December Newsletter

IEEE Hawaii Section Newsletter - Holiday Edition 2012

We'd like to welcome the following members into the Hawaii Section:
Douglas Jachowski, Lee Ayers, James Andrews, Yaprak Onat, Jason Ko,
Lubica Tomasovich, Jerica Nolte, Eric Baechle, and Jason Tanabe.

Happy Holidays! We look forward to seeing you at our meetings during the
New Year.

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Contents:

1. 2012 Highlights
2. Heroes Deserve Recognition
3. Election Results
4. Upcoming Events
5. Additional Info Links

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1. IEEE Hawaii's 2012 Highlights:

It was a year of growth and community involvement. A brand new chapter

was born at UH Maui College, and its students donated many hours in

support of the NOMS conference. Our Chapters continued to present

technical talks, open to members and the community. Members volunteered

as mentors for STEM clubs and as judges in multiple Robotics

competitions and the Engineer Week Student Paper Contest. The Section

also sponsored students attending the Engineers Week Banquet. We began

to focus on community outreach and coordination with other organizations

via co-hosted events that are free to the public.

* Your input is needed! Should we host continuing-education for your
profession? Would you like to hear a specific speaker or topic? Do you
belong to a community group or school that would like to partner with
IEEE for an activity? Are there legislative items of importance to
members here in Hawaii? Please feel free to contact our PACE Chair at
david.morse@ieee.org.

2. Award Nominations - Start Thinking About 2013's Heroes:

Hawaii has many unsung heroes doing the hard work of helping others.
Let's keep an eye out for members and citizens who should be recognized
for their contribution. Below are links to IEEE awards. Our Hawaii
Section and Chapters can and should provide recognition of local
acheivement.

http://www.ieee.org/awards
https://www.facebook.com/IEEE.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers

3. Election Results for Computer Society:

Voting for officers was held online with 8% of the 82 eligible voters
casting ballots. As of January 1st, for a term of two years, the new
Chair will be David Morse with John Imperial as Vice-Chair. We await
word from members who received votes for Secr/Treas.

The ballot results can be seen on the Section Chair's blog:
http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/2012/12/

4. Upcoming Events:

EXCOM Meeting - 7 Jan 2013, Monday at 5:30 pm, Zippy's on Vineyard:

Synopsis: Our monthly executive committee meeting, together with a
Technical Talk by the Section Chair, John Camery. He will speak on
"Applications of Graphene". It's an open meeting for IEEE members and
guests. Come out and help plan activities for the upcoming year and join
in the discussion of graphene. The address is 59 North Vineyard
Boulevard, Honolulu. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.
Please review the meeting agenda at
http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/2012/12/agenda-for-january-meeting.html.

Engineers Week 2013 - Multiple Events, February 16-24, 2013:

- More Engineers Week info at http://www.hces.us/eweek.html

5. Additional Resources for Section and Chapter Info:

Section Homepage: http://ieee-hawaii.org/
Section Chair's blogs:
- Hawaii Section - http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/
- Oceanic Engineering Chapter - http://hi-oe22.blogspot.com/
- Computer Society Chapter - http://hi-ieee-cs.blogspot.com/

IEEE Meeting Announcement:
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/15857

Please send your questions and suggestions to david.morse@ieee.org.

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IEEE Hawaii Section-- Excom at Zippy's on Vineyard, 7 January, 2013, 5:30pm Monday

Happy New Year!

This meeting, which starts at 5:30 pm (7 JAN 2013) at Zippy's on Vineyard, is our monthly EXCOM meeting together with a technical talk by the Section Chair.  He will speak on "Applications of Graphene”. It's an open meeting for IEEE members and guests. Come out and help plan activities for the upcoming year and join in the discussion of graphene. The address is 59 North Vineyard Boulevard, Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/. Please review the meeting agenda at http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/2012/12/agenda-for-january-meeting.html.

Agenda for the January Meeting

Section EXCOM Meeting

1. Organize and schedule this year's elections. Announce the results of the December voting by the Hawaii Computer Society Chapter.  
2. Organize and schedule meetings.
3. Consider the possibilities for hosting conferences in Hawaii.
4. Open the floor for other business to be brought up.

The EXCOM meeting will be followed by a talk on the applications of graphene.

Outline of Talk

• What is graphene? Definition of the unit and super cells.
• How is it made? Discovered by Scotch Tape Method. Scalable methods for large sheets like CVD on copper. Methods using graphene oxide and how graphene oxide is produced.
• Properties: Melting point, strength, light absorption, spectrum, Chiral tunneling, plasmons, etc.
• Applications of graphene sheets and platelets.: Cell phones and touch screens. Radio, photo-detectors and other essentially analogue devices, capacitors, frequency multipliers, 2D-Teflon for cookware, etc.  Addition of platelets to polymers, use in water purification, waste cleanup, etc. Possible future applications in cars, spintronics, valleytronics and space travel.

