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
Are You Out of Touch? << PLEASE READ
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: 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
7 Deadly Sins of Time Management
