IEEE-KC Electronic NL, 25 July 2007

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IEEE Computer Society Shirts

What is more cool (or geeky, depending on your perspective) than wearing an IEEE Computer Society shirt to the office or to a gathering of technophobes?

The Computer Society will offer these shirts for sale at our October meeting. There will be two types of shirt, in both Men's style and Women's style, in a range of sizes. The first type is a high-quality polo shirt, which will be available in any of four different colors. The second is a long-sleeved denim shirt. These shirts will have the IEEE logo and the words "Computer Society" embroidered on them.

We will provide a summary page you can refer to, and we will ask you to let us know what to order. You'll be pre-ordering so that we have the shirt you want, which is much better than a scenario in which we bring 50 shirts that don't even fit anybody.

There will not be a "shopping cart" for this purpose--we'll take e-mail orders and then accept payment during registration of the October meeting.

More info, including prices, will be in our next eNL.

Looking for News

If you have information of interest to IEEE Kansas City Section members, please send that to the Publications Officer (writer @ ieee.org). Here are some examples of what we're looking for:

News pertaining to individual IEEE members of all grades, including students:

  • Obituaries
  • Awards, promotions, appointments, honors
  • Notable achievements
  • "Looking for work"--send a paragraph explaining what you do and how to reach you.

News to benefit other members

  • Technical seminars that are open to Section members
  • New courses
  • Job openings

There is no "deadline." Just send information as you get it, and the Pubs Officer will add it to the next eNL (if the item is appropriate and if space permits--and space nearly always permits).

 

Meetings

We have program information available for these meetings. For details and reservation information, go to http://www.ieee-kc.org and click on the Meetings link.

August Meeting. Thursday, August 16, 2007.
Sponsored by PACE, Kansas City Chapter.

September Meeting. Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sponsored by GOLD, Kansas City Chapter.

October Meeting. Thursday, October 18, 2007
Sponsored by the Computer Society, Kansas City Chapter

February Meeting. Thursday, February 14, 2008
Sponsored by the Computer Society, Kansas City Chapter

 

Signal Integrity Courses

Signal Integrity in Kansas? In the summertime? Yes! Are you crazy? Maybe.

Aug 1-3, 2007, two unique signal integrity public classes will be offered by Signal Integrity Evangelist, Dr. Eric Bogatin. For a complete description and to register online for these and other classes, visit www.BeTheSignal.com.

If you want to strengthen your engineering intuition about differential pairs, ground bounce, switching noise, cross talk, transmission lines, the power delivery network design, and other signal integrity principles, the Essential Principles of Signal Integrity class is for you. 

If you want to be a master of signal integrity and dramatically increase your efficiency solving signal integrity problems, the Signal Integrity Analysis with Agilent's ADS is the class for you. You will receive a fully functional version of ADS and a project CD good for 1 month after the class. This is the fastest way to get up to speed designing signal integrity problems out of your next product.

EMC Courses

Thomas Van Doren will be presenting two EMC courses "Grounding and Shielding" and "Circuit Board Layout" in Colorado Springs, CO on Sep 18-20, 2007.

These courses explain how to diagnose and reduce electrical interference and signal integrity problems at the system and circuit board levels.

A detailed description of both courses with fees and registration information can be found at: http://dce.umr.edu/NonCredit/FaceToFace/GroundingShieldingAndCircuitBoardLayout.html

 

Thought for the Day

Unnecessary steps in any process means that process costs more and reduces your effectiveness. Have you looked at your work processes, lately, to see what you are doing that doesn't really need to be done?

 

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