IEEE Student Branch @ The University of Texas

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 :)

For those of you who may wish to run for a vacant officer position, we have set up a convenient form for you to fill out: http://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/officerapp.

Please also review the Branch Constitution under http://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/branch and the vacant positions at http://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/officers

Bryan has had to respectfully withdraw from his position as Chair for the upcoming 2009-2010 year due to personal reasons.
Per the IEEE constitution, Erik Eyberg has taken over as Acting Chair until the first meeting of the fall semester, September 3rd, when elections will be held.
All other officer positions remain unchanged.

If you are interested in running for a vacant officer position ( http://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/officers ) please contact either chair@ieee.ece.utexas.edu or internal.vicechair@ieee.ece.utexas.edu

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.

IEEE is on a roll this year for E-Week!

We are currently in second place behind ASME and in terms of participation points we are WAY ahead.
Our biggest success so far has been going to the Austin Children's Museum on Saturday (Hey, it's not like we had dates or anything). Also attending was IEEE-PES, who brought their power bike - a big hit with the kids.
Because of PES participation and the number of people we had attending the event, we got double points, which means that we still have a fighting chance this E-Week!

As a reminder, our big event of the week (Guitar Hero!) is tomorrow, Monday the 16th at the SSB from 10-12 AM.
All students attending who sign is will get free t-shirts and snacks provided by IEEE (until we run out). Stick around and record your highest score live and the 1-3rd place winners will receive prizes. You do not have to be present to win, you just have to have your score officially recorded by our judge.

Get out there and sign in for IEEE at as many events as possible, we receive points for every single one of you. And who knows, if you get enough you just might get a free ticket to the Salt Lick Dinner next weekend...

[Pictures of the Museum attached]