There will be a general membership meeting on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 12:30 PM in N 241 for the purpose of electing officers for the student branch: chair, vice-chair, secretary, and treasurer. The constitution for the student branch can be found on the web site at http://stu.cbu.edu/Clubs/ieee/ and sections applicable to elections are listed below. Only active members may run for office or vote. A list of active members is hereto attached.
If you are interested in running for office prepare a vita and a list of proposed programs that you would advocate for the student branch such as S-PACs, socials, initiating minority participation, and memberships drives. Send vita and list of proposed programs to Dr. John Ventura at
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by midnight, April 21. 2008. Election will be by secret ballot.
Membership Sec. 4 Membership shall be limited to undergraduate students mainly of CBU Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, but shall include students of other CBU departments including the graduate program. Sec. 5 The membership shall consist of Student members of the IEEE. Officers Sec. 9 The officers of the CBU Student Branch shall be a Chairman & Treasurer, a Vice-Chairman, and a Secretary. Sec. 10 To be eligible for office, a candidate must be enrolled as a Student member of the IEEE and a member in good standing in the CBU Student Branch. Sec. 11 The term of office shall ordinarily be one year. Sec. 12 Election of officers for the following year shall be held not later than the last meeting of each year.
Duties of Officers Sec. 15 The Chairperson shall preside at all meetings of the CBU Student Branch. He/she shall appoint all committees, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee, and shall assume all other executive duties not otherwise delegated. Sec. 16 The Vice-Chairman shall perform all functions of the Chairman in the latter's absence or at his/her request. Sec. 17 The Branch Secretary shall keep a record of all activities of the Branch and shall report same to IEEE Headquarters, together with any special reports required by IEEE Headquarters, within a reasonable time after each meeting. The secretary shall carry on all other communications necessary to the activities of the Branch. The secretary shall keep a record of the names of members in attendance at the meetings. Sec. 18 The Treasurer shall receive all money and pay all debts of the Branch authorized by the Executive Committee, and shall keep an exact account of all receipts and expenditures. Sec. 19 A complete annual report shall be submitted by the Chairman and the Treasurer at the last regular meeting of the year, and shall be forwarded by the Branch Secretary to the IEEE Manager of Student Services, upon certification by the Counselor.
Navin, Congratulations on your paper being chosen for the Student Paper Contest at IEEE SoutheastCon 2008, in Huntsville, Alabama on Saturday, April 5, 2008.
Best, John Ventura
_________________________________________________________________________________________ From: Eric S. Ackerman, Ph.D. Region 3 Student Activities Chair
Hello IEEE R3 2008 Paper Contestant,
I am pleased to inform you that, based on the analysis and recommendation of our reviewers, your paper, has been accepted for Oral presentation at the Student Paper Contest at IEEE SoutheastCon 2008, in Huntsville, Alabama on Saturday, April 5, 2008. Congratulations!
Each contestant will have 15 minutes for oral presentation and 5 minutes for a question and answer period. A timekeeper will indicate, by some suitable method, how a contestant's time is progressing and when each of his/her prescribed time periods is completed. I will use a random process to determine the order of oral presentation and will inform the participating schools of their presentation order prior to the beginning of paper contest at the conference.
Please note that to be eligible to enter a paper in the competition, the author must be a paid-up student member of IEEE in Region 3 at the time that the entry is submitted. The student must also be an undergraduate the Spring term of the year the paper is presented. Multiple authors are permitted up to a limit of three, all of whom must be undergraduate students and IEEE student members.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions that you might have.
Under the guidance of the Memphis Section of IEEE, Christian Brothers University will be hosting an IEEE Student - Professional Awareness Conference on Thursday, March 27 ’08.
We have scheduled a meeting for Thursday, January 24 '08 in Nolan 235 at 12:15 pm. We will be broadcasting the meeting online and will provide you with pizza and drinks.
Our broadcast address is : mms://livecast.cbu.edu:2000 This feed is viewable via Windows Media Player until January 30 .
If you cannot attend this meeting in person, you can reach our teleconference line at: (901) 321-3071.
