IEEE Region 5

Trinity IEEE is hosting a movie night social April 4th at 7pm. We will be watching I, Robot and snacks will be provided! Room: 437, Bldg: CSI, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Joint meeting of EMB and LMAG with tour of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in San Marcos. Box lunches. At the door, there is a $15.00 fee for Members, $20:00 for Guests and $5.00 for Students. We accept Cash or Check, no credit cards. Exact amounts preferable. Central Texas Wing Museum houses seven CAF aircraft for which the Wing has maintenance and restoration responsibility: a very-rare flying Bell P-39Q Airacobra Miss Connie, the NAA B-25J Yellow Rose, a Vultee BT-13 Valiant, and a Cessna U-3A Administrator, Beech C-45 Expeditor Lone Star Lady, the NAA AT-6 Texan, and the Douglas Sktrain (https://thatsallbrother.org/) You can also visit our museum and gift shop or attend one of our events. Our museum is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday each week from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Admission is free, but your donations help us keep em flying! Speaker(s): Dr. Dawn Roberson, Agenda: 11:30-12:00 PM: Networking session /Open Meeting 12:00-12:30 PM: Lunch 12:30-1:30 PM: Tour 1:30 PM: Wrap up and closing remarks 1841 Airport Road, Bldg 2249, San Marcos, Texas, United States

Meeting for general administration and operation of the Black Hills Subsection. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/477603

Will do later Room: 2.102, Bldg: Biotechnology Sciences and Engineering Building, 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78249

The IEEE-KC PES/IAS Joint Chapter is excited to announce its Technical Seminar Series for Spring 2025! This year we will again have an in-person hybrid format, although we will also offer a virtual option. Please see below for location details. Topics for this year are: - April 1 (Tuesday) - (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/473672) - April 8 (Tuesday) - (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/474196) - April 22 (Tuesday) - (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/474198) - April 29 (Tuesday) - Preparing T&D for IBRs and Renewables Agenda: Doors to the in-person event open at 5:00pm. Dinner will be served at approximately 5:30pm. The evening's seminar will include two presentations and will begin promptly at 6:00pm CDT. Each presentation will include 1 break, as well as a short quiz and survey. Completion of the quiz will be required to receive a PDH certificate. Fee Schedule: - Student Members - $25 (in-person w/meal) - $0 (virtual or in-person w/o meal) - IEEE Members: - $35 (in-person) - $15 (virtual) - Non-Members: - $40 (in-person) - $20 (virtual) - Corporate members: $140 per seat for all four events (in-person)* *Please contact the PES officer team for corporate registration. PES Officer & Volunteer team contact information: - Evergy: Jason Weil (jason.weil@evergy.com); Luis Gonzalez (luis.gonzalez@evergy.com) - Burns & McDonnell: Mahfooz Hilaly (mhilaly@burnsmcd.com); Jason Ottens (jpottens@burnsmcd.com) - Siemens: Chris Dyer (chris.dyer@siemens.com) - Kiewit: Tony Locatelli (tony.locatelli@kiewit.com) - Black & Veatch: Soham Ghosh (Soham.Ghosh@bv.com) - Univ. of Central Missouri: Mohammad Sadi (sadi@ucmo.edu) Parking Directions: Events will be held in Training Room 1A in Burns & McDonnell's 9450 Building. Please see the illustrations below for parking directions: Speaker(s): Joshua Tucker, David Pierson Agenda: Doors to the in-person event open at 5:00pm. Dinner will be served at approximately 5:30pm. The evening's seminar will include two presentations and will begin promptly at 6:00pm CDT. Each presentation will include 1 break, as well as a short quiz and survey. Completion of the quiz will be required to receive a PDH certificate. Room: Training Room 1A, Bldg: 9450, Burns & McDonnell, 9450 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64114, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/474199

Come, grab some Taco Cabana tacos, and learn about what IEEE is and how it can help you advance in your professional journey! Bldg: In Front of Richter, One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Come join us and enjoy burgers, veggie burgers, and hot dogs. This is scheduled to coincide with the University of Arkansas "Reading Day", which is the day before Finals begin. We are hoping to coordinate tours for local lab facilities such as NCREPT, HiDEC, as well as local companies. We are also planning to have frisbees and a cornhole setup. [] Bldg: NCREPT, 2055 S. Innovation Way, NCREPT, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States, 72701

