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| Vol. 17, No. 11 | Serving IEEE Members of South Central Wisconsin | December 2014 |
November
IEEE-Madison Section Meeting: This event,
co-sponsored by the Engineers in Medicine and Biology Society,
featured a talk by Dennis Bahr, a long-time member of the
IEEE-Madison Section and VP of R&D for HelionX, LLC.
His talk on the design and construction of a novel, compact
particle accelerator for producing neutron flux suitable for a
wide range of applications was well attended, despite the fact
that state football championships at Camp Randall consumed all
of the nearby parking spots. The talk was packed full of
simple problem-solution sections where Dennis told of a
problem encountered and then discussed his clever
solutions. Many if us were impressed with the breadth of
the problem HELIonX is attempting and the novel solutions it
has developed. Below, Dennis shows a diagram of the
variable winding pitch of the helical transmission line.
SLC: The UW-Madison IEEE Student
Chapter has been selected to plan and host the 2015 Region 4
Student Leadership Conference on the weekend of February 7-8th,
2015. The conference organizers (students!) need sponsors to help
pay for the event. If your company is interested in accessing the
engineering leaders of tomorrow and supporting the IEEE Student
Leadership, please get in touch with Maggie White, Student
Conference Organizer via email at mawhite6-at-wisc.edu.
Maggie has prepared a Sponsorship Booklet that we have placed on
the IEEE-Madison Web site here.
The Sponsorship levels are Graphene $10,000+, Platinum $7000, Gold
$4500, Silver $3000, and Bronze $1500.
The IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative recently announced distribution of scholarships to 184 students at 95 universities across the United States & Canada for the 2014–15 academic year. These students are also members of 69 IEEE Sections/PES Chapters.
The IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative was developed by the IEEE Power & Energy Society in partnership with the IEEE Foundation. Qualified U.S. undergrads will receive scholarship funds for up to 3 years as well as opportunities for internships and co-ops within the power and energy industry. University of Wisconsin-Madison students Robert Erickson (class of 2015), Jonathan Herzog (class of 2017), Maxwell Schweiner (class of 2015) and University of Wisconsin-Platteville student Jacob Bluem (class of 2015) were given awards. Congratulations!
The UW-Madison IEEE Student Branch
approached the Section for support of a multi-term student
project. We have worked with Alex Gabourie, Alex Kocher, and
Ahmed Saif to come up with an interesting and challenging project
that also solves a societal need. They have decided to use
UAVs to help find missing people who wander because of Autism or
Dementia. We have contacted Project Lifesaver International,
a non-profit organization that works with public safety
organization and individuals with affected loved ones to help
locate wanderers. They have developed a number of devices
that can be worn and emit RF pulses that can be tracked up to one
mile on the ground and as much as 6 miles in the air. Many
public safety, police, EMT and fire departments do not have the
budget to rent a plane or helicopter for the air search. The
students will work to build a device that will meet the needs of
Project Lifesaver, carrying UAV-borne radio location equipment for
better range and faster searches. The students are also looking
for related wildlife tracking applications that use similar
radio-location equipment. For information on Project
Lifesaver, see Project
Lifesaver International.
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