Section Meetings

June Meeting – Ozarks Electric Solar Facility Tour

A great tour of Ozarks Electric’s new 1MW facility East of Springdale for our June meeting. Special thanks to David McNew for taking time to help organize the visit and giving us a great tour. While a bit hot, we all learned some cool …

Section hosts Dr. David Douglas for May meeting

Thanks to Dr. David Douglas for taking time out of his busy schedule to meet with the section and discuss big data!  We learned about the shear volume of data being generated, tools used in the area, like open-source based Hadoop file system , and …

Ozark Section at the Region 5 Conference

The Ozark Section brought the UA student branch to the Region 5 conference this weekend in Kansas City, and we also had a contingent from UAFS compete in the robotics conference (Great work Muhammad Safeer Khan at UAFS for organizing a new branch!).  Congrats to …

Section Hosts JBU Students for Generator Tour

Thanks again to Doug Moore at the UA for a fun tour of the Physical Plant and generator.  We had a great turnout from JBU thanks to the work of our student chapter advisers, Dr. Ted Song from JBU and Robert Saunders …

Upcoming: JBU/UA to Tour Turbine Generator, Region 5 Annual Meeting/Conference

March 31st:  The UA Student Chapter/Section will be hosting JBU:
Turbine Generator Tour – 4:30p
Note: This tour is getting VERY full, please contact mattfrancis@ieee.org if you would be interested in doing the tour in April or May.
April 8-10th: Region 5 Annual Meeting/Conference, Kansas City
We will be taking …

Section Hosts Dr. Wenchao Zhou, 3D Printing (March Meeting)

Google+ Thanks to Dr. Wenchao Zhou for a fascinating talk yesterday on the 3D printing revolution.  I highly encourage members to reach out to him if you are interested in next generation 3d printing.  http://www.comp.uark.edu/~zhouw/index.php/en/