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          JANUARY MEETING
Tour of Imaging Research Center at the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation (CCRF)

(SOLD OUT!)

DATE: Thursday, January 27, 2011
PLACE : Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue (see below for directions)
TIME : 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Social and Dinner
6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Presentation by Chuck Dumoulin, PH.D
7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  Tour of Imaging Center
8:00 p.m.  Departure

COST:   No charge for this event, but is limited to the first 20 participants.  PLEASE NOTE PRIORITY WILL GO TO IEEE MEMBERS FOR THIS MEETING

MENU SELECTIONS:   Pizza, Salad, and drink.

LOCATION:  Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is located at 3333 Burnet Avenue, between Erkenbrecher and Albert Sabin Way, about ½ mile from I-71.
*Driving Directions can be found at:
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/visit/location/maps/directions-main/default.htm

Park in the main visitor parking area at the main entrance off of Burnet Avenue
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/visit/location/maps/campus.htm

Meet for social hour and dinner in front of the Sabin Auditorium across from main hospital cafeteria, between locations C1 and D1 on the main concourse map
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/visit/location/maps/concourse.htm

RESERVATIONS:  Please email Brian Resnick for reservations at mailto: Reservations@ieeeCincinnati.org or call the Section Voice Mail at 513-629-9380 by Noon, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 if you plan to attend. Please leave your Name, IEEE Member Number, and a daytime telephone number.

PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting!  The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.

ABOUT THE MEETING:   The Imaging Research Center at CCRF was founded in 1993 and serves as the primary imaging research facility for MRI based imaging studies in animals and pediatric subjects in the Cincinnati area.  The IRC provides imaging services and also collaborates with University of Cincinnati researchers as well as scientists at universities and corporations in the USA and around the world.  The IRC currently operates a 3T whole body MRI scanner, and 1.5T and 7T small animal MRI scanners as well as a CT scanner for small animal imaging research.  The 3T Philips whole body scanner is also equipped with MRI compatible audio visual capabilities as well as simultaneous EEG recording equipment.  In addition, the IRC engages in clinical research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital using MRI, Ultrasound, and X-ray imaging systems operated by the Department of Radiology.  More information about the IRC can be found at: https://irc.cchmc.org/

The tour will begin with a short presentation by the IRC Scientific Director, Dr. Charles (Chuck) Dumoulin, PhD who will provide an overview of the IRC resources and facilitIes as well as a primer on how MRI works and what it can tell us about biological systems.  The group will then tour the MRI research systems and facilities in the IRC.

Note:  This tour will be limited to 20 participants on a first come first serve basis.  Sign up online or section voicemail.

Note:  In the event of inclimate weather, the meeting will be rescheduled.  Check the ieeeCincinnati.org website prior to the meeting for any updates.

MEMBERSHIP NEWS
If you are interested in upgrading your membership to Senior Member, please contact any member of the Executive Committee.
NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:

Dillon Amburgey
Brian Beckman
Romana Fernandes
Philip Hurier
Alicia Klinefelter
Tony Kremer
Zachary Merana
Joseph Porter
Matthew Swan

We wish to welcome these members to the Cincinnati Section!!!

I would like to announce our newly elected section officers.

Section Chair – Stephen Fridrick

Vice Chair –  Fred Nadeau

Treasurer – Marwan Nusair

Secretary – Frank Zhou

Member at Large – Jason Wilden

They will all serve for the next two years. Their email addresses and phone numbers are listed on the Section Officers page.  Congratulations to everyone.

Thank you to Scott Anderson for pointing out that the link below did not work!  It has been fixed.

The ballot is now open, and closes on December 23, 2010.  Most of you will have received an email notice inviting you to vote.  We have 38 members who have registered their email address with IEEE, but have requested no email from IEEE!  We have an additional 59 members with registered email addresses, who allow email from IEEE, but have requested no election email.   This posting is for these 97 members, and also for those who filter and delete our email:

The Section is using vTools electronic balloting for this election.

To vote, you will need the Username and Password from your IEEE Web Account.

If you do not have a Web Account,  you need to create an account by navigating to http://ieee.org, click on the “Update/create WQeb Account” link located on the right-hand side of the page in the box labeled “Member sign in”, and follow the instructions.

To access the ballot:

1. Navigate to https://voting.vtools.ieee.org
2. Click on the “Please log in” link
3. Enter your Username and Password of your IEEE Web Account into the dialog box and click OK.
4. You should now be viewing the List Ballots page.
5. Find the ballot named “Cincinnati Section Officer Election for 2011-2012”.
6. In the Action column, click on the “Vote” link.
7. You should now be viewing our Ballot.
8. You may vote for any and/or all five positions by clicking on the check-box next to the candidate’s name, or by entering the name of a write-in candidate.
9. When you are ready to cast your ballot, click the “Vote” button at the bottom of the page.
10. You will be given an opportunity to edit your ballot, and finally you click the “Complete” button.