IEEE Student Branch at The University of Texas at Austin

Are you doing a power systems-related senior design project or research project during the fall? If so, we have an opportunity for you!

The Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) and IEEE Region 5 are sponsoring the Second Annual Student Design Competition. The competition topic is "designing a direct current delivery system for use in residential applications". There are a total of $5000 in prizes, plus two team members could win a free trip to the Region 5 Annual Meeting in April 2010. You must be a registered member of an IEEE Student Branch in Region 5 (like ours) to participate. For more information, please visit http://www.ieeecontest.com.

The IEEE website Drupal core has been upgraded to version 6.12. All should have gone well, though any broken pages should be reported to it.director [at] ieee.ece.utexas.edu

The IEEE website Drupal core has been upgraded to version 6.11. All should have gone well, though any broken pages should be reported to it.director [at] ieee.ece.utexas.edu

This year marks the 125th anniversary of the IEEE. In celebration, parties, technology and engineering showcases, and general celebrations are being organized around the world. Austin is lucky enough to be hosting one of the few celebrations in the US and every single IEEE member is invited to come! This includes all Student Branch members!

The celebration will include a technology showcase, along with a panel discussion about 'The Engineer of 2020." One of the speakers on this panel will be our own department chair - Dr. Ambler. After the showcase there will be an honest-to-goodness party - the Brain Party. So to RSVP for this event, email vsegna@austinchamber.com and let her know that you are a student branch member and then bring your student ID along when you come to the party. For more information: http://www.austinhumancapital.com/brainparty.html

Event Details:
Technology Showcase
11AM-4PM
RSVP: http://door64.com/techfair

The Engineer of 2020
430-530PM

UT ECE Demos
6-9PM

Brain Party
6-9PM

If you have any questions: internal.vicechair [at] ieee.ece.utexas.edu or chair [at] ieee.ece.utexas.edu

We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to the new IEEE Officers!
Your officers for 2009-10 are

• Chair: Bryan Sierra
• External Vicechair: Erik Eyberg
• Internal Vicechair: Donny Owen
• Corporate Liaison: Thien-An Nguyen
• Treasurer: Francis Israel
• Member Resources: Carolyn Gjertsen
• Programs Director: Aaron Sanchez
• Recording Secretary: Huai Shih
• Membership Director: Ashley Nelson
• Partsbin Director: Jimmy Beecham
• Security Director: Russell Norton
• Outreach Chair: Lee Watson
• SEC Representatives: Simeon Bochev and Jeff Wang
• Counselor: Professor Sriram Vishwanath

Remember, spring officer elections are coming up tomorrow, April 16th at our general meeting!
The meeting is at 5:30 ( NOT 7:00! ) and is in RLM 4.102 (the regular room).
All positions are available for IEEE members to run for, and to hold an officer position you must be a registered, dues-paying, national IEEE member. This can be completed shortly after election, if needed.
If you would like to run for a position, come by the office at ENS 133 and sign up outside the door on the lists. If you cannot make it to the meeting but would like to run anyways, write up a speech and have someone give it for you.
Also, ECE Tech Area night is right after our meeting!

Positions are listed in the constitution: http://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/documents/constitution.pdf

The website server has been restored post-power-outage-over-spring-break.
There shouldn't be anything wrong, everything proceeded as normal.

We are now sporting a new and improved, spiffy Google Calendar!

Check out the link at the top of the page that says 'Google Calendar' for a feed of all our upcoming events. All of the events are (should be) the same as the old calendar.

Calendar has been updated with some new information and some changed times. [Explore UT and Fajita Fest]

Also documents [flyer, constitution] have been restored post-update along with images.

The IEEE main website (this site) was updated today at approximately 2:20 PM

Total Downtime: approx. 5 min.

Please notify it.director [at] ieee.ece.utexas.edu if any problems are witnessed.