Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter

IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting

January, 25th 2014 San Marcos, TX

IEEE Central Texas Section

Chapter Leadership Team

Chair: Luis Cabeza Vice-Chair: Jeffrey Vah Sec./Treas: Farjad Zaheer Program Chair: Robert Flake, Jeffrey

Lambert Publicity Chair: Kristi Hummel

IEEE Central Texas Section

2012 Chapter MeetingsDate Technical/

AdminTopic Speaker L31

1/12/12 Admin Planning meeting with officers X

1/16/12 Technical A/D Converters – Looking Beyond the Specifications

Jerome Johnston (Intersil)

X

2/20/12 Technical Evolution of Timekeeping and Synchronized Time over the last 150 years

Ken Reindel (NI) X

4/16/12 Technical Seeing their World through their Ears: The Exotic World of Bats

Dr. George Pollak (UT) X

5/21/12 Technical CMOS Handheld Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Systems

Dr. Nan Sun (UT) X

7/11/12 Admin Planning meeting with officers X

9/17/12 Technical Designing Instrumentation for Regulated Industry: Case Study – bioPotential Module

Nachiket M. Kharalkar (NI)

X

10/15/12 Technical Microcontrollers in Healthcare Donnie Garcia (Freescale)

X

11/19/12 Technical/Officer Elections

RF Measurement Systems for Demanding RF Applications of Today and Tomorrow

Jaffar Shah (NI) X

IEEE Central Texas Section

2013 Chapter Meetings (1/2)Date Technical/

AdminTopic Speaker L31

1/9/13 Admin Planning meeting with officers X

1/21/13 Technical Preventing Large Hadron Collider at CERN From Melting Away: Using FPGAs for Collimator Control

Dr. Ravi Marawar, NI X

2/18/13 Technical *Eweek* Overview of LabVIEW Jeffey Phillips, NI X

3/18/13 Technical Improving Linearity of Multi-Bit Delta-Sigma Analog to Digital Converters

Dr. Nan Sun, UT X

4/3/13 Admin Officer meeting X

4/15/13 Technical Joint I&M and PES meeting: Fusion-Fission Hybrids: A New Near-Term Solution to Nuclear Waste and Fuel problems

Dr. Valanju, UT Austin PES filed

5/20/13 Technical Improved Resolution Time Domain Reflectometer ( TDR )

Dr. Robert Flake, UT X

7/26/13 Admin Program Chair Meeting X

IEEE Central Texas Section

2013 Chapter Meetings (2/2)Date Technical/

AdminTopic Speaker L31

9/16/13 Technical Understanding Measurement Accuracies and Uncertainty Analysis

Paul Packebush, NI X

10/21/13 Technical What is the Role of MIMO in Future Cellular Networks: Massive? Coordinated? mmWave?

Dr. Robert W. Heath Jr., UT

X

IEEE Central Texas Section

2014 Chapter Meetings (1/2)Date Technical/

AdminTopic Speaker L31

1/20/14 Admin Planning meeting with officers X

2/17/14 Technical Smart Grid-Ready Instrumentation: A Virtual Instrumentation Approach for an Advanced Software-Designed-Intelligent-Electronic-Device Platform

Roberto Piacentini, NI PES

TBA Admin Planning meeting with officers X

3/21/14 Technical Advanced LabView Courtney Lessard, NI   X

TBA Technical Metrology Summit 2 events per year during Spring or Fall 2014

Jeff Vah, NI X

TBA Technical NI myRIO Academic Measurement Technology  

Jeff Vah, NI X

TBA Technical VST (Vector System Transceiver) Measurement Technology User Applications                

Jeff Lambert, NI X

TBA Technical Not yet defined X

TBA Technical Not yet defined X

IEEE Central Texas Section

2014 Chapter Meetings (2/2)Date Technical/

AdminTopic Speaker L31

TBA Tech Toyota Tour X

TBA Tech Samsung Tour X

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IEEE Central Texas Section

Visualizing Success… Consistent attendance at every meeting: 20-30 I&M Chapter would have an identity

Members are involved at higher levels of IEEE Volunteers are plentiful

Members’ employers value membership in IEEE and our chapter

Goals for 2013 Average attendance of 20-25 at each meeting Hold at least 6 chapter meetings (3 spring, 3 fall) Hold 1 social event

IEEE Central Texas Section

Proposed IEEE CTS I&M Chapter Vision Statement

…I&M Chapter Vision Statement The vision of the IEEE CTS I&M Chapter is to become the

preferred professional association of choice for engineers, scientists, faculty and students working or interested in the instrumentations and measurements in Central Texas.

IEEE Central Texas Section

Proposed IEEE CTS I&M Chapter Mission Statement

… The Mission of the IEEE CTS I&M Chapter is to: Facilitate the contact of our members among themselves and other engineers, scientists, faculty and students for the

dissemination and discussion of multidisciplinary technical ideas as they relate to Instrumentation and Measurements. Promote the importance of instrumentation and measurement professionals in the design, implementation and operation of

engineering and scientific projects, both in industry, government and academia. Be the catalysts and facilitator among the three primary society constituencies-industrial, academic and student members. Provide a climate which would allow the interaction of well established members with Graduates of the Last Decade, student

members and vice-versa.

IEEE Central Texas Section

IEEE I&M SocietyQuestionnaire

Why do they belong to the I&M Society? Do they read the magazine and if so, what are they looking

for? Have they attended an I&M conference?  If so, what did they

find useful?  Would they attend again?  If not, what would convince them to attend?

What support do they need for chapter meetings?

IEEE Central Texas Section

Visualizing Success… Consistent attendance at every meeting: 20-30 I&M Chapter would have an identity

Members are involved at higher levels of IEEE Volunteers are plentiful

Members’ employers value membership in IEEE and our chapter Great interaction Industry/Academy

Goals for 2014 Increase membership and diversity Maintain average attendance of 20-25 at each meeting Hold at least 6 chapter meetings (3 spring, 3 fall) Hold 1 social event Get IEEE I&M Support