Hybrid Event Details Are you involved with Computer Game Development? Do you know of staff or students at academic institutions who are? If so, please share this information on this event with them so they can attend this year's Competition. The top 10 of this year's entries of the games' first stage submitted will compete and be judged by professionals from the Computer Game Development industry. Building on the success of last year's competition, this year's is also being held in a Hybrid format! We'll be in-person at Chapman University, and virtually via Twitch (while the teams present to the judges via Discord). The IEEE GameSIG Intercollegiate Game Competition, now in its fourteenth year, is an educational outreach project of IEEE GameSIG (which is part of the Orange County IEEE Computer Society, but does not geographically limit competing teams). The purpose of this event is to help students develop and demonstrate their skills at game design, development and promotion. They are challenged to show off a playable level of a game, live, in front of an audience of experienced game industry personnel and guests (which we are hoping you will join). The Computer Society Publication Office produced a 9 minute Youtube video about a previous live Competition/Showcase which is available at (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bjJW7foOBA) The competition typically attracts 30 to 50 entries, from which the top ten are chosen to present their work to the "live" audience and judges. Three primary awards are given, plus a series of special awards for unique achievements. These special awards are different each year based on the nature of what the developers are showing. Their is also a People's Choice Award voted on by those attending in person or virtually. More details on the competition can be found at (https://gamesigshowcase.org/) This year's showcase will be hosted from the University of California, Irvine, in Irvine CA, and held Online via Twitch. The Twitch stream will start at 1:00 PM (PT) and end by 5:30 PM (PT).Registered individuals will receive reminders about the Showcase as we get closer to the event, with the Twitch link provided via (https://gamesigshowcase.org/) The Twitch stream will be public. This year, IEEE GameSIG and IGDA- Los Angeles joining forces to bring you really cool prizes and the best set of judges ever at our GameSIG Showcase 2025 event. 1st/2nd/3rd prize winners will receive FREE IGDA Memberships! More details at https://gamesigshowcase.org/index.html and https://igda.org/chapters/us-ca-los-angeles/ - For sponsorship via networking at the event, please contact us for more information at gamesigshowcase@gmail.com. - For sponsorship and donations, we'll contact you to acknowledge and verify processing. If unsure, please contact us. Support in check-form are preferred to avoid processing fees. - For inquiries and larger sponsorship or support, contact us for more information at gamesigshowcase@gmail.com. Competition details are available at: http://gamesigshowcase.org/ Co-sponsored by: Physical Host: University of California, Irvine Agenda: Tentative schedule: 1:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions 1:10 PM - Competition Presentation of Top Finalists 3:20 PM - Game Demos and Special Presentations 4:15 PM - Announcement of Winners 4:30 PM - Audience/Game Teams Interaction 5:30 PM - Twitch Stream concludes Bldg: Donald Bren Hall, University of California, Irvine, 3054 Donald Bren Hall , Irvine, California, United States, 92617, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/477934

Join us for IEEE Student Night at St. Mary's University – an exciting and welcoming event for college students across the San Antonio area! This gathering is a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow students, share your innovative projects, and exchange ideas in a supportive environment. Whether you're passionate about technology, engineering, or simply curious about new concepts, come share your thoughts and be inspired by the creativity and energy of others. We look forward to seeing you there for an evening of collaboration, learning, and community! Room: Conference Room B, Bldg: University Center (building #38 in the map), One Camino Santa Maria, St. Mary's University of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78228

Diversity coding is a form of network coding for link failure recovery in communication networks. Since it employs coding, there is no feedback signaling, and that feature makes it very fast. One approach, Diversity Coding Tree, employs mixed integer programming and results in very fast restoration. Another approach is called Coded Path Protection and employs integer linear programming and has the advantage of small extra capacity. This latter technique is based on former work that considers a communication network as consisting of bidirectional links. This technique employs a mixed integer linear programming formulation and results in restoration times as fast as Diversity Coding Tree with reduced extra capacity. Speaker(s): Ender Ayanoglu, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/466460

IEEE Central Texas Section Monthly ExCom Meeting Agenda: Officer Reports Committee Reports Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/469217

Monthly Lone Star Section Executive Committee Meeting Agenda: Room: CR 1.102, Bldg: 168, Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78238, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455832

See agenda below. Agenda: Agenda Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/463089