Ballot Results : Hawaii Computer Society Chapter Elections DEC 2012

Name	Dates	Organization	Voter turnout
Hawaii Computer Society Chapter Elections DEC 2012	December 07, 2012 - December 21, 2012	Hawaii Section Chapter,C16	8% voted

Position: Chair

Vote distribution:

David Morse

100.0%

7 votes

Position: Vice-Chair

Vote distribution:

Yi Zhu (write-in)	33.3%	1 votes
John Imperial (write-in)	66.6%	2 votes

Position: Secr/Treas

Vote distribution:

John Imperial (write-in)	33.3%	1 votes
Yi Zhu (write-in)	33.3%	1 votes
Marjorie Clemente (write-in)	33.3%	1 votes

Position: Webmaster

Vote distribution:

There are no candidates for this position.

Welcome to the Hawaii Section

We want to welcome Douglas Jachowski, Lee  Ayers, James Andrews, Yaprak Onat, Jason Ko, Lubica Tomasovich, Jerica Nolte, Eric Baechle, and Jason Tanabe to the Hawaii Section of the IEEE.  Happy Holidays!  We hope to see you at our meetings during the new year.

The Year in Review

2012 Hawaii Section Activities

Here is a listing of our activities for the year.  Let me know if I have missed anything.

1. 05-January-2012   Hawaii Section January EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
2. 26-January-2012   Dinner Meeting with the NOMS OC Group - HAWAII COM19/SP01 CHAPTER
3. 06-February-2012 Hawaii Section February EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
4. 24,25, February-2012 Region 6 OpCOM Meeting in San Diego CA
5. 25-February-2012 Table at the Engineers Week Banquet held at the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikiki - HAWAII SECTION  
6. 02-April-2012       Judging for Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair Student Paper Contest - HAWAII SECTION
7. 02-April-2012       Hawaii Section April EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
8. 05-April-2012       Tunable RF Devices Using Liquid Metals - HAWAII MTT17 CHAPTER
9. 09-April-2012       Panel Discussion on a New Vision for our Section - HAWAII SECTION
10. 16-20, April-2012 Student Volunteers Help at NOMS 2012 Conference
11. 25-April-2012       Dinner Meeting with Mr. Walz, President of the Computer Society - HAWAII C16 CHAPTER
12. 3-6 May, May-2012 IEEE-USA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA
13. 14-May-2012      Hawaii Section EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
14. 19-May-2012       MATE Rover Event Judging - Pre-event Meeting and Event Judging - HAWAII OE22 CHAPTER
15. 21-May-2012      Meeting to Work on our Proposal for Hosting GHTC 2013 in Honolulu - HAWAII SECTION
16. 30-May-2012     Conference Proposal Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
17. 08-June-2012      Some thoughts about….Technology, Careers, and IEEE - HAWAII MTT17 CHAPTER
18. 14-August-2012  Arduino & LED Strip - technical talk and hands-on programming. - HAWAII C16 CHAPTER
19. 03-September-2012 Hawaii Section September EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
20. 03-September-2012 Progress on the E-Cat Since Last Year's Talk - HAWAII SECTION
21. 21-22, September-2012 Region 6 OPCOM Meeting in Portland Oregon
22. 01-October-2012     Hawaii Section October EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
23. 01-October-2012     What's new in Communications? - HAWAII COM19/SP01 CHAPTER
24. 15-October-2012     Promotion Event at Honolulu Community College - HAWAII SECTION
25. 05-November-2012 Hawaii Section November EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
26. 05-November-2012 Mobile Phone Techonolgy - HAWAII COM19/SP01 CHAPTER
27. 03-December-2012 Underwater Robotics Tech-Talk - HAWAII OE22 CHAPTER  
28. 03-December-2012 Hawaii Section December EXCOM Meeting - HAWAII SECTION
29. 04-December-2012 Tech Talks; Linux Intro, FiberOptics Theory & Practice - HAWAII C16 CHAPTER
30. 7-21, December-2012 Hawaii Section IEEE Computer Society Chapter Elections

Minutes for the December EXCOM Meeting

Date:  Dec. 3, 2012 (following the Oceanic Eng. Soc.  Chapter Technical Talk)
Location:  Maple Garden Restaurant, Honolulu, HI
Attendees:

1. John W. Camery, presiding
2. Chris Russell, Vice Chair
3. David Morse, PACE Chair
4. Patrick S. Finneran
5. Alvin Toda
6. Song Choi
7. Eran Agmon

Minutes of Section Meeting

The Hawaii Section has decided that we should announce our meeting through vtools, so that, the website calendar is automatically updated and the L31 can be automatically generated merely by entering the number of member and guest attendees.  With the Dec. meetings, we will have reported the required number of section meetings and the required number of technical talks for all chapters.  We encourage all officers to try to submit the required reports early so the section can get the rebate bonus.

