Activities
Section and chapter activities
Jan. 2022 Newsletter
FutureCity competition – judges needed on Jan 29th! The IEEE Boise Section and the IEEE Boise SSCS Chapter are proud to be sponsors of the Idaho Regional Future City Competition this year. We are sponsoring the special award for most innovative application of future technologies for sustainable development for the benefit of humanity. The Future… Read more
Dec. 2021 Newsletter
2022 Boise Section Officer Election results The election results are in. The 2022 officers are: Chair – Randy RannowVice Chair – Nader RaflaSecretary – Patrick MiesenTreasurer – Sean Collison Thank you so much to our current officers for everything they’ve done for the section this year and congratulations to our new officers who have stepped… Read more
IEEEXtreme – Boise Section results
In the 24-hour IEEEXtreme programming competition that was held on October 22-23, 2021, the Nighthawks from NNU took first place in the Boise section and 8th place among the 20 teams in Region 6 (Western USA) that participated. They were excited to learn they earned an expense-paid trip to IEEE Rising Stars in January, sponsored by the IEEE-Boise section. The… Read more
Oct. 2021 Newsletter
Reminder: two talks on Thursday, Oct 14th Making Qubits: Diamond, Photonics, Superconductors, and More, by Dr. Russ Renzas, Oct 14, 2021, 12pm MDT. Sponsored by Boise Computer Society and Boise Solid-State Circuits Society chapters. See https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/281749 for details. Straintronics: Manipulating nanomagnets with strain for causal intelligence, by Prof. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Oct 14, 7 PM. Sponsored… Read more
Section Fall 2021 Picnic Pictures
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the section picnic last Friday. And a huge thank you to the IEEE BSU Student Branch for organizing and cooking at the picnic. Here are a few pictures from the event.
Trapping and slowing down photons using black holes in silicon for datacom, sensing, and energy conversion (May 26)
Talk by Dr. Saif Islam, co-hosted by Boise EDS and SSCS chapters, May 26, 12pm. See attached file for abstract and speaker bio. Register and find out more at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/272705 .
Reliability and Resilience in Low-Carbon Power Systems (May 20)
Virtual distinguished lecture by Prof. Pierluigi Mancarella. May 20, 3:30pm MDT. Co-hosted by IEEE-Boise PES chapter. For more details visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/270841 .
IEEE WMED 2021 – Registration Open (VIRTUAL) and Call for Posters
On behalf of the 2021 WMED Organizing Committee, we are pleased to announce the Opening of Registration and Call for Posters for the 18th annual IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices. The workshop will be held virtually on Friday, April 23rd, 2021. Advance registration will close on April 9th, 2021. Our Website has been updated to reflect these changes. Zoom links will be sent from IEEE… Read more
SUSTECH – Green Economy and Cybersecurity (Feb 23)
SusTech 2021 is hosting talks on Sustainability leading up to the conference in April 2021. “Green Economy and Why Cyber Security is so Important – An overview of NIST 800.53 and NIST 800.171” with David E. González, DoD Cybersecurity WorkForce (CSWF) Date: February 23, 2021Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM PST Registration info: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/259748
IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED-2021
WMED 2021 will be held Friday, April 23rd. It will be held virtually due to the pandemic. For more information, see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-ieee-workshop-on-microelectronics-and-electron-devices-wmed-2021-tickets-91341096679 .
Engineering Applications During COVID-19 Online Conference – March 1st
The conference studies the impacts of COVID 19 on Energy, Water and Transportation and also presents new relate engineering applications. For more details, see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/engineering-applications-during-covid-19-online-conference-tickets-140276357361.
IEEE WIE Event – An Engineer’s Exploration of Voting Technology – Feb. 17
IEEE Boise Section is excited to host Professor Elisa Barney Smith, Professor and Associate Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University who will be presenting a virtual Seminar on “An Engineer’s Exploration of Voting Technology” on Wed 2/17-10:30 am-11:30. For more details see https://ieee-region6.org/boise-wie/boise-wie-events.
Engineering Week volunteers
Please email Lynn Olson @ lynnolson1@boisestate.edu if you are interested in volunteering to interview or forward to others that would like this opportunity to meet with the top engineering students in the Class of 2022. Engineers Week, or EWeek, is coming up February 21-27. Founded by NSPE in 1951, EWeek is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by… Read more
Feb. 17th talk – Dark, Deep and Political on the Internet
The IEEE Computer Society Phoenix Chapter is hosting a talk by Bill Curd of SYNESYS GROUP on Wednesday, Feb. 17th (rescheduled from Feb. 10th), at 7pm-9pm MST. He will discuss the Surface Web, Dark Web, and Darknet as well as cybersecurity certifications. For more details and to register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-deep-and-political-on-the-internet-tickets-138016508091 .
