the Bulletin

of the IEEE Eastern Idaho Section

Last Updated December 6, 2011

Editor: Gene Stuffle (gene.stuffle@isu.edu)

CONTENTS:

Announcements and General Information:

Call for Nominations - Recognizing Outstanding IEEE Volunteers and Contributors

Call for Fellow Nominations

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Why not Upgrade to Senior Member Status?

 

Eastern Idaho Section Activities:

December 09: ISU EE Seminar -- Sailesh Shrestha, Optical Camouflage

December 09: ISU EE Seminar -- Eric Terry, Geothermal Energy

December 09: ISU EE Seminar -- Devin Vollmer, Variable Frequency Drives

December 09: EIEC -- All Engineers Christmas Social

 

News from IEEE-USA:

 

Other News:

 

2011 Archive:

December 2: ISU EE Seminar -- Rajesh Jayasawal, Space-Based Solar Power

December 2: ISU EE Seminar -- Prabesh Shrestha, Emerging Technology, Wireless Electricity

December 2: ISU EE Seminar -- Gary Lear, The Effects of Video Processing on Society

November 18: ISU EE Seminar -- Lieyi Sheng, Power Efficiency and Integrations of Micron-Scaled Gas Sensors

November 17: Brew with the Crew -- John Buttles, Tuning Your Wireless to Tune Out Your Neighbors...Transmitters

November 11: ISU EE Seminar -- Timothy Copeland, Physical Verification of Integrated Circuits

November 11: ISU EE Seminar -- Cody Grover, Current and Proposed Technology Behind Continuous Glucose Monitors

November 4: ISU EE Seminar -- Yehiya Elhalwagy & Alaa Mohamedy, Navigation, Guidance, and Control of Moving Vehicles and UAVs

October 28: Professional Seminar -- Winston Beard, Intellectual Property: What is it & How to Protect it

October 28: ISU EE Seminar -- Cheng-Hung Chen, Intelligent Control Systems in Prosthetic Hand Applications

October 21: ISU EE Seminar -- Puttipong Mahasukhon, Wireless Communications, Theory & Practice

October 20: Brew with the Crew -- James Smith, Baking Fuel in a "Hot" Oven for a Delectable Outcome

October 19: ON Semiconductor Plant Tour

October 14: ISU EE Seminar -- Craig Bauling, Mathematica 8 in Education and Research

October 7: ISU EECS Seminar -- Jeremy Perschon, Programmable Controllers

September 30: ISU EECS Seminar -- Stevan Hunter, Micro Electromechanical Systems, MEMs

September 29: ISU EECS Seminar -- Stevan Hunter, Reliability of ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits)

September 29: ISU EECS Seminar -- Stevan Hunter, Recent Development Work in IC Bondpad Structure and Circuit Under Pad

September 23: ISU EECS Seminar -- Satwant Kaur, Microelectronics, Intel Book

September 16: ISU EECS Seminar -- Dawid Zydek, Efficient Utilization of Processing Elements in Chip Multiprocessors

September 15: Brew with the Crew -- Jason Wright, Cyber Inspector and Finding the Bad Guy's Footprint on the Process

August 18: Brew with the Crew -- Robin Stewart, So My Instrument Has To Survive The Bumpiest Ride From Earth?

July 21: Brew with the Crew -- Ron Boring, Wolves and Spiders in the Control Room: What Foraging Theory Tells Us About Control Room Operators

July 5: ISU EECS Seminar -- Dawid Zydek, Efficient Utilization of Processing Elements in Chip Multiprocessors

June 16: Brew with the Crew -- Doug Few, Welcome to the 3D Virtual World of Your Dreams...or at Least a Place of Interest

May 19: Brew with the Crew -- Humberto Garcia, Graceful Degradation: How the House of Cards Falls One Level at a Time

April 21: Brew with the Crew -- Jill R. Scott, The Field Vacuum Extractor for Non-Destructive Sampling of Fixed Surfaces -- So Simple it is Genius!

April 1: Stuffle Appointed Idaho Academy of Science Executive Director

March 31 - April 2, 2011: 53rd Annual Symposium of the Idaho Academy of Science

2011 IEEE Computer Society Simulator Design Competition

March 17: Brew with the Crew -- Todd Vollmer, Mad Men and an Intelligent Mechanism to Stop Them from Exploiting Your Network

February UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

January UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

January 19: ISPE Seminar -- Lynn Transtrum, Codes, Standards and Building Permits

January 11: IEEE Members Elect Gordon W. Day as 2012 President

 

2010 Archive:

December UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

November UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

November 18: Brew with the Crew -- Miles McQueen, The Bad Guy in Cyber Security

November 16: ISU EECS Seminar -- Russell Harrison, Engineers, Scientists and the 2010 Election Flyer Video

November 5: ISU EECS Seminar -- Justin Hill, Hill AFB Defense Software Projects & Hiring Needs

