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Calendar
May
6th, 2006
Women In Engineering Inaugural Meeting
Newsletter
Presenter: Ms. Bonnie Kempke, Senior Projects Manager,
DRS Training and Control Systems
Location: Emerald Coast
Conference Center
Map
Time:
2pm - 5pm
Topic: The inaugural meeting of the WIE affinity group will take
place at the Emerald
Coast Conference
Center. At this meeting,
local females in the science and engineering field and those that have an
interest in promoting women in the field of science and engineering are
invited to come together to discuss creating a new affinity group with this
common interest. Ms. Bonnie Kempke will be the guest speaker. Officers for
2006 will be elected and door prizes will be given. For more information,
please contact Ms. Betty Carden at 884-9229, 217-5407, or bettycarden@mchsi.com
May 18th, 2006
Building a Winning Career in a Technical Profession
Presenter: Dr. David Goetsch, Author, "Building a Winning Career in a
Technical
Profession"
Location: Total Parts Plus Bldg. 709 Anchors
St. Fort Walton Beach Map
Social: 6:30pm - 7:00pm Presentation: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Topic: In addition to a solid education in college, what does it
take to succeed in a technical profession in these times of hyper-competition
and global business? "Building a Winning Career in a Technical
Profession" answers this question. Interviews with more than 200
successful technical professionals--from such fields as engineering,
architecture, business, management, health care, and the
technologies--yielded twenty strategies for succeeding in a technical
profession.
June 13th, 2006
ExCom Meeting
Location: Total Parts Plus Bldg.
709 Anchors St. Fort Walton Beach Map
Time:
11:30pm - 12:30pm
Topic: Bimonthly, the
Northwest Florida Section officers gather to plan events and discuss issues
relating to our members. The meetings are an open forum for any IEEE
members and we strongly encourage you to participate. If you would like to
be involved in the ExCom meeting but can not
physically attend, please contact David Eaton at david.eaton@ieee.org or 882-5092 for
a teleconference number.
June 15th, 2006
Research at the Intersection of Fluid Mechanics and Control Systems
Presenter: Dr. Howard Hamilton -
AFRL/MNGN
Location: Total Parts Plus Bldg. 709
Anchors St. Fort Walton Beach Map
Social: 6:30pm
- 7:00pm Presentation: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Topic:
For
too long, the fluid mechanics and control systems communities have had
difficulty in communicating, because of differences in terminology,
assumptions, and objectives. This unfortunate development has
precluded collaboration on basic research problems that might have
benefited from an interdisciplinary approach. As engineering projects
become more systems-oriented and interdisciplinary, researchers who know
(and most importantly, understand) the two fields and can integrate them
effectively become a valuable asset. In this seminar I will talk
about research conducted at the intersection of fluid mechanics and control
systems with applications to the basic research issues surrounding micro air
vehicles. I will discuss two ongoing research projects and explain
the benefits of bridging gaps between simulation and experiment, theory and
application, and fluid mechanics and control systems.
June 29th, 2006
Freescale - ColdFire
Ethernet Seminar
Presenter: Freescale
Location: Holiday Inn, Santa Rosa Blvd.,
Fort Walton Beach Map
Topic:
Freescale presents a ColdFire
Ethernet seminar series to introduce the MCF5223x device family, the industry’s
first 32-bit microcontrollers with 10/100 Fast Ethernet controller,
Ethernet PHY and Flash on a single chip.
Each one-day seminar provides hands-on training from technical experts.
Participants can expect to walk away with knowledge of Ethernet basics
along with working hardware and software for a ColdFire
Ethernet application. Official announcement can be found here.
Register by clicking here.
July 20th, 2006
To be announced
Presenter: TBA
Location:
Total Parts Plus Bldg. 709 Anchors St. Fort Walton Beach Map
Social: 6:30pm - 7:00pm Presentation:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
August 8th, 2006
ExCom Meeting
Location: Total Parts Plus Bldg.
709 Anchors St. Fort Walton Beach Map
Time:
11:30pm - 12:30pm
Topic: Monthly, the Northwest
Florida Section officers gather to plan events and discuss issues relating
to our members. The meetings are an open forum for any IEEE members and we
strongly encourage you to participate. If you would like to be involved in
the ExCom meeting but can not physically attend,
please contact David Eaton at david.eaton@ieee.org
or 882-5092 for a teleconference number.
August 17th, 2006
Round Table Discussion
Presenter: IEEE Officers and Members
Location: Total
Parts Plus Bldg. 709 Anchors
St. Fort Walton Beach
Map
Social: 6:30pm - 7:00pm Presentation:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Topic: The monthly meeting on August 17th will
consist of a Round Table Discussion with our members. We will take this opportunity to get
feedback on how we're doing as an organization, answer any questions that
attendees may have, and gather information that will allow us to put
together a program plan for the upcoming year. Please come out and join in to help
make the upcoming year a great success! We will begin the discussion with a
speed networking session where we will ask those in attendance to give a
brief description of who they are, where they work or worked, and their
area of emphasis. This will
allow all members in attendance the opportunity to get to know one
another. Please have your elevator
speech ready-it should be fun!
