IEEE-KC Electronic NL, 24SEP 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.

  • 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. Rich Marshall, P.E., will present "It's About Time." This is a discussion of computing systems that require clock synchronization and the technology by which it is achieved. Topics discussed will include the following:
     

Meetings with no program information, yet:

  • January 2009 Dinner Meeting.

  • February 2009 Dinner Meeting.

  • April 2009 Dinner Meeting.

  • May 2009 Dinner Meeting.
 

Section Election

These are the results of the 2008 elections of the 2009 Section officers. Election was held at the September Computer Society dinner meeting.

  • Chair: David Kasper

  • Vice Chair: Vishwa Soni

  • Treasurer: Jorge Marquez

  • Secretary: Plamen Doynov

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.

Job Openings

Process Engineer

This position is responsible for the PLC programming within the manufacturing facilities of our client located in the Kansas City area. Requires at least 3 years PLC manufacturing applications experience. Interested candidates should send a resume to RESEARCH @austintec.com (copy into your e-mail client and remove the space).

 

Programmer

We are currently working with a client who is looking for a full time permanent employee. This client is located in Pittsburg, Kansas. This locations is 90 minutes from either Kansas City or Tulsa and close to Joplin, MO.

If you know of someone one who may be interested in this position, please forward them my email and contact me at bconnelly @yorksolutions.net (copy into your e-mail client and remove the space). We do offer a referral fee.

The position is a programmer with excellent C++ experience (2-3 years) We would like this person to have experience on standard templates and/or boost library. This is a direct hire position, but they will consider contract to hire as well. The company offers full relocation package which includes temporary housing for 60 days, paid house hunting trips. Full benefit package as well as 401K match.

If you are interested in this position, please forward your resume to: bconnelly @yorksolutions.net.

Thank you.
Barb Connelly Manager, Placement Services York Enterprise Solutions 708-531-8362

 

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  • Obituaries
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News to benefit other members

  • Technical seminars that are open to Section members
  • New courses
  • Job openings
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Thought for the Day

We all make mistakes, but not all of us give others the same room to make them that we give ourselves.

 

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