Starting with the Computer Society Chapter elections this year, the Hawaii Section has decided to allow write-in votes and to use vtools to conduct the voting , thereby, eliminating the need for a teller committee.   Note, it has long been the practice in the Hawaii Section to have two year terms for officers.  Next year is the year for the other elections in the section.

The Hawaii Section has decided to pursue the following suggestions for meetings:

• A talk by Coral Jean Cotterell on the IEEE Teacher In-Service Program (TISP)
• A member elevation meeting 
• A business card exchange meeting with the UH-Manoa Student Branch perhaps in April

Members interested in senior elevation for themselves or others are encourage to contact section officers to help setup a senior elevetion event.

Agenda for the December EXCOM Meeting

1. Remind officers to try to get annual reports in early so we can get the rebate and bonus.
2. Ask members to suggest activities that the IEEE can sponsor during the new year.  Those who cannot attend the meeting can email their suggestions or add them as comments to this blog.  Discuss the idea for a talk by Coral Jean Cotterell  on the IEEE Teacher In-Service Program (TISP).
3. Discuss the Computer Society Chapter Meeting tomorrow and  Chapter elections next week.

November Newsletter

Aloha and Welcome to the November issue of the
   IEEE Hawaii Section Newsletter!

In this issue:

1.  Elections for Computer Society
2.  Tech-talks: Robots, Penguins, and Lasers!
3.  New members - Welcome!
4.  News and Links

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1. Announcing Elections - Hawaii Chapter, Computer Society

Only members of the Computer Society residing in the Hawaii Section may vote in the Computer Chapter Election.

(The voting period begins December 7th, ends December 21st, inclusive)

VOTING USING THE IEEE ONLINE ELECTION TOOL - web login required.
 - A tutorial on voting can be found at:
   http://vtools.ieee.org/TUTORIALS/Voting/Voter/voter_short.htm

 - After viewing the tutorial, login here to vote:
   https://voting.vtools.ieee.org/

** Requirements of Chapter Office:

• Meet term limits, i.e., Consecutive period of service in any office shall normally not exceed four years and the maximum time limit one individual can serve in one position inany single unit is no more than six years in total
• Membership in IEEE
• Membership in the Computer Chapter
• Reside in the Hawaii Section
• Graduate Student, Member, Senior Member, Fellow, or Life Member

~ The term will be two years for each office,
  viz., Jan. 1, 2013 – Dec 31, 2014.

** Slate of Candidates (blank = no one nominated):
 - Chair: David Morse

 - Vice Chair:
 - Secretary/Treasurer:
 - Webmaster:

~ Write in candidates are allowed - so please feel free to write in the full name of a current, qualified Chapter Member who wishes to serve.

The Hawaii Section EXCOM will inform the candidates, the section, and IEEE Headquarters of the results, as soon as practical after the voting period ends. We hope to announce the election results in the December newsletter. There is no longer a requirement to send out a postcard announcing an IEEE election. Using the vtools election tool there is no longer a requirement for a teller committee and it is a secret ballot. If any member has questions regarding the election procedures, they may contact the chair, John Camery, john.camery@ieee.org.

 2. Tech-talks: Robots, Penguins, and Lasers:

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Technical Talk and EXCOM meeting - Monday, December 3, 5:30pm, Maple Gardens Restaurant (rather than Zippy's).

Song K. Choi of UH-Manoa is our featured speaker. His talk will be on the subject of underwater robotics, hosted by the Ocean Engineering Chapter. Since we are limited to twenty people, please RSVP if you plan to attend. Only $5.00 for IEEE members, $10.00 for nonmembers. The address is 909 Isenberg, St., Honolulu, HI 96826.

(Map: http://www.maplegardenhawaii.com/contact_and_directions.php)

Questions and RSVP to john.camery@ieee.org.

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Technical Talk - Tuesday, December 4th, 6:15-7:45pm,
Castle High School Little Theater (45-386 Kaneohe Bay Drive):

This technical seminar hosted by the Computer Society presents two exciting topics at an introductory level, but with sufficient detail to be of interest to professionals. Additionally, there will be a brief synopsis of the Castle Complex Redesign, as well as an overview of upcoming STEM Club activities and competitions. Light refreshments provided. Free and Open to the Public.

• The Pengui-Phant in the Room: sneaky Linux at Home, School and Work.
• Fiber Optics in Today's Networks: Introduction to theory and practice.

Questions and RSVP to david.morse@ieee.org.

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3. New members - Welcome!

