IEEE Student Branch at The University of Texas at Austin

Members,
There is an initiative being pushed forward by SALD (That's the UT organization that oversees student organizations like IEEE) to have organization members be officially registered with their organization. To fulfill our obligation to SALD, we have created a very simple Form for active Members to fill out. We will collect names until approximately Nov. 20 2009 and then submit the data to SALD. Only Members officially registered through the University in this way can 'officially' be considered Members of the IEEE Branch.
Please go to http://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/memberform to submit your information. We pledge not to use any information submitted for anything other than registering with SALD.

-The IEEE Executive Officers

Meeting agenda:

• IEEE Societies will give brief updates.
• Announcements given by our Chair, Erik Eyberg
• Corporate presentation from Schlumberger
• Free Food! From Jimmy John's.

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

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

Meeting agenda:

• IEEE Societies will give brief updates.
• Announcements
• SEC Representatives updates.
• Speaker from Celanese
• Free Food! From Chick-fil-A

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

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

Meeting agenda:

• IEEE Societies will give brief updates.
• Announcements
• SEC Representatives, Simeon Bochev & Jeff Wang, will also give updates.
• How to join IEEE
• Free Food!

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

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

All IEEE members, EE/BME/etc. students are invited to IEEE's second general meeting!

We will be having one additional officer election to fill a spot that was not filled at the first meeting. There will, of course, be free food and drink.
IEEE Societies will be presenting brief updates and there will be a brief presentation from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.

Accenture Presentation

And, the main attraction is our first company presentation of the year: Accenture.

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

Meeting time is 6:30 PM - not 7:00 PM because Accenture is running another presentation after our meeting.
Location: RLM 4.102, as usual.

Texas Instruments: Connect in a Virtual Infosession

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Don’t miss this Virtual Infosession opportunity to get connected with Texas Instruments!

When:
September 15
7-8 pm Central

Where & How:
Click here to register for this webinar.

Why:
Learn what Applications Engineering is and how it can provide you with a strong foundation on which to build your engineering expertise.

Who:
Our special invites – you!

The Center for Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) and IEEE Region 5 are sponsoring the Second Annual Student Design Competition. The topic for the 2009-2010 school year is Practical Solar Photovoltaic DC Control and Supply System.

This second annual competition asks students, including graduate students, to submit a paper design for a direct current (DC) energy delivery system intended for existing homes or small businesses with solar panels or energy storage devices. The system will be designed to safely and efficiently use DC power in a residence. The schedule for this contest is set to encourage submissions to be part of senior design projects for Fall 2009, but is also open to all student and graduate student members of IEEE Region 5. Cash awards totaling $5000 will be granted. In addition, the winning student, or team of students, will be invited to receive trophies and cash prizes at the annual Region 5 IEEE meeting (travel expenses paid by CCET), and may participate as a paid consultant in an industry project to develop a working prototype and possibly to develop the device into a commercial product.

Deadlines:

• September 30, 2009: end of registration period (all teams must be registered)
• January 31, 2010: deadline for submission of design papers; contest designs should be submitted electronically in PDF format with copies to both the CCET and IEEE Region 5 representatives
• March 1, 2010: CCET judges announce winners
• April 7-8, 2010: winners receive paid trip to the IEEE Region 5 Meeting for awards presentation

For more information, please contact Steve E. Watkins, IEEE Region 5 Student Activities Chair, at steve.e.watkins@ieee.org. Additional information can be found at the Electric Technology Center web page.

The IEEE Student Branch at The University of Texas at Austin held its first general meeting today and we had a great turnout: more than 130 people! We actually had to turn a lot of people away because we filled RLM 4.102 to capacity.

We elected four new officers:

• Erik Eyberg, Chair
• Charis Poag, IT Director
• Lisa Maria, Fundraising Director
• Simeon Duong, Freshman SEC Representative

We expect to have a great semester! Check this web page frequently for updates about events and activities.

If you missed the meeting, the presentation (as well as the three Society presentations) are attached.

Being Young, Being Digital: Some Observations on Young People's Use of Social Media

You're invited!

Here is a YouTube video discussing the topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLc2qkLM2E

Joint Circuits and Systems/Solid-State Circuits
http://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/ssc_css/
Topic/Title

Being Young, Being Digital: Some Observations on Young People's Use of Social Media
Speaker:
S. Craig Watkins
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Radio-Television-Film

Abstract:
From the moment new communication technologies began to infiltrate American homes, young people have been among the early explorers and early adopters of computers and the Internet. Today, teens and young adults are credited for the ascent of social media platforms like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube. The social web has been variously characterized as empowering, participatory, and communal. Drawing from original research including survey data and in-depth interviews this talk considers the rise and use of social media. Designed more as a public discussion about the steadily evolving role of social media technologies in our lives the paper considers three questions. First, how dominant is social media in young people's lives? Second, what are young people doing with new communication technologies? The third question considers the social impact and consequences of social media.
Date/Time

Tuesday September 8th, 6:30pm
Cost
none

Reservations
not required

Location
AVAYA Auditorium (ACE 2.302) on UT Campus

Notes
S. Craig Watkins teaches in the departments of Radio-Television-Film and Sociology and the Center for African and African American Studies at the _University of Texas at Austin. His new book, The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future (Beacon) explores young people's dynamic engagement with social media, online games, and mobile phones. Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Youth, Digital Media and Learning. He has been invited to be a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). Currently, he is launching a new digital media research initiative that focuses on the use and evolution of social media platforms.
The joint Circuits & Systems/Solid State Circuits Societies normally meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at the website. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact seningen@ieee.org or dferguson@ieee.org

Interested in solar technology? Want to find out the latest information on printing of solar skin for buildings?

If the answer is yes, you will want to consider attending the Central Texas Section 2nd Annual Solar Technology Workshop.

This one day workshop will be held September 18 at Freescale Semiconductor. Please see the following URL for details.

http://ieee.org/stw/

Early registration ends in 4 days!

UPDATE: Large discount for IEEE Student members :)