Monthly meeting of EMB Chapter, followed by a technical talk There is a $15.00 charge for each registrant. Guests and non-members charge is $20.00 and Students are $5.00. Remainder of the tab will be picked up by the EMB. Agenda: 11:30am: Business meeting: Call to order, minutes of last meeting, treasurer's report, new business, 12:00pm: Lunch 12:30pm: Technical talk and discussion 1::00pm: adjourn San Antonio, Texas, United States

Agentic AI represents a groundbreaking shift in artificial intelligence, enabling systems to act autonomously, make decisions, and achieve goals with minimal human intervention. This talk explores the concept of Agentic AI, its various types, adoption trends, and the transformative impact it is poised to have on industries and societies. From reshaping workflows to influencing ethical frameworks, we’ll examine how this emerging technology drives innovation and redefines humanity’s relationship with intelligent systems. Note: - You will require a Zoom account (free to obtain) to join the meeting. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account, not necessarily the one you used to register for the event. - By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSU Speaker(s): Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, IEEE Fellow , Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/479545

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) implement Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that can address competitive resource allocation problems together with detection and mitigation of anomalous behavior. In this talk, we discuss their use in next-generation (NextG) communications within the context of cognitive networks to address i) spectrum sharing, ii) detecting anomalies, and iii) mitigating security attacks. GANs have the following advantages. First, they can learn and synthesize field data, which can be costly, time consuming, and non-repeatable. Second, they enable pre-training classifiers by using semi-supervised data. Third, they facilitate increased resolution. Fourth, they enable recovering corrupted bits in the spectrum. The talk will provide basics of GANs, a comparative discussion on different kinds of GANs, performance measures for GANs in computer vision and image processing as well as wireless applications, several datasets for wireless applications, performance measures for general classifiers, a survey of the literature on GANs for i)–iii) above, some simulation results, and future research directions. In the spectrum sharing problem, connections to cognitive wireless networks are established. Simulation results show that a particular GAN implementation is better than a convolutional auto encoder for an outlier detection problem in spectrum sensing. Speaker(s): Ender Ayanoglu, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/466461

IEEE Central Texas Section Monthly ExCom Meeting Agenda: Officer Reports Committee Reports Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/469218

Monthly Lone Star Section Executive Committee Meeting Agenda: Room: CR 1.102, Bldg: 168, Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78238, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455833

See agenda below. Agenda: Agenda Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/463090

Reinforcement learning has gained traction in research as a machine learning method for the control of autonomous vehicles. Its paradigm of learning by traversing through a series of states has shown to work well with the dynamic nature of driving. However, for safety reasons, much of the research effort is performed in simulators. This work sought to utilize a driving simulator to train an autonomous vehicle using various reinforcement learning methods, with the goal of the vehicle to reach a destination while staying within the road and avoiding collisions with other obstacles. Three methods were explored. The first utilized a Deep Q-Network (DQN) based algorithm with the state being defined by direct values and reward shaping. The second method extended upon the first, utilizing a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) based algorithm. It included additions to the reward function based on lessons learned and experimentation with a CNN based state representation. It was shown to learn to solve a driving scenario with less needed steps, as compared to the first method. The final method utilized behavioral cloning with images as its state representation. It was shown to be a minor improvement over its baseline. Talk is limited to US citizens. Registration is required for non-SwRI employees. Cookies and drinks will be provided. Speaker(s): Joseph Clemmons Bldg: Building 51, 6220 Culebra Rd, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78238

IEEE Central Texas Section Monthly ExCom Meeting Agenda: Officer Reports Committee Reports Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/469219

Monthly Lone Star Section Executive Committee Meeting Agenda: Room: CR 1.102, Bldg: 168, Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78238, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/455834

Come join us on Saturday, 5Jul2025, for a tour of the Arvest Ballpark and stay for the game and fireworks show! We secured a group rate for tickets which cost $10 per person, Kids 3 and under are free. You should be able to pay for the ticket using the IEEE vTools system. We will need to give them a final ticket count by 5Jun2025. We will plan to meet at the Main Gate at 5pm for the tour, at which time they will scan our tickets, then meet with creative services coordinator. They will tour the controls for the Score Boards and Broadcast areas, along with other interesting communications and automation systems. [] Room: Main Gate, 3000 Gene George Blvd, Springdale, Arkansas, United States, 72762