1.
Call for Nominations: IEEE Section and Chapter Officer Positions
2.
Holiday Party – December 6, 2008
3.
Upcoming Chapter Meetings
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1.
IEEE Twin-Cities Section and Chapter Officers for 2009
This is a call for
nominations for Section and Chapter Officers for 2009. If you and/or someone
you know are interested in leading activities in the IEEE at the Section or
Chapter level, please email me at
or contact the Nominations
Committee Chair,
Bob Barrett at
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2.
IEEE Twin-Cities Section 2008
Holiday Party on
December 6
Save the
Date! Saturday, December 6, 5.00PM onwards
Holiday party will be at the Ramada Mall of
America (formerly the Thunderbird Hotel)
More details,
including RSVP info will be communicated in October
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3.
Upcoming Chapter Meetings
September 18,
4.00PM: Creating a Production Test Organization
Speaker: Jim
Studer, Transoma Medical
Hosts: IEEE Instrument
& Measurement Society, Transoma Medical Inc.
For details, visit
http://www.im.tc-ieee.org/September18_2008
September 22, 7.40PM: Patterned
Nanomagnetic Bits and Devices
Speaker: Bruce D. Terris,
Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies
Hosts: IEEE Magnetics
Society, Univ of
Minnesota
Location: 101 Walter
Library, East Bank Campus of UofM
Details: Lecture start:
7:40pm; Dinner with speaker at 6PM
RSVP
Radek
Lopusnik,
September
26, 8.00AM: 2008
Minnesota
EMC Event
The
EMC Event will offer the latest
information on
EMC standards,
EMC techniques for compliance with the standards,
and testing for conformity assessment to well-known national, regional, and
international standards. The Minnesota
EMC
Event should be of interest to electrical and mechanical engineers,
technicians, technical managers of product development efforts, quality
assurance personnel, regulatory engineers and managers, and other personnel
involved with design and maintenance of products having to comply with national
and international
EMC regulatory requirements.
For
details, contact
Dan Hoolihan,
or visit: www.mnemcevent.com
September 27, 8.00AM: Professional
Development Workshop on Project Management
Workshop attendees will earn 1 CEU (10
PDH) credit.
Presenter: Tarek Lahdhiri, Ph.D., P.E.
Questions/Registration: Contact
Dave Hendrickson, 612-709-7675, or email
October 3, 11.30AM:
Energy Policy by the BTU – What Worked and What Just Sounds Good
Speakers: Tom
Butz, Power System Engineering
Hosts: IEEE Power
& Energy Society
For details, contact/RSVP to
IEEE
Creativity and Innovation Study Group. Study Group meets every other Thursday
for lunch near the U of M. Recently the group has been studying Triz with the
help of local experts, and applying it to medical sensing problems.
For
details, contact
Curt
McNamara: 763-639-8967 or
IEEE
Phoenix Study Group. Study Group meets every other Sunday. The group is working
on an open-source ambulatory blood pressure monitor design with
University of
Minnesota
researchers.
For
details, contact El Nolley: 651-690-0091 or
Also
visit: http://www.phoenix.tc-ieee.org/
IEEE Systems Study Group is
re-starting this fall using a lunch hour web meeting / teleconference. The
group is working through a book on complex systems and network theory.
For details, contact
Curt McNamara:763-639-8967 or
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