We would like to welcome the following new members:

John Patrick Barrett, Philip Bergen, Shane Clarke, james Matthew

Cumming, Gregory Guerrero, Michael Hadmack, Brandon Higashi, Michael

Hookano, Ryan Kim, Ryan Kim, Brian Chi Kit Lee, Bryant Lee, Daniel

Mariconda, Daniel Mariconda, Allen Overby, David Pena Jr., Kwong Tan,

Chad Tanaka, Ken Sasaki Wallace, Ronald Yim and Quynh le.

Thanks for joining. Please come out and join in our local activities!

4. News and Links:

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Website Contest: Thank you to all who expressed interest in re-designing our Hawaii IEEE site. As no participants completed their design submissions, the contest is being postponed for the time being. Please contact david.morse@ieee.org with your suggestions as we explore including non-members in a future competition.

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In other local news: Paul C. Yuen, a retired dean at the University of Hawaii College of Engineering and recipient of the IEEE's prestigious Centennial Medal, died Nov. 8, 2012 in Hono­lulu, Take a moment to honor his memory and read about his impressive achievements at:

http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/2012/11/remembering-dr-paul-c-yuen.html

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Links for further information about IEEE Hawaii:

A blog on the Hawaii Computer Chapter: http://hi-ieee-cs.blogspot.com/

A blog on Hawaii Section's Activities: http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/

The Hawaii Computer Chapter's Website:

  https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/CH06216

The Hawaii Communications Chapter's Website:

  https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/CH06255

The Hawaii Section's Website: www.IEEE.org/go/hawaii

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Newsletter suggestions and questions david.morse@ieee.org.

Our Computer Society Chapter

Everyone uses computers these days. Keep up with the the activities of the Hawaii Computer Society by reading their blog. 

December Activities

December brings chapter elections and a event at Castle High School.

Technical Talk - Tuesday, December 4th, 6:15-7:45 pm,
Castle High School Little Theater (45-386 Kaneohe Bay Drive):

This technical seminar hosted by the Computer Society presents two exciting topics at an introductory level, but with sufficient detail to be of benefit to professionals   Additionally, there will be a brief synopsis of the Castle Complex Redesign, as well as an overview of upcoming STEM Club activities and competitions.  Light refreshments provided.  Free and Open to the Public.

• Topic 1:  The Pengui-Phant in the Room: sneaky Linux at Home, School and Work.
• Topic 2:  FiberOptics in Today's Networks: an Introduction to theory and practice.

Questions and RSVP to david.morse@ieee.org.

Remembering Dr. Paul C. Yuen

Paul C. Yuen, a retired dean at the University of Hawaii College of Engineering who promoted telecommunications and high technology in the Pacific, died Nov. 8, 2012 in Hono­lulu, Hawaii. He was 84.  Funeral services will be held at Hosoi Mortuary on Monday, November 19, 2012 at 10:30 a.m.

Paul C. Yuen

He was a recipient of the IEEE's prestigious Centennial Medal in 1984. The IEEE Centennial Medal was a medal minted and awarded in 1984 to celebrate the Centennial of the founding of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1884. The medal shows 1884 in calligraphic writing and 1984 in an LCD font under which is written "A CENTURY OF ELECTRICAL PROGRESS". The medal reverse shows a map of the world and the name of the recipient. The number of medals minted was 1984, the same as the year of the centenary. The medals were award to illustrious individuals all over the globe.

IEEE Centennial Medal

Paul was born in Hilo on the Big Island and moved with his family to Honolulu, Hawaii where he was graduated from Roosevelt High School. He earned a B.S. from the University of Chicago and a PhD from Illinois Institute of Technology.  He joined the University of Hawaii faculty as an associate professor of electrical engineering in 1961 and served as dean of the College of Engineering from 1981-1999.

He pioneered a curriculum that focused on real world projects supported by strong technical skills. He developed a program encouraging native Hawaiians to consider engineering as a career. He was also called upon to serve as UH vice president for academic affairs, UH senior vice president, executive vice chancellor and acting UH president during his tenure at the University.  

Our December Meeting

Our December dinner meeting will be 5:30 PM, Monday,  Dec. 3, 2012 at Maple Gardens Restaurant rather than Zippy's.  Maple Gardens can provide us with a private room that seats 20 people and has a flat screen monitor. The atmosphere is more conducive to giving a presentation.  This is the same location where we had a panel discussion last April.  The address is 909 Isenberg, St., Honolulu, HI 96826. Map: http://www.maplegardenhawaii.com/contact_and_directions.php

Song K. Choi of UH-Manoa is our featured speaker.  His talk will be on the subject of underwater robotics. The technical talk will count for the Ocean Eng. Chapter. Since we are limited to twenty people, please RSVP to john.camery@ieee.org if you plan to attend. There will be a $5.00 charge for IEEE members and  $10.00 for nonmembers. 

