John Meredith, one of our past Region Directors, reports that the Southeast Michigan Section (SEM) has created a number of short video tutorials that may be helpful to Section and Chapter Officers in carrying out their duties as an IEEE volunteer leader. At the time …
Western, IEEE and Siemens recently celebrated the IEEE Milestone commemoration of the Virginia Smith Converter Station. The station, located in Sidney, Nebraska, provides an important interconnection between two of the nation’s three electrical grids, literally connecting east to west. Its electrical current conversion technology represents …
Sad news just arrived. Jim Leonard, a good friend, former director of Region 5, past president of IEEE-USA, passed away recently. Jim will have visitation from 4 to 8 on Monday the 18th of May at Baue Funeral Home in St Charles. They are located …
The room block reserved for our annual meeting in New Orleans is full but reservations can still be made on a case-by-case (last minute) basis (for now at least) by calling Shana Green, 504-585-4388, at the conference hotel. They will try to accommodate us until …
Congratulations are in order for the 20 members of Region 5 who were recently elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow. The complete list of 2015 Fellows with the full citation is available at the IEEE main website IEEE.org. The new fellows in Region 5 …
Did you know that IEEE has a policy on Social Media? Yes they do and it is posted at http://www.ieee.org/about/social_media/social_media_form.html along with a list of registered sites. IEEE’s goals for social media include empowering the entire community in fulfilling IEEE’s mission and objectives by:
engaging volunteers …
IEEE Region 5 is accepting nominations for Outstanding Large Section, Small Section, Member, Educator, Large Student Branch, Small Student Branch, Student, Branch Counselor, Large Company, Small Company, GOLD Member, and Individual Achievement. A short description of each and nomination forms, as well as the Call …
Congratulations are in order for the 21 members of Region 5 who were recently elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow. The complete list of 2014 Fellows with the full citation is available at http://www.ieee.org/2014Fellowclass. The new fellows in Region 5 by Section are:
Central Texas …
Nominations are due 31 January annually for the IEEE Technical Field Awards (TFA). IEEE TFAs are awarded for contributions or leadership in a specific field of interest of the IEEE and are among the highest awards presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors.
All …
The new rules are up and requesting comments at http://goo.gl/3Jf3hx This is a google docs site and is being used this year for soliciting comments regarding the 2014 robotics competition. Watch your email for other news about the competition and the Region 5 Annual Meeting …
