IEEE-KC Electronic NL, 09SEP 2008

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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.

  • September Dinner Meeting. Thursday, September 18, 2008.
    Sponsored by the Computer Society, Kansas City Chapter. Dr. Yu-Ping Wang, Assistant Professor of EE and CS at University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), will present, "High resolution genomic imaging powered by computational image analysis."

    Dr. Wang will review the latest progress in multiscale genomic imaging, discuss computational problems, and show the applications of signal/image processing approaches such as wavelets to the solution of these problems. A variety of genetic imaging processing examples including probe signal detection, compression, fusion, enhancement and classification will be presented.

    Computer Society and Section officer elections will be held at this time, also.

    This falls on the third Thursday, because the 2nd one is September 11.
     
  • SWMO Subsection: 1st Tuesday of Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Mar, April, May, Sep.
    See the meetings page for details on those meetings.
     
  • October Dinner Meeting. Thursday, October 09, 2008.
    Joint Dinner Meeting, sponsored by PACE and MSPE--Professional Activities Continuing Education (IEEE) and Missouri Society of Professional Engineers.  Russell T. Harrison, the IEEE-USA Legislative Representative for Grassroots Activities will speak on "Communicating With Elected Officials." You have important things to say, things that your elected officials need to hear. Let’s make sure your message isn’t lost in the translation.
     
  • November Dinner Meeting. Thursday, November 13, 2008.
    Sponsored by PES. Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles (PHEVs). The presenter is Bob DeVault, Strategic Planning, Energy and Transportation Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. PES officer elections will be held at this time, also.
     
  • December Dinner Meeting. Thursday, December 11, 2008.
    Sponsored by the Consultants Network. Dr. Tom Van Doren from the Missouri University of Science & Technology Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory. (Yes, that Dr. Van Doren).
     
  • March Dinner Meeting. Thursday, March 12, 2009.
    Sponsored by the Computer Society. Mobile Security. Speaker pending.
     
  • September Dinner Meeting. Thursday, September 10, 2009.
    Sponsored by the Computer Society. Mobile Security. 2009 program is set, but will not be posted until after the September 18, 2008 program to avoid confusion.
     

Meetings with no program information, yet:

  • January 2009 Dinner Meeting.

  • February 2009 Dinner Meeting.

  • April 2009 Dinner Meeting.
 

Section Election

These are the nominations for the 2008 elections of the 2009 Section officers. Election will be held at the September dinner meeting.

  • Chair: David Kasper

  • Vice Chair: Vishwa Soni

  • Treasurer: Jorge Marquez

  • Secretary: Plamen Doynov

Developing Management and Leadership Skills

LeaderPoint, an approved IEEE Education Partner, offers a discount to members on their simulation-based management and leadership development sessions held in Kansas City. The next “Executive Experience” sessions are September 15-19, 2008 and October 20-24, 2008.  Please click on the link for more information:   http://www.leaderpoint.biz/ieee.htm

New Senior Member

Congratulations to Cory Beard, who was elevated to the status of Senior Member.

To see what advantages there are to elevation and how to qualify, go to www.ieee.org and click on the Membership link.

CETS (Consumer Electronics Technology Showcase)

Kansas City Marriot Downtown, Friday October 10, 2008 from 9am to 5pm. IEEE-KC is a sponsor of the show and will have a booth including Russell T. Harrison, IEEE membership information, and IEEE-USA literature. See: http://consumerets.com/Kansas_City_Missouri.html.

 

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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
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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

We all make mistakes, but not all of us learn from them.

 

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