UCLA 2010 Tech Forum Poster Entries

This is a forwarded message from Salvador Rivas:

Dear Student Group Leaders,

Please share the following announcement/opportunity with your student group members.

The 2010 Tech Forum poster competition is open to all HSSEAS students. The competition is intended to allow students to share their creativity and research that address real-world challenges, while mingling with conference attendees from academia and industry. This year we will be awarding $500 to the first place winner and $250 to each of the two honorable mentions. We are seeking submissions for posters based on one of the three theme areas of this year’s forum. The areas are: Energy and the environment; Critical infrastructure; Biotech and healthcare.

Please submit your posters abstract on the attached Poster Abstract template. Please also review the attached guidelines for abstracts and posters being entered into the competition. The deadline for poster abstract submissions is now January 14th. If you have any questions regarding this year’s competition, please contact Shelly Fraga by phone (310) 206-0678 or e-mail at sfraga@support.ucla.edu

We look forward to seeing you at the Tech Forum on Thursday, February 11, 2009.

Best Regards.

Weekly Announcements (week 1)

Greetings,

I'd like to welcome everyone back to the winter quarter of the 2010 academic year. I hope you are all well rested, and ready to come out to our exciting events!

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IEEE General Meeting!
Tuesday, January 12. 6PM - 8PM(2th week)
Location: Boelter 4760

This is the very first meeting of the Winter quarter! Please come by to hear about future events scheduled for this quarter. There will also be food at this event!

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Ethics Competition

Are you interested in an ethics competition at UCLA? The requirement for entering is completion of an ethics course. If you are interested, please email ieee@ee.ucla.edu with your name and which ethics course you have completed. Unfortunately, there are limited spots for the ethics competition team, so apply soon!

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Study Halls

Come visit the newly renovated IEEE/HKN student lounge at Engineering IV, 67-127 later during the quarter! The study halls will be held by IEEE along with HKN. Students will be welcome to come by and study in a relaxed atmosphere, or to be tutored by EE honor society students as well.

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Hope to see you there!

Jeff On
Marketing Director

Mini Projects this Thursday - Check out our video!

Thursday, Nov. 19th (THIS THURSDAY)
Starts at 6pm. Boelter 4760.

EVERYONE IS INVITED.

Weekly Announcements (week 8)

Hello everyone,

Lots of events this week! Be sure to come out to them!

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IEEE General Meeting #4
Thursday, November 19. 6PM - 8PM(8th week)
Location: Boelter 4760

Did anybody look forward to some... hands on experience? Well, you're in luck! There will be a mini-projects workshop during this event! Please make sure to mark your calendars and come along! We'll be teaching everyone how to make synthesizers! Drag your friends too, even if they aren't engineering majors as this event will be lots of fun!

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2009 Electrical Engineering Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, November 17. 6PM - 7:30PM(8th week)
Location: Eng IV, 54-134 (The Shannon Room)

HKN and IEEE will be hosting the 2009 undergraduate EE Town Hall meeting on Tuesday.
This meeting will provide a platform for students to direct their concerns to the faculty group. Some topics that will be discussed during the meeting include: eeweb development, options curriculum, undergraduate research opportunities, etc. You are encouraged to think of questions beforehand to ask at the EE Town Hall! All years are welcomed (1st-5th years), and all attendees will be entered in a raffle to win a FREE ACER NETBOOK!

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Micromouse Meeting #1
Wednesday, November 18. 6:00pm(8th week)
Location: Eng IV, 57-124 (Maxwell Room)

After taking a 3-4 year hiatus from UCLA, IEEE/HKN/UPE would like to announce Micromouse, a robotics competition where each team builds a maze traversing robot - first one to the center of the maze wins. The robots are built and programmed from scratch. If you are interested in working on a fun, hands on project involving lots of software and hardware design, and possible capstone design class credit through EE184D, come and join us at the meeting! We hope to see you there!

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Hope to see you there!

Jeff On
Marketing Director

Micromouse Announcement!

Micromouse Meeting #1
Wednesday, November 18th at 6:00pm
Location: Maxwell Room (Room 57-124 in Engr. IV)

After taking a 3-4 year hiatus from UCLA, IEEE/HKN/UPE would like to announce Micromouse, a robotics competition where each team builds a maze traversing robot - first one to the center of the maze wins. The robots are built and programmed from scratch. If you are interested in working on a fun, hands on project involving lots of software and hardware design, and possible capstone design class credit through EE184D, come and join us at the meeting! We hope to see you there!

Andrea Wang

Your Google Ambassador

Greetings UCLA Electrical Engineering Students!

This is your local Google Engineering Ambassador, letting you know that if you wanted to organize a Google event, utilize more Google products on campus,  or had any questions, ideas, or concerns regarding Google, that I'm here to help out!

I'm also here to let every one know when new Google event's will be taking place, like the tech talk and interview workshop that happened earlier this quarter.  Be on the lookout next quarter for some events next quarter regarding new products or workshops.

To reach me, just send me an email at fozziethebeat@gmail.com, or you can swing by my office in Boelter Hall 4685.

In addition, I wanted to get an idea of how students on campus are using some Google products.  If you could, please take a few minutes to fill out a survey regarding Google Docs.  Everyone who fills out a survey, and provides contact information, will be entered into a raffle to win either a slick Google water bottle or a Google Wave account (Up to 50 people will get a water bottle and 10 will get a wave account), so don't be timid!

A link for the survey can be found here com/viewform?formkey=dENYY0RuN0xiY2dJZ1o4ZmFjZE5PTFE6MA>

Sincerely,
Your Google Ambassador, Keith Stevens

Weekly Announcements (week 7)

Hey everybody,

Sorry for the delay,
These are the weekly announcements for 7th week!

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IEEE General Meeting #3
Thursday, November 19. 6PM - 8PM(8th week)
Location: TBA

There will be a mini-projects workshop during this event! Please make sure to mark your calendars and come along! Bring your friends along, even if they aren't engineering majors as this event will be lots of fun! We'll be teaching everyone how to make (as well as providing the materials for) synthesizers! So come out and have a blast!

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2009 Electrical Engineering Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, November 17. 6PM - 7:30PM(8th week)
Location: Eng IV, 54-134 (The Shannon Room)

HKN and IEEE will be hosting the 2009 undergraduate EE Town Hall meeting on Tuesday.
This meeting will provide a platform for students to direct their concerns to the faculty group. Some topics that will be discussed during the meeting include: eeweb development, options curriculum, undergraduate research opportunities, etc. You are encouraged to think of questions beforehand to ask at the EE Town Hall! All years are welcomed (1st-5th years), and all attendees will be entered in a raffle to win a FREE ACER NETBOOK!
(Please note that you must be an EE major and physically present to retrieve your raffle prize.)

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IEEE Las Vegas Trip!
January 8-10.
cost: $100

The officers of the IEEE student branch at UCLA will be going to Las Vegas at the beginning of winter quarter for Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Students are also welcome to come along! It will be one dinner and two nights, complete with transportation. The fee must be paid by the next general meeting, on November 19. We hope you decide to join us in going to CES! Come out and enjoy Las Vegas at the beginning of winter quarter!

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IEEE Spectrum Links:
Some links I personally found interesting:

Biofuels Aren't Really Green
A High-Pressure Assignment
Photovoltaic Grid Parity

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Thank you!

Jeff On
Marketing Director