Calendar Archive, August 2006

Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting

Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, MD
Directions: From the north, take I-270 south to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave. From I-495, take exit 34 (Wisconsin Ave.) to Pooks Hill Rd. Validated parking.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.

Thursday, August 3, 2006
Women in Engineering Social & Planning Event

Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Jasime Cafe, 1633-A Washington Plaza (N. Shore Dr.), Reston, VA
More Info: For a restaurant review, see www.gayot.com/restaurantpages/info.php?tag=dcres9984&code=dc
Contact: Please RSVP by August 1 to Debi Siering at siering@ieee.org.

Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting

The cancellation announcement published in the Scanner for this meeting is incorrect. The August meeting will be held, but in a different place than usual.

Time: 6:30 pm
Place: eCitie Restaurant, 8500 block of Tyco Rd., Tysons Corner, VA
Directions: From I-495, take the Rt. 7 West Exit. After passing Tysons Corner Mall on the right, turn Right on Tyco Rd. The eCitie entrance is 0.4 mile on right. For additional directions, see www.eciticafe.com/pages/Directions-VA.htm.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Engineering Outside the Box

Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Cosponsors: Communications Society; Society for Social Implications of Technology; Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society; Consultants' Network, Oceanic Engineering Society
Speaker: Mr. Dev Raheja, Founder and President of Design for Competitiveness, Inc.
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Intelligent Office-Reston, 1900 Campus Commons Drive, Suite 100, Reston, VA
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Please RSVP by August 14 to Debi Siering at siering@ieee.org.

Friday, August 18, 2006
Ocean Policy

Sponsor: Oceanic Engineering Society
Cosponsor: Marine Technology Society
Speaker: Gene Buck, Congressional Research Service
Time: 12 noon - 1:00 pm
Place: NOAA Silver Spring Building 4 (SSMC4), Room 1W611, Silver Spring, MD
More Info: The Ocean Policy committees of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society and the Marine Technology Society will hold a joint chapter meeting on ocean policy featuring a presentation by Gene Buck. He will provide an overview of current ocean policy issues, their status, and what the ocean community can do to promote solutions.
Contact: Please RSVP by COB Friday, August 11 to Mike Goldberg at mgoldber@mitretek.org.

Sunday, August 20, 2006
Consultants' Network Summer Picnic

Sponsor: Consultants' Network
Place: Lake Fairfax, Reston, VA
Time: 3:00-8:00 pm
Directions: From the Beltway, take exit 47A (Route 7, Leesburg Pike) to Baron Cameron Avenue. Turn left on Baron Cameron Avenue and take the second left onto Lake Fairfax Drive. Follow the signs to the picnic.
More Info: All IEEE members are invited. Hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, non-alcoholic drinks and a large cake will be provided. Please bring grills, charcoal, secret recipes, desserts, games, spouses, children and significant others. Alcohol is not permitted in Lake Fairfax park.
Contact: Please RSVP to Wally Lee at w.h.lee@ieee.org.

Diamond Stories

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Engineering Outside the Box

Why engineers do 60 percent useless things? Find out why and how to be useful in innovation. Future competition depends on the ability to innovate and produce high value.

The presentation covers how to apply creativity to engineering specifications, design outside the box, and avoid useless work. A case history of a major U.S. corporation will be covered.

Dev Raheja, founder and president of Design for Competitiveness, Inc., is an international consultant and trainer in new product development. His clients include Harley-Davidson, Eaton, Intel, Boeing, IBM, Siemens and NASA. Previously, he held management positions at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. and General Electric. He is an expert in design assurance, and is credited with turning around a major division of a large corporation, taking it from going out of business to achieving a number one market position.

Raheja served as adjunct professor at the University of Maryland for its graduate program in reliability engineering. He is chair of the IEEE Design for Reliability Committee and an author of the text Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices: A Product, Process and System Safety Perspective (2006).

For more information, see http://www.outoftheboxtechniques.com

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