Come to the IEEE happy hour this Friday 4-5 PM at Legends and mingle with fellow ECE students while enjoying free appetizers! Learn about joining the social committee and get involved with the largest ECE student organization on campus. You don’t need to be above 19 to come!

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The workshop is full. However, we may have some extra kits, so if you want to show up at 11AM, you may still be able to get a seat in the workshop.

Alright – So we are trying to start the semester off strong with the bi-annual “Soldering Workshop.”

It’s going to be held in Everitt room 241 from 11:00AM – 1:00PM on Saturday, Febuary 6th. There will be two kits which you can choose from, each of which will cost $10 for IEEE members and $15 for non-members. However, it is not required that you even need a kit to learn to solder at the workshop. We will also be demonstrating correct soldering techniques alongside the kits. It is strongly recommend that you purchase a kit, however, to really gain the much needed experience you will gain through constant soldering.

Soldering is a very basic skill which will let us go on to do some more complicated designs for workshops later in the semester. Its highly advised that you attend this workshop if you plan on doing any future workshops. If you already have some soldering experience but may be a bit rusty, you are invited to join as well.

Lastly, the first Workshops Committee meeting will be held next Thursday, February 4th in Everitt room 241 at 5:00PM. If you have a desire to learn, and be active in IEEE, this is one of the easiest ways to do so. No prior skills are required to join, just a little bit of enthusiasm. We’ll basically go over what is the Workshops Committee does and perhaps choose and idea for what the second workshop will be. If you can not make this meeting, just email me at: smalhotra@ieee.org and I can meet with you at your convenience or send you a memo of what went on in the meeting.

If you have any further questions, please email:

smalhotra@ieee.org

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A few weeks ago at EOH, IEEE competed in the AMD Jerry Sanders Design Competition (JSDC). JSDC is a robotics competition where teams design robots to complete specific tasks. This years competition was a large scale game of tic-tac-toe. Basically, each team had to create a robot that could pick up an air-filled balloon and place it in boxes which represented tie-tac-toe squares. The robots have to complete various objectives to obtain their teams balloons. The tasks included pushing a button, hitting a switch, opening a door, and pushing down a balanced titer-toter. Once a team places their balloon into a box, it would remain under the team’s control until another team takes control by placing their balloon into it. At the end of an eight or ten minute round points would be given to teams which controlled three boxes in a round. Furthermore, teams would be awarded points for unlocking their balloons and placing them into a box. The strategy used by the majority of teams was to place as many balloons into a single box instead of trying to obtain a tic-tac-toe. The competition was a single elimination tournament where four robots competed at a time. Your place in the bracket was decided by your standings after seven round robin matches. A total of sixteen different teams from a vary of different colleges competed in the JSDC, and the IEEE placed third in the tournament!

Don and I videotaped all of the rounds that IEEE completed in. Check them out!

Tournament

Demolition Round!! IEEE took 2nd!

Downloads:
Tournament
Demolition Round
Round Robin – 1st Match
Round Robin – 2nd Match
Round Robin – 3rd Match
Round Robin – 4th Match
Round Robin – 5th Match
Round Robin – 6th Match
Round Robin – 7th Match

Photos

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Over the weekend of EOH, IEEE and its members earned a number of awards.

Erik Johnson and his team received First Prize for the Technical Encore Exhibit category of Engineering Open House awards! Their project was the Multitouch Display, which is one of IEEE’s current SEED Projects.

Our Jerry Sanders Design Competition team placed 3rd out of 16 teams attending on Saturday in normal competition, and 2nd place in the demolition round.  Videos of the rounds IEEE participated in can be found in a convenient YouTube playlist, located here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6FDC6BC6AC731AFE (yes, that is Engineering Freshman Committee’s robot that is being launched off of our robot at the start of the demolition round).

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