November EXCOM Meeting

Date of Meeting: 5 November 2012 

Location: Zippy's on Vineyard

Attendees:

John W. Camery, presiding
Dave Morse
Eran Agmon
Eduard Tavares
John Borland
Al Toda

Minutes: 

We discussed plans for future meetings and ideas for revitalizing the section and chapters such as hosting conferences and working with local organizations.  Dave Morse is working on setting up a Computer Society Chapter meeting at Castle High School. Doug Zuckerman gave Al Toda contact information for Sonny Bhagowalla, the State of the Hawaii CIO. Al said he would provide Dave with the information so he could let Sonny know about our activities with the students. The chair will invite Song Choi to give a talk on underwater water robotics at a future meeting.  Grant Torigoe is helping to coordinate the scheduling of the Business Card Exchange.  We are still looking for a slate of candidates for Computer Society Election next month.  We discussed requirements for the elections. Eran Agmon expressed interest in acting as a liaison between the Hawaii Section with industry. Finally, Eduard Tavares of Verizon gave a talk on cell phone technology for the Communication Society / Sig. Proc. Society Chapter.  

Our November Monthly Meeting - Technical Talk and EXCOM:

We are holding our November meeting on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. This dinner
meeting will be at the usual place and time. That is 5:30PM at Zippy's,
59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map:
http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.

Technical Talk - This meeting will include a Communication Chapter technical talk and a short EXCOM meeting.  Everyone please come and join us for a great evening.

EXCOM Meeting Agenda

1. Schedule technical and professional talks and activities. We want to schedule our Business Card Exchange. Grant is coordinating this. The Business Card Exchange is an annual professional activity event held at UH-Manoa in conjunction with the student branch. We also are looking into arranging Ocean Engineering and Computer Society Chapter events. We are always looking for suggestions from our members about the types of technical talks we should hold.

2. We also need to find candidates willing to run for office in the Computer Society Chapter elections. The slate of candidates must be announced two weeks before the election.

3.  Doug Zuckerman has asked Al Toda and Tom Moore to point Sonny Bhagowalla, the State of Hawaii CIO, to opportunities in Hawaii to get involved in IEEE activities, especially those which will benefit young people. How can we help with this?

New Members in the Past Month

We would like to welcome the following new members to the Hawaii Section of the IEEE:

John Patrick Barrett, Philip Bergen, Shane Clarke, james Matthew Cumming, Gregory Guerrero, Michael Hadmack, Brandon Higashi, Michael Hookano, Ryan Kim, Ryan Kim, Brian Chi Kit Lee, Bryant Lee, Daniel Mariconda, Daniel Mariconda, Allen Overby, David Pena Jr.,  Kwong Tan, Chad Tanaka, Ken Sasaki Wallace, Ronald Yim and Quynh le.

Thanks for joining.  Please come out and join in our local activities.

Our Monthly Meeting

October EXCOM Meeting

John W. Camery, presiding
Attendees:
Chris A. Russell, Vice Chair
George K. McOuat
Grant Torigoe
Eduard Tavares
Beth Kinoshita
Eran Agmon
Mike Castell

Minutes: 

We discussed plans for future meetings, IEEE Day, and the Comm. chapter. Eran Agmon discussed possible topics for Comm. chapter talks, his amateur radio activities and other topics. Eduard Tavares agreed to set up the technical talk for our November 5th meeting, which like this meeting will count for the Comm. Society / Sig. Proc. Society Chapter. As he did last year, Grant Torigoe agreed to help setup the Business Card Exchange with the student branch. We expect to spend a sum similar to last year for the food. Chris Russell proposed that the chapter should sponsor senior member advancement meetings. We would like to do this.  Eduard Tavares talked of the benefits the Program at Honolulu Community College and maker spaces. Mike Castell invited the chair to address his students at Honolulu Community College about the benefits of membership in the IEEE and its technical societies. A meeting was subsequently arranged and took place on 15 Oct. 2012.  The suggestion was also made that we invite Song Choi to give a talk on underwater water robotics. I subsequently contacted  him to see if he could fit us in his busy schedule. Perhaps the second week of November or the first week of December. We would like to count this as a technical talk for the Ocean Eng. chapter.  

The IEEE Day 2012 Promotion Code

Now is the best time to join the IEEE and to take advantage of this promotion!

This Evening's Meeting

IEEE Hawaii Section-- Excom at Zippy's on Vineyard, 1 OCT, 5:30pm Monday

Happy IEEE Day!

This evening starting at 5:30 pm (1 OCT 2012) at Zippy's on Vineyard is our monthly EXCOM meeting with a technical talk by Eran Agmon.  He will speak on "What's New in Communications?”. It's an open meeting for IEEE members and guests. Come out and help us celebrate IEEE Day. The address is 59 North Vineyard Boulevard, Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/. Please review the meeting agenda at http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com/2012/09/our-october-monthly-meeting.html/.

