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Thursday, November 10, 2005 Please note, this is the SECOND Thursday. Sponsored by the Power Engineering Society (PES) and Graduates of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.), Kansas City Chapters Menu: Catfish. Baked Catfish With Rice Pilaf And Seasonal Vegetables Program: John Clayton will present an overview of IEEE Std. 998;
Guide for Direct Stroke Shielding of Substations. The intent of the
guide is to provide design information for the methods historically and
typically applied by substation designers to minimize direct lightning
strokes to equipment and bus-work within substations. The general nature
of lightning will be presented and the problems associated with
providing protection from direct strikes will be described. Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel, I-435 & Metcalf
Ave, Overland Park, KS.
Charge: Dinner $25/20* for members & guests, students $15.
No charge for presentation. The cash bar at mealtime now offers added variety to your beverage options:
Register: november @ ieee-kc.org. Each meeting provides one hour of professional development. ***************************************************************** ** NO-SHOWS WILL BE BILLED FOR UNPAID RESERVATIONS. ** ***************************************************************** |
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 Sponsored by PACE, Kansas City Chapter Menu: Shrimp Pomodoro. Tomato Basil Sauce With Sautéed Shrimp On Linguini Pasta With Seasonal Vegetables. Register: December @ ieee-kc.org. Program: Russell Harrison of IEEE-USA speaks on "Congress and Engineering Progress, 2005 - 2006. Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel, I-435 & Metcalf
Ave, Overland Park, KS.
Charge: Dinner $25/20* for members & guests, students $15.
No charge for presentation. The cash bar at mealtime now offers added variety to your beverage options:
Each meeting provides one hour of professional development. ***************************************************************** ** NO-SHOWS WILL BE BILLED FOR UNPAID RESERVATIONS. ** ***************************************************************** |
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 Sponsored by the Consultants Network, Kansas City Chapters Menu: (Note your choice when you register.)
Program: Glenn Crocker will present "Google Through the Ages." In their short corporate life, Google has already changed the Web and the world in substantial ways. Mr. Crocker will talk about some of the history of Google, their market valuation, and what technologies they offer today. He will offer insight into where Google may be taking the software industry in the future. Will your everyday word processor be Web-based and advertiser-paid someday? Topics covered will include: Search engines, bid-based advertising, AJAX, and server-to-server communications. Glenn Crocker is Owner and Principal Consultant at Netmud, LLC, based in Overland Park. He started writing software for the Internet in 1989 and for the Web in 1994. He spent 7 years in Silicon Valley as an early Internet entrepreneur and software developer. Today, his company offers innovative technical solutions to marketing challenges for small businesses nationwide. http://www.netmud.com. Location: Wyndham Garden Hotel, I-435 & Metcalf
Ave, Overland Park, KS.
Charge: Dinner $25/20* for members & guests, students $15.
No charge for presentation. The cash bar at mealtime now offers added variety to your beverage options:
Register: january @ ieee-kc.org. Each meeting provides one hour of professional development. ***************************************************************** ** NO-SHOWS WILL BE BILLED FOR UNPAID RESERVATIONS. ** ***************************************************************** |
| Feb 16. Dinner meeting sponsored by the Computer Society, Kansas City Chapter. Contact Alan Richardson, at arichardson @ kc.rr.com (remove the spaces to make that e-mail address work). |
| Mar 16. Dinner meeting sponsored by the Power Engineering Society, Kansas City Chapter. Contact Kirk Duncan, kirk.duncan @ ieee.org. |
| Apr 20. Dinner meeting sponsored by the Communications Society, Kansas City Chapter. Contact Michael.A.Talley @mail.sprint.com |
7. IEEE Globalcom
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IEEE GLOBECOM. Tutorials and Workshops, 2005 November 28 -
December 2, 2005, St. Louis, MO. You can register at
http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2005/tutwork.html IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 is pleased to offer 1 full day and 11 half day tutorials covering a plethora of important or emerging communication topics. These in-depth sessions presented by invited industry experts have been specifically selected to complement the IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 technical program. Session abstracts and Industry Biographies are available at http://www.ieeeglobecom2005.org Individuals attending the tutorials on Monday and Friday have the ability to earn up to 16 PDHs for use toward Professional Engineering licensure. The Professional Development Hours (PDHs) are offered, tracked, and certified through the St. Louis Section of IEEE. Upon completion of each course, attendees will receive certificate sating the number of hours earned. |
8. IEEE Student Members Encouraged to Apply for IEEE-USA Mass Media Fellowships
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IEEE-USA is for the first time seeking two U.S. IEEE student
members to work as reporters, researchers and production assistants in newsrooms
across the country by serving a 10-week mass media fellowship in the summer of
