Atlanta IEEE Events for May 2008

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1. May 5th: Atlanta Ex-Com Meeting
2. May 13-14th: Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
3. May 15th: Atlanta Section Banquet at Petite Auberge
4. May 19th: Atlanta Industry Applications Society
5. May 29th: Atlanta Life Member Group Quarterly Luncheon

1. May 5th: Atlanta Ex-Com meeting

May Section Ex-Com Meeting - May 5, 2008

Location: Atkins Park Tavern, 2840 Atlanta Rd SE, Smyrna, GA

As the Atlanta Section Chair, I'm pleased to announce that the next meeting of the Atlanta Section ExCom will be held on Monday, May 5, 2008, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Dinner will be available starting at 6:00 pm, and the meeting will officially start at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be held at Atkins Park Tavern, located on 2840 Atlanta Road SE, Smyrna, GA. Dinner and any non-alcoholic beverages will be paid for by the Section. Please RSVP to me by lunchtime Monday, May 5 so that we can give the restaurant an accurate head-count.

The main focus of the May meeting will be to plan for upcoming events for 2008 and 2009 within the Atlanta Section, including the Section banquet on May 15, Section's Congress 2008 in Quebec City, and SouthEastCon? 2009 in Atlanta. If you have meeting announcements, please attend the meeting or e-mail your requests to the Section Secretary, Jairo Garcia, at secretary@ieee-atlanta.org. If you are interested in attending Section's Congress 2008, please attend the meeting or respond to Jeff Kemp at chair@ieee-atlanta.org.

RSVP To: Jeff Kemp 404-407-7664 or e-mail at chair@ieee-atlanta.org or jeff.kemp@gtri.gatech.edu

2. May 13-14th: Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

The Atlanta Section needs volunteers to judge at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) on Tuesday, May 13th and Wednesday, May 14th.
The event is being held downtown at the Georgia World Congress Center.
The IEEE Foundation awards a $10,000 scholarship to a high school student whose project is in an IEEE area of interest. Volunteers can participate on one or both days. This is a fun and interesting event with sophisticated projects.

For more information about the Intel ISEF, go to

http://www.intelisef2008.org/

Interested volunteers should contact Amy Wilson ASAP so that Intel can register our judges.

amy.wilson@ieee.org

3. May 15th: Atlanta Section Banquet at Petite Auberge

Speaker: Scott Tippens, Southern Polytechnic State University
Title: "Alternative Energy: Mythology, Reality, and Making Good
Choices"

Anytime society is faced with a fundamental shift in thinking, a great
deal of misinformation surfaces from a variety of sources. Generally
this misinformation is designed to discredit the new way of thinking or
advance personal or corporate interests. Eventually the hype is
exposed
but not without leaving a great deal of people confused about what is
real and what is myth.

The current rise in fuel prices has placed alternative energy front and
center in everyone's minds and we are being bombarded with a variety of
seemingly wonderful choices. We will take a look at many of these
choices and attempt to shed a little light on the lingering myths. We
will learn a number of things about biofuels, wind, and solar energy
along the way.

Schedule
6:15-7:00 Reception
7:00-8:00 Dinner
8:00-8:15 Announcements
8:15-9:15 Main Program

Scott Tippens Bio:

Scott Tippens received his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical
Engineering from Georgia Tech in the late 1980s. From there, Scott
worked at IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC for two years followed by
two years at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He began teaching at
Southern Polytechnic State University in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Technology department in 1993 and has been teaching there
ever since. While at SPSU, Scott was award the Distinguished Professor
award for two consecutive years and later went on to serve as the
founding director of SPSU's Center for Teaching Excellence. Scott has
recently acquired funding for solar photovoltaic and solar thermal
collectors and is in the process of developing laboratories and
research
experiences for undergraduate students. Scott also developed and
teaches a course in Alternative Energy.

Lik to the 2008 Banquet:

http://www.ieee-atlanta.org/2008-05-Banquet/

4. May 19th: Atlanta Industry Applications Society

Topic:Harmonics & Harmonic Mitigation

Presented by: Jay Das, AMEC

Details: http://ewh.ieee.org/r3/atlanta/ias/events.htm

Reservation: http://ewh.ieee.org/r3/atlanta/ias/reservation_form.htm

The Atlanta Life Member group will have their quarterly luncheon on Thursday 5/29 at 12 Noon at Petite Auberge, Toco Hills.
Our speaker will be Steve McLaughlin? , GA Tech Vice-Provost for Intl
Initiatives. Everyone is welcome.

For more information please contact Robert S. (Bob) Duggan, Jr. 404-636-2110
r.duggan@ieee.org
(home page) http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/d/rduggan2/
(genealogy) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~duggan/