Tip of the day:

2nd Fri of each Month 11:30am Miami Valley Consultants Mtg Learn More
IEEE Dayton Section Meeting & Computer Society Joint Meeting Topic: DARPA Grand Challenge - Invention on a Schedule Development of Unmanned Robotic Vehicles 6:00 - 8:00 PM, Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 All Welcome! ---- SPEAKER: Grayson Randall SPONSORS: Dayton IEEE Section & IEEE Computer Society Buffet dinner - no charge for members; $12 for non-members DOWNLOAD PDF FLYER RSVP by Friday, November 13, 2009 to Amy Solko at 937-224-8513, asc@dnaco.net WHERE: Affiliate Societies Council, Room 300 4801 Springfield St., Dayton, OH 45431 New Meeting Location: Miami Valley Regional Center at 4801 Springfield St., (that's the same street as the AF Museum, and about a mile West of the Museum, just outside the Dayton corporation line.) (ASC) Affiliate Societies Council, Inc is co-located within the Miami Valley Regional Center, which allows us to use the building. www.ascdayton.org. The building has a very nice parking lot with lights next to the building, and a park area behind the bldg. Developing an innovative product or service can be challenging. Add unsolved technology goals, a fixed schedule, limited resources and budget, and the problem can seem overwhelming. But somehow a small team with little funding or resources was able to place 12th out of 196 teams in an event created to advance technology in autonomous robotic ground vehicles... How did they do that? The DARPA Grand Challenge and the DARPA Urban Challenge are events sponsored by the US Government to help promote the development of autonomous land robotic vehicles. The government is looking to meet a congressional mandate to have 33% of military ground vehicles operating unmanned by the year 2015. This presentation will show how an ad-hoc team was able to compete in this international competition. Grayson will discuss technical obstacles, building a team, innovating on a fixed schedule with a small budget, utilization of an incremental development process, techniques used to accelerate technology discovery, mentoring, and the benefits of student participation. He will demonstrate with Grand Challenge pictures and video. Grayson Randall is president of Insight Technologies, Inc. (www.insightrobots.com), a North Carolina company which specializes in ground based robots for both commercial and military use. Insight Technologies, Inc. performs both research and development on control systems for autonomous robotic unmanned vehicles. Mr. Randall led the Insight Racing team (www.insightracing.org) in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge series of races. Insight Racing's most recent entry was a computer driven Lotus Elise which was developed in conjunction with NC State University. The Elise would drive through city traffic without a driver, remote control, or any human intervention whatsoever. Mr. Randall is a "Distinguished Visitor" for the IEEE Computer Society. He received the Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE Region 3 at SoutheastCon 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia where Mr. Randall was chosen from among over 30,000 engineers in the Southeastern United States. Mr. Randall was also recognized by IEEE-USA in 2007 "for leadership that inspired pre-college students and college engineering students in the area of robotics." Grayson is chairman of IEEE Robotics and Automation chapter for Eastern North Carolina. He mentored a FIRST high school robotics team which won 1st place in the 2004 international FIRST competition as well as numerous other awards.
NOTE: Due to conflicts with courses, etc, we have moved from the normal Tuesday night to Wednesday. Also - Thanks Nils for setting up this meeting room location with the help of the ASC !! IEEE DAYTON SECTION HIGH SCHOOL CHALLENGE (IEEE Mentors for Students) The IEEE Dayton Section will have the unique opportunity to assist and mentor a brand new competition focused on promoting engineering to high school students. The Institute of Navigation's Mini-Urban Challenge, modeled after DARPA's Urban Challenge, challenges high school students to work in teams of 3-10 to design and build a robotic autonomous car, built from a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit, that can accurately navigate through a Lego city. We plan to link our IEEE Dayton Section website to the Mini-Urban Challenge, and address the concept of "new sensory devices", which we will test in our local high schools over the next few years along with e-documentation, or electronic documentation that we will maintain on our website. Background: In its inaugural year, only two regional competitions will be held, one here at WPAFB, and a second at Eglin AFB, Florida. The top winners from each regional competition will be invited to compete in a national competition to be held in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Robotic Lawn Mower Competition in Dayton, Ohio. More information about the competition can be found at the competitions website www.miniurbanchallenge.com (for on base access: www.ion.org/outreach/muc). This competition is a great opportunity for our engineers to get involved with the local community and to promote engineering. There are multiple ways you can get involved. Committees are forming for the remainder of the 2008-2009 school year to cover the following areas: Public Relations, OH Regional Competition, Fundraising, and Mentorship. You can volunteer to be a committee chair or member, and you can be paired with a high school team and serve as a mentor. Please keep in mind, if you volunteer you should be willing to commit for the rest of the school year. Please find updates later this summer on the IEEE Dayton Section Webpage. We need your support to make this competition a success! IEEE Dayton Award’s Banquet CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS! Click for Photos More Photos (on Snapfish) Thank you TechFest Volunteers - Sharing Engineering Fun with the Next Generation This month's issue of IEEE Women in Engineering is available to view or download. Click Here ATTENTION STUDENT MEMBERS The student area in IEEE gives a lot of good info including challenge projects, announcements, and free software available to student members. http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/students/index1.html Real World Engineering Projects can be really valuable in attracting new members (particularly student members) by giving them projects related to real-world problems http://www.ieee.org/web/education/university/RealWorldEngineering Try engineering similarly encourages students to become engineers by giving insight into what engineers do. http://www.tryengineering.org/ Many chapters of the IEEE have consulting groups that meet regularly and help members to network. You can add a member to the on-line IEEE-USA consultants database for a nominal fee at http://www.ieeeusa.org/business/consultants/cgi-bin/consultant.cgi?task=display_page/page=home.html	New! NAECON 09 Highlights New! www.naecon.org Special July NAECON Issue Featured Society IEEE Dayton Photonics Society http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/leos/ During this rest of this year, we will be highlighting each of the IEEE Dayton Societies, their focus areas, meeting location, officers and local activities. Focus areas: Lasers, optical devices Optical fibers Lightwave technology Quantum electronic devices Officers: Chair: Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton email: sarangan@udayton.edu Vice-Chair: Tom Nelson, Air Force Research Lab. Treasurer: Paul Sotirelis, Air Force Research Lab. Meeting Location: University of Dayton Photonics Society Membership: Established in 2002 Miami Valley area: approx 30 members Activities: Primarily technical seminars Invited lecturers Graduate student events, field trips ------------------- Read the latest edition of the IEEE newsletter for consultants.
Changing Your Resume's Focus When it comes to crafting your resume, it's important to think from the other side of the desk--that is from the point of view of the hiring manager. This is especially true for first-time job seekers right out of college. The point of the exercise is to cast your educational and extracurricular experiences so that they clearly demonstrate your value to the employer. For every entry on your resume, you should have good answers for the following questions: Why would an employer be interested in this? How does it make me a more attractive applicant? How does this show a skill or ability of mine? Read on at: http://www.jobjournal.com/thisweek.asp?artid=2557
Expert Now! Free training We will schedule “kick-off” for the first of a series of the “Expert Now Modules” for the May Day Festival at Wright State University, upcoming dates will be determined by the interest from the Dayton Section and the University of Dayton student chapters for 2008. Learn More
2008 IEEE AWARDS BANQUET 2008 Banquet Photos

