I’m sending you a friendly reminder that early registration for our spring banquet ends on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Please sign up in the next few days to get the discounted rate. Details are below. I hope to see you there.

If you can’t make if to the banquet, I hope to see you at the IEEE Xplore event at BSU on Feb. 9, 7:00pm, MEC 106.

Best Regards,

Randy Wolff
IEEE Boise Section Chair

Wednesday, February 22nd – IEEE Boise Section Annual Banquet
Time:
• 5:30 pm – Doors open for reception (non-alcoholic cocktails and cheese/fruit hors d’oeuvres)
• 6:15 pm – Dinner served
• 7:00 pm – Presentation begins
Location: Boise State University, Student Union Center – Bishop Barnwell Room
Normal Registration Fee / Early Registration Fee:
• $30 / $25* for IEEE members and their guest
• $35 / $30* for non-members
• $15 / $10* for IEEE student branch members
Registration and Payment URL: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/10233

Early registration with reduced rate deadline is February 8th, 5:00pm. Normal registration will close February 14th at 5:00 pm. Registration will be limited to 64, due to available space, and payment is only accepted on-line through the registration link above. Buffet Menu: Sesame Chicken with Cumberland Sauce, Sliced Flank Steak with Savory Mushroom Demi-Glace, Tossed Salad with Two Dressings, Minted Fresh Fruit Salad, Wild Rice Pilaf, Roasted New Potatoes, Asparagus and Rolls with Butter.

Topic: “Nanoscale to Exascale: Enabling Future High Performance Computing”
Recent advances in CPU and GPU architectures are enabling new levels of supercomputer performance. Once the clear leader in supercomputing capability, the top performance supercomputers no longer reside in the USA and innovation is fast-paced on a global basis. In his talk, Mr. Klein will explore the architectures of today’s performance leading machines, with a look forward at the enabling technologies of future of high-performance computing.

Guest Speaker: Dean Klein
Dean Klein is Vice President of Memory System Development at Micron Technology. Mr. Klein joined Micron in January 1999, after having held several leadership positions at Micron Electronics, Inc., including Executive Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technical Officer. He also co-founded and served as President of PC Tech, Inc., previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of Micron Electronics, Inc., from its inception in 1984. Mr. Klein’s current responsibilities as Vice President of Memory System Development focus on developing solid state drive technologies and capabilities.

Mr. Klein earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and he holds over 220 patents in the areas of computer architecture and electrical engineering. He has a passion for math and science education and is a mentor to the FIRST Robotics team (www.USFIRST.org) in the Meridian, Idaho school district.

Time: 19:00-21:00 MST
Location: Boise State University Micron Engineering Center Room MEC 301

Agenda
Maker Faire (Jenny Kniss)
Review election results and officer transition details
Review non-elected officer positions
End-of-year reporting requirements
Engineer Week Banquet Planning
Status on action items from last meeting
IEEE Explorer Speaker – Elisa
Organize Meeting to watch IEEE recorded sessions from Sections Congress – Elisa & Jaydip
Chapter chair, affinity chair roundtable
2012 Budget Planning Preparation

Overhead System Condition Assessment and Maintenance: Techniques and Benefits

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 14^th, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Location: Idaho Power Company CHQ Auditorium West

1221 W. Idaho St., Boise ID 83702

Brown Bag Technical Event: Drinks and light snacks provided

Presented by: John Lauletta, CEO, Exacter, Inc.

As overhead distribution electric equipment ages it is subject to damage by lightning, environmental pollution, switching surges, freeze/thaw cycles, and other issues of age related wear-and-tear. The result of this damage is momentary and sustained outages, reduced feeder reliability, increased Customer Minutes of Interruption (CMI) and a degradation of standard reliability indices such as SAIFI and SAIDI.

This presentation will review the root causes of equipment damage, the symptoms that result from weakened equipment, the opportunity to improve overall overhead distribution reliability, case studies to demonstrate the efficacy of predictive-based overhead system hardening, and the methodologies to develop conditions-based predictive maintenance programs. The review will include high-voltage laboratory test methods and results that demonstrate the failure syndromes of weakened overhead equipment.

Finally, a review of U.S. statistics on weakened equipment findings and field methods to pinpoint the structure and piece of equipment to replace will be reviewed.

John Lauletta has been involved in electric utility measurement technology since 1975. John’s career includes ten years with American Electric Power as Measurements Manager, 14 Years as VP Scientific Columbus and most recently as President and CEO of Exacter, Inc.

John holds engineering degrees from The Ohio State University and Purdue University and is the Past Chair of the Central Ohio Power Engineering Society Chapter of IEEE.

John holds several patents in predictive failure technologies. Exacter, Inc. is a developer of predictive technologies for electric utility reliability, grid conditions-based assessment, and preventive maintenance.

Contact Information:

Exacter, Inc.

7700 Rivers Edge Dr.

Columbus, OH 43235

jlauletta@exacterinc.com

www.exacterinc.com

Phone: 614.880.9320

Mobile: 216.496.1219

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No Admission Charge.

Join us the eve of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED) for pitchers of soda plus pizza and/or appetizers to mingle with fellow IEEE members and WMED participants.  Non-members are welcome and strongly encouraged to attend! 

Date:  Thursday, April 21, 2011

Time:  17:00-19:00 MDT

Place:  The Front Door, 105 S. 6th Street, Boise, ID (within walking distance of The Grove Hotel)

Bi-monthly Business Meeting

No Admission Charge.

Meeting Agenda:

- Region 6 Spring meeting recap–Chris and Elisa

- NE Area meeting preparation

- Sections Congress (hope to get more info at the Region meeting)

- Spring newsletter content

- IEEE/R6 Award Nominations

• $20 for IEEE members and their guest
• $35 for non-members
• $15 for students

• Chicken Florentine with Lemon Cream Sauce
• Vegetarian option

For more information contact: