This semi-annual LMAG lunch will have as a theme a discussion of power-system reliability. Twice north-eastern North America has undergone nearly identical major power failures, with more than 30 million people simultaneously in the dark for hours. This session will include a video and discussion of the first such failure in 1964. An almost identical ...

Please note that, this month, the date is the 3rd Wednesday and the time is 7:00 p.m.: - 2025 Elections Election Committee members need to attend. Updates and announcements from local Leaders welcome. Everyone is welcome to come help us to continue building a new leadership team. IEEE EXCOM Committee, All section officers, and the ...

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IEEE Lone Star Section EMBS Chapter and the Life Members Affinity Group will host Attorney at Law, James N. Voeller, ESQ for an informative presentation on Estate Planning. The cost of lunch is $15.00, cash or check (no credit cards). Please bring exact amount, however, we will make change if needed. Agenda: 11:00 am Set ...

This is a joint meeting of Canadian Society of Senior Engineers and IEEE Life Members Affinity Groups. This series of presentations has been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being also advertised to the IEEE Northern Canada Section (NCS) Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) through vTools and other IEEE LMAG's and IEEE ...

A semi-serious presentation by Bob Melville: IEEE Senior Member, inventor, amateur machinist, free thinker and collector of bad puns. He will present a series of practical problems with somewhat surprising (and simple) solutions. Examples: 1. Can you give an accurate estimate of the number of fish in a large lake without killing the fish or ...

Cleveland IEEE members: you may be eligible to become a senior member of IEEE if you have ten or more years of relevant professional experience. Join us on Oct 17 at Slyman's in Independence to apply for senior membership. There is no out-of-pocket for becoming a senior member, and appetizers will be available as well ...

Engineers and scientists contributed to the Allied war effort in many ways. Their efforts resulted in everything from Colossus to LORAN, and from GEE to the Proximity fuze. The talk will overview as many of these contributions as time permits. Speaker(s): John Purvis , Agenda: 6:00 to 6:05 PM - Open for participants to enter ...

Our next Piedmont Section meeting will be October 17, 2024. We had to reschedule the meeting from our 3rd Thursday (9/19) meeting date because of meeting room availability. Our technical meeting will be a presentation by Dr. Hassan Raza, Clemson ECE Department. You my recognize Dr. Raza's name. He is the faculty member for Clemson's ...

A unique electrical hardware configuration was included onboard 21 SpaceX Starlink satellites to enable the direct detection of electrical arc discharge events resulting from spacecraft charging phenomena. Given the relatively high number of independent satellites equipped with arc detection circuits, arc discharge events were observed with high spatial resolution between +/- 43°N latitude at altitudes ...

IEEE Orlando Section in collaboration with its chapters and affinity groups is holding a one-day conference and inviting a speaker from each chapter and affinity group to give a technical presentation. Agenda: 8:45AM – 9:30AM – Breakfast 9:30AM – 12:00PM - Presentation Sessions (Four Presentations) Presentation # 1: SESShield-3D (Adriano Urgena) Presentation # 2: AI ...

What Question Would You Ask an Astrophysicist? Speaker: Dr. Jaymie Matthews, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of British Columbia Abstract: Eclipse Event Recent landing of craft on moon. Space station. Observations of stars with magnet fields. Compare rocket and ion propulsion to Mars? Any questions about astronomy. Astronomy education and public ...