The Section's newsletters are here.
Send your Albuquerque Section news to Simon Barriga for inclusion in the section's newsletter. Simon's e-mail address is simonbdaAThotmailDOTcom.
The fall-winter 2009 meetings of the Albuquerque Section Board of Directors are on Thursdays at Yanni's. Board members, society representatives, and student branch representatives: please notify Christos Christodoulou (christosATeceDOTunm.edu) or Scott Bigelow (scott.bigelowATIEEE.org) if you cannot attend.
A new group formed in the Albuquerque Section during spring 2009, the Life Members Affinity Group. Professor and Section member Harjit Ahluwalia, UNM Physics & Astronomy, is serving as pro-tempore chair until the group holds elections.
2009 Albuquerque Section Awards: The winners of the section awards were recognized at a joint IEEE Albuquerque/UNM Sigma Xi Awards Banquet on May 18 at the Conference Center on UNM's north campus. For a complete list of awardees, see this MS Word document. Congratulations to the following Albuquerque Section 2009 Award winners
Outstanding Graduate Student: Joud Khoury, UNM Electrical Engineering student (conferred jointly with Sigma Xi)
Outstanding Undergraduate Student: Cody Eilar, UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Outstanding Engineering Educator: Greg Heileman, UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
Outstanding Engineer: Richard Scott Erwin, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base
Outstanding Young Engineer: Brandon Witcher, Sandia National Laboratories
Outstanding Entrepreneur: Paul Shirley, CEO, World Alliance for the Volunteer Economy
IEEE Presidential Scholar: Raymond Romero, UNM Computer Science Department
Outstanding Student Paper: Jim Aarestad, senior, UNM Electrical Engineering program, tied with Eric Martinez, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology (conferred jointly with Sigma Xi).
Jim Aarestad, a senior in ECE@UNM, who won the IEEE Albuquerque Section Student Paper Contest, was featured at the 2009 IEEE Southwest Area (Region 6) meeting at U.C. San Diego on April 25. At that meeting, his paper also tied for the Second Place Award in the Region 6 Student Paper competition. Aarestad's paper, titled "SmartCan: Instrumentation, Measurement, and Control at 70 Miles Up," describes his senior capstone-project team's sub-orbital mission automation, recording and tracking canister (SmartCan), which was launched from Spaceport America as part of the Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket payload on May 2. A PDF of Aarestad's paper is here. ECE@UNM Prof. Jamesina Simpson gave a presentation on "How to Write a Technical Paper" on May 5 at 6 p.m. in ECE Room 118. For those interested in future contests, Student Paper Contest Guidelines are here.
The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) now has an Albuquerque Section coordinator. Professor Jamesina Simpson of UNM's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department can be reached at simpson-at-ece-dot-unm.edu. A WIE Affinity Group is in formation and will serve the specific needs of New Mexico's female engineering students and professionals. WIE is also partnering with the UNM student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
The Albuquerque Section welcomed a new joint chapter in February, the Communication and Signal Processing Societies. The effective date of the new chapter's formation was Feb. 12, 2009, and it is chaired by Professor Balu Santhanam of UNM's Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. For information, contact Dr. Santhanam at bsanthanamATece.unm.edu.
The Joint Chapter meets monthly at Four Hills Country Club. Go to the events page for information. The Joint Chapters (AP,
EMC,
MTT and
NPS) include mostly RF and pulsed-power engineers who meet monthly except in summer.
IEEE GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) meets monthly at the Flying Star's Grande Hospitality Room, at Silver and 7th in downtown Albuquerque, from 7pm to 8:30pm. Click here for information about GOLD.
LEOS (IEEE Laser & Electro-Optics Society) recently changed its name to the IEEE Photonics Chapter. The chapter meets regularly at UNM's Center for High Technology Materials. Basic information about the local LEOS/Photonics chapter is here.
