IEEE Minutes for May 10th, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Robert Schnoor Ormoned Fingers

Josh Soliday Brian Mackenzie Patrick Dahlberg

Aaron Langevin Joseph Dattilo Merel Layman

Bobby Williams Luke Duzanica

Wenton Davis Dr. John Santiago

Topics of discussion: Elections, ComSoc Student Competitions, Promotional event

IEEE club business

We started off the meeting by holding Elections and as a result the CTU IEEE Officers are now as follows:

Chair Joseph Dattilo

Vice Chair David Sutton

Treasurer Robert Schnoor

Secretary Shane Coleman

Upon being elected as Chair Joseph Dattilo discussed how we will start holding meetings. To get more people excited about participating in the IEEE we will move to a two part system and begin the meetings with more hands on activities and project updates. The second part will consist of the more mundane IEEE business that needs to be attended to. This will allow those who wish to do the fun exciting stuff and not deal with the political side of things to avoid the political drama that prevents them from attending. We then move on to discuss the ComSoc Student Competitions. We have decided to let all of you review the details of this competition and ask that you please respond with any and all ideas that you may have. The details of this competition can be seen at https://www.comsoc.org/communications-technology-changing-world We will discuss all ideas submitted and if there is enough support we will continue with this endeavor. We also discussed moving forward with the Promotional event. Since Daniel Hawkinson was unable to attend the last meeting we will discuss our progress on the business proposal at our next meeting.

Shane R. Coleman

IEEE Minutes for May 04, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Robert Schnoor Dr. John Santiago Josh Soliday Chris Gardner

Aaron Langevin Daniel Hawkinson

Bobby Williams

Topics of discussion: Club business with emphasis on methods to include elections, promotional event/career fair, sumo bots.

IEEE club business

We started off delaying the elections due to a low turnout. There was a discussion of when to hold meetings and those that were present decided that the best turnouts occurred on Friday. Due to this discussion we have decided to schedule our meetings for Fridays at 6:00 pm for at least the near future. If you have any opinions on when we should hold meetings please let me know. If I have enough people to agree on an approximate time I can inform those attending and have a weighted argument to support this day and time.

Bobby Williams then took the floor to discuss his work in representing the IEEE in the student senates endeavor to change the student senate constitution. He explained that the process is approximately halfway completed and that he is in the progress of getting them together sometime next week to continue the process. If you have anything you wish to recommend to Bobby on this matter you can contact me and I will pass on your thoughts as soon as possible.

To promote more of a turnout we discussed actively participating in the IEEE COMSOC Student Competitions. This event promotes students or teams of students to demonstrate the capacity to improve the lives of people utilizing communication technology to develop projects that support or improve the human needs of people. Bobby Williams has already promoted such things as working computer hacking, helping the blind use computers, gun tracking, and cell phone voice recognition. This would be an excellent opportunity to get CTU the engineering recognition it deserves. We also discussed holding a CTU IEEE promotional event that will work with the school to attract potential students and businesses that want and need information technology, computer science, and electrical engineering to fulfill their needs. A new member Daniel Hawkinson stepped up and volunteered to put together a business proposal that we can present to the school for review. This event would help promote the foundation that CTU was comprised of and ensure that the engineering program no longer goes ignored.

To get things moving in the continuing delay of financial support from the student senate we have decided to move our attention to working with sumo bots. Dr. John Santiago has a few that he will allow us to start playing around with and has led to discussion of starting to work on a scoreboard that we could use to keep track of wins and losses. We could also look into contacting other clubs and organizations and holding battles or other contests such as a soccer match with robots (with a yellow flag or two).

Due to the low turnout we have decided to move the election to Friday, May10th at 5:30 pm. We will also start playing around with the sumo bots and discuss where we would like to go. To remind you of how the nominees for the elections are going Joseph Dattilo and David Sutton have volunteered for Chairman and Vice Chair. There brief bio and reason for running can be seen below. If you are interested in being more active or can’t keep yourself from picking up the latest edition of Scientific American, Popular Science, or Popular Mechanics; maybe you should come and volunteer. Your enthusiasm and dedication could prove to be valuable to our team.

Joseph Dattilo would like to run a Chairman and his bio can be seen at https://www.virtuabotix.com/?p=509 he has also added the following reason for running.

Founder of Virtuabotix LLC, a hobby electronics, and Robotics Company in the Springs. With 6 1/2 years of prior Military experience, and the additional 6 years of leadership experience I hope to contribute to the strength of our fledgling IEEE organization, and give it and its members a much need boost in energy and drive as we develop this club into awesomeness.

