Welcome to the Buenaventura IEEE Section for February, 2010

Feb 9 ComSoc 10 Things About 10 Gigabit Ethernet Mr. David Newman 6:30 reception, pizza, and networking, presentation at 7 p.m. At ITT - Force Protection Systems, 3500 Willow Lane, Thousand Oaks See flyer for RSVP, other details Feb 10 Computer Heterogeneous Sensor Networks Jerry Burman, Sr. Research Scientist, ICB PM/Teledyne 6:30 reception, pizza, and networking, presentation at 7 p.m. Ahmanson Science Center, Cal Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, See Computer Chapter site for other details Feb 17 Microwave Theory and Techniques Non-Lethal Weapon Development: Active Denial Technology based on Directed High-Power RF Energy, Dr. Daniel Gonzalez Ciao Wireless, 4000 Via Pescador, Camarillo 6:30 reception & networking; 7:00 presentation Feb 18 Section National Engineering Week Celebration Dinner & Awards Ceremony Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.   Tickets $65 reserved in advance via RSVP Feb 24 EMBS Entrepreneurship 101: The Essentials of Entrepreneurial Leadership Dr. Kathleen Allen, USC Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization Ahmanson Science Center, Cal Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks 6:00 reception and dinner, 7:00 presentation.

We look forward to seeing you at our Speaker Events this month, and at the National Engineering Week Celebration Dinner & Awards Ceremony at the Reagan Presidential Library.  As an attendee at IEEE speaker events, you are welcome to attend; tickets are $65, payable in advance (please contact me if you're interested).  Chapter officers and volunteers are particularly encouraged to attend.

Our Region and our neighbor sections also have events this month.  IEEE-USA is focusing on legislation to improve STEM ("Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics") education in another event, the 2010 Career Fly-In, on February 8th and 9th.  The Region Operating Committee meeting will take place at the end of the month, in San Francisco.

Most of our events are free and open to the public, and often have dinner available. All of our events are posted on the Section calendar, available here on our site.

Officers of our Section are helping to organize the first annual AMA-IEEE Conference on Personalized Medicine, which will take place in Washington, D.C. at the end of March.  A conference flyer is included for your reference.

We look forward to seeing you at our events this year!

- Steve Johnson, 2010 Section Chair