Week 6 Announcements

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This Week: 

• Winter General Meeting #3: Valentine Day Mixer
• Project Hello World: Java and Game Programming

Upcoming Events:

• Professor Talk: An Introduction to Intellectual Property

Opportunities:

• JPL Mars Rover Talk and LA & OC IEEE Society Expo
• The Aerospace Corporation: Summer Internships and Part-time Employment
• IEEE Computer Society/Moverio Contest

This Week:

1.	Winter General Meeting #3: Valentine Day Mixer
Date:	Wednesday, February 13th
Location:	Maxwell Room, Engineering IV 57-124
Time:	6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Description:	Not sure what to do for Valentine’s Day? Come to IEEE's 3rd General Meeting and socialize with other engineers while participating in Valentine’s day activities. Learn how to make accessories out of electrical components and Hershey's kiss roses and candy flowers to give to your friends! Free food and candy will be provided.

2.	Project Hello World: Java and Game Programming
Date:	Wednesday, February 13th
Location:	Maxwell Room, Engineering IV 57-124
Time:	7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Description:	This week we'll start learning how to set up and use the Slick2D Game Engine to program basic games. We will be meeting this Wednesday in the Maxwell room (57-124, in Engineering Building IV) right after the IEEE General Meeting. Knowledge of Java is required.

Upcoming Events: 

1.	Professor Talk: An Introduction to Intellectual Property*
Date:	Wednesday, February 20th
Location:	Boelter Hall 4760
Time:	6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Description:	Are you interested in starting your own busienss? Do you have an idea you want to pursue and implement? Then knowing the basics of intellectual property is a must to protect your work and your effort. Attend the coming Professor Talk, by Professor John Villasenor, on intellectual property and learn how you can utilize this tool to protect your own creation. Free food will be provided as well. John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. His work focuses on the nature and growing impact of digital information. *Co-hosted by IEEE and HKN.

Opportunities:

1.	JPL Mars Rover Talk and LA & OC IEEE Society Expo
Date:	Saturday, March 9th
Location:	Room 111 at Brandman University, 16355 Laguna Canyon Rd., Irvine
Time:	2:00 PM – 5:00 PM+ (Doors open at 1:30 PM)
Description:	Curiosity is latest and largest Mars Rover (a “Mini-Cooper” on six wheels) carrying advanced science equipment (including a Mars Rock Laser Pulverizer) and has been exploring a young Martian crater. This Expo is dedicated to the engineering, scientific results and data to-date of the Martian rover. Demonstration includes models such as curiosity landing site scale model, hardware and mock-ups. The feature speaker is the lead NASA-JPL Curiosity Mission Engineer, Mr. Charles Baker. At the expo, several Los Angeles and Orange County professional societies will be present, such as: Planetary Society, IEEE, AIAA, SWE, FSEA, IET, OCVitalLink, INCOSE. This event is free of charge (no parking and admission fees) and free bottled water and healthy snacks will be provided. Please RSVP as soon as possible. This event is sponsored by IEEE-OC Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society (AESS) and IEEE-OC Computer Society (OCCS). This event is also an LA-OC STEM Outreach Event, so high school and college students are most welcome.
Contact:	To RSVP, please follow this link. Event questions is directed to Mr. Fred Lawler at fredlawler@hotmail.com.
2.	The Aerospace Corporation: Summer Intern and Part-time
Description:	The Aerospace Corporation is also looking for potential undergrad and grad summer internships and part-time employment at Aerospace while attending UCLA.  You must be a US citizen.  Required qualifications are listed below: A B.S. degree in EE or related field  Minimum of a MS degree and/or two years of experience since BS degree in the prototyping of digital communication systems and/or algorithms is required for MTS. Prior hand’s on laboratory experience is essential.  Strong written and verbal communication skills are necessary. US Citizenship required. Preferred qualifications are listed below: Graduate degree related to design of communication and/or GPS signal processing hardware is preferred. Proficiency in Xilinx Foundation, Matlab, Python and/or Modelsim is preferred. Prior design experience in of VHDL and C/C++ is preferred. Analog or RF design experience is a plus. Experience implementing communication algorithms using embedded software, multi-threaded programming, DSP,FPGA, ADCs, DACs and/or ASICs is desired. A theoretical understanding and practical experience with modern communication and digital signal processing techniques is highly desirable.
Contact:	Please send your resume to eechair@ee.ucla.edu.  On the subject line, use Aerospace Corporation Internship.
3.	IEEE Computer Society/Moverio Contest
Description:	IEEE CS Society is hosting a competition via video reply and is asking participants to pitch them the “next generation” application ideas for Moverio BT-100, an Android based high resolution see-through display with Wi-Fi connectivity. More information on Moverio BT-100 can be found here. The contest entry date starts on January 1st 2013 and ends on April 30th, 2013. Official rules of the contest can be found here. One grand prize of $8,000 and 3 honorable Mention Prizes of $2,000/each will be given. All winners will also be given a Moverio BT-100 unit.
Contact:	For individuals interested in this opportunity, post your video reply on Youtube and submit your official contest entry form here.

Hope to see you soon,

UCLA IEEE

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