All members participating in the SPAC have been included in the SPAC Mailing List. Get in touch with me or David James, the SPAC Chair, if you want to be included in this list.
The CBU chapter of IEEE, would like to thank Mr. Puesh Kumar, Mr. Steven Brown, and Dr. Alan Proffitt for taking to time to speak to our chapter on August 23, 2007.
Mr. Puesh Kumar is an Electrical Engineering graduate from The University of Memphis. He presently works as a Power and Structures Engineer at Memphis Light, Gas, & Water and serves as the Vice Chair of the Memphis Section of IEEE. Mr. Steven Brown, P.E.is a Lead Substation Engineer with Memphis Light, Gas and Water. Mr. Brown has previously served as chairman of the Memphis IEEE IAS/PES Chapter and is a member of the IEEE PES Substations Committee.
Dr. Alan Proffitt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis, where he lectures in the Department of Engineering Technology. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Arkansas, and continues to represent IEEE as a program evaluator for TAC of ABET. Dr. Proffitt is a senior member of IEEE, ISA, ASEE, the Army Engineer Association, and the Reserve Officers Association.
The student chapter of IEEE at CBU would also like to thank all its members and prospective members who attended the club meeting.
We have many exciting club events planned for the semester and we hope you will participate enthusiastically.
In light of the new semester, we have called for an IMPORTANT club meeting at 12:15PM on Thursday, August 23 in Nolan 241. EVENT: IEEE Club Meeting LOCATION: Nolan 241 TIME: 12:15pm DATE: Thursday August 23, 2007
Representatives from the local Memphis Section of IEEE will be present at this meeting and free Pizza and drinks will be provided. Kindly arrange your schedule to attend this club meeting.
Siamak Keyvani, a senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded a $4000 Dorothy and Arthur Crouch Memorial Scholarship by the Nashville Chapter of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers and its Auxiliary. The scholarship is open to any Junior or Senior, male or female, in an accredited engineering school in the state of Tennessee. Siamak was awarded the scholarship based on his academic success, research experience, and his active involvement in community service.
Yuri is a Senior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major. He is a member of CBU’s Honors Program, the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, the Alpha Chi Honor Society, the Math Association of America (MAA), the Society of Physics Students (SPS), and the International Student Alliance (ISA) at CBU. Yuri has an East Indian ancestry and hails from the Sultanate of Oman where he did his pre-college schooling. Presently, Yuri works part time as a Web Developer for the Information Technology Services at CBU. He will graduate in May, 2008 and plans to attend graduate school.
CAITLIN WOODWARD
Vice Chair of Student Branch
Caitlin is a Junior Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major. She is a member of CBU’s Honors Program and IEEE. Caitlin hails from the Newalla, Oklahoma.
BINH NGUYEN
Secretary of Student Branch
Binh is a Sophomore Electrical Engineering major and Mathematics minor. He is a member of the Math Association of America (MAA) at CBU. Binh was born in Vietnam and left for the United States of America when he was eight years old. Binh plans to graduate in May of 2010 and attend graduate school.
DAVID JAMES
Treasurer of Student Branch
Hello, my name is David James and I am the treasurer at Christian Brothers University for IEEE. I was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and am currently a Junior at CBU double majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. On the weekends, I run the helpdesk at CBU. I also help tutor others in various Math subjects throughout the week. Outside of school, I am a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and an Eagle Scout from a local Boy Scout Troop. For the future, I am considering getting a Masters to further my engineering degree, and eventually hope to get my MBA. As to how I want to use my degrees from CBU, all I can say is that "I want to do something in computers." Only time and opportunities will tell what that will be.
DR. JOHN VENTURA
CBU Student Branch Counselor
Dr. John Ventura is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CBU. He graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Christian Brothers College and earned a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1967. He has a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) and currently holds licenses in the following states: Tennessee - Professional Engineer (retired) and Mississippi - Professional Engineer and Land Surveyor. John is a senior member in IEEE, serves as the IEEE student advisor at CBU, and serves as the student coordinator for the Memphis Section of IEEE .
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