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2011 Young
Engineer of the Year
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 The IEEE Houston Section nominated Alice Lukas as the
IEEE Young Engineer of the year and was acknowledged at
the Young Engineers Award Recognition Dinner February 23
during Engineers Week 2011 February 20-26.
Alice obtained a bachelor degree in Computer Engineer
and a minor in Math from Texas A&M University in May
2006 and followed with a master degree in Computer
Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2009.
Alice has been an active member in IEEE since 2004. She
currently serves as an IEEE Women In Engineering Houston
section chair leading her chapter to be nominated as the
affinity group of the year in 2009. She was also
involved in ISMA, SWE, Leadership Forum Houston, OTC the
NEXT WAVE program.
Alice is currently employed as an embedded software
engineer for Schlumberger in Sugar Land TX. She works
in downhole tool firmware design for Logging While
Drilling and Wireline tools.
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 As
you well know, IEEE members can take advantage of a
myriad of discount opportunities, either in the form of
core IEEE products OR from IEEE sponsored programs which
are offered at reduced rates as a benefit of membership.
However, member surveys indicate that awareness of IEEE
discount programs is low, such that 50% of members do
not know about them or where to find them.
To
address this issue, a decision was made to present
information about all these programs in a new
centralized location, which is now the "IEEE Member
Discounts" Web page. This notice also serves to announce
that the brand "Financial Advantage Program" has been
retired.
Please take a look at the new
IEEE Member Discounts page.
The "IEEE product discounts" section is listed first and
we are still working on compiling all the entries to
appear here. The "IEEE sponsored discounts" section
lists programs in the following categories: Insurance,
Travel, Technology and Home/Office Discounts. Programs
that are available globally are clearly marked in this
listing. We have also added an FAQ page that seeks to
clarify the geographic availability of the sponsored
programs and how they are developed and vetted.
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Houston Section's Chair Message
by Charlie Pulay, 2010 Section Chair |
Greetings
- The Houston IEEE Executive committee wants to
thank you for your support and participation in
2009, and we welcome you to join us in 2010. I
personally want to thank the Executive Committee
especially Sam Terry, previous Chair, and Donald
Dunn for their dedication. I am appreciative of
the opportunity to lead the Houston IEEE Section
and will work to grow the organization.
Another year has come and gone and now we look forward
to the start of a new decade. The last decade
brought many technological advancements and the
disciplines of electrical and instrument
engineering gained in increasing importance
across many aspects of our society. Clean and
renewable energy and micro and power electronics
promise great new opportunities and will be
something to watch.
As impressive are the challenges of the worst economy
since the 1930's, and it is now hitting our
great state and our colleagues. Now, more than
ever, the IEEE / IAS network of professionals
can provide opportunities that can truly impact
our colleagues quality of life. We will work to
provide training and access to employment search
for our colleagues to regain employment.
Finally, I welcome your input for ways to make your
IEEE section a strong, vibrant community. We
plan to have many exciting speakers with some of
today's most current topics. We welcome your
input for presentation topics and/or activities.
Please see the IEEE calendar for meeting dates and we
look forward to seeing you soon. |
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PES Winner comes from
Prairie View A&M |
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The following are
the results of the PES 125th Anniversary
Student Essay Contest. We practically
had a tie between the first three places
with only one point separating their
evaluations.
We would like to
congratulate the winners and also all
participants for their efforts and
contributions.
The winners are:
- First
Place: David Rougely. Prairie View
A&M University
- Second
Place: Sohasini Sudtharalingam UK &
RI Section
- Third
Place: Christopher Colson Montana
State U
The recognition
to the winners will be performed during
the General Meeting activities in
Calgary, Canada next month.
The final
version of the winner essays will be
available at the end of this week at the
PES 125th Anniversary web page.
http://www.ieee-pes.org/125th
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Call for
2011 Scholarship Applications |
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In order to promote the interests of the
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) Houston Section, and in support of
its dedication to Engineering and Science,
scholarship(s) will be awarded annually
to selected applicant(s). For 2011,
due to the success of the IEEE- Houston
Section Annual Scholarship Golf Tournaments,
up to five (5) $1,000 scholarships each,
will be awarded to both incoming freshman
and full time college students who meet
certain criteria:
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CLICK HERE for an application |
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Calling all Engineers in Region 5!!!
Are you interested in working with your local schools,
school districts
and teachers?
Do you want to help improve the level of technical
literacy of teachers and their students in your
local community?
IEEE' Houston’s
Teacher In-Service
Program (TISP)
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2011 Officers
Following are the
2011 officers elected at the December
2010 Section Meeting.
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Continuous Service
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members who have belonged and participated in IEEE activities
for 19 or more years The record is R. Caplan who has been
a member for 70 years and eighty-eight (88) have
50 or more years.
Click to see the full list >
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SPECIAL EVENT
FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS
IEEE GOLD/SAC (Graduates of the Last
Decade/Student Activities Committee) leaders will be flying in
from all over the world to Houston on March 23 (Friday) to host
a very special one-of-a-kind event here in Houston.
We have invited top execs from a few large local companies to
talk about the oil and gas industry. This will be followed by a
discussion forum on how electrical engineers can make a career
in the oil & gas industry. The forum panel will be made up of
the industry execs as well as our international team of MGA/GOLD
leaders; and audience participation is encouraged.
So, if you are
graduating college (whether you are finishing your bachelor's
degree, Masters or PhD) within the next year, and are keen to
explore the booming industry of oil and gas in the Houston area;
this is your chance to mingle
with top industry execs,
network with your peers (students
members from all 6 local colleges have been invited)
as well as other IEEE professionals from around the world
(whether it's someone from Paris, France; or Perth, Australia),
make sure to sign up for this event. We'll even throw in dinner!
Click
Here to Register
We strongly encourage you to pre-register
because we need the headcount to order your dinner.
See you soon!!
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