Upcoming 2009 Section Meetings
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PAST MEETINGS:
November, 2009 Section Meeting
On November 4, 2009 the Panhandle Section of the IEEE met jointly with the Section's
Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD) group in the Amarillo Club Empire Room.
Dr. Shawn Fouts of Amarillo College spoke on Personal Networking.
October, 2009 Section Meeting
On October 19, 2009 the Panhandle Section of the IEEE met jointly with the Consultants' Network
in the Empire Room of the Amarillo Club. Mr. Cesar Ramos of Wind Works gave a program
on residential wind generation installations.
September, 2009 Section Meeting
On September 9, 2009 The Panhandle Section of IEEE held a meeting jointly with TSPE in the Sunburst Room of the Amarillo Club. A.J. Swope of Class 4 Winds gave a presentation on Wind power in the Panhandle of Texas.
June, 2009 Section Meeting
On June 25, 2009 the Panhandle Section and the PES held a joint meeting in the Amarillo Club.
During the meeting Scott Davis presented to Rhett DeSpain the Past Chair's Recognition Plaque.
Following this, Matt Leoni of SEL presented a program on Smart Grid technology.
April, 2009 Section Meeting
On April 21, 2009 the Gold Affinity Group together with the Panhandle Section hosted a program
on the Mathcounts competition in Amarillo. Wayne Acklin, Mathcounts Coordinator, discussed
the history of the effort and this year's competition.
March, 2009 Section Meeting
February, 2009 Section Meeting
ASME, ASCE, IEEE & TSPE presented the
annual
Engineers Week Banquet
on
Thursday, February 19, 2009 in the Sunburst Room of the Amarillo Club. At 6:30
attendees enjoyed visiting prior to dinner at 7:00. Prior to the main program
Rhett DeSpain received the Section Leadership and Achievement Award. Guest
speaker Dr. Guy Bailey, Texas Tech President, spoke to the group about exciting
developments at Tech.
January 15th in the Amarillo Club the Panhandle Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers hosted Dr. Richard Gale, Marcus Borhani, PE, and Professor Brian Nutter as they discussed the exciting, upcoming Region V Conference to be held April 16th and 17th in Lubbock, Texas. Topics covered included the Paper submissions, the Green Technology Conference portion of the event, and available service opportunities.
December, 2008 Section Meeting
The December meeting was held at the Hoffbrau Restaurant in Amarillo at 6:30 on
December 1st. After the meal a great presentation on Arc Flash Protection
was given by Mr. Bob Wilson of ABB.
November, 2008 Section Meeting
The November meeting was held in the Amarillo High School Cafeteria at 6:30 on
November 10th. Members of the Amarillo High School Texas B.E.S.T. team
showed off their robotics entry and gave a program including a demonstration
of the robot and a discussion about their success in competition.
October, 2008 Section Meeting
The October meeting was held on October 22nd at the Amarillo Club. A presentation
was made about the IEEE TV online service.
September, 2008 Section Meeting
The September meeting was held together with the Panhandle Chapter of TSPE on September 9th at Dyer's Barbecue. Freddie J. Davis, PhD, PE, Department Head and Associate Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at West Texas A&M University gave a presentation on the developing engineering programs at WTU. Dr. Davis discussed the existing degree programs and plans to add more engineering disciplines over the next few years.
Another June, 2008 Section Meeting
The Power Engineering Society meeting was held jointly with the Section. The meeting, on June 24th, was held at 11:45 in the Amarillo Club at 6th & Tyler. David Stidham spoke on Large Scale Windfarm Construction.
June, 2008 Section Meeting
The June 10, 2008 meeting of the Panhandle Section of the IEEE together with the Consultants Network was held at Noon in the Ben E. Keith facility in Amarillo. Dee Herring and Henry Garcia led a complete and very interesting tour of the Warehouse and described the operation of the installation.
May, 2008 Section Meeting
The May 13th meeting of the Panhandle Section of the IEEE was held at 6:30 pm at Dyer's Bar-B-Que. Gene Wolf of Wolf Engineering LLC in Albuquerque gave a program on Intelligent Grid Transmission Planning.
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February, 2008 Section Meeting
The February 15th meeting of the Panhandle Section was held jointly with TSPE, ASME, and ASCE, celebrating Engineers Week. At 7pm the group met in the Amarillo Club Sunburst Room for a social time followed by the evening meal. At the meeting member and past Chair Duane Ripperger was presented with the 2008 Leadership and Achievement Award. After awards presentations Annette Carlisle of Panhandle 2020 presented a program on the work of that group, with special emphasis on concerns regarding the area's education statistics.
January, 2008 Section Meeting
The January meeting of the Panhandle Section was held on January 22, 2008 at 6:30 PM in the Amarillo Club Sunburst West room.Kenny Munsell Installed new officers for calendar year 2008. Following the installation, Mr. Buzz David of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation gave an interesting and educational presentation on the activities presently underway with the Amarillo EDC. Mr. David also noted target development goals and opportunities Corporation is actively pursuing.
