IEEE-Kansas City Section and the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Computing and Engineering are co-hosting the 2008 Region 5 IEEE Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel on the Plaza in Kansas City.

Please consider supporting your local IEEE Kansas City Section in this. How?

• Submit papers
• Submit tutorials
• Participate in the Career Fair/Vendor Fair
• Help sponsor the event with company samples, gifts, or donations, etc.

Students will potentially be coming from eighty-five universities across twelve states to compete in five different competitions, including the Regional Robotics Competition. Mark your calendars.

• 2008 IEEE Region 5 Technical, Professional, and Student Conference
• April 17-20, 2008 Intercontinental Hotel - Kansas City
• http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/basics2

The technical sessions, short courses, and student competitions are all arranged to provide a great interaction forum for people in industry and academia. There are many sessions planned with the intention of forming an over-arching bridge between various disciplines in state-of-the-art electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science research.

The committee is soliciting papers describing original unpublished research in all areas of electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science, including theoretical, experimental, and commercial works. We are also encouraging participation of all other interested parties at this conference.

Important dates

• Deadline to Submit Full Paper/Extended Summary via EDAS: February 15th, 2008
• Paper Acceptance or Rejection: March 15th, 2008
• Final Paper Due: April 2nd, 2008
• Early Registration: March 20
• Author registration: April 2nd

NOTE: The latter is required for the presenters of the accepted papers. Late registration for all other participants will remain open at a higher rate until the last day of the conference.

Tutorials: We are also offering a series of short courses on April 17th. These cover a range of cutting edge technologies of interest to the IEEE constituents. Please use the general conference registration form at http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/basics2 for more information and to register for the tutorial(s) of your choice.

Sample Titles:

• NEC 2008 Analysis of Changes
• 4G Network Architecture and Power Saving Protocols
• Trends in Bioinformatics

See the complete list here: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/basics2

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.

• 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).