Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Fall Planning Meeting August 29 th 2015 San Marcos, TX

IEEE Central Texas Section Chapter Leadership Team l Chair: Luis Cabeza l Vice-Chair/Secretary: Farjad Zaheer l Treasurer/Publicity Chair: Kristi Paranjape l Program Chair: Open

IEEE Central Texas Section 2014 Chapter Meetings (1/2) DateTechnical/ Admin TopicSpeakerL31 1/25/15AdminPlanning meeting with officers 2/17/14TechnicalSmart Grid-Ready Instrumentation: A Virtual Instrumentation Approach for an Advanced Software-Designed-Intelligent-Electronic- Device Platform Roberto Piacentini, NIPES 3/17/14TechnicalLabVIEW Hands-On TrainingCourtney Lessard, NI X 5/21/14TechnicalCrypto-Currency & BitcoinTim Hayles, NIX 9/22/14TechnicalVector Signal Tranceiver (VST): Under the Hood Richard Maslowski, NIX 10/16/14TechnicalNext Generation Data and Systems for Utilities Bob Knox, The Structure Group X

IEEE Central Texas Section 2014 Chapter Meetings (2/2) DateTechnical/ Admin TopicSpeakerL31 11/19/14TechnicalElectromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Requirements for Smart Grid and other Energy Applications Ross Carlton, NIX 12/16/14AdminIEEE I&M Officers Meeting,

IEEE Central Texas Section 2015 Chapter Meetings DateTechnical/ Admin TopicSpeakerL31 1/14/15AdminIEEE I&M Planning Meeting-- 1/19/15TechnicalMeters to Models: Using Residential Smart Meter Data to Predict and Control Home Energy Usage Krystian PerezX 2/16/15TechnicalAre you prepared to think about the world as an Internet of Things? Fawzi BehmannX 3/16/15TechnicalWind Energy and Wind TurbinesVaughn NelsonX 4/27/15TechnicalAutomated Test Markup Language: Standardized Description in Automated Test Systems Using XML Anand JainX 6/15/15TechnicalIntelligent Asset Monitoring for Power Generation Preston JohnsonX

IEEE Central Texas Section Visualizing Success… l Consistent attendance at every meeting: l I&M Chapter would have an identity l Members are involved at higher levels of IEEE l Volunteers are plentiful l Members’ employers value membership in IEEE and our chapter l Goals for 2013 l Average attendance of at each meeting l Hold at least 6 chapter meetings (3 spring, 3 fall) l Hold 1 social event

IEEE Central Texas Section SWOT Analysis (1/2) Strengths: instrumentation is an exciting field which touches all branches of engineering field. Thus, it is relatively easy to find out interesting topics and speakers as well as joint meeting opportunities with other IEEE societies.The strong support we are getting for NI. Being located in Austin, because of UT and high tech companies.w. low membership and scarcity of people. Weaknesses: low membership & scarcity of people wanting to serve as officers. Three vacancies, three officers, two of them hold two positions.

IEEE Central Texas Section SWOT Analysis (2/2) Opportunities: because the I&M engineering field is closely related to control engineering and no CE chapter is available in CTS organizing combined chapter with the two societies may help I&M to obtain critical mass. Threats: load is so heavy that the current officers may become so tired and quit.

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