For most of us summer
vacations are over, school is getting back in session and, hopefully, jobs will
become more plentiful and the stock market will continue to rise. Good
forecast for the coming fall. And, with the coming fall will be our Fall
meeting.
September 18 will
feature Don Shafer who is a
co-founder, corporate director and Chief Technology Officer of Athens Group,
Inc. Incorporated. The Athens Group is an employee-owned consulting firm,
integrating technology strategy and software solutions. Don will talk
about software simulation and this proves to be a very interesting and
informative evening.
Just another reminder to
set aside October 17 to participate in our 2nd annual IEEE-Houston Golf
Tournament. Proceeds from the event will go to providing $1,000
scholarships to Section member sons, daughters, grandchildren, etc. We
were able to award 3 scholarships this year and look forward to increasing the
number in 2004
Our three scholarship
awards this year went to Haley Overton Wilson - Sr. Computer Science Major,
Texas A&M; Allen Wan - Sr. EE Major, Rice University; and Li Qi -
PhD Student EE, Texas A&M. Congratulations to all of you. And, we
hope to have many more applicants for the awards next year so consider who would
be viable candidates now.
Have you looked at all
the benefits available to IEEE members on
http://www.ieeeusa.org/. Of special interest might be the "IEEE
Financial Advantage". A full list of member benefits can be found at
http://www.ieee.org/memberbenefits.
We have two calls for
papers. The first is for students to participate in the annual Region 5
Technical Conference and Leadership Workshop to be held April 2-4 in Oklahoma
City, OK. See details elsewhere on the website. The other "Call" is
for the PCIC Technical Conference in San Francisco September 13-16, 2004.
Details are included in
this PDF flyer.
Click Here
for an announcement and class schedule for University of Houston's Fundamentals
of Engineering (FE) Review Course. Classes start 8/26 and run through October;
times are 7:15-9:15 PM. This course is offered before the next Texas state
boards for engineers who wish to obtain the Professional Engineering license.
The FE is the first test and must be passed before the actual Professional
Engineering state boards can be taken. The next FE/EIT test is Saturday, Oct.
25.
The IEEE International Symposium on
Intelligent Control will hold it's workshop in Houston at the Westin Galleria
October 5-8, 2003. Check out their excellent
Tutorial Workshops.
