IEEE Recently co-hosted its first game day with SPS and SME! We had a small Halo: Reach tournament, with prizes for the winners. SPS was kind enough to let us use the Physics Lounge for our event. We had a good turnout, and much fun was had. We even claimed the life of a chair at some point.
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Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Social Event – CBU
- 6th of November — BBQ… afternoon Shelby Farms. Ben looking into booking a location.
Ben has tax ID info.
Speaker + tour from/of LSI.
General T-shirt idea: infographic for engineering dress code
Membership cost?
Part shop – should be up a running in 2 weeks
- Pre-order closes Thursday, 21st.
- Robot team parts to be added in for the order, if possible.
Funds – approx $1800 excluding Brother, $2000 from Brother
Anything cool?
- Teacher made it into top 10 listing on PopSci
- Slashdot – prize offered for interstellar travel planning
- Folding@home – ranked under 13000 of 190000 teams
Jan 15th & 22nd try to keep free – USFIRST, build day on campus?
Smart Grid meeting – house meters being replaced with cellular connection equipped systems to analyze and provide lower bills…
Power Society has two more meetings coming soon. One was TVA and Dave doesn’t remember the other. Should be on the IEEE Pro Calendar…
Résumé & Interview Workshop details…
Tasks:
- Testing
- Accelerometer – Dave and Angela
- IR Sensor – Ben and Garrett
- Order sensors
- Build test rigs
- Need money box – Ben will pick up today.
Goals:
- Detect Victim and Report
- Detect Hazard and Report
- 360° scan rig
- bot moves and record location
- push button that works – apart of the resistive screen?
- Speak(er)
Microcontrollers:
- Arduino
- PSoC from Cypress?
- Microchip?
- HC11
- HC12
- MC68SO8LL16
- http://tech-uofm.info/senior_project_parts.html
Biofuel Center Tour Photos
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Minutes
Tuesday, September 21st, 20102:15 Getting Started
In Attendance:
Dave Kennedy
Jon Olson
Justin Moseley
Evan Simelton
And 3 others
Jon talked over Kerri’s discussion from last meeting.
Dave demonstrated his senior project bot.
Jon showed the possible t-shirt logos…
Jon drew a plausible org chart circuit.
Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, September 1st, 20102:03 Meeting begins
Introductions
2:10 President presents amendment on where IEEE funds will go incase the organization were to fold.
Vote on amendment taken. Unanimously in favor.
2:13 Corporate Sponsorships
Discussion on funding.
2:15 New Office announced: ET 210
2:17 Up ‘Til Dawn announced.
Need an incoming person to chair. We have a volunteer!
2:20 Late comers to the meeting introduced themselves.
2:22 Call for volunteer for SGA representative. Ben Avants and Matt Roberson volunteered.
2:23 IEEE Professional EXCOM mentioned. Networking opportunities abound… and free food to boot.
2:25 T-Shirt competition team discussed. Several interested.
2:29 Seminars, call for ideas.
Call for parts and old electronics.
2:30 Midsouth Makers discussed.
2:32 Social events Dave opened with a BBQ at his house.
Lasertag proposed.
2:33 Robot announced.
Kerri quickly gave a synopsis of this year’s competition goal.
2:39 Shadowing people needed for the seniors in the group.
2:40 Kohn discussed USFIRST, and a few of his other projects.
2:44 Call for questions…
Meeting Minutes
Friday, April 16th, 2010- We will demonstrate the bot within ES to Brother 4/23/2010 at 12:45PM.
- Ben needs Brandon and one MECH to finish/clean-up the bot.
- Ben has removed the power circuitry to work on/fix.
- Fixing the bot
- Power
- Steering differential
- Wait time adjustment
- Riser
- Wire cleanup
- EXCOM meeting after next weekʼs meeting (4/23/2010)
Meeting Minutes
Friday, April 2nd, 2010The minutes from today’s meeting are attached after the break. (more…)
The restructuring of the branch et al
Friday, March 26th, 2010The restructuring of our student branch was discussed. The Membership decided to organize in an umbrella structure where each society and interest covered by IEEE would be extended the offer to join our Executive Committee with their Chair and Vice-Chair. The main Chair and Vice-Chair positions will speak for the unified IEEE on campus then, while all others report through them. (more…)
Call for Officer Nominations
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010We are going to hold a short meeting to discuss officer elections on Friday, March 26th. We will be discussing organizational changes and the potential for new positions within the new structure. We would like to urge all of our members to attend. If you would like to run for office please attend this meeting. If you would like to run, but cannot attend, please email Kerri.
SoutheastCon 2010 Results
Sunday, March 21st, 2010For those interested, we won third place in the website competition! YAY! .. unfortunately, we didn’t win anything else, but we’re in good company with the majority of other schools scoring zero points as well in the Hardware competition.
You can find the official results here [southeastcon2010.org].