December
, 2007 Section MeetingThe December meeting of the Panhandle Section was held on December 4, 2007 at Dyer's Restaurant. Mr. Jeffrey T. Burnham, NGK-LOCKE, Inc made a presentation on the NAS (sodium sulfur) battery:
“NGK’s NAS battery: A tool for Solving Power and energy Problems”
November, 2007 Section Meeting
The November meeting was held in the Sunburst Room of the Amarillo Club
at noon on November 7, 2007. Ben Richardson of San Jacinto Christian
Academy spoke about the Lego Robotics program at the school and how it
encourages student interest in science and engineering. (Your Panhandle Section
helped to fund the team's trip to Atlanta for competition.)
May, 2007 Section Meeting
The May meeting was held in the Empire Room of the Amarillo Club at noon on May
21, 2007. Mr. Dave Bennett of Clearwire Wireless Broadband presented "Wimax Standardization: IEEE Standard Applications".
February, 2007 Section Meeting
The February meeting was held as a joint meeting with TSPE for a celebration of Engineers Week. Members and guests enjoyed a meal followed by presentations which included two Section members receiving major recognition: John Patterson was honored as the TSPE Engineer of the Year, and Scott Davis received the Section's 2007 Leadership and Achievement Award. The presentations were followed by a program given by Amarillo Mayor Debra McCartt.
January, 2007 Section Meeting
The
January meeting was held beginning at 6:30 on January 23, 2007 at Johnny Carino's, Members and their guests/spouses enjoyed a meal followed by a very interesting presentation on Center City as related by Beth Duke and Freda Powell.
December, 2006 Section Meeting
The December meeting was held at noon on Friday, December 12, 2006 in the Empire Room of the Amarillo Club. Mr. Bill Grant, Manager of the Texas Transmission Control Center for XCEL Energy spoke on the operation challenges of wind generation. The meeting was very informative, and the Section wants to thank Mr. Grant for the time and effort he expended in bringing this presentation to us.
November, 2006 Section Meeting
The meeting was held at the Amarillo High School cafeteria November 27, 2006. After a fajita dinner Scott Davis turned the floor over to the members of the Amarillo High School Texas B.E.S.T. team. Several team members in turn made presentations about the entire effort to that point. Specifically, the team had won the Regional competition and was headed to the State competition. A short demonstration of the robot was held in the cafeteria, followed by a demonstration run on the practice course in the Engineering lab. Team members recognized their team Coach and the volunteers (including including Panhandle Section members Scott Davis and Don Porter), who worked with them on this year's project.
October, 2006 Section Meeting
On October 26, 2006 the Panhandle Section of IEEE, together with our Consultants' Network Affinity Group, met at Zoo-Kini's to enjoy soup, salad and baked potatoes. After dinner and a brief business meeting, all in attendance adjourned to Don's Hi-Fidelity where Greg Towner demonstrated and discussed the emerging technologies in home entertainment. This was an entertaining and informative meeting, and we wish to thank Don's and Mr. Towner for bringing us this engaging program.
September, 2006 Section Meeting
The Panhandle Section of the IEEE together with the Panhandle Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers met at noon on Tuesday, September 12th at the Bell Helicopter Plant on Tiltrotor Drive in Amarillo. Bell employees John Masetta, Ed Collier, Bryan Williams, and Reylen Green served as hosts, program presenters, and tour guides for the group. New versions of the Cobra, Blackhawk, and the tiltrotor Osprey were observed in various stages of assembly.
Many thanks to our gracious hosts who went all-out to make the tour a real pleasure for all of us!
July, 2006 Section Meeting
The Panhandle Section of the IEEE together with the South Plains Section in Lubbock, Texas met on Saturday, July 29th in the Advanced Vehicle Engineering Lab at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. Attendees enjoyed a presentation by the Mechanical Engineering and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments of Texas Tech University.
May, 2006 Section Meeting
The Panhandle Section of the IEEE met in the Amarillo Club Empire Room on Tuesday, May 8, 2006. Bruce Forsythe, General Manager, Power Transformer Division, at Southwest Electric Company, spoke on "Transformer Re-Manufacturing".
April, 2006 Section Meeting
The Panhandle Section of the IEEE met in the Donor's Lounge at the new Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, April 18, 2006. Ali Tiegs, Education Director then gave the group an informative and exciting presentation and demonstration of the Center's "Artistic Excellence for Acoustics and Design".
April, 2006 Professional Topics Seminar
On April 13, 2006 the Panhandle Section of the IEEE Hosted perhaps the best
Professional Topics Seminar yet! This event drew 105 attendees! See Pictures in the Photo Album.
February, 2006 Section Meeting
Thursday, February 23, 2006 the Panhandle Section of the IEEE in a Joint meeting with TSPE celebrated Engineers Week. The meeting was held at the Tascosa Country Club. Section Chair Brenda McDermott presented Past Chair Rhett DeSpain with a plaque recognizing his work as Section Chair. Rickey Sharp presented Mike Smith with the Engineer of the Year Award, and Heidi Blasingame present Denise Moore with the Young Engineer of the Year Award. State Senator Kel Seliger then addressed the group.
