ANNOUNCEMENTS
2007-2008

Micromouse Competition 2008
April 18th 2008

Competitors got busy as they prepared for the micromouse competition during picnic day. Everyone had a blast.

Agilent Comes Speak
April 16th 2008

Agilent came to talk at IEEE and brought us some ice cream. Check out the gallery.

Soldering Workshop Spring 2008
April 9th 2008

Our prez. Kenny leads another successful soldering workshop. Check out the photos from our gallery.

Scavenger Hunt
Feb. 23rd 2008

We were glad that people showed up to play the scavenger hunt. Despite the rain/cloud day, people kept the high and competitive spirit. The day could end up better if it were sunny. However, the day was not a total disaster thanks to David, who bbq under the heavy rain. Anyways, the result of the scavenger hunt is below.
1st EE FTW, 2nd Rambo Shark, and 3rd TS.
As always, thanks for everyone showing up and the hard works from the officers to make this event fun and enjoyable.





LAN Party With CS Club
Feb. 22nd 2008

A break was given to students in the middle of February this year as the CS club hosts the LAN Party. Many games were played and it was lots of fun. We hope the party was a stress reliever for many of you and hope you guys continue to work hard for the rest of the quarter.

Internship and Career Center Comes Speak
Jan. 16th 2008

Nice seeing everyone in our first meeting of the 2008 year. Today The Internship and Career Center came in to inform us about the upcoming career fair on Jan. 23rd. I hope everyone learned something and are better prepared for the upcoming fair. Also, sorry for the lack of picture this week. Our camera broke down.

IEEE Soldering Workshop 2007
Nov. 28th, 2007

It was a blast with students participating in our soldering workshop event, hopefully everyone learned something and had fun. I also like to take this chance to thank the people that came into our workshop as volunteers to help and teach soldering to other students.

IEEE meeting: Yankelevich Came to Speak
Oct 24th, 2007

Prof. Yankelevich came to receive his "Professor of the Year Award", he also came as our guest speaker to talk about nonlinear optics.

BBQ 2007
Oct 11th, 2007

The long tradition of BBQ has continued in 2007 in this event. It was fun with many professors and students coming out to the courtyard t o chill and chat with us.

General Meeting: Prof. Spencer talking about Natcar
Oct 10th, 2007

Professor Spencer came to our meeting to talk about the senior level design project Natcar as well as "methods of becoming a successful e ngineer". This was our first meeting and many people showed up.

Ice Cream Social
Oct 4th, 2007

The icecream social was a success! Many people showed up to our booth and talked to our officers. We hope all of you will participate in our upcoming BBQ and General Meeting. See you there.

2006-2007

General Meeting with Dr.Arft and 2007-2008 Officer Elections
May 23, 2007

We invited our recent UCD professor Dr.Arft from SiTime to our general meeting on Wednesday May 23rd. Dr.Arft talked briefly about his company SiTime and the exciting MEMS research and development that they are doing over there. We also held officer elections this day and Dr.Diego Yankelevich was voted as the Professor of the Year. The following people were voted officers for the 2007-2008 school year:
President: Kenny Marina
Vice President: Harpreet Kaur
Treasurer: Josie Sabado
EJC Representative: Swapnil Sunil Jain
Industry Liason: Nahaal Hekmat and Rasikh Jawaid
Micromouse Coordinator: Samuel Cho
Outreach Coordinator: Parveen Atwal
Publicity: Michael de Mesa
Secretary: Jimmy Liang
Webmaster: Allen Tang











2007-2008 Officer Nominations
May 16, 2007

In an attempt to keep the IEEE Student Branch at UC Davis alive and kicking, we nominated (or tried to at least) some new blood ... Ahm... I mean officers ... for the 2007-2008 school year.

Professor Ding at our General Meeting
May 9, 2007

We invited Professor Zhi Ding, from our excellent ECE faculty, to our general meeting on May 9th, 2007 where he gave us a sneak peak at his research in Wireless Communications in his presentation titled "Channel Estimation in Wireless Communications"

IEEE 13th Annual Micromouse Event
April 14, 2007

We celebrated Picnic Day by hosting the 13th Annual Micromouse Competition at 2205 Haring Hall for a whole 2 hours from 12-2pm! There was a lot of excitement as the whole lecture hall was packed! We had arranged for DJs (yes, real ones!) and there was, of course, a plenty of food and drinks for our audience!

Professor Rick Branner at our General Meeting
March 7, 2007

Professor Rick Branner was invited at our general meeting on March 7th where he kept us awake for the whole hour with his rant about HF/Microwave engineering!

E-Week LAN Party!
Feb 23, 2007

We celebrating the engineering week by hosting a LAN party along with the CS club. It was an all night event starting at 9pm on Friday the 23th until the next morning on Saturday.

