Student Chapter Meetings

March Section Meeting – Pizza!

March Section Meeting – Professional Licensing in Arkansas – Thursday Mar 16 at 5:30p
For our March section meeting, we will be hosting Grant Grigg, Chief Inspector for the Arkansas State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.  If you’ve ever had questions about …

Invited Talk – Serving Humanity Through a Dynamic Profession

The UA-Fayetteville IEEE/PELS students hosted a great talk from Dr. Alan Mantooth, UA Distinguished Professor and the current President of IEEE PELS.
Prof. Mantooth talked about the future of the power electronics society and several exciting contests and initiatives in PELS focusing on electrification for those …

Spring Section Meetings and Events Announced

February, March and April  – lots of tours, invited talks and the Region 5 conference coming up!
February Section Meeting – Turbine Generator Tour – Thursday, Feb 23 (details)
For our first section meeting of 2017 we’re repeating an often-requested tour of the Physical Plant at the …

Ozark Paper Competition Winners!

I’m happy to announce the winners of the 2017 Ozark Section Paper Competition!
Novel InGaN Solar Cell Designs
Kelly McKenzie
Chris Matthews
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Thank you to our volunteer judges and mentors for helping prepare this entry.  Kelly and Chris will now be in the running for the …

Ozark Section Student Paper Competition

Update!  The deadline for student paper submissions has been extended to Monday Dec. 5th!
Attention IEEE Student Members!  The Ozark Section is pleased to announce the 2017 Student Paper Competition.  This competition is open to all current undergraduate students who are student members of IEEE.  Two …

Thursday, Nov 10 – Keysight talk hosted by PELS at U of A

If anyone would like a FREE copy of Alan’s excellent book, “The Parametric Measurement Handbook” please let me know (mattfrancis@ieee.org).  We have about 10 copies left.
For our November section meeting we had a distinguished talk co-hosted with our UA power electronics student society and made …

Happy IEEE Day!

Thanks to all our members who made it our for the IEEE Day picnic!  Great weather, a great turnout and job well done by the UA Student branch and Ozark section officers pulling everything together!

Join us for an IEEE Day Picnic on Oct. 4th!

Join the IEEE UA Student Branch and the Ozark Section for our fall cook-out and celebration of IEEE Day!  The picnic will be held at the Engineering Research Center on the UA campus in South Fayetteville.  To make sure we have enough food, please RSVP …

IEEE Student Branch at UAFS is formed in Ozark Section

An exciting month for the new Fort Smith student branch.  The petition to form was accepted by IEEE and Region 5, and the first slate of officers elected.  Congratulations to Muhammad Khan and the student volunteers for getting things going!
The UAFS student branch has held …

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 …