IEEE Central Texas Section

The CTCN and Life Member officers will discuss speakers and topics for presentations at upcoming regular meetings and any other necessary business. Agenda: Review of speakers for upcoming meetings. Discussion of logistics pertaining to in-person meetings. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/471376

Elizabeth Alves STEM Affiliate Leader at Learning Disabilities Association of America Elizabeth Alves will share her preparation for her mission and a deep dive of her endeavors, projects, programs, accomplishments and inspired goals as a passionate Humanitarian with over 20 years of experience in education, specializing in integrating STEM concepts for students of all abilities. Her expertise spans general and special education, with a focus on supporting neuro-diverse learners and the under resourced. Note: PDH / CEU is not being offered for the Spring 2025 sessions. Speaker(s): Elizabeth Alves Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/456329

IEEE Central Texas Section Monthly ExCom Meeting Agenda: Officer Reports Committee Reports Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/469215

See agenda below. Agenda: Agenda Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/463087

IEEE PI2 Austin, March 18 , 2024, Tech Meeting In-Person 6 PM Central / 7 PM Eastern at Balcones Country Club: 8600 Balcones Dr. Austin, TX 78750 Abstract: Policy efforts have focused for years on stimulating various forms of generation, both utility scale and customer-sited, distributed energy resources. It has been used to stimulate greater efficiency in energy use behind the meter or create load flexibility. Transmission and distribution infrastructure has been the area receiving the least attention…until recently. It has become clear to elected and industry leaders that the grid itself is now, or will soon become, the bottleneck, for energy expansion, for electrification, for advancements in AI, for addressing climate change, even for economic development and competitiveness generally. Huge commitments to new system upgrades and expansions are being made across the country, FERC and State PUCs are pressing for more forward-looking planning. Help is on the way. But the transmission and distribution system are unlikely to catch up to the demand for delivery services for a variety of reasons, including resource constraints, planning and regulatory approval time-frames, and the growing difficulty of, and opposition to, siting of new lines by growing populations. In the next few years transmission and distribution operations will turn increasingly toward the application for electric delivery of improvements in super-fast computing, in combination with machine learning, and real-time communications and controls, as well as expanding streams of data from outside, non-utility sources. This talk will focus on a discussion of how innovation will bridge the gap to the future grid, and, become intimately intertwined with its evolution. Field experience will be shared from early commercial deployments. Details: Dinner and soft beverages will be provided for those with reservations. If you do not have a reservation you will not be able to eat. Cost, to defray the room, dinner and refreshments cost: Thank you in advance: IF REGISTERED IN ADVANCE (Before March 11, 2025) One week earlier than usual! Members and Non-Members: Select Register & Pay now, $25.00 Paypal from your credit card when registering - you do not need a Paypal account to use it. Click through to the credit card/debit page. OR Select Register Now and Pay Later and pay $25.00 cash or credit/debit with Square at the meeting. Please register in advance before March 11th (skip the payment) IEEE Student Members: Free (must register in advance before March 18th with your IEEE member number) Skip the payment All registrants After March 11th, 2025: Pay $30.00 at the the meeting in cash Attendees must be registered before the event for food accommodations. Unfortunately, we are charged more for the meals after the advance registration date For PDH hours, please email the PI2 Secretary, pi2-secretary@ieee.org. Speaker(s): Bob King, Bldg: Balcones Country Club, 8600 Balcones Club Dr., Austin, Texas, United States, 78750

Pizza Sponsor: Analog Devices Lab Sponsor: Bureau Veritas Speaker(s): Robert Bureau Veritas, 815 N. Opdyke Rd #100 , Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/473375

This Plenary Talk will focus on describing fundamental/applied materials science and engineering performed to develop new generation of transformational multifunctional films (coating), involving physical/chemical/ mechanical/electronics/MEMS/NEMS/biomedical phenomena enabling transformational new generations of memories, high-k dielectric films integrated with silicon, diamond and biomedical devices Speaker(s): Orlando Auciello, Room: IGRM 3103 , Bldg: Ingram School of Enginering, Texas State University, 310 W. Woods Street, San Marcos, Texas, United States, 78666, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/475801

Our WIE guest speaker Stephanie Zajac, from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory will speak about her career path into the aerospace industry, the significance of mentorship, and saying “yes” to the unexpected opportunities that arise. Stephanie will also share her insights into the multi-institution effort to save the Europa Clipper spacecraft from a potential launch delay due to the late discovery of an untested vulnerability to one of Clipper’s most common electronic parts: the humble transistor. Co-sponsored by: IEEE EMC Women in Engineering Agenda: 11:00am - 11:10am ET Welcome and Speaker introduction by Tara Kellogg, WIE North America Coordinator, IEEE EMC Society 11:10am - 11:45am ET Present by WIE Guest Speaker Stephanie Zajac, Radiation Effects Engineer from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 11:45am - 12:00pm ET Q&A Session Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/471197

Over the past 5 years, large language models (LLMs) have gone from struggling with elementary school math to acing college math and science exams. How did we get here, and what's coming next? Co-sponsored by: IEEE CTS Consultants Network Speaker(s): Eric Price Agenda: 6:30 to 6:35 PM - Open for participants to enter and network. 6:35 to 6:45 PM - IEEE LM and CTCN Business meeting and speaker introduction. 6:45 to 7:45 PM - Formal Program and Q&A. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/476477

Sarah LaSelva, Chief Product Marketing Manager of NI will give a talk on the current state of 6G communication technology, the roadmap and challenge as well as her team's work in this area in NI, a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co. Co-sponsored by: IEEE CTS Consultants Network Speaker(s): Sarah LaSelva Agenda: 6:30 to 6:35 PM - Open for participants to enter and network. 6:35 to 6:45 PM - IEEE LM and CTCN Business meeting and speaker introduction. 6:45 to 7:45 PM - Formal Program and Q&A. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/474476

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/476006