section Officer Breakout 12:00 PM Lunch 1:00 PM Keynote Talk on "SmartGrid Evolution and the roll standards will play" by Chris Knudsen, Director of the Technology Innovation Center at PG&E 1:30 PM MicroMouse Races 4:30 PM Awards & Closing Remarks |
Student Paper & Design Contests
GuidelinesEntry Deadline: March 22, 2009
Submission to: Central Area Student Activities Chair Mostafa Mortezaie
Winners of Student Paper Contest:
(School, Name of Authors, “Title of the Paper”)
First Prize:
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Joseph Longhi, Malcolm Menor and Shane Sunada, “Beyond the Maze”
Second Prize:
UC-Santa Cruz, Kevin Nelson, “Time-Domain Digital signal Convolution in Hardware”
Winners of Student Design Contest:
(School, Name of Authors, “Title of the Design Project”)
First Prize:
CSU-Fresno, Alfred Lopes, Jonathan Flerchinger, Victor Urbieta, and Kirk Wyman, “UAV Project”
MicroMouse, Rules and Entry Form
DescriptionRules
Entry Form
Packaging Guidelines
Packaging Entry Form
Keynote Abstract
The Obama administration is intending to invest close to 45 billion dollars to address renewal energy
and a future "Smart Energy Grid" that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Chris will be discussing the "Smart Energy Grid" and what PG&E
and the Technology Innovation Center are doing about it. He will provide insight as to how to think about the future of this project and
what has been accomplished so far. He will also provide a road map related to the industry standards and technology that is required to address
the challenges and gaps related to the future success of this project.
Bio of Keynote Speaker
Chris Knudsen is currently the Director of the Technology Innovation Center at Pacific Gas & Electric Company where he is responsible for developing new technologies to drive energy efficiency and SmartGrid evolution. Chris also chairs the Open SmartGrid committee under UCA. Prior to PG&E Chris held the position of Chief Technical Officer for Wireless Wide Area Networking Standards & Mobile Performance Labs within Intel’s Mobile Wireless Group. In his role at Intel Chris, was responsible for: IEEE WWAN standards, WiMax technical direction, systems engineering and simulations, network architecture, mobile WiMax labs, over-the-air test and trial networks, and technical business analysis for WWAN. Previously, Chris spent three years at Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital focusing on early stage wireless investments including 802.11, 802.15, 802.16 technology, spectrum acquisition, as well as other proprietary systems and technologies. Prior to Vulcan, Chris led Metricom’s Ricochet development as Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ricochet was the first of its kind wireless wide area meshed data network delivering data rates in excess of 200kbps/user. Metricom was also the company that developed the Utilinet AMI system is which Chris developed some of the later devices. He earlier founded a start-up developing energy efficient home automation system. Chris started his career designing and developing radio systems for defense electronic applications. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and has completed work towards a Master of Technology Management at Santa Clara University.
