IEEE-KC Electronic NL, 05 December 2007

Brought to you by the IEEE, Kansas City Section. www.ieee-kc.org

 

Meetings

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

  • December Dinner Meeting. December 13, 2007
    Sponsored by the Power Engineering Society, Kansas City Chapter
     

  • January Dinner Meeting. January 10, 2008
    Sponsored by G.O.L.D., Kansas City Chapter
     

  • February Dinner Meeting. Thursday, February 14, 2008
    Sponsored by the Computer Society, Kansas City Chapter
     
  • May Banquet. Thursday, May 8, 2008.
    Sponsored by the Section.
     

April: Region 5 Conference in KC. April 17 - 20, 2008.
Sponsored by IEEE-KC Region 5 Conference Committee
 

Meetings with no program information, yet:

  • SWMO Subsection dinner meetings. Contact Gabe Fleck, gfleck @ AECI.org.

  • March Dinner Meeting: March 13, 2008. ComSoc. No Info. Contact Narayanabhatla.Shiva @ mail.sprint.com

  • April Dinner Meeting: April 10, 2008. Consultants Network. No Info. Contact j.fessler @ sbcglobal.net

  • June Dinner Meeting: June 12, 2008. Sponsored by the Medical and Biomedical Engineering Society. Contact pgd104 @ umkc.edu
 

New IEEE Fellow

Congratulations to Ruth Dyer, of Kansas State University in Manhattan, on being elevated to IEEE Fellow. This is a rare achievement.

Ruth Dyer is an Associate Provost and Professor at KSU. IEEE elevated her to IEEE Fellow in recognition of her extensive contributions to diversity in science and engineering education, and her work with Hadamard-transform spectrometers.

Some notes on the IEEE Fellow grade:

  • You cannot apply for this. It is conferred only by invitation of the IEEE Board of Directors.

  • The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in engineering. Very few people are ever elevated to IEEE Fellow.

  • Some truly remarkable people with impressive accomplishments never achieve elevation to IEEE Fellow.

  • You have to already be a Senior Member to even be considered (see the Senior Member announcement below), and must have held that position for at least five years (some exceptions apply).

  • Find out more about the Fellow grade at www.ieee.org. Click on the Membership link.

New Senior Member

Congratulations to Shannon Blunt, the newest Senior Member of the IEEE, Kansas City Section. Shannon is one of 194 people worldwide to be elevated to Senior Member in this latest cycle. The next time applicants are evaluated for this status, the review panel will convene in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Some notes on Senior Membership:

  • We are looking for a Senior Member coordinator to replace Dave Readio, who moved to Colorado. This person's job would be to help people find Senior Members to serve as references for the elevation to Senior Member. If interested, contact Dick Hodgman (click on the Officers link at www.ieee-kc.org to find his contact information).

  • Find information and the application for elevation to Senior Member status at www.ieee.org. Click on the Membership link.

Region 3 Conference Call for Papers

The Website for IEEE Southeast Conference 2008 is now at http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/secon/08, and the Website for technical paper submission is https://www.softconf.com/starts/secon08/.

http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/secon/08/technical.html provides guidelines and instructions for technical paper submission and http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/secon/08/papers.html details technical paper scope and topic areas.

R3 conference volunteers are ready to accept technical papers. Please submit full-length papers for review by November 16, 2007. Submit extended abstracts of non-reviewed papers by November 30, 2007.

Control and Robotics Symposium Call for Papers

The 2008 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'08) will be held in Sheraton Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada from May 4 through May 7, 2008.

The conference with about 90 technical sessions will feature 8 technical symposia.

You are cordially invited to participate in the Control and Robotics Symposium of CCECE'08 by submitting full-length technical papers and/or organizing special sessions, workshops, tutorials and industrial exhibits. Sumbit your proposal no later than December 7, 2007.

For more info, see: www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/ccece08/callfor.php.

FIRST High School Robotics Teams Need Mentors

This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants a resume-builder. If that's your motivation and you can handle feeling guilty for having so much fine, then you should look into this.

Needed skill areas include:

  • C + programming
  • Website work
  • Project management
  • Electrical engineering
  • Mechanical engineering

Beverly J. White, Regional Director of FIRST, says, "The UMKC students have been great, the past two years in helping these teams." Now, there's a challenge to those at other universities--can you step up to the plate? Practicing engineers are also invited to participate.

Contact Beverly at bjpwhite @ kc.rr.com for more information about getting involved.

IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video Scholarship Competition

In October, IEEE-USA launched an online video competition for undergraduate engineering students calling on participants to create 90-second video clips, aimed at 11-13 year-olds, that reinforce engineers' contributions to the quality of life and help debunk engineering stereotypes.

IEEE-USA will award seven scholarship prizes totaling $10,000 to the most creative and effective video clips highlighting the theme "How Engineers Make a World of Difference." The competition is open to all U.S. undergraduate students in engineering and computer science. All entries must be submitted through YouTube by
midnight (Eastern Time) on Friday, 18 January 2008.

For more information on how to enter the IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video Scholarship Competition, go to
http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/video_competition or e-mail p.mccarter @ ieee.org.

Send Us Your 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 Publications Officer will add it to the next eNL (if the item is appropriate and if space permits--and space nearly always permits).

Thought for the Day

Waiting to solve a problem never makes it any easier to solve. You simply put up with it longer.

 

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