After several busy years, 2008-2009 was quiet here. Several members of IEEE Seattle Section (~4000 engineers in all) have offered to help change that this year. However, we need traction = people who care. The first opportunity is to have a table on Wednesday Sept 30. Other opportunities in 2009-2010: 1. There will be an Extreme Programming contest this fall (Oct 24). 2. There will be a Micro Mouse Contest next winter (Engineers Fair). 3. There will be a Student Paper Contest next spring (date tbd). 4. There should be a Mentor Night with PSEC this fall or winter. 5.

So I was thinking while we all have plenty of free time, now would be the perfect time to bounce ideas off the wall about plans for UW IEEE and the coming year. I'll just give it a go and we can figure out the details as the summer progresses :)

So first off we need to identify what we really want UW IEEE to do as a club. It seems to me like there are two core foci:

• Building a real community with UW EE
• Providing career – oriented resources to UW EEs through the main IEEE’s resources (lots of untapped potential in there)

Friday evening, April 17, 5 to 9pm.

Otto Miller Hall
3469 3rd Ave W
Seattle, WA 98119

• Games from Blue Highway Games (www.bluehighwaygames.com)
• Plenty of free parking nearby. Car pooling is encouraged.
• There will be a wide variety of board and card games to play.
• Food (pizza) and beverages will be provided by the Section through the hosts at SPU.

 

 

Please RSVP to jonb@spu.edu to help budget for that food.

 

 

The UW IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is trying to restart after a several year hibernation.

Post your suggestions or comments here.

S-PACs are structured events where students listen to experienced engineers from diverse backgrounds discuss topics from the six critical categories.  Students have a chance to interact with the speakers, usually through a roundtable discussion[with food provided].  Typically, S-PACs are half a day, and involve two or three speakers.

Source: http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/spac/general_whatisspac.htm...

 

Typically this is held in April. We can move it to later in the quarter if need be.

 

This event has been coordinated in the past with HKN (Eta Kappa Nu):

URL: http://students.washington.edu/hknee/

Here is the online reporting URL:

http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/students/branchresources/stbforms.html

For officiers, you need the name, IEEE member number and email address of your officers, and the Seattle section geocode.

• The Branch report is due May 1.

Go the to web site:

http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/students/scholarshipsawardscontests/i...

• When: March 8

There has not been one in the NW Area for a long time.

• Alaska Fairbanks sends their teams to the NE Area contest
• Schedule for Region 6 not schedule yet.

DeVry wants to start doing them in Seattle, and are willing to host.

 

MICROMOUSE CONTEST RULES