January, 2006 Section Meeting
Thursday, January 26, 2006 the Panhandle Section met at The Plaza restaurant. After introducing the Section's new Officers, Chairperson Brenda McDermott turned the meeting over to Vice-Chair Kenny Munsell who introduced Mr. DeWayne Donaldson and his co-presenter Maryellen Nelson. Mr. Donaldson gave a very interesting and informative presentation on Amarillo's YMCA, its history, and its future.
December, 2005 Section Meeting
On Monday December 5th the Panhandle Section Power Engineering Society (PES) Sponsored the Section meeting held at the Amarillo Club at noon. Mr. Steve Kuperman of Power Measurement/Square D discussed the application of advanced metering for commercial, industrial, and utility uses.
November, 2005 Section Meeting
On Monday, November 14, 2005 the Panhandle Section of IEEE held its Section meeting at the Amarillo High School Cafeteria. The program consisted of seeing how the Amarillo High School "Space Sandies" team accomplished their successful design, construction , and competition in the Texas B.E.S.T. (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) engineering design program. Coaches, Sponsors, and Students were honored at this event.
October, 2005 Section Meeting
On Tuesday, October 25th the Panhandle Section of IEEE met at the offices of Cox Communications. After a box lunch, a general meeting was held. Speaker Chris Hibbs then gave an informative presentation on VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). Following the presentation COX employees gave attendees an informative tour of their facilities, showing the various types of hardware in use to provide cable TV, Internet, and VOIP services.
Our thanks go out to Mr. Hibbs and all the COX employees involved in this presentation and tour!
Fall 2005 Professional Development Seminar
This event took place from 12 noon to 6:30pm Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at the Amarillo College Business and Industry Center
1314 South Polk Avenue, Amarillo, Texas
Topics Covered were:
Get Connected with Bluetooth by Mr. Jeff Hunt with Cingular Wireless
Overview of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People presented by Cora LaGrone, Certified Trainer
September, 2005 Section Meeting
The Panhandle Section Meeting took place on September 27th at the AC East Campus in Amarillo, Texas. After a catered barbecue dinner, Mr. Jack B. Stanley gave a presentation on the new Electronics Systems Technology program that is available at AC. The presentation was followed by a tour showing the work being done by the students in the program
May, 2005 Section Meeting
The PES Chapter had a program on Aerial Data Gathering. The meeting was held Monday May 9th at Dyer's Barbecue.
April, 2005 Section Meeting
In this meeting held jointly with TSPE at Dyer's at noon on April 5th, Mr. Lance Kinney gave a presentation about the ethics PDH requirements for Texas Professional Engineer licensees. (Attendance counts as one PDH of ethics training for the requirement discussed at the meeting!)
Spring 2005 Professional Development Seminar
12 noon to 6:30pm, Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Amarillo College Business and Industry Center
1314 South Polk Avenue, Amarillo, Texas
What a Great Seminar This Was!
A Brief Listing of the Presentations:
Virtual Reality - Not Just for Games
Ethics for Employers
Creative Problem Solving
Is Anyone Listening?
"FEBRUARY", 2005 MEETING (In March)
On March 3, 2005 members of TSPE, ASCE, ASME, and IEEE held a joint meeting at "The Gathering Place". Highlights of the meeting were presentations of IEEE Past Chair Award to Magid Zoobin, Young Engineer of the Year Award, and Engineer of the Year Award. Following those presentations state Representative John Smithee gave a very informative presentation on the present work in the Texas House, dealing primarily with an effort to reorganize the tax structure for the state. Mr. Smithee gave several examples of possible ways the House will possibly change how state taxes are derived.
"JANUARY", 2005 MEETING (In February)
On February 3, 2005 members of the Panhandle Section and their spouses gathered at the Country Barn Restaurant for a good meal, Officer Installations, and a very entertaining presentation made by Tom "Spanky" Assiter, CAI, of Assiter and Associates, Auctioneers. Mr. Assiter spoke to the gathering about "Do You See What I See?". His presentation pointed out the many different ways people perceive things and how it can be instructive to know about those differences when trying to Communicate in everyday situations.
DECEMBER, 2004 MEETING
The Amarillo Club was the site of the December meeting. At Noon on December 6th the Power Engineering Society and the Panhandle Section hosted a presentation on Uninterruptible Power Supplies.
NOVEMBER, 2004 MEETING
The Amarillo High School Cafeteria November 15th was the site for fajitas catered by Rosa's and a demonstration by the Section-supported Texas B.E.S.T. team. Members met the sponsor, our volunteers, the students, and got a demonstration of the team's robot.
The Nominations Committee reported nominations for next year's Section Officers.
OCTOBER, 2004 MEETING
After a great meal at Feldman's Diner in Canyon, the members attending the October meeting adjourned to the Backyard Adventures facility. There Mr. Mike Butcher gave everyone a complete tour of the fabrication line and explained the Company's exciting manufacturing process used to make outdoor equipment for kids around the world.
SEPTEMBER, 2004 MEETING
The September Meeting of IEEE was held on September 21st in the Amarillo Club. Sgt. Randy Tenbrink of the Amarillo Police Department gave an very informative and eye-opening presentation on Identity Theft.
Last Updated on November 04, 2009