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Upcoming Events

January eLearning "Solid State Lighting"

Date: Thursday, January 8th, 2015
Meeting: eLearning Course on Basics of Solid State Lighting, details at this link.
Details: One Hour eLearning Seminar starting at 12:00.
Location: ACS, 3119 Deming Way, Middleton, WI 53562
0.1 CEUs, 1 PDHs Certified, free for IEEE Members,
$10 Registration for Non-IEEE Members
Food and Beverage will be available for $5 IEEE Members, $10 Non-Members
Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section events page.

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January Section Meeting: "LED Lighting: Innovation in the Marketplace"

Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2015
Speaker: Ingrid McMasters, LC
Details: Lecture and Tour of ETC, starting at 5:30PM
Appetizers and Beverages will be served Free of Charge.
Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section event page.
Location:
Electronic Theater Controls, Inc.
3031 Pleasant View Rd.
Middleton, Wisconsin 53562
NOTE: This is an EVENING Meeting!

Talk: Ingrid McMasters will discuss the reasons why LED lighting is quickly becoming the most specified light source in the market and provide a reality check on the pros and cons of the technology. She will share some of the most common applications and identify some of the myths of LEDs. She will also touch on why LEDs can be difficult to specify and use when compared to traditional lighting technologies.

Tour: Following the talk we will have a tour of Electronic Theater Controls facility. ETC is a global leader in the manufacture of lighting and rigging technology for entertainment and architectural applications. Founded in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1975, ETC was a college project that grew into a major business, with Fred Foster as the current chief executive officer. ETC’s international headquarters is located in Middleton, Wisconsin. The company also has offices in Mazomanie (Wisconsin), New York, Hollywood, Orlando, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Ede (the Netherlands), Rome, London, Berlin, and Holzkirchen (Germany). ETC employs nearly 900 people around the globe.

Section News
- Review of December's Events
  
  December Entrepreneur and Consultant's Network: Tom Kaminski presented an interesting talk from a quick review of Digital Signal Processing to the use of inexpensive USB-connected Software Defined Radio devices running on inexpensive System-on-a-Chip microprocessors. The USB devices, based on a DVB-T Digital Broadcast TV receivers used in most of the world (outside of the US), cost as little as $12 and implement an RF amplifier, converter, and In-Phase and Quadrature digitizer that works up to 2.5 Mega Samples per Second (8-bits for each of I and Q). Tom demonstrated the use of Open-Sourced SDR, such as GNUradio Companion, on his laptop and on both the RaspberryPi and BeagleBone Black SoCs. Tom has provided this link of the slides he presented.
  
  December "Hands On Drones" Workshop: The workshop was attended by a mix of IEEE members, Student Members, and the general public and successfully assembled, programmed, and flew four quad-rotor drones. The workshop covered all of the basics required to understand how to build and fly emerging UAV (Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicle) systems. The vehicles built were then donated to the UW-Madison Student IEEE branch for future drone-based projects. It was held at UW-Madison College of Engineering, Engineering Hall Room 1438. Student Branch members Alex Gabourie, Alex Kocher, and Ahmed Saif helped teach the Hands-On portion and worked to install the needed software on both PCs in the room and on the RC Transmitters.
  
  December Section Meeting: I apologize for not getting out an eNotice for the Volunteer Appreciation Event held at Brocach on the square. The notice was not sent due to a miscommunication. It was posted as a vtools Meeting notice, however. Sixteen people attended and had a good time. Thanks to all of the Volunteers working for the IEEE-Madison Section.
- Upcoming Meetings
  
  January Section Meeting: Scott Olsen, IEEE-Madison's new Industrial Outreach Chair, has planned a new type of event where we hold an event of current interest to our members at a local Industry. The event will be held at Electronic Theater Controls in Middleton and will feature a presentation by a Ingrid McMasters, a lighting designer by trade. She has worked on all types of interior and exterior lighting in commercial and residential projects over the past 19 years. She is a true lighting geek and is a past president and program chair for the Illuminating Engineering Society - Madison Section. She is Lighting Certified through the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP) and currently serves as the NCQLP Test Committee chairperson. The event will also feature a tour of ETC that I am told is a quite an exceptional facility. It also showcases many of the advanced lighting controls at its facility. NOTE: This is an evening meeting. I hope you all can make it.
  
  eLearning Course for January: This month's topic is on Solid State Lighting (going with the theme of our Section Meeting) and will be held at the ACS, Inc. Middleton Facility. Thanks again, ACS for supporting this event. CEU/PDH credits are awarded upon completing a survey form at the end of the course.
  
  Life Member Affinity Group: We were able to easily get the required 6 signatures on a petition and approval of the Life Member Chair of the IEEE and Region 4 and Madison Section Chairs for starting a Life Member Affinity Group. As of the December 21st, 2014 the IEEE-Madison Section now has an official Life Member Affinity group. Please get in touch with Tom Kaminski via email to tjkaminski(at)ieee.org if you are willing to help organize the Life Member Affinity Group. We would like to schedule the first organizing meeting in January, 2015.
- Volunteers and Sponsors Needed
  
  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.
  
  Young Professionals: New Professional members of IEEE, previously called "GOLD" are now called Young Professionals and cover those who have graduated in the last 15 years. The IEEE-Madison Section now has over 140 members who are considered "Young Professionals". Are you interested in getting together with others to plan social, professional, job fair, and mentoring events? Would you like to help organize a Young Professionals Affinity group here in Madison? Please let me know (tjkaminski-at-ieee.org).
Regular Meetings

Section Meetings
The third Thursday of January through May, and September through December is reserved for a meeting to provide recent research, developments, trends and/or innovations in one of our membership's technical areas.
IEEE-MSN-ECN Networking Meetings
- Purpose: Presentations, Discussions, networking
- Date: First Thursday of even-numbered months
- Time: 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
- Location: Sector67, 2100 Winnebago Street (East Side of Madison)
- Parking: Park in lot or on Winnebago Street.
- Process: Members are encouraged to make introductions, describe endeavors, and make request for: contacts in target companies, needs, resources.
- Contact: For assistance, call Tim Chapman 2 0 6 - 2 5 7 0

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The IEEE Madison Section Newsletter Published 9 times per year (Jan-May, Sep-Dec) by the Madison, Wisconsin Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), for its members in South-Central Wisconsin. Online at http://ieee-msn.truenym.net/ For address changes: notify IEEE headquarters at: http://www.ieee.org/ or address-change@ieee.org. Editorial or comments contact: Tom Kaminski <tjkaminski at ieee.org>. Permission to copy without fee all or part of any material without copyright notice is granted provided the copies are not made or distributed for direct communication advantage, and title of the publication and its date appear on each copy. To copy material with a copyright notice requires specific permission. Please direct all copyright-related inquiries or requests to the IEEE Copyright Office. Thank you.

Madison Section Newsletter

Upcoming Events

January eLearning "Solid State Lighting"

January Section Meeting: "LED Lighting: Innovation in the Marketplace"

Section News

Review of December's Events

Volunteers and Sponsors Needed

Regular Meetings

Section Meetings

IEEE-MSN-ECN Networking Meetings

Membership Upgrades

About IEEE

Madison IEEE Section

Job Openings

Sponsored Content

Contact Us