These upcoming events may be of interest to IEEE Boise Section members:

Boise State University will host an evening with esteemed security technologist and author Bruce Schneier at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in the Special Events Center. The talk is free and open to the public. See http://news.boisestate.edu/blog/2009/12/bruce-schneier for details.

The next IEEE Boise Section OPCOM business meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, at MEC 202 (Micron Engineering Center, 1020 Manitou Ave.) at Boise State University. This meeting is open to IEEE members.

The 2010 Engineers Week Banquet, featuring guest speaker Gordon Day, 2009 President of IEEE-USA, will be held Wednesday, Feb. 17. Dr. Day will speak on “Prosperity, Innovation, and Engineering Brain Power”. Register by Feb. 12. See http://ieeeboise.org for details.

The 2010 Boise Code Camp and Tech Fest is March 27th and 28th at Boise Statue University. Learn more about this free community event at http://www.boisecodecamp.org .

The IEEE Boise Section Election is now closed and results are in.  Congratulations to the new Boise Section Officers!  Thank you everyone for participating.

IEEE Boise Section Election Survey Results:
Chair:  Chris Gunning – 44 Votes
Vice Chair:  Shyam Surthi – 46 Votes
Secretary:  Kristen Hopper – 44 Votes
Treasurer:  Randy Wolff – 44 Votes
Membership Development Chair:  Jaydip Guha – 24 Votes out of 45 total.
GOLD Chair:  Greg Gatlin – 40 Votes
PACE Chair:  Joe Rikiere – 41 Votes
Website Developer:  Kevin Turner – 41 Votes

Would you be interested in attending a future career builder workshop?  20 – Yes / 20 – No

Would you like to volunteer for the IEEE Boise Section Newsletter Editor?  5 – Yes / 37 – No

Comments:

I am a member of the Power Engineering Society and would like to see a balance of subjects that also include power.

I don’t have a clue when the IEEE Boise Section meets or about it’s website and I’ve been in Boise for 9 years! Where do I get this information?

In your next election, please include a short bio for the candidates since they are not all known to the IEEE Boise community.

The IEEE Boise Annual Picnic will be held at the Boise
Municipal Park (Municipal Shelter) on Friday, September
18th. Please bring a healthy appetite and be prepared to
have a good time. We will have burgers, salad, volleyball.
See you there!

Friday, September 18  – IEEE Boise Annual Picnic
Date/Time:  September 18th, 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:    Boise Municipal Park
Cost: No Charge

Mark Bussert
IEEE Boise Section Chair

The Boise EDS Chapter took on an initiative to elevate eligible members to the grade of Senior Member. We were able to encourage some of the most senior member in the local IEEE community to apply for the elevation and succeed in attaining this very prestigious ranking within the IEEE society. The Sr. Member Elevation Campaign was kicked off in mid-2008. As of today, 15 additional members have been promoted to Senior Member status. Please join us in congratulating them for this special honor.  Their names and the month in which their application was approved are listed below:

October 2008
1. Vishwanath Bhat, 2. Pai-Hung Pan
November 2009
1. Jim Browning, 2. Jaydeb Goswami, 3. Douglas Hackler, 4. William Knowlton, 5. Randy Koval, 6. Inna Patrick
January 2009
1. David Butler, 2. Roy Meade
June 2009
1. Jaydip Guha, 2. William Kueber, 3. Prashant Raghu, 4. Nirmal Ramaswamy, 5. John Zahurak

Senior Member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply.  To be eligible for application, candidates must:
a) be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields;
b) have experience reflecting professional maturity;
c) have been in professional practice for at least ten years (your educational experience is credited as:- BS: 3 years; BS and MS: 4 years; PhD: 5 years);

d) show “significant performance” over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice.

If you are interested in a Senior Member nomination, the IEEE Boise Section and the Chapter officers (http://ieeeboise.org/) will help you with the online application and reference processes.

For more information of the IEEE Senior Member Grade, please visit the following site: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html

Thank you to all who participated in the Resume Workshop.  We would like to give special thanks to the reviewers, Gary Ashton, Bob Hay, and Denise Korman.  The results of the resume workshop surveys are provided below.  Please watch the calendar for future events.

Resume_Workshop_Survey_Results

I never used any of these resources when I was looking for employment, however I did look at them. I believe they could be useful.

Hi Everyone,

I could use what I think should be easy help from you to prepare for the career workshop.  This should take just a few minutes of your time.

IEEE.org has career and employment resources.  I’d like to know which ones you use.  Could you spend a couple of minutes to write a short summary of what you use and optionally how helpful.   This would include IEEE links, mailing lists, books, magazines, newsletters etc.  Please complete before July 18. 

A short list would look something like.

                  IEEE CAREER ALERT — keeps me in informed.

                  Tech Alert — keeps me informed of trends.

Thanks for your help.

Joe Rekiere

Reply to the post or send to me directly (jrekiere@ieee.org)

For those familiar with LinkedIn, there is an official IEEE group, “The Official IEEE Group”. To join, one must be an active IEEE member. Approval is immediate if one has an ieee.org e-mail alias.

TOPIC: iPhone Application Development and Eco-System
SPEAKER: Alexey Piterkin
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Time: 7:00—8:00pm
Seminar free to IEEE members and non-members.
Location: Sybase Auditorium
5777 N. Meeker Ave., Boise

For more information:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/boise/computer/
or contact Joe Rekiere (jrekiere@ieee.org)