Posts By: Bob Morrison

Scanning the Past: A History of Electrical Engineering

Leonard F. Fuller and Naval Radio in 1916
The June 1916 issue of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers) included a brief contribution on the reception of continuous wave signals by a brilliant young electrical engineer, Leonard F. Fuller. The same issue contained …

IEEE News – Feb. 2008

IEEE Life Fellow Becomes IEEE-USA President, Will Work to Enhance U.S.
Innovation and Competitiveness
WASHINGTON (21 January 2008) — IEEE-USA will continue working to increase federal investment in basic research and bolster U.S. innovation and competitiveness in 2008, according to IEEE Life Fellow Dr. Russell Lefevre, who …

RESC Luncheon – CPD Opportunity

RETIRED ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS OF CINCINNATI
Luncheon Meeting -Tuesday, February 19, 2008 @ 11:30 AM
Evergreen Retirement Community
230 West Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio (Hartwell)
(West of Drake Hospital, past Williamsburg on the right in the Dining Room)
TAXES and TRUSTS & RELATED TOPICS
ATTORNEY MICHAEL R. MILLER, Estate Trust …

January 2008 Section Meeting

OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING – ONE ENGINEER’S EXPERIENCE
DATE: Thursday, January 24, 2008
PLACE : Raffel’s – 10160 Reading Road (see below for directions)
TIME : 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – Social Time
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – Dinner
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Presentation

Membership News

New Cincinnati Section Senior Member
The Cincinnati Section would like to congratulate its newest Senior Member,
Clayton Sippola
whose upgrade application was recently approved.
If you are interested in upgrading your membership to Senior Member, please contact any member of the Executive Committee. You can also see our PACE …

History – Electrical Technologies in the Movies

Electrical Technologies in the Movies : Jukeboxes
Submitted by Bob Morrison, Editor
Reprinted from IEEE History Center Newsletter, Issue #73, March 2007
In the late 19th century there were coin-operated weighing machines and gum-dispensing machines. In 1889 a man by the name of Louis Glass equipped an …

IEEE News – January 2008

Former IEEE-USA President Highlights IEEE-USA Innovation Institute at IEEE Globecom 2007
WASHINGTON (30 November 2007) — Former IEEE-USA President Ralph W. Wyndrum highlighted the IEEE-USA Innovation Institute during a panel session on entrepreneurship at IEEE Globecom 2007 on Wednesday.
Wyndrum, who served as IEEE-USA president in 2006 …

IEEE 2007 CINCINNATI SECTION BALLOT

Election of Officers for Term Beginning 01/01/08 and Ending 12/31/09
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Candidate #1 – Steve Olenick
Candidate #2 – Charles Nash
Background of Candidates:
STEVE OLENICK – Director of Engineering, Tindall Associates, a veteran-owned small business, servicing the DoD communications marketplace. Previously: CFO of L-3 Nova Engineering, focused on Software …

IEEE-USA Online Engineering Video Scholarship Competition

In October, IEEE-USA launched an online video competition for undergraduate engineering students calling on participants to create 90-second video clips, aimed at 11-13 year-olds, that reinforce engineers’ contributions to the quality of life and help debunk engineering stereotypes. IEEE-USA will award seven scholarship …

IEEE-USA Mass Media Fellows

Since 2000, in conjunction with the AAAS program, IEEE-USA Engineering Mass Media Fellows have backed nine U.S. IEEE undergraduate and gradate students who have helped journalists in print and broadcast fields communicate authoritatively to the public about science, engineering and technology. IEEE-USA Mass Media …