David Sutton has also stepped up to run a Vice Chair. A brief bio and description for running can be seen below.

I am David Sutton and I am running for the position of Vice Chairman. I joined the CTU IEEE group when it was started up last year because I believe this is an important way to network, develop experience, and learn about interesting topics that may not be covered in my classes. I am running to become an officer because I want to be more involved in supporting the group by taking a position of leadership. The position of Vice Chairman is responsible for maintaining the group's website, social media profiles, creating presentation slides for meetings, and assisting the treasurer with documenting group expenses. I have experience in all of these areas. I have experience with website design and presentation creation, I know how to use social media because I operate the NarniaMovies facebook page with over eight million fans, and I have been responsible to keeping track of a budget as the group coordinator of a local English Camp. I believe that I can help to innovate the club by leading through my creative vision and technical skills. Please vote for me to become your Vice Chairman in the next IEEE meeting.

As a reminder the positions are as follows. If you are interested in getting more involved with the IEEE running for an officer position is a great start.

Chairman

Vice Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

IEEE Student Senate Representative

We will be holding elections on the next meeting Friday, May 10^th at 5:30 pm.

Shane R. Coleman

IEEE Minutes for April 27, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Robert Schnoor

Josh Soliday Chris Gardner

Joseph Dattilo David Sutton

Bobby Williams

Topics of discussion: Club business with emphasis on methods to increase member participation and officer elections.

IEEE club business

Bobby Williams is still working hard in representing the IEEE in the Student Senate as they continue to make revisions to the Student Senate Constitution. I will keep update you on this information as soon as Bobby informs me of its completion. On another note we discussed. We spent quite a bit of time on how we can boost are member turn out and keep people interested in attending future meetings. With this some ideas we came up with was to increase club visibility by going to classes and making our presence known and possibly setting up a Chick-fil-a fundraiser which would be nearby. There was also a discussion involving meeting times so we can appeal to those working full time and going to school full time. We also discussed creating some short term goals such as a robot maze competition or sumo-bots that would allow members to have some fun and hands on with the club. Our main objective, however, was officer elections. LD Steiner has officially resigned as Vice Chair and we had two people who stepped up and volunteered to run as Chairman and Vice Chair. Joseph Dattilo would like to run a Chairman and his bio can be seen at https://www.virtuabotix.com/?p=509 he has also added the following reason for running.

Founder of Virtuabotix LLC, a hobby electronics, and Robotics Company in the Springs. With 6 1/2 years of prior Military experience, and the additional 6 years of leadership experience I hope to contribute to the strength of our fledgling IEEE organization, and give it and it's members a much need boost in energy and drive as we develop this club into awesomeness.

David Sutton has also stepped up to run a Vice Chair. A brief bio and description for running can be seen below.

I am David Sutton and I am running for the position of Vice Chairman. I joined the CTU IEEE group when it was started up last year because I believe this is an important way to network, develop experience, and learn about interesting topics that may not be covered in my classes. I am running to become an officer because I want to be more involved in supporting the group by taking a position of leadership. The position of Vice Chairman is responsible for maintaining the group's website, social media profiles, creating presentation slides for meetings, and assisting the treasurer with documenting group expenses. I have experience in all of these areas. I have experience with website design and presentation creation, I know how to use social media because I operate the NarniaMovies facebook page with over eight million fans, and I have been responsible to keeping track of a budget as the group coordinator of a local English Camp. I believe that I can help to innovate the club by leading through my creative vision and technical skills. Please vote for me to become your Vice Chairman in the next IEEE meeting.

As a reminder the positions are as follows. If you are interested in getting more involved with the IEEE running for an officer position is a great start.

Chairman

Vice Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

IEEE Student Senate Representative

We will be holding elections on the next meeting Saturday May 4^th at 6:00 pm.

Shane R. Coleman

CTU IEEE Student Body Secretary

IEEE Minutes for April 19, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Robert Schnoor Dr. John Santiago Joseph Dattilo David Sutton Wenton Davis

Bobby Williams

Topic of discussion: Discussion of IEEE club business.

IEEE club business

Josh soliday started the meeting by discussing the Regional IEEE meeting that he attended in which a lobbying member of the IEEE discussed his role in working with congress to promote the IEEE’s interest in Engineering job growth and green energy interest in the United States. We then discussed the Student Senates Constitution revision that is in progress. We currently have Bobby Williams representing the IEEE and working with the Student Senate in their revisions. Once they have completed their revisions they will have to post it for two weeks for the student body to review. Once this information is provided to me I will inform everyone where it is posted. When you review it you can then let Bobby Williams know if there are any issues that he can look further into. The CTU IEEE will also be holding elections for all officer positions. If you are interested in running for any of these positions please show up to the next meeting, Saturday, April 27^th at 3:00 pm to represent yourself so that the other members can get to know a little about yourself. If you cannot make the next meeting and you are interested please let me know and I can put your name out there for consideration. The election will be held on the following meeting, May 4^th. The positions are as follows:

Chairman

Vice Chair

Secretary

Treasurer

As a reminder the next meeting will be Saturday, April 27^th at 3:00 pm in room 113 (room subject to change).