Promotion Code: IEEEDAY12   By using this promotion code, new members can receive $25.00 off their registration fee when they sign up on 2 October 2012.  This special is for one day only to celebrate IEEE Day.  This is in addition to the usual Member get a Member Program in which you get a $15.00 credit good on your own registration when you sign up a new regular member and they specify your IEEE number when they register. The credit is only $2.00 for signing up a student member.

Win $500.00 by taking a photo on IEEE Day.  Take your camera to work, to our meeting or other activity and take that winning picture that will bring an extra $500.00 to our section.  The information on the contest is at http://www.ieeeday.org/photo-contest/.

Opportunities for students.  For just $40.00, new student members can join both the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, plus get FREE access to the Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL). What a deal! Current student members are eligible to enter many competitions with incredible prizes.  For example, the “Change the World Competition” has a $10,000.00 grand prize plus a free trip to the 2013 IEEE Honors Ceremony, not to mention many lesser prizes. The information is located at http://www.ieee.org/changethe world/.

Opportunities at the meeting.  By attending our IEEE Day meeting, you can learn about the many opportunities in IEEE and earn prizes just by attending. See you there.

Aloha,

John Camery

Hawaii Section Chair

September Newsletter

Welcome to the September issue of IEEE Hawaii Newsletter!

Our submission this month is brief, with some important announcements:

Welcome to our New Members:

Jerry M Adams, Christopher Brough, Bronson Riley Edralin, Edler Espiritu,

 Steven Ewers, Mark Lester Hernandez, Douglas Herring, Bosco Yubo Huang,

Matthew Kenji Inouye, Eric Jordan, Kayla Kawamata, Kyle A Levesque,

Deliang Liu, Deliang Liu, Ken Matsushige, Kainalu MH Matthews, Sean

Mizoguchi, Kaleo Kekuailiahi Norman, Kevin Shin, Mary L Smith, Richard G

Tabor, Kristina Miyuki Terao, Matthew Yee, and Justin Yoshimoto.

Student Chapter: Career Day, 10-10-12, 1-4pm @ Holmes Hall:

This event is hosted every semester to provide current CoE students the

opportunity to get to know local and mainland engineering companies, and

potentially be awarded internships and jobs. SWE supports this career

fair by volunteering to help facilitate the event.

UPDATE - Competition to design new Section Website EXTENDED:

Open to all Student members, our website development contest aims to

develop a better web presence for our Hawaii Section and chapters.

Registration and Submission dates have been extended!! David Morse is

organizing the contest. Contact him for details at David.Morse@ieee.org,

or visit our interim homepage at www.ieee-hawaii.org for more

information.

Our October Monthly Meeting - Technical Talk and EXCOM:

We are holding our October meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. This dinner
meeting will be at the usual place and time. That is 5:30PM at Zippy's,
59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map:
http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.

Technical Talk - This meeting will include a short EXCOM meeting
followed by a Communication Chapter technical talk entitled "What's New
in Communications?" presented by Eran Agmon. Everyone please come and
join us for a great evening. This is the start of our IEEE Day
celebrations with many IEEE promotions.

EXCOM Meeting Agenda

1. Schedule technical and professional talks and activities. November
should include a talk by Edward Tavares of Verizon who will speak on
network security. November is also when our Business Card Exchange event
traditionally takes place. The Business Card Exchange is an annual
professional activity event held at UH-Manoa in conjunction with the
student branch. We also are looking into arranging STEM and Computer
Society Events. We are always looking for suggestions from our members
about the types of technical talks we should hold.

2. Make sure all attendees know about the pertinent promotions and
contests taking place on IEEE DAY 2012. We should enter the photo
contest again this year and make sure that potential new IEEE members
know about the promotion giving them $25.00 off on the registration fee.

3. Our Committee on Conference Bids needs to review the status of fund
raising, registrations, and papers for the IEEE GHTC 2012 compared to
2011 with a view toward preparing a bid hosting IEEE GHTC 2014.
Information on this topic will be presented. Montreal and Seattle are
also interested in putting in a bid. The San Francisco section is
hosting IEEE GHTC 2013, but has not settled on an exact location because
of cost considerations. Portland is hosting a new conference next year,
SUSTECH 2013, which they hope to make into an annual event which could
be hosted be various section like the GHTC.

4. We need to review the changes made by IEEE in June to the rules by
which we are governed. These include term limits and election
requirements.