October 29: ISU EECS Seminar -- Vitit (Mo) Kantabutra, Designing Better Software for Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

October UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

October 22: ISU EECS Seminar -- Ginger McKee, Wolfram Research, Mathematica 7 in Education and Research

October 21: Brew with the Crew -- Jon Christophersen, Making Your Battery Step Up to the Plate

October 15: ISU EECS Seminar -- Troy Kase, Successful Engineering Job Search

October 8: ISU EECS Seminar -- Darlene Gerry, IP, Patents and Related Legal Issues

September UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

Invite for Upcoming IEEE Spectrum Webinars by Experts

September 24: ISU EECS Seminar -- Ed Munson, Network Security

September 17: ISU EECS Seminar -- Steve Chiu, Hybrid and Embedded Computing -- Two Ends of the Spectrum?

September 16: Brew with the Crew -- Lee Shunn, The Idiot's Guide to Modeling: A Plug-and-Chug Machine for Model Discovery

September 10: ISU EECS Seminar -- Gary Olson, Importance of Writing for Electrical Engineers

August UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

August 19: Brew with the Crew -- Tim McJunkin, Ripples on the Pond: A Story of Seeing with Sound

July UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

July 29: IEEE Green Technologies Conference Seeks Technical Papers

July 29: IEEE-USA Awards Nomination Deadline Extended to 25 August

July 23: Investigations into Unintended Acceleration Should Include Engineers

July 15: Brew with the Crew -- Ronald Boring, Operator Performance at Nuclear Power Plants

June UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

June 17: Brew with the Crew -- Erin Searcy, Making Cents of Biomass-to-Energy: Spinning Straw into Gold

May 20: Brew with the Crew -- Humberto Garcia, Catching Fishes in Murky Ponds

April 15: Brew with the Crew -- Stevan Hunter, From Monsters to MEMS

April 6: "State of the College" Reception with UI Dean Don Blackketter

March UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

March 18: Brew with the Crew -- Tom Larson, You Can't See Me, But I Can See You

March 11-13: IAS Annual Meeting and Symposium in Twin Falls

February 18: Engineers Week Banquet at Holiday Inn in Pocatello

February 18: Technology Transfer Colloquium at University Place

February 5: New IEEE-USA President Identifies Advancing Viability and Contributions of the Profession as Top Priority for 2010

February 5: Nomination Deadline for IAS 2010 Awards

January 29: Tim McJunkin Inducted into INL Hall of Fame

January 26: No Significant Improvement in Fourth Quarter Engineering and Computer Jobs Data

January 22: ISU Seminar: Robert Hiromoto -- Propagation of Information in Parallel Computations and the Design of More Optimal Sequential Algorithms

 

2009 Archive:

December UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

December 4: EIEC Holiday Social

November 20: ISU EECS Seminar: Lieyi Sheng -- Power Efficiency and Integrations of Micron-Scaled Gas Sensors

November 19: Brew with the Crew -- Welcome to the Robot Revolution please wait ...

October 22-23: President's Sustainability Symposium

October 15: Brew with the Crew -- Novel Concepts for Intrusion Detection Systems

October 9: ISU EECS Seminar: Stevan Hunter -- ASIC Reliability

October 2: ISU EECS Seminar: Steven Novack -- The Nanoantenna Prospect for Harvesting Energy

September 25: ISU EECS Seminar: Roy Collins -- IP, Tech Transfer and Related Issues

September 22: IEEE-USA President Endorses Strategy for American Innovation

September 17: Brew with the Crew -- How to Combine Data Smarter

September 11: IEEE/IEEE-USA Seek Nominations for 2010 New Faces of Engineering Program

September 10: IEEE-USA and IEEE Computer Society to Develop Professional Exam for Software Engineering

September UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

August 20: Brew with the Crew -- Frequency Measurement: Putting the Smarts into the Smart Grid

August 11-13: 2nd International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems -- Idaho Falls

July 16: Brew with the Crew -- Ever Wonder Why Your Wireless Won't Work?

July 7: Unemployment Rate for Electrical Engineers Soars to New Record

June 18: Brew with the Crew -- "Dual-ing" Robots

May 21: Brew with the Crew -- Haptic Welding and You

May UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

April 29: Review of Continuing Professional Development Rules Legislation

April 16: Brew with the Crew -- Submitting Research Proposals that Cut the Mustard

April 6: Unemployment Rate for U.S. Engineering and Computer Occupations Jumps Significantly in First Quarter

April 6: UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

March 3: UI Engineering Dean's E-Letter

February 24: IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society Sign Merger Agreement

February 21: MATHCOUNTS 2009 SE Idaho Teams Final Ranking

February 21: MATHCOUNTS 2009 SE Idaho Individuals Final Ranking

February 19: Engineers Week Banquet at Shilo Inn in Idaho Falls

 

