Section News

[Section Newsletter] The 4th Quarter 2009 edition is now available online.

[2010 Section Officers] Thanks and congratulations to our new section officers:

Chair: Jim Ray
Vice Chair: Paul Goodson
Treasurer: Arti Roth
Secretary: Laura Faulconer
Past Section Chair: Dev Palmer

[Women in Engineering Professional Development Seminar] IEEE SoutheastCon 2010
Managing Your Career in Challenging Times (registration)
Embassy Suites, Charlotte/Concord, NC March 18-19, 2010

[2009 Family Outing at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park]

Our section outing took us out to the ball game and included traditional ball park eats -hot dogs, hamburgers, fried chicken and veggie burgers.

The date was Saturday Evening, August 29th.

A special edition of the ENCS Newsletter with coverage and PICTURES of the family outing is available on-line: http://sites.google.com/site/durhambullsouting

[Presentation Download Page] See navigation column on the left. New additions have been made.

• Presentation by Tom Jepsen on interoperability for the NHIN at the NCHICA meeting in Asheville in September 2009 at http://www.nchica.org/Activities/09/presentations/Jepsen.pdf
• In the Thick of ARRA & HITECH: Supporting NC’s Applications “Health Information Technology: Improving Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare”; Update: October 15, 2009 by: Holt Anderson, Executive Director NCHICA
• Smart Grid Distribution - System Demand Response, Glenn C. Lampley, P.E., C.E.M.(Nov. 20009)
• Bias-induced memory effects in UHF wideband power amplifiers Marc J. Franco, Ph.D. RFMD Component Advanced Development Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
• Patient Safety: The Role of Information Technology in Reducing Medical Errors, Thomas Jepsen Chair, IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee May 12, 2009
• Engineering Research Center for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems, Dr. Alex Huang, 11/20/2008
• Smart Grid: In Search of a Model, Subroto Bhattacharya, February 10, 2009

The IEEE emeritbadges.org Project has updated its web site, http://www.emeritbadges.org, featuring hands-on, pre-college technology educational materials for boys and girls. The updated site will feature information on the program’s sponsorship of the Electricity and Electronics Merit Badge booths at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, to be held from 26 July to 4 August, 2010, at Fort A.P. Hill, in Caroline County, Virginia.

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PDI Takes a Holiday - The popular series is taking a couple of months off while we gear up a new series of presentations.  Meanwhile, we are looking for people with a MBA or doctorate in business, or extensive business experience to help with a series of workgroups on business.  Please contact Charles Lord at if you can help.  Thanks in advance!

Recognize the Best: Please visit our Awards Page where we are soliciting nominations for awards for some deserving engineers.

Attention Embedded Systems Fans: We have a new Embedded Systems special interest group that is sponsored by our section and our Computer Society chapter.  Check out http://www.ieee-embedded.org or our virtual community at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/embedded   for more information!

Lower Cape Fear(Wilmington) Sub- Section Website: Live in the greater Wilmington area or elsewhere in the SE corner of our state? Interested in participating in Sub-Section activities? Contact the Eastern NC Section Chair.