If there are additional items that should be added to the EXCOM agenda,
please notify John Camery at john.camery@gmail.com

* section websites: -
https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/R60017 -
http://ieee-hawaii.org/ (new - in development)

* additional updates on John's blog: http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com

* please send questions and suggestions to david.morse@ieee.org

New Members in the Past Month

We  would like to welcome the following new members to the Hawaii Section of the IEEE:

Jerry M Adams, Christopher  Brough, Bronson Riley Edralin, Edler  Espiritu, Steven  Ewers, Mark Lester  Hernandez, Douglas  Herring, Bosco Yubo Huang, Matthew Kenji Inouye, Eric  Jordan, Kayla  Kawamata, Kyle A Levesque, Deliang  Liu, Deliang  Liu, Ken  Matsushige, Kainalu MH Matthews, Sean  Mizoguchi, Kaleo Kekuailiahi Norman, Kevin  Shin, Mary L Smith, Richard G Tabor, Kristina Miyuki Terao, Matthew  Yee, and Justin  Yoshimoto.

Thanks for joining. Please come out and join in our local activities.

Our October Monthly Meeting

We are holding our October meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. This dinner meeting will be at the usual place and time. That is 5:30PM at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.  Everyone please come and join us for a great evening. This is the start of our IEEE Day celebrations with many IEEE promotions.

Technical Talk

This meeting will include a short EXCOM meeting followed by a Communication Chapter technical talk entitled "What's New in Communications?" presented by Eran Agmon.

 

EXCOM Meeting Agenda

1.   Schedule technical and professional talks and activities.  November should include a talk by Edward Tavares of Verizon who will speak on network security. November is also when our Business Card Exchange event traditionally takes place. The Business Card Exchange is an annual professional activity event held at UH-Manoa in conjunction with the student branch. We also are looking into arranging STEM and Computer Society Events. We are always looking for suggestions from our members about the types of technical talks we should hold.

2.   Make sure all attendees know about the pertinent promotions and contests taking place on IEEE DAY 2012. We should enter the photo contest again this year and make sure that potential new IEEE members know about the promotion giving them $25.00 off on the registration fee.

3.   Our Committee on Conference Bids needs to review the status of fund raising, registrations, and papers for the IEEE GHTC 2012 compared to 2011 with a view toward preparing a bid hosting IEEE GHTC 2014.  Information on this topic will be presented. Montreal and Seattle are also interested in putting in a bid. The San Francisco section is hosting IEEE GHTC 2013, but has not settled on an exact location because of cost considerations.  Portland is hosting a new conference next year, SUSTECH 2013, which they hope to make into an annual event which could be hosted be various section like the GHTC.

4.   We need to review the changes made by IEEE in June to the rules by which we are governed. These include term limits and election requirements.

If there are additional items that anyone wants to discuss, please add a comment or notify me. Thanks.

Report for Region 6 Meeting

                           Hawaii Section Highlights 2012

Our Hawaii Section spans several islands and currently has 743 members including 129 student and graduate student members.

Our elected officers include John W. Camery, Section Chair; Chris Russell, Vice Chair; and Marji Clemente, Treasurer. The chairs of Hawaii Chapters are Mark Rognstad, Oceanic Engineering Society; Oscar Libed, ComSoc/SPS; Kevin Miyashiro, MTT Society; and John Camery, Computer Society. The chapters vice chairs are:  Ryan Miyamoto, MTT Society; and David Morse, Computer Society.  David Morse is also the section Professional Activities chair and newsletter editor.

In Hawaii, we face the challenge of working with members on different islands, meeting their needs and supporting their events. On the island of Maui, we have a new student branch and a new membership development chair, Adrian Cogan. The Student Branch Counselor is Jungwon Park who organized the volunteers for the NOMS Conference. The ComSoc Conference, NOMS (Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2012, was held on Maui last April.  Tom Moore served as General Co-Chair for NOMS 2012. The ComSoc/SPS chapter and Hawaii Section had a meeting on Oahu with NOMS conference team last January.  There are four IEEE conferences scheduled for Maui in the next three months. Adrian needs a way to become involved in these conferences. There was some interest in Maui and across the islands in forming a Joint Chapter of the Power Engineering and Industry Applications Societies, but nobody was willing to serve as organizers and officers.   

Mark R. Rognstad, University of Hawaii at Manoa Hawaii Mapping Research Group Honolulu, Hawaii organizes the Hawaii Underwater Robot Challenge each year.  In May, David Morse and Al Toda assisted him as judges in this very successful event. Likewise, Chris Russell and Tep Dobry earlier helped with the Hawaii State Science fair. We committed the same amount as last year for certificates and awards to students and their teachers. Marji Clemente, Dave Morse and Al Toda took part as a panel for our technical meeting in April. In May, we had meetings to work on a conference bid for GHTC 2013, but ultimately decided not to submit it. We now have a conference committee consisting of Chris Russell and David Morse to work on a bid for GHTC 2014. In September, we had a technical meeting again this year to discuss the E-Cat. 

