Central North Carolina Section

Joint Program with  with NSPE and PENC

• The Value of Outsourcing Supply Chain Activities
•  Joe Hauck, Director of Business Development for New Breed Corporations, will present a Case Study on how the United States Postal Service saved $500 Million through Value Engineering, Process Development, Material Handling Equipment Design, Establishing Performance Measurements, Developing Information Systems, Etc. 
• This program will provide 1 PDH.

 October 17, 2000

• RF Micro Test Lab Tour 
  Airpark South Gallimore Diary Rd.

Thanks to Walt Stevens for the excellent tour.

September 26, 2000 6:00 PM 

 Joint IEEE Central and Winston-Salem Sections Meeting
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, WS, NC (Baptist Hospital)

• The Human Genome Project
  Matching the Next Generation Medicine with Computing

• This month, in a joint meeting with the Winston-Salem Section, 
  Drs. Jianfeng Xu, Ph.D. and Greg Hawkins, Ph.D. will 
  discuss the use of high-speed and parallel computing and bioinformatics as it relates to the mapping of human DNA, and the next steps in this breakthrough area of research, that some say is the equivalent of the race to the moon.

Location:

• Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
  Winston-Salem, NC (Baptist Hospital)

• MRI Building, Teleconference Center, First Floor.

 Tuesday May 30, 2000 6:00-800 PM

Program:

"The Evolution of PC I/O Architecture 1980 to 2000"  by Chris Siegl chris.siegl@fairchildsemi.com Chair of Eastern NC section

Chris gave a trip back into history which was very interesting on the development of various I/O architectures, standards and protocols.  Chris recommends the following links:

 www.wlana.org  |  www.wi-fi.com   |   www.bluetooth.com    |   www.homerf.org 
www.infinibandta.org   |   www.pcisig.com   |  www.mkdata.dk/click/module2c3.htm  
  www.RapidIO.org   |  www.usb.org   |  www.1394ta.org   

Tuesday. April 25, 2000 5:30 - 8:00 PM  

• Program:

  • Tour of Moser Mayer Phoenix's new office located at 
    328 E. Market St. 2nd floor by Bill Hennen

  • Report on the Nashville Southeast Con 2000 by Bill Hennen 

  • Business Model for Technology, "bestChoices", by Lonnie Baxley  

"bestChoices"  focuses on the following functional hats:

• b - business 

• e - engineer 

• s - scientist 

• t - technologist 

• C - Customer (note Customer is only one in capitals) 

• h - human resources 

• o - outer core (common operational resource environment) 

• i - inner core 

• c - competition 

• e - executive 

• s - sources

A general overview of organizational structures, various functional areas of "bestChoices" and primary emphasis on the productive engine of Technology Product Development; A non-traditional approach to Quality is also examined.

The concepts apply well to software and hardware development. Anyone with an interest in getting a new view of how business and product development fit together in a global economy should benefit from the presentation. 

The initial concepts of "bestChoices" originated in Lonnie Baxley's  mind in the mid-1980's while he was working with an Advanced Technologies Group in AT&T.  The model has continued to evolve over the years during his involvement with international, academic and professional groups. 

During Lonnie's teaching tour at NCAT  he used the concepts with students to give them a sense career focus.  He has also shared the concepts with other professional and international groups.  Some new concepts not previously presented will be shared with the IEEE group with the objective they will be stressed by the groups experience.

For more information contact lhbaxley@ieee.org 

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