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Our first section meeting for 2002
will be Thursday, February 28th, and the speaker will be J.R. Seiver,
Senior Principle Engineer, Bechtel Corporation. Mr. Seiver will give
a presentation on “ELECTRICAL CALCULATIONS - THE EASY WAY” which he
developed. His presentation will demonstrate an efficient and easy
way of short circuit, load flow, and motor starting calculations.
This presentation is free with 48-hour advance registration.
I would like to thank all of the
individuals that have attended this years CED program. The Houston
Section and the local Industrial Applications Society Chapter work
hard to provide timely topics for those that are interested.
On behalf of the Executive
Committee, I want to extend our congratulations to three individuals
from the Houston Section who were elected to the IEEE Senior Member
Grade (John O. Attia, Ohannes Eknoyan, and Jamal Seyed-Yagoobi). In
2001 the Houston Section led Region 5 with the most members upgraded
to Senior Member. We would like to hold that distinction again this
year. Contact one of the Excom members for more information on
upgrading your membership.
We are always interested in new
volunteers as the IEEE is a volunteer organization. We have had
several people contact one of the Houston Section officers and a few
have attended the monthly Excom meeting. If you are interested in
becoming active, please take the time to consider volunteering in
some capacity; the return on time invested is well worth it. Contact
one of the individuals within the section Excom committee and attend
one of our planning meetings. We have many opportunities for you to
contribute and to develop a larger network of professionals from
which to draw.
The Region 5 conference will be
held in Clear Lake in April of 2002. We are looking for Corporate
Sponsors that may be interested in helping defer the cost of the
conference. The Galveston Bay and Houston Sections of the IEEE are
hosting it this year. It will have four technical tracks with many
distinguished speakers from the Houston area. Visit the Houston
section Website http://www.ieee-houston.org/ for the latest
information on this conference. If your company is interested in
sponsoring a portion of the event, contact Zafar Taqvi
mailto:Zafar.Taqvi@SW.Boeing.com or myself mailto:donald.dunn@ieee.org
for more information.
The Houston Section will be manning
booths at the SWEE-May 2002 and OTC-May 2002 Conferences this year
promoting the IEEE. We need volunteers to help us man these booths
and promote the IEEE. If you are interested contact one of the Excom
members.
We are in the process of planning
our First Annual IEEE Houston Section Scholarship Golf Tournament.
It will be held at the Greatwood Country Club in April of 2002. We
have a couple of individuals that have graciously offered to help
plan this event, but we are looking for more. We are also seeking
corporate sponsorships; if your company is interested please contact
Dwayne Lowry
mailto:dclowry@ieee.org or myself
mailto:donald.dunn@ieee.org.
As always the Executive Committee
and I look forward to your feedback and comments. If you have
suggestions and/or are interested in becoming active within the
section or a local society chapter, contact one of us. Without the
active participation and feedback from you the members, the programs
and content of the IEEE would be lacking.
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