March Newsletter
The March newsletter is now available.
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 office.
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.
February Meeting – February 22
Harris Tour and Presentation on the Worldwide Digital Transition and what is happening to terrestrial TV in the US. A comparison of Cable, Satellite, and IPTV.
Family Day Robot Workshop
As part of our celebration of Engineer’s Week, the Cincinnati Section is sponsoring a family activity on Saturday, February 24 in which you and your child will build and program a LEGO robot, and optionally participate in a friendly competition. It is sure to be great fun and a way to inspire your child. (more…)
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 patents and copyrights at the College of Engineering on February 28 at 6:00pm. This event is hosted by the Student Branch of IEEE.
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 part of this weekend event see the article link for more details.
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 for financial support so take a look and see if you or your company can help them out. For more details check out www.robotics.uc.edu and www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge