Section News

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 …

From Brian’s Desk

We kicked off 2008 with a great, high-attendance meeting.  Many thanks to Paul Ritchie of Ethicon Endo-Surgery for an excellent presentation on his experiences with off-shore outsourcing.   Lots of good discussion. 
Also, we had many new faces, including EMBS members and students.  It was a very enjoyable evening; please spread the …

Family Day LEGO Robot Workshop – February 23

As part of our celebration of Engineer’s Week, the Cincinnati Section is sponsoring a family activity on Saturday February 23 in which you and your child will build and program a LEGO robot, and optionally participate in a friendly competition.  It was great fun last …

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 …

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 …

2007 Election Results

The Cincinnati Section of IEEE is pleased to announce that Charles Nash is our new Member-At-Large.  Charles will serve in this capacity for two years.  Mr. Nash is also our webmaster.

From Brian’s Desk

Our December meeting was a big success.  Please see “December Meeting Follow-Up” for more information.
If you are renewing your Professional Engineer’s license, please read “Continuing Professional Development Hours” for details regarding our technical meetings.
Job hunting?  Click on the “Career Opportunites” category under “Articles” in the right-hand column.  
Our …

December Meeting Follow-Up

We are grateful to Steve Jones and Iaasen Hristov of the Cincinnati Linux Users Group for two excellent presentations.  This well attended meeting provided a thorough introduction to Linux for embedded systems applications.  Mr. Jones fielded questions on the history and current direction of Linux, and Mr. Hristov …

Continuing Professional Development Hours

During 2006 and 2007, the Cincinnati Section provided eleven technical meetings that qualify as professional development hours towards your Ohio PE requirements.  We provided the required summary of the activity in our newsletter, we kept an attendance list, and we provided a certificate to those who attended.
If you …