West Michigan Section Past Events

This page refers to past meeting announcements and some occasional acknowledgments or commentary. The pages are partitioned for the convenience of the web master. These pages also are helpful to the Section Secretary for completing meeting reports.

Section Fall 2002 Kick-Off Meeting And Color Tour

IEEE WEST MI SECTION to tour Consumers Power Co Campbell Plant on Saturday October 18th.

The third annual IEEE WMS fall "color tour meeting" is scheduled for Saturday October 18th.Again Consumers Energy will be our host as they were for the Ludington Pump Storage and Muskegon Cobb plant tours the past two years. This time it's the huge coal fired Campbell plant complex, also called the Port Sheldon plant, located on the scenic Lakeshore Drive midway between Holland and Grand Haven. We meet at 10 AM at the main gate to Campbell for the tour which will run till noon. Afterwards we are all going to lunch at a nearby restaurant on Pigeon Lake connected to Lake MI. (The section has been known to buy for everyone at previous color tour meetings.). If planning to attend please call or E-mail Dr. Ron Fredricks, past Section Chair, at 616-791-9134 in Grand Rapids or Ronfredricks3@comcast.net with your name and those in your party by the Thursday before the meeting.

West Michigan Section IEEE General Section Meeting

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Jim Gover, Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kettering University

DATE/TIME/PLACE
Wednesday, January 30, 7:30 P.M.
Collectors Resource Room
Van Andel Museum
corner of Front and Pearl streets in downtown Grand Rapids
park in the adjacent museum ramp
ask museum security to guide you upstairs to the Collectors Resource room

DINNER ARRANGEMENTS (optional)
5:30 at Sullys
downtown and located right across from the museum at Front and Pearl

PRESENTATION DETAILS
Electrification of the automobile: more details soon

Magnetic Levitation (MAGLEV) is serving up speed Thursday,March 20th 2003	Philip Holmer, IEEE-USA Committee on Transportation & Aerospace Technology Policy
	To help us ensure adequate space, please send an e-mail to the address below by Thursday, March 13, 2003 indicating if you plan to attend the dinner, presentation, or both. Thank you. huhndm@ieee.org
	Directions To Keller Engineering Laboratories And Eberhard Center

Third Electro/Information Technology Conference (EIT2003) June 6 - 7, 2003 Indianapolis, Indiana

Events of September, October, and November 2001

Ludington Pumped Storage Facility Host Appreciation

Events prior to March 2001