Dayton Community Loses International Scholar
and Dedicated Teacher
Professor Krishna Pasala, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton passed away recently ... More
-----------------------------

Interested in Controls? Visit Controls Weekly Review at http://controlsweekly.com is to promote education in the controls, automation and associated engineering industry. On the site are thousands of good quality web articles, references, and calculators covering scores of controls and automation topics without having to sift through the irrelevant data that search engines return.

IEEE Computer Society Offers Free Software to Student Members

All IEEE Student Members who join the IEEE Computer Society will automatically be eligible to download development software from Microsoft, including Vista Business Edition, Visual Studio Team System, Expression Web Designer, Project 2007, Visio 2007, and Windows Server 2003. Students will be emailed an MSDN user account with login information after completing an IEEE Computer Society application.

Finding Your Dream Job

For the past few years, IEEE Spectrum has run a special report featuring engineers who get paid to do things that many of us would do for free or might even pay to do. Some of them fell backwards into these dream jobs, but for most people, it takes lots of advance scouting. A Business Week article notes that the first step is understanding what you're looking for, then creating your dream job profile. "The narrower your scope," it says, "the easier it will be to identify potential employers and begin to research them." And the effort necessary to define what is an ideal job for you will make it easy to tell a prospective employer why their company is a good fit for you--something most job seekers can't do. Learn More

IEEE Joins Simple Tuition Online To Bring Students Loan Comparisons

Solution Computer Society Scholarship Now Accepting Applications

Prefer to get the mailed version pf the Mini?
Contact Bob Cooper 298-2062 Bobc9101@sbcglobal.net <<<-- This email changed - we had a typo before in Bob's Email.

IEEE Photo Archives We have several volunteers who led the IEEE and NAECON events in the past contact us, indicating that they can narrate the photos. But we still need student or university volunteers to help convert the photos to electronic format. Please volunteer! We need student or university volunteers to help convert the photos to electronic format.

Check out what’s new every day on IEEE Spectrum Online at: http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/1160/02162220

The Finer Points of Business Etiquette Most engineers know the basics of etiquette, such as which fork to use at dinner and saying please and thank you, but there are many finer points -- from handling business cards to making small talk -- that, if missed, could be noticed by a client and even lead to lost business. Get tips for handling some of the finer points of business etiquette at http://boldfish.ieee.org/u/362/02162220

What's New at IEEE
IEEE Volunteer's Resource Page
IEEE Chapter Information
IEEE Xplore - access journals online
IEEE Web Accounts - access online services

Miami Valley Consultants Network Meeting Monthly
at the Engineers Club of Dayton.

Please RSVP
The meetings of the Miami Valley Consultants Network are held at 11:30 am on the second Friday of each month, at the Engineer’s Club.

We will discuss topics that will help members market, sell and complete consulting assignments.

Please make reservations at
937-228-2148.
http://members.aol.com/mvohconsultants/

top

See The Cedarville U. entry into the 2005 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

Enhanced IEEE-USA Employment Navigator Now Free The enhanced IEEE-USA Employment Navigator is now free for IEEE members. The portal helps you quickly connect to hiring employers by collecting millions of job leads from an array of job boards and employer Web sites into a single searchable database. While you can still build and send effective resumes and link to salary benchmarking and other career resources, you can now filter jobs easier, save your searches, and get a profile of each hiring company. See http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/4860/24589

| Home | Contact the Webmaster |

Webmastering Lida Ray Technologies