2008 Archive:

IEEE 2008 Sections Congress Recommendations

December 5: All Engineers Christmas Social

November 7-8: Region 6 Teacher In-Service Workshop

Ongoing: Future City Engineer Mentor Needed for Hawthorne Middle School in Pocatello

October 24: Seminar at ISU: Effective Technical Presentations

October 17: Seminar at ISU: The Electrical Supply System

October 10: Seminar at ISU: Reliability Enhancement by Suppression of Nano-Dentric Defects in Metal-Insulator-Metal Capacitors in Integrated Circuits

October 3: Seminar at ISU: College to Career

September 26: Seminar at ISU: Digital Image Processing

September 19: Seminar at ISU: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Related Issues

September 19: Idaho Falls Lunch Meeting: Building a Data Center in a War Zone

September 11: Seminar at University Place: System-Level Algorithmic Concurrent Error Detection for Improved Resilience in Complex Control Systems

July 31: Seminar at University Place: Mechatronics Research and Rule Based Control Algorithms

May 15: Join IREA and AWS for a tour of the Skyline High School Wind Turbine

Call for Nominations - Recognizing Outstanding IEEE Volunteers and Contributors

February 21: 2008 National Engineers Week Banquet

February 15: AMIS Facilities Tour

February 8: ISU Outstanding Engineer 2008 Nominations Sought

January 25: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting -- Uniform Feedstock Supply System Design for Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production

 

2007 Archive:

October 26: 3rd Annual ISU/AMIS Research Symposium

October 19: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting -- Energy Systems Technology and Education Center (ESTEC)

October 12: AMET Facility Tour

October 8: Professional Development Seminar -- "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World"

Today's Engineer Update: September 2007

September 26: California Condors and Aplomado Falcons in the American West

August 10: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting: ITER: Realizing Nuclear Fusion Power

July 27: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting: Exploration and Development of a new Automated Nonlinear Differential Equation-Based System Identification

April 19 - 21: Idaho Academy of Science: 49th Annual Meeting and Symposium

April 12: Idaho Falls Panel Discussion: MBA or Engineering Masters Degree?

March 23: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting: Digital Radio Communications using Ionized Meteor Trails

February 22: 2007 National Engineers Week Banquet

January 23: Project Management Professional Certification

CELEBRATING OUR 50th ANNIVERSARY IN 2007!

 

2006 Archive:

December 8: National Weather Service Facility Tour and Demonstration

December 8: All Engineers Christmas Social

November 21: Wolverine Creek Wind Farm Tour

November 14: Idaho Power Energy Plan

November 9: Tour of the Idaho Falls Power Gem State Hydro Facility

November 3: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting: Future Energy Technologies and the Employment Challenges

September 8: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting: New Horizons: Shedding Light on Frontier Worlds

August 16: FIRST Robotics in Southeastern Idaho

August 11: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting

 

2005 Archive:

Idaho Museum of Natural History Events

November 4: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting: HAZMAT Cam Wireless System

June 17: ITER: Realizing Nuclear Fusion Power

June 8: INCOSE Meeting

News from IEEE Educational Activities and the History Center (3rd Quarter 2005)

Offshoring is Major Cause of Technical Unemployment

News from IEEE Educational Activities and the History Center (2nd Quarter 2005)

May 24: "Race for Atomic Power" Exhibits

by May 16: Micron Outstanding Science Teacher Award Nominations Requested

May 13: Prehistory of the Curlew Valley

May 5: The History of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programs in Idaho

April 17 - 18: Fossil Fish Workshop and Field Trip

April 7 - 9: IAS Annual Meeting and Symposium

March 24-25: IEEE Member Who Designs Robotic Explorers to Participate in EWeek Women's Global Marathon

March 22: Upcoming Visit by Mad Cow/TSE Researcher

Science Olympiad SeeksVolunteer Judges

March 4 & 5: Idaho Environmental Education Summit 2005

Idaho Academy of Science Awards Program Seeks Nominations

February 24: 2005 National Engineers Week Banquet

February 24: Pocatello Meeting: Fuel Cells and Other Alternate Energy Technologies in Idaho

February 14: IMNH Tsunami Talk

February 12: Local Mathletes to Compete in Local Math Competition

February 11: Idaho Falls Luncheon Meeting: Inherent Issues with Securing Control Systems and Applications that Support Reliability of the Electric Grid

January 21 & 22: Museum Mystery Dinner Theater

January 21: Tour of Advanced Silicon Materials, Inc.

New Year Means New Exhibit at Idaho Museum of Natural History

Update on Future City Competition

 

2004 Archive:

December 16: All Engineers Christmas Social

December 3: Thing'eneering: Socially Responsible, Deep Culture Technology Developmment

November 11: ISU Student Branch Meeting

There She Blows ... Again!

7 Deadly Sins of Time Management

A View of Our Nuclear Past and Future

IEEE Seeks EWeek New Faces of Engineering Nominees