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Twin Cities Section Executive Committee Meetings:
Directions to Meeting Locations:
§
Go
one
block East to the Amoco and turn left ( South) one block to the new
library
building.
Phone
is
(952) 922-1611.
§
Directions: The
library is between
Go
south
from
one
block to the
library. From Highway 7 go North to 32nd. then right (East) to
right
(South)
onto
§ Southdale
branch of the
The
location is
the Helen Young Room on the second floor.
The
library
may be reached from the Cross town, highway 62 exiting at York and
going south
to 70th St.
From 494
the exit is France, going North to 70th St. and then 2 blocks East to
York.
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http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/CMU/index.html
Members are always welcome at these meetings.
by Jon Moon, mailto:tc-chair@ieee.org (952-400-5832)
Greetings! We had a great Volunteers Workshop in January. Most of the Chapters sent representatives. And several members interested in volunteering also participated. Just a few days later the new Section officers were elected. The list of who we are is below and contact information is on the Officers link in the left column. Please send me a message if you want to become involved or have any questions/comments about IEEE activities. Feel free to contact any of the officers also.
We have a many activities
in the works for 2005:
·
The
Section events kick off March 1 with a presentation by Engineers
Without Borders. Details are above, please plan to join
us. And come early to participate in the Executive Committee and
Networking.
·
Saturday,
May 7 is the date of the annual Spring
Banquet and Student Paper Competition. More details will be
announced soon.
But reserve the date now on your calendar. Contact our Vice Chair, Chris
Greene
if you want more information or would like to help out.
·
We
will have a Section Summer Social event.
A picnic comes to mind first. What it will be exactly will be
determined by the
volunteer organizers. Contact the Section Secretary, Dave
Hendrickson, to make your suggestions and be a part of the
planning.
·
In
the fall we hope to hold a first-ever IEEE
Twin Cities Fellows Conference. The Twin Cities Section has 39
Fellows, the
highest level of recognition provided by IEEE. At the conference we
will have
several technical tracks managed by Chapters. There will also be a
working
session to kick off the nomination process for Fellow Elevations in
2006.
Please send me an
e-mail if you want to be a part of this event. It should be
a lot of
fun.
Below is updated
information on our Study Groups –
which were invented here in the Twin Cities Section. Please check them
out if
you haven’t already.
We are also creating new
Chapters and Groups in 2005. Please
contact the acting Chair if you are interested in learning more. We
particularly need members to sign the petition for forming the chapters.
·
Graduates Of
the
Last Decade, Acting Chair: Greg Burk,
Status: Petition Submitted
·
Aerospace
and Electronic
Systems,
Acting Chair: Firooz
Sadjadi, Status: circulating petition, first seminar is March 11
·
Power Electronic
Systems,
Acting Chair: Dave
Shonts, Status: circulating petition
·
Life Members, Acting Chair: Jon Moon,
Status: initial meeting to be scheduled
Our goal is to make local
activities a major reason to be a
part of IEEE. We need to hear from you about what is most important.
Please
give me a call anytime to talk.
IEEE Twin Cities Section
officers for 2005:
- Jon Moon, Chair
- Chris Greene, Vice Chair
- Dave Hendrickson, Secretary
- Dan Lowry, Treasurer.
- Greg Burk, Past Chair
by Curt McNamara,c.mcnamara@ieee.org or mcnam025@tc.umn.edu -- 763-639-8967 (cell)
There are several on-going groups listed on the web site below, as well as a handful of proposals. Respond directly to Mike for the DSP group, or me (Curt) for the others. I will network the attendees together to get the group going. Groups typically run twice per month, and meet at a company, in a library, or at a restaurant. Lunch and after-work are popular times. Group members work together to do exercises and bring in examples from their experience. It is a great way to network while improving your technical skills.
Link: http://www.tc-ieee.org/webpages/education.html#study groups
The latest study group is featured below:
The Phoenix
Project
by El Nolley,
The Phoenix Project is
a study group
of the Twin Cities IEEE (
Our website is at http://www.phoenix.tc-ieee.org/. Look at the "About Phoenix" page and its sub pages, and the "Projects" page. Then browse through the other pages. The product is being developed as an open source project.
Participating in
Phoenix is a
great opportunity if any of the following describe you:
Medical
technology engineer
Engineer
in
another industry and would like to transition into the medical
technology
industry
Want to gain medical technology experience
Want others to see your capability to make
significant
contributions
Would like to help your community in a worthwhile
project to
improve peoples' health
As a
As of June 1, 2004, our members include: Curt McNamara, Uri Spector, Steve Ehlscheid, Jon Moon, Jim Holte, Bob Schlentz, El Nolley, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Germaine Cornelissen, Franz Halberg, David Lerner, Marv Geske, Srilakshmi Bathina, Srikanta Kolluru, John Hauck, Mary Jo Rawson, Wade Peterson, Gary Steinkogler, Jay Rabel, Edward Palmer, Daniel Glumac, Wu Jinyi, and Steve Stadler.
This is an opportunity to contribute technically through learning and inventing, to contribute socially for the public good and mentor others, and to advance. If you are interested, please send me an email to e.nolley@ieee.org or just come to one of our meetings posted on our website.
by Jim Riess (651) 223-5646
"People want to feel what they do makes a difference."
"Human beings need to be recognized and rewarded for special efforts."
"Recognition is so easy to do and so inexpensive to distribute that there is simply no excuse for not doing it."
"We all like to be recognized and appreciated. Just by giving an award or recognition certificate, formally recognizing someone in front of a group…we’re telling the person that their work is appreciated."
"Knowing that what you do is important and appreciated is the best reward."
Because of this need to recognize, appreciate and celebrate the accomplishments of our peers in the IEEE, the Twin Cities Section Awards & Recognition Program recently was expanded.
New awards for the Section Outstanding Engineer, the Corporate Outstanding Engineer, the Section Outstanding Member and the Outstanding Engineering Student have been created and were awarded to qualified nominees during the Twin Cities Section Annual Awards Banquet this Spring. Congratulations to all!!
Contact Jim Riess by e-mail j.riess@ieee.org or by phone 651-227-7773 with questions or comments.
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