Posts By: Bob Morrison

March Meeting

March 22 – “Using ‘R’ for System Performance Analysis”.
Technical presentation by Jim Holtman on the open source software “R” and how to use it to analyze system performance and scalabity. See the for announcement details. Print the announcement and post it in you …

April Meeting

April 26 – Transient Voltage Surge Suppression by Rick Orman.

May Meeting

May 24 – Senior Design Projects presentations.
Electrical and Computer Engineering students from local colleges, including the College of Applied Science, will present their capstone senior projects.

A Talk by Bradley Kuhn

Bradley M Kuhn, the Chief Technology Officer of the Software Freedom Law Center, will give a talk entitled, “Software Freedom, Digital Restriction, and the Age of the Personal Terabyte.” He will discuss the conflicts between Open Source/Free Software and the protections provided by …

Region 2 Student Activities Conference

On April 14th 150 to 200 undergraduate students for universities through out the IEEE Region 2 conference will be gathering here at U.C. to present research papers, compete electronic design challenges, and to generally mingle and socialize. If your company would like to be a …

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

Dr. Hall’s UC Bearcat Robot Team is entering the 2007 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. This 15th annual competition will be held June 8 through 11 at the Oakland University in Rochester Michigan and is sponsored by our friends at DARPA. The UC team is looking …

ECECS Poster Symposium

The UC IEEE student branch, the Eta Kappa Nu chapter, and the ECE and CS graduate student associations are holding the ECECS poster symposium on April 6th. They will be holding graduate and under graduate poster competitions. For more information contact Graduate Student Association

Radio Broadcasting at 500 kilowatts

Sixty years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper on station WLW in Cincinnati, OH, USA, which recently had begun broadcasting at the unprecedented output power of 500 kW. The WLW superpower transmitter was interesting technologically but …

Joseph Warren Horton

Sixty-five years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper by J. Warren Horton on “the electrical transmission of pictures and images.” At the time he was Chief Engineer of the General Radio Company of Cambridge, MA, but …