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.

DECEMBER MEETING
IEEE Annual Christmas Party

DATE: Thursday, December 2, 2010
PLACE : Raffel’s – 10160 Reading Road (see below for directions)
TIME : 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
 
COST:    $15 per person

MENU SELECTIONS:   Roasted Turkey & Dressing, Baked Ham with Pineapples, Couscous Stuffed Green Peppers, Sweet Potato Casserole, Scalloped Potatoes, Seasoned Green Beans, Cranberry Relish, Dinner Rolls and Butter, Chef’s Choice Dessert

LOCATION:  Raffel’s is located at 10160 Reading Road, south of Glendale-Milford Road on the east side of Reading. Take I-75 to the Glendale-Milford Rd. Exit, go east on Glendale-Milford Road approximately ¾ of a mile to Reading Rd. and turn right on Reading.

RESERVATIONS:  Please email Fred Nadeau for reservations at mailto:fnadeau1@earthlink.net (preferred) or call the Section Voice Mail at 513-629-9380 by Noon, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 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: 

IEEE Christmas Party and Re-Gift Auction

 This year’s theme is gaming and auction:
Please bring a wrapped, gently used, unwanted item from your garage, basement or home.
[Re-gifting opportunity]
Item qualification:
1. Cannot be newly purchased.
2. Should have potential for someone else.
3. Clean  (literally and figuratively)
4. One per person
Pre Dinner Gaming:
 In exchange for each donated, wrapped gift, each person will be given $1000 in IEEE funny money.
Pre dinner games will help you increase your winnings for the Auction.Post Dinner Auction
Gift Bidding:  Using the money you won earlier in the evening, you can bid on any of the wrapped gifts.

Questions: Laurie Tappel    ltappel@ieee.org

IEEE Cincinnati Elections
Nominations are now closed.  Election information will be available later this month.

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:

Nicholas Adams
Benjamin Buelow
Nathan Chandler
Pete Darge Jr.
Matthew Elliott
Chunsheng Fang
Nicole Fenyo
Mark Hageman
David Hansen
Christopher Herlinger 
Jason Heyl
A Kran
Michael LaGue
Julius Lagus
Ian Larkin
Alex Martin
Ronald Matlock
James McNay
Kevin Newbold
Divyachapan Padur 
Evan Risley
Douglas Rose
David Shaw
Raquel Smith
William Temple
Aaron Van Camp
Renee Webb
Minlu Zhang

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

Multi Core Computing in the Modern Process

DATE: Thursday, October 28, 2010
PLACE : University of Cincinnati, Engineering Research Center  Room 427
(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. –  Pizza and Beverages
7:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.  Tour and presentation
COST:   Dinner is being provided by the IEEE Cincinnati
Parking is $7 if you use a UC garage.

NOTE:  DINNERS ARE ALWAYS OPTIONAL – YOU MAY ATTEND THE PROGRAM ONLY.

MENU SELECTIONS:   Pizza and Beverages (free)

LOCATION:  Parking is available in the Woodside and Campus Green Garages- enter Woodside Gateway (Woodside Drive) from Martin Luther King Drive.  After parking, walk south on Woodside Drive- the library is on the right.  The ERC (Engineering Research Center) is the next building on the right.
http://www.uc.edu/content/dam/common/docs/maps/campus_map_west.pdf

Here is a Google Map to the Campus Green Garage. You can use it to get directions from your home. The Engineering Research Center is just down Woodside Place from the garage. Meeting is in ERC room 427.
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RESERVATIONS:  Please email Fred Nadeau for reservations at mailto:fnadeau1@earthlink.net (preferred) or call the Section Voice Mail at 513-629-9380 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              513-629-9380      end_of_the_skype_highlighting by Noon, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 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:  Struggling to increase the processor clock rate, computer manufacturers have turned to adding parallel processing to modern processors.  Primarily this parallelism takes the form of hyperthreading or multiple core processor designs (and sometimes both).  Multi-core and hyperthreading (also called simultaneous multi-threading, SMT) are become widely available in desktop and laptop computing as well as within processors designed for embedded computing.  In this talk, we will examine what these terms really mean and how they are implemented.  Implications for improving (or not) your processor’s throughput and power are reviewed and examined.  We will also briefly touch on the programming approaches to utilize multi-core/hyperthreaded processors to introduce parallelism into your running programs.

About the Presenter:  Dr. Philip Wilsey, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science.
A self-described experimentalist working in distributed systems. For the past 5 years, he has been studying the application of feedback control to optimize distributed system operation. The focus of his investigations has been Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS) with applications to: Mixed-Technology (continuous/discrete) Systems, VLSI, and Digital Systems. His principle objective is the introduction of online control systems into distributed systems by: (i) development of pragmatic methodologies; (ii) development of prototype tool sets; and (iii) introduction into the graduate and undergraduate curricula. In addition, he has been actively involved in: parallel and distributed computing, VHDL-CAD, the computer system design process, and formal modeling, and mechanized reasoning. Dr. Wilsey is the academic advisor to the U.C. Student Branch of IEEE.