Shane R. Coleman

IEEE Minutes for February 22, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Luke Duznica Pam Hoffman

LD Steiner Brian Mackenzie Wenton Davis

Josh Soliday Bobby Williams Dr. Kathy Kaisley

Robert Schnoor Lucian Ivan

David Sutton Joseph Dattilo

Topics of discussion: Presentation by Joseph Dattilo, Engineering Summit, Storage Room

Presentation by Joseph Dattilo

Joseph Dattilo, Founder of Virtuabotix LLC and member of CTU’s IEEE, has volunteered to be our sponsor and provide us with discounts on parts and supplies and provide additional support in training and design for our quad-copter project. He suggested that we move forward with our quad-copter project with simple low cost Versalino uno platforms, motors, and sensors. With these we can begin to test and experiment with ultrasonic landing techniques, accelerometer control, and pan tilt turn. We will be having another meeting on Saturday March 2^nd in which he will be bringing in some Versalino uno platforms, sensors, motors, and an accelerometer so that we may begin working on designs to display at the Engineering Summit that is coming up. If you would like to learn more about what products and services Virtuabotix provides you can access his website at https://www.virtuabotix.com/ .

Engineering Summit

I apologize for the miss information that I have been putting out regarding this event. It turns out that this event will be held Saturday, March 9^th from 9 AM to 3:30 PM and not on the 8^th like I have been previously putting out. The Engineering Summit is going to be located at 3650 N Nevada Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80907. The CTU IEEE has decided to put a booth together in which we will show off some of the things we have been doing. We plan to set up a few Lego Mindstorm robots that attendees can program and play around with. We also would like to put together a small project dealing with the Versalino uno platforms that Joe will be helping us with on are next meeting on Saturday March 2^nd. This event is designed to show students what the engineering field is like and provide information on pursuing an engineering degree. If you would like to know more about the Colorado Springs Engineering Summit you can go to https://www.csengineeringsummit.com/ .

Storage Room

In order to acquire a secure space in which we can store projects and parts, Josh Soliday has made arrangements with Joe Sutter to clean out and straighten up room 257. I am sorry for such short notice but this will be tomorrow from 8-12. If you read this email in time and can make it please do so. With the progress we are making in getting the parts needed for the quad-copter this space will be valuable. Please stop by if you have the time.

As a reminder the next IEEE meeting will be Saturday, March 2^nd at 10:00 AM in room 112

Shane R. Coleman

IEEE Minutes for February 09, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Michael Garcia John Santiago

LD Steiner Brian Mackenzie

Josh Soliday Bobby Williams

Robert Schnoor Lucian Ivan

David Sutton

Topics of discussion: Quad-Copter Project and Budget

Quad-Copter Project

Lucian Ivan, the project lead for the quad-copter project outlined the work breakdown structure that he has put together so far. He explained how each area such as hardware and software will be broken down even further to smaller tasks so that everyone will have an opportunity to work on the project. He also discussed our main goal as of now is to get the quad-copter up and running so we have the foundation to incorporate our future ideas. Going over his plan and discussing the smaller tasks associated with the quad-copter project also brought up the discussion of legal limitations so Josh Soliday will be looking into this to ensure we are within regulatory compliance for wherever we choose to go with the project. Lucian will be making some minor changes to his work breakdown structure and having Dr. Don Schley review his work. He would like everyone to consider what aspect of the quad-copter design they would be interested in working on so he can assign tasks for the project in the near future.

Budget

It turns out that we are still having issues in getting funded by the Student Senate and are still in the process of fixing this problem. Robert Schnoor and LD Steiner will be working to clear this issue up over the next couple of weeks. Robert also discussed the possibility of a sponsor who would be willing to help fund our project. He is still in the process of making contact with this individual and will keep us up to date with his progress. We also discussed the possibility of holding fundraisers to obtain the money we need to start moving the project forward. This discussion will be continued in greater detail if Robert and LD do not make much progress in obtaining funding through the Student Senate.

