IEEE Student Branch at The University of Texas at Austin

Hello all ECE students,

We just got our shipment of protoboards & wire kits.

The different sizes medium, large, and extra large protoboards will be sold for $20, $24, and $30 respectively. We also sell wire kits for $5 apiece.

-IEEE Officers

Hello all,

Thank you for joining us at our first meeting of the semester. We enjoyed seeing so many faces at our first meeting and hope to see more at our second.

Here are the slides from the BASF presentation and our beginning presentation.

Thank you,

IEEE Officers

After several comments from University officials and others, we have prepared a semi-final draft of the new Branch Constitution and Bylaws. They are attached below. We will still entertain comments from IEEE members to internal.vicechair@ieee.ece.utexas.edu, but consider this version to be almost finalized, pending voting approval by the IEEE Members.

-Don

Good news: effective immediately, Ashley Nelson has been promoted to External Vice-Chair!

Sad news: Huai Shih, our Secretary, has resigned from her position. The Secretary position is open to anyone interested.

Interested in becoming an IEEE Student Branch Leader? Please review the Branch Constitution and Bylaws, fill out this form, and finally - come talk to us!

The Officers of the IEEE Student Branch have worked for the past semester on revising the IEEE Student Branch Constitution and Bylaws. This action was initiated under advisement of SALD as our current Constitution was out of date and inadequately defined in some areas.

We are planning on introducing the revised documents at the upcoming General Meeting and we are posting the documents here for general review. We, the Officers, have made all of the changes that we think necessary and we are not planning on making any more ourselves. However, any comments and suggestions from IEEE Members will be taken under consideration, discussed, and possibly implemented before the upcoming General Meeting. We plan to have a final version ready for this Meeting and we intend to take a vote on adopting the new Constitution and Bylaws.

Documents are attached below, and the original Constitution is linked in the Branch Information page. There is no previous Bylaws document. We are aware that there may be minor formatting problems; they will be ironed out in a final draft.

Meeting agenda:

• Announcements
• Corporate presentation from BASF
• Free food from Hoa Hoa!
• Membership information
• Open officer positions available
• New constitution and bylaws discussed
• And more!

Meeting details are available on our calendar (link) for your convenience

Meeting time: January 28, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM.
Location: RLM 4.102, as usual.

Over the 2009-10 winter break we have had a few officer changes:

Russell Norton and Lisa Maria, our Security Director and Fundraising Director, respectively, have respectfully resigned their posts for personal reasons.

Jasmine Liu, who has been acting as the Internal ViceChair has been moved to Security Director to replace Russell.

Don Owen, who has been at a co-op job for the Fall semester, has returned and resumed his post as Internal ViceChair.

-Officers

1. Per-Element-based Memory Supplies and Reconfiguration Schemes
Speaker: Dr. Rouwaida Kanj received the B.Eng. (with high distinction) from the American University of Beirut, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and 2004, respectively. She is currently with the Tools and Technology team at IBM Austin Research Labs. Prior to this position, she held multiple internships with the IBM EDA Group in Fishkill. She worked on modeling SOI effects, noise characterization of CMOS circuits, library characterization of novel circuit technologies, and is currently involved in variability driven SRAM analysis. Dr. Kanj was a recipient of three IBM Ph.D. Fellowships, is the author of several technical papers and two pending patents.

2. Optimization of Stress Liner Interface Location to Improve Circuit-level Performance for Dual-Stress Liner (DSL) Device Architecture
Speaker: Dr. Akif Sultan is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. He has worked at AMD for twelve years in the areas of process integration, high performance device development, device installation in Foundry, variations and device-design interactions. He led the implementation of the inclusion of layout-dependent stress effects in design within AMD. He holds 16 patents. He received his Ph.D. (1996) and MS (1993) in Electrical Engineering from UT Austin. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from AMU, India in 1988. He taught as a Lecturer in India for three years.

3. A Constrained Discrete Dynamic Optimization Method for Concurrent Repeater Insertion and Gate Sizing in Multi-Core Design
Speaker: Dr. Salim Chowdhury received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He taught at University of Iowa, Iowa City for some years where he obtained multiple research grants from National Science Foundation. He had been working with semiconductor industries since then, first with Motorola where he was involved with designing 68060 and PowerPC microprocessors and next with SUN Microsystems designing a few generations of SPARC Microprocessors. He has developed multiple CAD tools for the extraction and simulation of clock network, and timing and power optimization. Currently, he is a senior manager at SUN Microsystems Inc. at their Austin Microelectronics design center. Dr. Salim Chowdhury obtained a best paper award from DAC and holds many patents and publications. He is currently serving as a member of technical program committee for ISPD.

Date: Tuesday, Dec 8th, 6:30PM, ENS 306A on UT Campus
Food: Pizza, soft drink
Cost: none

Happy holidays!

Haoxing Ren
Chair - IEEE Central Texas SSC/CSA Joint Chapter

Meeting agenda:

• Announcements
• Corporate presentation from Schlumberger
• Free Food!
• And more!

Meeting details are available on our calendar (link) for your convenience

Meeting time: December 3, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM.
Location: RLM 4.102, as usual.

• When: Dec 7th, 6:00 PM through Dec 8th 7:00 AM
• Where: 3rd floor lounge
• fajitas for Dinner Dec 7th : Fajitas are $1 apiece or for $2.50, you can have 2 fajitas, chips, and a soda. Bring your IEEE membership card to get a 50% discount.
• Calendar link: here

Resources:

• tutors from 6 pm to midnight on day 1
• comfortable study environment
• several freshman professors have been invited
• CAFFEINE! Free coffee and IEEE will be selling our usual assortment of caffeinated goodness at severely reduced prices - whoohoo!
• Snacks! IEEE will be selling our usual assortment of sugary, salty, awesome goodness at, you guessed it, severely reduced prices - whee!
• Peers! IEEE officers and members are ECE students too, and we'll be cramming just as hard as the rest of y'all. (Also at severely reduced prices)