This is also an excellent opportunity for our independent
consultants/contractors to come out and tell us about themselves and the
work they do. For this meeting,
we will gather at the TGI Fridays in Mary Esther from 5pm - 6:30pm.
September 21st,
2006
How to Create
and Deliver a Successful Presentation
Presenter: Marty
Mears, Jacobs Engineering (505 Command and Control
Wing, Hurlburt Field) President, Hurlburt Toastmasters Club
Location: Total Parts Plus
Bldg. 709 Anchors St.
Fort Walton Beach, FL Map
Date:
October 19th 2006
Social:
5:00 - 5:30pm Presentation: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Topic: How to
create and deliver a presentation successfully will be presented by Marty
Mears. Marty's discussion will focus on the concepts of developing a
presentation through organization, getting to the point, and knowing your
audience. He will also talk about basic speaking and presentation
skills as well as slide and visual aid etiquette.
October 10th,
2006
ExCom Meeting
Location: Total Parts Plus Bldg.
709 Anchors St. Fort Walton Beach Map
Time:
11:30pm - 12:30pm
Topic: The Northwest Florida Section officers gather to
plan events and discuss issues relating to our members. The meetings are an
open forum for any IEEE members and we strongly encourage you to
participate. If you would like to be involved in the ExCom
meeting but can not physically attend, please contact David Eaton at david.eaton@ieee.org or 882-5092 for
a teleconference number.
October 19th, 2006
"Diversity as a 'Necessity’
in Effective Engineering"
Presenter: Bonnie
Kempke, Sr. Software Engineer, DRS Training & Control
Systems, Inc.
Location: Total
Parts Plus Bldg. 709 Anchors St. Fort
Walton Beach, FL Map
Date:
October 19th 2006
Social:
5:00 - 5:30pm Presentation: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Topic: Engineering
is more than an applied science; At its finest, Engineering is the creative
application of scientific engineering principles. Creativity is a
factor of experience, and the diversity
of life experiences is a multiplier of creativity.
November 16th, 2006
“Technologies Enabling Agility &
Autonomy for Micro Air Vehicles”
Presenter:
Dr. Rick Lind,
Assistant Professor Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Location: Total Parts Plus Bldg. 709 Anchors St. Fort Walton
Beach, FL
Date: November 16th 2006
Social: 5:00 - 5:30pm Presentation: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Topic:
The proliferation of
micro air vehicles (MAV) with flight capability has caused a demand for
technologies related to mission performance. In particular, a MAV is ideally
suited to operating in urban environments so agility and autonomy are
critical to achieve mission capability. This talk will
overview recent advancements in vision-based feedback for autonomy and
adaptive-structures morphing for agility. The vision technologies use a
combination of optic flow and structure from motion to gain situational
awareness of the vehicle and its surroundings. The morphing technologies use
biologically-inspired joints and shapes to achieve highly-agile maneuvering
and sensor emplacement. A
series of these developments will be highlighted through demonstrations
from simulation and flight testing.
December 2nd, 2006
“Northwest Florida
IEEE Fall Social”
The Northwest Florida IEEE Fall Social is to
be held in conjunction with the University
of West Florida Electrical
and Computer Engineering graduating class of 2006 celebration. This is a great opportunity to
reconnect with your fellow IEEE members and to meet some of the
up-and-coming engineers in the local area. This year, the social will be held
on Saturday, December 2nd at noon.
The location is:
DeVinci’s
Italian Restaurant
8137 Navarre Pkwy
Gulf Breeze, FL 32566-6940
Phone: (850)939-2089
Reservations
If you plan on attending any of these events, please make reservations with
the NWF Secretary, Doug Cross either via email or phone (850) 244-7211 x244
Executive
Committee meeting minutes
December
13th, 2005
April 18th,
2006
June
20th, 2006
August 8th, 2006
September 21st, 2006
October 19th,
2006
November 16th,
2006
Past
Presentations
What
is the Georgia Tech Research Institute?, (Mr. Neil Christianson
03/23/06) Video
Investments,
Financial Planning, and Tax Strategies, (Mr. Larry Grogan 03/16/06) Video
Open
Architecture Stores Interface System (OASIS) Program, (Mr. Mike Gibbs
03/02/06) Video
Surge
Suppression Techniques, (Mr. Tom Butcher 02/16/06) Video
Overview
of Gulf Power's GoodSense Select Program,
(Mr. Brian White 01/19/06) Video
Meet
the REEF, (Mr. Stephen Korn 11/17/05) Video
IEEE,
What's in it for me?, (David Eaton 10/20/05)
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