Jan. 26th talk by HP Chief Engineer Chandrakant Patel
Date: Tuesday, January 26th 2021, 6pm PT (Pacific Timezone), 7pm Mountain Timezone) HOST: IEEE Santa Clara Valley SectionSPEAKER: Chandrakant Patel, Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow, HP, https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandrakant-d-patel-pe-80a5171 TITLE: Exciting Cyber Physical Course Ahead at the crossroads of domain, data and data sciences Chandrakant is a great speaker and I would highly recommend this event. Ray Beausoleil… Read more
IEEE Member Benefits Bulletin
IEEE publishes a member benefits bulletin for its members. This bulletin is a great source of information about member benefits from across IEEE that you can use as you work or learn from home and that you can take advantage of right now. We hope that these resources will continue to provide you with member value as we all… Read more
BSU Research Computing Days – Registration Open and Guest Speaker Announced
———- Forwarded message ——— From: Research Computing <researchcomputing@boisestate.edu> Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 2:19 PM Subject: Research Computing Days – Registration Open and Guest Speaker Announced To: <ebarneysmith@boisestate.edu> Registration is open! Use our online registration form to sign up for: Software Carpentry Workshops: LEARN TOOLS TO GRAPH, PLOT, AND ANALYZE YOUR DATA using Unix Shell to automate tasks, version… Read more
IEEE-Boise WIE (Women In Engineering) Kick-off meeting
We are excited to start the IEEE WIE Section in Boise. Please join the kick off meeting on Jan 30th between 3pm-4pm at BSU MEC 202p to discuss our annual agenda. Organizer: Nirmala Kandadai Email: nirmalakandadai@boisestate.edu For more details, see https://ieee-region6.org/boise-wie/event/boise-wie-kick-of-meeting/ .
BSU Cyber-Physical Systems Security Forum on Nov. 30th
You are invited to the upcoming event organized by Boise State University: Join us for a Cyber-Physical Systems Security Forum at Boise State University on November 30. This FREE interactive forum is designed to promote discussion on the cyber-physical security risks, threats, and challenges organizations face. To help frame the discussion, we have invited industry leaders… Read more
IEEEXtreme Region 6 unofficial results
Here are the UNOFFICIAL RESULTS for IEEEXtreme 12.0 Region 6 teams as of November 8, 2018. Final results will be posted soon on the IEEEXtreme web site at https://ieeextreme.org/. The members of the winning team, “Sheep”, are Rachel Weber, Wyte Krongapiradee, and Frank Shi. Region 6 will sponsor them to attend the IEEE Rising Stars Conference… Read more
Robotics are for girls!
At least that’s the mantra for the high school “all girl” FIRST robotics team at Boise State University who affectionately call themselves the “Chickadees”(http://coen.boisestate.edu/firstrobotics/). FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during a six-week period to build game-playing robots that… Read more
Micron Co-Founders Will Launch New COBE Speaker Series
From Boise State University Campus News, Nov. 5th, 2018: The co-founders of Micron Technology are the first speakers for Entrepreneur Connect, the new speaker series in the College of Business and Economics (COBE). The inaugural event, “Starting Micron – Founders Ward Parkinson and Joe Parkinson Share Their Story,” is free and open to the public. It will… Read more
IEEEXtreme 12.0 – Congrats to Boise section teams!
Congratulations to both Boise section teams for their outstanding performance in IEEEXtreme 12.0 on Oct 19-20. IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. The NNU team “BarrysBest” placed 8th and the BSU team “MoroWhiteErway” placed… Read more
Pictures from Annual Picnic, Friday Sept 14
Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) conference
Here’s a very nice article on the Northwest Power and Conservation Council website about the recent PMAPS conference held in Boise. Congratulations to Milorad Papic for running an excellent conference! https://www.nwcouncil.org/news/state-research-planning-future-power-grid
Annual Picnic, Friday Sept 14
The Boise Section BBQ / Picnic is free to attend for all IEEE Members and their families. The event will be arranged and catered by IEEE Boise State University student branch. Date/Time: Friday, Sept 14, 2018, 6pm to 8:30pm Location: Kristin Armstrong Municipal Park, 500 S Walnut St, Boise. Click here for Map Event contact: Boise State University IEEE Student Branch: ieee.bsu.officers@gmail.com
2018 IEEE-Boise Banquet
Guest speaker, Dr. Gurtej S. Sandhu, Senior Fellow and Director at Micron Technology Inc. will deliver a topic on, “Memory Chips Technology – the untold story of innovation”. Biography: https://www.micron.com/about/our-company/leadership/gurtej-sandhu Continental style dinner with vegetarian and regular options. Award Ceremony and presentation. Free parking details will be sent to the registered email address Registration Deadline: Sunday, 4/15/2018 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-ieee-boise-banquet-registration-tickets-44577768305
Idaho Future City Results
The 14th Idaho Region Future City competition was held on Saturday, January 20th at Boise State University. This year’s competition included 36 teams from 18 different schools. Participants came from all over Idaho including Blackfoot, Boise, Caldwell, Garden Valley, Homedale, Kuna, Meridian, Nampa, Riggins, Sandpoint, and Wilder. The IEEE Boise Section and IEEE-USA were a Platinum… Read more
VR talk by Duane Mathes, Oct 14th
Duane Mathes, Senior VP of Game Development at BlackBox VR, will give a talk on VR. He will cover current and future applications, technology, history, trends, and how you can get involved in VR development projects and interest groups. Speaker: Duane Mathes When: Saturday, Oct 14, 11am Location: Room: 106 Bldg: Micron Engineering Building (MEC)… Read more
Annual Picnic, Friday Sept 15
The Boise Section BBQ / Picnic is free to attend for all IEEE Members and their families. The event will be arranged and catered by IEEE Boise State University student branch. Date/Time: Friday, Sept 15, 2017, 6pm to 8:30pm Location: Kristin Armstrong Municipal Park, 500 S Walnut St, Boise. Shelter 1. Click here for Map Event contact: IEEE Student Branch: ieee.bsu.officers@gmail.com