2006. Administered by the AAAS in Washington, D.C., mass media fellows must have the ability to explain complex scientific and engineering principles in a way the general public can understand. The program helps strengthen connections between engineers and journalists, as well as increase public understanding and awareness of science, engineering and technology. Applicants must at least be a senior in college majoring in a technical field, mathematics or social sciences. Mass Media Fellows receive a weekly stipend of $450. Applications are due no later than 15 January 2006. For more information and an application go to http://www.aaas.org/programs/education/MassMedia; or contact Stacey Pasco, at spasco@aaas.org, tel. +1 202 326 6441. In 2005, AAAS Mass Media Fellows produced some 250 news stories on science and technology. Abby Vogel, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, served as IEEE-USA's 2005 Mass Media Fellow. Vogel worked for the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, and wrote articles on West Virginia wind farms and making shuttles safer. She also placed several articles on the front page of the paper. For more on IEEE-USA's participation in this program, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/massmedia.asp
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9. Role of an Officer
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What is a Society Chair? That begs the question, "What is a Society?" If you go to www.ieee.org and "mouseover" the Society button, the menu extends and you see a link called "Society Listing." These are the "special interest groups" within the IEEE. Now, a short--but important digression. The IEEE is divided into 10 regions. You are in Region 5. Some of the regions contain several countries, but most of the Regions are actually inside the USA. Each region contains Sections--these are equivalent to "local chapters," though the Kansas City Section covers a large geographic area. In the four previous issues, we looked at the four elected Section officers (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary). In the Kansas City Section, there are also three elected Society Chairs. The reason there are three Society Chairs in the Kansas City Section is there are three local chapters of IEEE Societies: Communications, Computer, and Power Engineering. A chapter must meet certain requirements to become established and recognized--mostly, these are a matter of membership (head count). A Society Chapter has the same executive structure (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Secretary) as the Section. The Society's four executives vote on Society Chapter matters, but only the Society Chapter Chair (or the Chair's designate) has a vote when the Section Executive Committee convenes. The Society Chapter has certain obligations to meet, for it to retain its recognition. The primary duty of the Society Chapter Chair is to ensure the Society Chapter meets those obligations. Fortunately, meeting them isn't particularly difficult--but it does require some initiative and commitment. One function of a Society Chapter is to host two dinner meetings per year (in the KC Section, anyhow--for reasons we won't go into here). The Society Chapter Chair is responsible for ensuring the Society Chapter has its dinner meeting programs arranged for the following calendar year. Additionally, the Society Chapter may need to arrange for replacement speakers for the current year--things happen. The Society Chapter is also responsible for the actual hosting of the dinner meetings in their current year (the procedures for this are long-established and easy to follow). The Society Chapter isn't limited to dinner meetings. An active Society Executive Committee will be busy recruiting volunteers to arrange for such things as lunch meetings, tours, projects involving engineering students, special seminars, and other activities that build interpersonal connections and technical savvy. Even the sky is not the limit--your Society Chapter may decide to do a project related to NASA. Joe Stanley was a Society Chapter Chair many years ago, and his positive contributions (via his role as a Section Executive Committee voting officer) are still enjoyed by the Section today. You can make what you want out of this position. Sometimes, the Society Chapter will face a problem and turn it into an opportunity. Alan Richardson, for example, had a dynamite speaker lined up. But his speaker pulled out just hours before the dinner meeting. While you might think this would be a disaster, Alan did not let that be the case. He presented a program that he'd done elsewhere, and he did a fantastic job--impressing the heck out of a room full of people. Now, think about this. How hard do you think it would be for Alan to get a reference? If you want to understand what real networking is about, just observe Alan. Being a Society Chapter Chair can provide opportunity (or, depending on the situation, amusement). It's a great way to demonstrate leadership, adaptability, and managerial skill. If you have wanted to grow in your job but don't have the experience, you need look no further than your Society Chapter to get it. You also can't deny the cool factor. There's a certain cachet to being able to say you served as the Chair of (your) Society. If you'd like to Chair a Society Chapter but your society doesn't have one, just go to www.ieee.org and look up the requirements for starting a Society Chapter. If you'd like to be Chair of the Communications, Computer, or Power Engineering Society, then contact an officer of one of those Society Chapters and get involved. |
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Wishing you the best,
Mark Lamendola
IEEE-KC Publications Officer
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