Welcome to the January 2009 electronic DataLink newsletter for the IEEE Seattle Section
Website Visit the IEEE Seattle Section Website www.ieee-seattle.org for complete up-to-date information regarding IEEE Seattle Section activities.
This newsletter is only a portion of the web site content.
Contents:
1.Technical chapter events
2.Other events
3.PSEC Awards Nominations
4.New Seattle Section Fellows
5.Chair-Elects Blog 6.Polo Shirts
7.Reference information
Technical meetings
Society: Professional Activities Committee for Engineers (PACE)
Title: Career Development Seminar
Speaker: Steve Larson, Manager of Substation Construction & Maintenance for the Snohomish Public Utility District
Date: February 7, 2009 (Saturday) 11:30am - 4:00pm
Where: Seattle University in the Wyckoff Auditorium
Cost: Students $10 IEEE members $15 Non members $20.
To sign up for this event go to 123signup at: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=zmqtm.
Contact Maury Miller (maury.miller@ieee.org) for more information.
Society: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMB-18)
Title: Technology for Long-Term Care: Elder Care for the Next Billion
Speaker: Matthai Philipose - Intel Research
Date: January 28, 2009 (Wednesday) 5:00 PM
Where: University of Washington
Room: N130A Seminar Room
UW Bio-Engineering Building (William H. Foege Building)
1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA
For more information: Dan Harrison dharrison@ieee.org
Other Events
Group: Seattle Section Executive Committee
Title: Executive Committee Meeting Date: January 13 (Tuesday), 6pm
Location: Overlake Roundtable Pizza, 15025 NE 24th St. Redmond, WA
For more information: Erik Godo erik.godo@boeing.com
PSEC Awards Nominations
The Puget Sound Engineering Council (PSEC) Engineers Week Banquet is held each February during National Engineers Week. Several Engineer of the Year awards are presented at that time. Nominations for each award are accepted by PSEC from each of its member societies. The Seattle Section IEEE has 4700 members and is the largest society in PSEC. There should be many well-qualified nominees for these awards from within our membership. There is a good chance that a well-prepared nomination will result in an award for an IEEE member. It would be an honor for our society to be well represented by these award winners.
The deadline for nominations is Saturday, January 10, 2009. It can take longer than you think to put together a nomination, however, so don't wait until the last minute. See http://www.ieee-seattle.org/awards.html for more details.
Chairs snow Blog:
Now it's gone - whew.
The new activities we are working on and status -
The "create content for Xplore access" project is submitted to IEEE.
We are still in evaluation of the webconferencing software we are going to use.
We are thinking about IEEE web hosting for our web site - 90% of the region web sites are on IEEE webhosting now.
We think that will allow better integration of new web site features IEEE will be coming out with in the next year.
Student paper contest dates firmed up. Have you signed up to myIEEE and the other web-based networking tools IEEE has (memberNet)? LinkedIn for IEEE'ers. My alma mater (UW) has a new networking tool (with job ads) and my company is now providing web-based networking tools internally.
We have now shipped a new round of Grey IEEE Seattle Section Polo shirts, as volunteer awards and sold to members. If you are interested, let me (erik.godo@boeing.com) know, including a size and shipping address. The price remains $29. We will order and ship more when we have accumulated another minimum order of 24.
Resumes Looking for a new position? You can post your resume on the IEEE Seattle Section Website.
Send your information to webmaster sallen@ieee.org. View posted resumes at http://www.ieee-seattle.org/resumes.html Note that companies advertise jobs at the IEEE-Seattle site.
Questions, problems or comments regarding this newsletter can be addressed to Chair: erik.godo@boeing.com or Secretary: kamr@ieee.org Erik Godo, Chair, IEEE Seattle Section
