IEEE HOU Sec: ExCom Meeting

City: Houston

Co-sponsored by: Kheng Swee Goh IEEE HOU Section ExCom meeting is open to Committee and Society leaders to update the Section Executive Committee. If you are not an EXCOM member and wish to attend, please contact the Section’s Chair at Kheng Swee Goh ([email protected])   Location: Bldg: HESS Club 5430 Westheimer Rd Houston, Texas 77056

Apollo 13: Houston we have a Problem!

City: Houston

Co-sponsored by: Celsa PAchlhofer The IEEE HOU Sec in parnership with IEEE HOU Sec Oceanengineering Society is honored to host Mr. Jerry Woodfill. Mr. Woodfill for more than 50 years, has been employed by NASA in Houston. At the onset of the lunar landing program, he managed the spacecraft warning systems that was monitoring spacecraft Eagle's descent when Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon. On April 13, 1970, he was monitoring Apollo 13's warning system when the vehicle exploded. His system was the first alert of the life-threatening malfunction depicted in the Tom Hanks-Ron Howard movie APOLLO 13. For his role in the rescue of Apollo 13, he shared the Presidential Medal of Freedom as a member of the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team. It is our honor to host Mr. Jerry Woodfill as our Distinguish Speaker at our next meeting.  Speaker(s): Jerry Woodfill, Agenda: 6:00 pm Registration / Ntworking 6:45 pm Dinner  7:15 pm Presentation 8:15 Q&A Location: HESS CLUB 5430 Westheimer Road Houston, Texas 77056