Sandia talks about Cyber Security
Feb 7, 2007

We invited Sandia at our general meeting on Feb 7. The guest speaker was Edward B. Talbot (Manager Computer and Network Security Department Sandia National Laboratories Livermore, California) who gave a very enthisiastic powerpoint presentation about the future of cyber security.

Extreme Networks visits our General Meeting
Jan 24, 2007

We had a representative from Extreme Newtworks at our general meeting on Jan 24. He talked about his life experiences and gave us a crash course on entrepreneurship.

Maxim comes to our General Meeting
Nov 8, 2006

We invited Maxim at our general meeting on Nov 8. They gave a very nice presentation about the different types of jobs they have at Maxim. In the end, they were also nice enough to give us a taste of some of their interview questions.

Beginning of the Year BBQ
Oct 19, 2006

IEEE members and officers (and some professors) had loads of fun and filled their hungry stomachs with our delicious barbeque at our second annual beginning of the year BBQ!

Ice-Cream Social
Oct 12, 2006

The EJC gave out free ice cream at the EJC Ice-Cream Social.

Professor Ghiasi talks about Grad School
Oct 11, 2006

At our first general meeting of the year Professor Soheil Ghiasi gave his enlightening speech on "The Benefits of Grad School."

2005-2006

Professor of the Year Pays a Visit
Posted May 29, 2006

We finished up the school with the Dr. Arft, IEEE Professor of the Year discussing a very useful topic, "How to handle your fear."

Spring Quarter Soldering Workshop
Posted May 11, 2006

Our Spring Soldering Workshop was held on May 10 with about 10 participants with all participants being able to finish their kits.

Next Year's Officer Elections/Professor of the Year
Posted April 26, 2006

We held elections for next year's officers as well as voting for professor of the year. Dr. Carl Arft was voted as the professor of the year for 2005-2006 school year and following are the new officers for 2006-2007 school year:
President: Laine Walker-Avina
Vice President: Harpreet Kaur
Treasurer: Simon Fung
EJC Representative: Justin Rabi
Industry Liasons: Andrew Owens and Andrew Thomson
Micromouse Coordinator: Kenny Marina
Outreach Coordinator: Garratt Gallagher
Publicity: Erin Woo
Secretary: Claudia Wong
Webmaster: Swapnil Sunil Jain











12th Annual Micro Mouse Competition
Posted April 23, 2006

The 12th Annual Micro Mouse Competition, held every Picnic Day was a huge success. We had 4 of the 6 competitors finish the course, with the winner "Ratzilla" comming in under four minutes. Check out the photos to see the action.

Maxim Meeting
Posted April 12, 2006

Three representitives from Maxim came to tell us a little about test engineering and oppertunities at Maxim. Maxim manufactures a wide range of analog integrated circuits used in a wide range technologies. Besides moving to a different room the meeting was very useful and informative.

LAN Party
Posted April 2, 2006

We held our first IEEE/CS Club LAN party on April 2nd from 11am to 11pm. We had a fairly good turnout considering it was the first such event that both of these clubs had hosted. It was alot of fun and look forward to making this a major event.

Sandia National Labs
Posted March 3, 2006

Debra Post and Alec Willis discussed new and exciting oppertunities occuring at Sandia National Laboratories, including nuclear wepon development and system testing. For more information visit Sandia National Laboratories.

Lael Miller and hist Start-Up Company
Posted February 19, 2006

Lael Miller joined us at our second general meeting of the quarter. His company has come up with a new and inovating product he is developing and is in deed of new, talented engineers to help his company get started.

Soldering Workshop
Posted February 12, 2006

We finally had our first soldering workshop of the school year. We had seven groups participate in building a simple metal detector or a model traffic light. No one actaully got their circuit working but it was more important as a learning experience.

First Meeting of the Year
Posted January 18, 2006

The first meeting was a simple preparation for the up-coming Internship and Career Fair.

Local Industry Visit
Posted December 10, 2005

The first visit from local industry was from Richard Schuman, Signal Processing Engineer at ACM Systems. ACM Systems is a defence contractor located in Rancho Cordova and specializes in countermeasure and training systems for the department of defense.

Professor Islam Visit
Posted November 23, 2005

The second of the three visiting speakers this fall quarter was Professor Islam of the Electrical Engineering Department. Professor Islam specializes in nanotechnology and informed our club of some very interesting and new areas of research in the "small stuff" within electrical engineering.

Professor Ding Visit
Posted October 19, 2005

The first of the three visiting speakers this fall quarter will be Dr. Zhi Ding of the Electrical Engineering Department. Professor Ding specializes in Communications, Signal and Image Processing and is also a fellow of IEEE. He will be speaking on November 2, 2005 where we will have food for all in attendence. More information to come on what his topic will be.

Beginning of the Year BBQ
Posted October 19, 2005

We are now into a whole new year at IEEE with a whole new group of officers that are ready to get right to work. To kick off the new year with our ONLY BBQ of the year. This event will be new and improved compared to last year and we would like all student to come join us.

 
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