Throughout 2009, IEEE is commemorating 125 years of fostering technological innovation and excellence for the public good. May 13, 2009, is IEEE's official anniversary date, although the "Engineering the Future" celebration will include a year full of activities. For information, go to www.ieeeusa.org.
In December 2008 the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), Albuquerque Chapter, presented Mr. Ajit V. Barve with the Best Regional Student Paper Award for his paper titled "Reduction in Dark Current Using Resonant Tunneling Barrier in Dots-in-a-Well Long-Wavelength Infrared Photodetectors." Ajit, a doctoral student at UNM working at the Center for High Technology Materials, presented his paper at the 21st Annual Lasers and Electro Optics Society Meeting, 9-13 November 2008, in Newport Beach, Calif. The Award included a certificate from the Albuquerque LEOS Chapter, a $200 cash prize, and cost of IEEE student membership and LEOS membership for one year. Congratulations, Ajit!Entry forms for the 2009 competition will be posted in May 2009 on the LEOS Albuquerque Chapter website: www.chtm.unm.edu/~yagya/LEOS/. The chapter recently changed its name to the IEEE Photonics Chapter.
Message from Christos Christodoulou, incoming Section chair: I would like to extend my greetings to all of you as the new chair of our section. It is an honor to be elected in the position and I will do my best to meet all of the responsibilities and expectations required of this position. I would like to thank our outgoing chair, Ray Byrne, who served during the last two years. He did an oustanding job and was instrumental in the section's growth. Please feel free to get in touch with me or any of our officers if you have any questions or any ideas about how to make the section better. My e-mail address is christosATece.unm.edu. I hope to see you at some of our functions.
The Albuquerque Section elected its new officers in December. They are Section Chair Christos Christodoulou (pictured at left), Vice-Chair Scott Bigelow, Secretary Aaron Murray, Treasurer Gilberto Zamora, GOLD Chair Simon Barriga, UNM Student Branch Tom Posen, NM Tech Student Branch Eric Martinez, AP/EMC/MTT/NPSS Joint Chapter Leland Bowen, EMB Society Vince Calhoun, SP/Comms Joint Chapter Balu Santhanam, LEOS Chapter Majeed Hayat, Website Administrator Frances Strong, and Newsletter Editor Simon Barriga.
2008 Albuquerque Section Awards: The winners of the section awards were recognized at the annual IEEE Region 6 Southwest Area fall meeting on Oct. 18. Held at UNM's new Centennial Engineering Center, the event brought together officers, section and student branch chairs for award presentations; region, area and section updates; and leadership training (with UNM Student Branch President Tom Posen participating). Region 6 Chair Vasudeva Atluri noted that the Albuquerque Section is the third largest in Region 6.
Congratulations to the following Albuquerque Section 2008 Award winners:
Outstanding Graduate Student: Joseph Costantine, (photo, left) UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (Applied Electromagnetics).
Outstanding Undergraduate Student: Joseph Fernandez, Department of Electrical & Computer engineering, NM Institute of Mining & Technology.
Outstanding Engineering Educator: Edl Schamiloglu, (photo, right) UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
Outstanding Engineer: Keith Morris, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Very Large Array Expansion Project.
2008 IEEE Presidential Scholarship: Brian Hesch, UNM Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
2008 Noteworthy Technical Support Person: Christos Christodoulou. (conferred by Sigma Xi).
NM Tech Student Paper Winners, contest held March 24: Toby Sachs-Quintana, First Place; Tanner Oakes, Second Place; Joey Fernandez, Third Place.
Sigma Xi maintains a UNM chapter website
here, holds regular meetings on the UNM campus, and hosts a joint awards meeting and banquet with IEEE.
The Albuquerque Section of IEEE collaborates with the Albuquerque Software Process Improvement Network
(ABQ SPIN). The goals of ABQ SPIN are to strengthen members' skills, promote awareness of quality methods and best practices, and support technology transition with networking and education.
For a list of IEEE societies and local chapters, click
here.
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