Time/Date: 17 Oct 2024, 6PM to 7:30PM

Location: Asian American Resource Center, 8401 Cameron Rd., Austin, Texas AND virtual via Zoom

Topic: Electrical Engineering contributions to the Allied War effort in WWII

Abstract: Engineers and scientists contributed to the Allied war effort in many ways. Their efforts resulted in everything from Colossus to LORAN, and from GEE to the Proximity fuze. The talk will overview as many of these contributions as time permits. 

Speaker: John Purvis

Bio: John earned a BSEE from the University of Houston and a MSEE from the University of Texas at Austin. He ha worked for TRW, Texas Instruments, National Instruments, IBM, and the State of Texas Comptroller’s office in engineering an marketing roles. He also was on the Computer Science Faculty at St. Edward’s University for several years. He joined IEEE as a student at U of H and has been a member for 56 years. He has served in many positions within the Section and the Region 5 Committee. Currently he is webmaster for the Central Texas Section Life Member Chapter, on The Institute Editorial Advisory Board, and is R5 Life Member Affinity Group Coordinator. Since retiring he has developed an interest in the history of the WWII period. He has been a docent at the Texas Military Forces Museum for over five years. 

Registration: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/436369

Recorded Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfzQJHRO8q4

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