Shane R. Coleman

IEEE Minutes for January 25, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Michael Garcia Marc Olson Dr. Kathy Kaisley

LD Steiner Kill Soo Han Erik Panameno Wenton Davis

Josh Soliday Bobby Williams Ali Ashour

Robert Schnoor Lucian Ivan Ted Engelbart

David Sutton

Topics of discussion: Presentation of WiMAX equipment by Marc Olson/Quad-Copter Project, Engineering Symposium, and Big Brother Big Sister Event,

Presentation by Marc Olson/Quad-Copter Project

One of our members, Marc Olson was kind enough to bring in his WiMAX radio equipment to discuss the specifications and explain how we could use it to meet previously discussed requirements of the quad-copter project. Since this equipment is not designed to be used on a quad-copter we discussed how we would combine these two ideas and meet other requirements of the quad-copter design. Lucian Ivan, who is leading up the project, is in the process of putting together a work breakdown structure and working out a budget with Robert Schnoor. If you are interested in working on a specific area of this project let me know so that I can pass your name on to Lucian for his construction of the work breakdown structure. As a reminder and to inform some of our newer members research for parts and ideas for whether we lean towards there Typhoon model or the Cyclone model can be found at https://aeroquad.com and https://aeroquadstore.com .

Big Brother Big Sister Event

There was a short discussion of the Big Brother Big Sister project which will be held tomorrow from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM in the Engineering Lab at CTU. I am sorry I did not put out the exact time for this event before but if you have time and are interested in showing up tomorrow to help you are more than welcome. Setup for the City-scape was also conducted after the official meeting came to an end.

Engineering Symposium

During the meeting Dr. Kaisley informed us of an Engineering Symposium that will be held on March 8^th. We discussed representing CTU IEEE club at this event and would like to put what we can on the quad-copter project on display. Due to budget and time this may only consist of only the design process but if the budget and time work in our favor we may at least have our first prototype built. As a reminder Lucian Ivan is in charge of putting the work breakdown structure together and would be able to conduct this task easier if he has an idea of what area you wish to work on in the project. If you wish to volunteer with a specific area please let me know so I can pass this information along.

CTU IEEE Polo’s

We also had a discussion on buying the CTU Polo’s with the IEEE logo embroidered on them. Due to issues on getting our budget approved and issued we have come up with the plan of having the embroidery done separately. For the time being, if you would like to get a CTU Polo with the IEEE logo embroidered on it you will have to purchase the Polo from the CTU bookstore, which is approximately $30.00, and then let me know so I can put you in contact with Robert for the embroidery process. We hope to have a better system in the future but for those of you who wish to get one now, this is the process that we have established.

Shane R. Coleman

IEEE Minutes for January 12, 2013

Members in attendance

Shane Coleman Michael Garcia David Sutton Dr. Kathy Kaisley

LD Steiner Kill Soo Han Wenton Davis

Josh Soliday Bobby Williams

Robert Schnoor Stuart Longordo

Topics of discussion: Presentation by Frank Morales, Big Brother Big Sister Event, Quad-Copter project

Presentation by Frank Morales

Guest speaker Frank Morales gave an excellent presentation on Microsoft SharePoint He Walked through his role as a SharePoint Administrator for Evans Army Hospital and stressed the importance of communication with the end user. He provided several examples of SharePoint produced sites explaining how they are set up and explaining how security works within SharePoint. He showed how such a tool could be used to benefit communication within large companies and make projects more efficient. His presentation really helped give us an idea on how SharePoint can be used to aid in the projects the CTU IEEE Club chooses to work on.

Big Brother Big Sister Event

There was discussion of an overview of the lego mindstorm robots and we have the opportunity to have Dr. Kathy Kaisley give us an overview of the lego mindstorm robots on Monday the 14^th at 5:00 PM in room 257. This is short notice due to the fast approaching deadline of the event but if you would like the opportunity to participate in this event please attend. As a volunteer you will be asked to assist in setup and teardown of the lego-mindstorm city scape obstacle course, and assisting children in program setup. If you have the time and wish to encourage these youth’s into the wonderful world of engineering please show up to Dr. Kaisley’s presentation.

Quad-Copter Project

There was a short discussion of the research that LD has done for the quad-copter project. He has proposed that we all go to the following sites and conduct our own research in ideas for whether we lean towards there Typhoon model or the Cyclone model. These sites are https://aeroquad.com and https://aeroquadstore.com . With these two models he explained some of their similarities and differences and explained how they are in the process of introducing there new AERO quad 32 controller board. He is asking all of us to review the parts within the two models and to review additional sensors and parts that we can use to do something unique for our project. We would love to hear these proposals at the next meeting so we can design the quad-copter for building for testing as soon as our budget goes through.

Shane R. Coleman