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Interesting, useful, relevant...and local! The Central Pennsylvania Section of the IEEE has been providing a professional forum for academia, business, and industry for over 40 years. Recent meeting topics have included the Chandra X-ray telescope, High Performance Routing, Patent Law, the NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder, Broadband Network Management, High Resolution Ultrasonic and X-ray Scanning, Ultra High Reliability Resistors, and many more - all presented by leading researchers and engineers in their respective fields. Please join us at our next meeting (most meetings are the 3rd Thursday of the month, see our schedule). Non-IEEE members are welcome. 

December 11, 2007 Meeting

Future Meetings

Central PA section IEEE Meeting
 
Date & Time:  Tuesday, January 26th, 2010, 5:30 PM.
 
Location:  Breazeale Nuclear Reactor Building, Penn State University, University Park Campus
 
Title: Tour of the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor

 

NOTE:  If you plan on attending the tour, please email Faithann Karge at fav1@psu.edu with your name and permanent home address no later than 1:00 PM on January 19, 2010.  For security reasons the personnel at the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor will need a list of names and addresses of those attending the tour.  If you’re unable to show up on the date of the tour that’s not a problem – they’ll cross you off their list.  However, security personnel reserve the right to deny entrance to anyone not already on the list.

Rules About Reactor Facility visit

Adults must show government issued Photo ID (State Driver's License) - PSU students, faculty and staff must show PSU ID Adults/teachers from the school/group are responsible for verifying the identity of those that they bring....it is not expected that students under 18 would have the appropriate ID -therefore the teachers/chaperones must be the ones to vouch for the younger persons that they bring.

·         While in the facility, no communication or recording devices.

·         No cell phone, pagers, blackberries, PDA's or two-way radios are allowed (we can store these in an appropriate area during your tour).

·         You are not allowed to have food or water in any laboratory.

·         No gum chewing is allowed while at the facility.

·         No cameras are allowed in the facility unless prior arrangements have been made.  You can bring a camera to the facility (we will store the camera in an appropriate location during the tour) and the reactor staff will take a picture of your group with your camera if requested.

·         Persons entering the facility are asked to wear appropriate clothing as well as closed-toed shoes.

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We also request that visitors do not bring any backpacks, purses or large packages into the facility. Should it be necessary to bring such items, they must be left in the front office or at the gate.

Special Notice: To be removed from the mailing list notifying you of future meetings, please send an email to fav1@psu.edu with REMOVE in the subject title.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Volunteers Needed

The IEEE central Pennsylvania Section needs volunteer officers! If you are interested in volunteering for an officer position, please attend a brief officer meeting immediately following the September 20th meeting (about 5:00) in ee west rm 225. In particular, the section needs a volunteer for the position of Signal Processing Chapter Chairman. The Chapter Chairman  conducts (a minimum of two) meetings each year. There is a section budget for these meetings, which can be used to bring in invited guests.

Life Member
The designation "Life Member"is applicable only to a member who has attained the age of 65 years and who has been a member of IEEE or one of its predecessor societies for such a period that the sum of his/her age and his/her years of membership equals or exceeds 100 years. All members having the designation "Life Member" or "Member-for-Life" in the predecessor societies shall be designated as a "Life Member" in the IEEE.

Any member who would have been qualified on or before 31 December 1963 to be a Member-for-Life of AIEE, under the rules of eligibility of AIEE, or to be a Life Member of IRE, under the rules of the IRE, shall be qualified to be a Life Member of IEEE. The Executive Director shall grant Life Membership status to any member who would qualify for Life Membership during the remainder of the transition period prior to 1998 under the previous IEEE Bylaw. Basic dues and assessments are waived for those achieving Life Member status.

If you are a Life Member, please consider opportunities with the Central PA Section of the IEEE, including Ý

• Section Officer
• Chapter Officer
• Educational programs
• Membership Development
• Membership elevation programs

The IEEE now has Life Member Chapters. These are chapters comprised (generally) of retired engineers. The Central PA section does not have a Life Member Chapter. If you would be interested in starting a Life Member Chapter locally, please contact Scott Thompson at sdthompson@ieee.org

More information on chapter development can be found at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/tab/cha/formation.html

Important Notice

The IEEE Central PA Newsletter is being sent only via email. Many email addresses in the IEEE database are not current and correct. Therefore if you haven't done so, please send an email to Faithann Karge at fav1@psu.edu with your preferred email address. This will ensure that you'll continue to receive an email notice about upcoming meetings and other relevant information. If you have any questions regarding this new procedure, please feel free to contact one of the officers.

We are looking for new meeting topics. If your company or institution would like to host a meeting, or if you have leading engineers or researchers visiting who would be interested in making a presentation, please contact Scott Thompson at sthompson@ieee.org