The UH-Manoa student branch was recognized as the Central Area’s Best Student Branch last year and is even more enthusiastic this year.  They have a fantastic set of activities planned for the year.  Already scheduled are  the First General Meeting - W 8/29 5pm-7pm, Summer Internships and Coops Seminar - W 9/12 5pm-6:30pm, Resume Writing Workshop - W 9/19 5pm-6pm, and Bytemarks Talk with Burt Lum - R 9/25 5pm-6pm The tentative events that do not have definite dates include: AutoCAD Workshop, Matlab Workshop, Soldering Workshop, Technical Resume Writing Workshop, Interview Workshop, Eagle and/or PCB Design Workshop, H-Power Tour, Referentia Tour, Solar Farm Tour, Krispy Kreme Fundraiser, T-shirt Fundraiser, Game Tournament Fundraiser, Weekly Sports Day Social Event, BBQ Social Event, Movie Night Social Event and an S-PAC. The Hawaii Section and UH-Manoa Student Branch also have joint meetings, such as, a Branch Business Card Exchange meeting usually held in November and the Engineering Week Awards Banquet in February. Grant A. Torigoe helps to organize these events.

The Hawaii Section is working hard to revitalize the Computer Society and the ComSoc/SPS Chapters.  The Computer Society Chapter hosted a meeting with the President of the Computer Society in April and a meeting with HICapacity.org in August.  The Computer Society Chapter plans to elect new officers in December.  The Chapter is also sponsoring a website design completion. We met with Yi Zhu, Assistant Prof. of Computer Science at Hawaii Pacific University, who is interested in getting his students involved. The Computer Society Chapter and the Hawaii Section now have blogs, http://hi-ieee-cs.blogspot.com/ and http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com, as well as, traditional websites. The ComSoc/SPS Chapter has scheduled technical meetings for the first Monday in October and November. Eran Agmon of Comtest will speak on "What's New in Communications?" in October and Edward Tavares of Verizon will speak on network security in the second talk.

Submitted with aloha by John W. Camery, Hawaii Section Chair.

19 Oct. Deadline for Nominations

New Faces of Engineering 2013

A Recognition Program for Engineers Week 2013

The New Faces of Engineering program highlights the vitality, diversity and rich contributions of engineers 30 or younger. It is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, a coalition of engineering societies, major corporations and government agencies. IEEE-USA has participated since the program began in 2003.

If you would like to nominate a student for the New Faces of Engineering College Edition program, go to www.facebook.com/CollegeEdition.

Objectives

The campaign is designed to enhance and improve the image of engineering by:

• Putting faces to what has often been referred to as “the stealth profession”
• Showing a group of young, diverse and talented engineers, thereby portraying engineering as an exciting profession open to everyone
• Providing both stimulation and incentive for college engineering students to explore the variety of career options available to them with their engineering degrees, as well as encouraging high school students to study engineering in college
• Helping engineering students understand they are part of a global profession

Eligibility Criteria

• Engineers 30 or younger as of 31 December 2012 are eligible.
• Nominees must have a degree in engineering from a recognized U.S. college or university, or from an equivalent international educational institution. Degrees in engineering technology, science, computer science and similar disciplines do not qualify; a degree in computer engineering is acceptable.
• Nominees must be a member in good standing of a sponsoring Engineers Week (EWeek) partner.
• Self-nominations are not allowed.

IEEE Selection Criteria

• An ad hoc committee of IEEE members selects the IEEE/IEEE-USA New Face of Engineering, as well as up to four runner-up engineers.
• The committee evaluates nominees based on their educational attainment and engineering achievements in design, research, development, test, manufacturing or management.
• Nominees are also judged on their participation and accomplishments in professional and technical society activities. Particular consideration is given to work (e.g. volunteering, publishing, conference presentations) in IEEE technical societies.

Nomination Process

• Nominations can only be submitted through the designated contact at the EWeek sponsoring societies and government agency partners. All nominees must submit their applications to these societies, not to Eweek headquarters.
• Applications must be complete and must be submitted electronically by sponsoring Eweek societies on the nomination form provided. Incomplete nominations may delay processing or cause a nomination not to be considered.
• Complete nominations must be submitted to Sharon Richardson, s.richardson@ieee.org by 19 October 2012.

Nomination Form [MS Word] [PDF]

Recognition

IEEE selects one individual to be featured with the New Faces from other participating societies and government agencies in a full-page ad in USA Today during Eweek, 17-23 February 2013. Each photo will be captioned with the engineer’s name, sponsor, employer and a brief statement of the individual’s accomplishments.

The National Engineers Week Foundation will profile each of the top individuals at www.eweek.org and at www.discoverengineering.org, the EWeek Web site for middle school students.

The engineering trade press will be targeted for feature stories on the top individuals. Media contacts provided by nominees will also be sent information.

Up to four additional engineers will be publicized on the EWeek Web site and promoted by their sponsoring engineering society.

The top candidates may participate in an e-mail and/or online question and answer discussion forum with engineering undergraduates globally at a future event. Candidates are asked to list languages in which they are fluent.