Houston Section
Christopher Sanderson 2020 recipient of the IEEE-USA John Meredith Professional Service Award
IEEE Houston Section Chairman and South Area Chair for Region 5 Christopher Sanderson has been awarded the IEEE-USA John Meredith Professional Service Award. The John Meredith Professional service award is named in the memory and honor of Mr. John Meredith, who was the 2007 IEEE-USA President, and a tireless IEEE volunteer. This award is given… Read more
Houston Section on IEEE.tv – What to Watch Next?
Introduction IEEE.tv has great content that can help IEEE members get more out of their membership. Videos ranging from online meetings, technical conferences, insightful interviews, and educational / “how to” engineering guides. There are also Live shows to choose from. The videos are free to IEEE members, and are a nominal cost… Read more
Houston Section Receives 2020 Section Professional Development Award
Tweet Us / Facebook Us /LinkedIn Us / Contact Us IEEE Houston Section: r5.ieee.org/Houston Twitter: www.Twitter.com/IEEEHouston Facebook: www.facebook.com/IEEEHouston LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups/4998372 IEEE Houston Section Receives the IEEE 2020 Section Professional Development Award Houston, Texas – August 27, 2020 – IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization for advancing technology for humanity, has awarded the Houston Section with the Section Profession Development Award. Each year… Read more
CenterPoint Energy Foundation awards Volunteer Grant to the IEEE Houston Section
The IEEE Houston Section would like to thank our Membership Development Chair Jerry Harness and the CenterPoint Energy Foundation for the $500.00 Volunteer Grant recently made to the section. Jerry works as an electric transmission planning engineer at CenterPoint Energy in Houston, TX. The CenterPoint Energy Foundation is the charitable foundation of… Read more
LNL Webinar: Electrical HRG (High Resistance Grounding) Challenges and Solutions
Neutral-grounding resistors (NGR) for industrial power systems are often selected without consideration of the nature of the loads on the system. Where a significant proportion of system demand is from adjustable-speed drives (ASD), unexpected performance problems, such as the NGR continually running hot without a detected ground fault, or NGR failure, can result. Modern HRG… Read more
Webinar: IEEEXplorer to your Next Career Opportunity
You may think that IEEEXplore is just a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields, but did you know that you can also leverage it for more than just research? Wow, users can get that promotion, research emerging technologies to make that… Read more
IEEE HOU Sec: Chair Message from Christopher Sanderson
The World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic. This global health crisis is a unique challenge that has impacted many of our members of the IEEE family. I would like to express my concern and support for all the members of the IEEE community, our members, our families and all others… Read more
Houston Section at Science Engineering Fair Houston (SEFH) 2020
IEEE Houston Section SEFH Place Awards Judges Junior Division (from Left to Right) – Vincent Palughi, Roy Chan, and Ernest Njouondo. The 61st annual Science Engineering Fair of Houston (SEFH) was held Saturday February 15th, 2020, in the George R Brown Convention Center. This year’s SEFH represented 150 Texas middle and high schools, had 815… Read more
TryEngineering Interview “Ask An Engineer”: Christopher Sanderson
As part of IEEE TryEngineering program in partnership with Cricket Media. Our very own Christopher Sanderson, R5 South Area Chair and Houston Section Chair was interviewed recently. This was a continuation of a program that he participated in previously Engineers Make the World Better. TryEngineering Together is a unique eMentorship platform giving companies a resource… Read more
Houston Section Executive Committee Officers for 2020
IEEE Houston Section: r5.ieee.org/Houston Twitter: www.Twitter.com/IEEEHouston Facebook: www.facebook.com/IEEEHouston LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups/4998372 IEEE Houston Section Elects Executive Committee Officers for 2020 Houston, Texas – December 11, 2019 – – The Houston Section of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, recently elected its executive committee officers for 2020. Each officer will serve a 2-year term…. Read more