December 2020 Meeting Announcements
Region 3 Members,
This is your Monthly Member Communication – December 2020 Edition
A special thanks goes out to Tamseel Mahmood Syed, a R3 member from the Atlanta Section, for creating our Google Docs Drive to collection our region’s virtual meeting announcements. This month’s communication was much easier to create/send. With most events currently being virtual these days, we thought it would be nice to allow anyone to attend from the Region. As a response to our Member Development Initiative, this will enhance our members’ technical and professional growth during this pandemic, as well as engage our Sections in virtual collaboration across the Region.
We hope you have a very safe and blessed holiday season. Please browse through these virtual meetings below, and hopefully a few of these technical topics will spark your interest!
December 2020 – Region 3 Virtual Meetings & Announcements
Region 3 Pandemic Projects (Applications being accepted now – December 15th, 2020)
Each section is eligible to submit an application and get up to $1000 from the region to develop the project. Details can be found here: https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/ssc/pandemic-project.pptx
Questions can be directed to Grayson Randall, g.randall@ieee.org
Thursday – December 3rd, 2020 (2:00pm – 3:00pm EST) Jacksonville Section
Low Code Machine Learning: Model Development with Fast.AI (Part 1), By: Robert Hobbs
Why use Fast.ai? The fast.ai slogan is to make “deep learning as accessible as possible” (https://www.fast.ai/about/#fast-ai) This presentation will provide an overview of the ability of Fast.ai to rapidly develop and test models. The webinar will run through numeric regression analysis and an image object classification. The process will highlight the speed and consistency Fast.ai gives to model development will point out training resources and discuss areas of interest for Part 2.
Registration Website Link: https://www.meetup.com/Machine-Learning-AI-Sponsor-IEEE-Jacksonville/events/274719740/
Virtual Meeting: https://meet.google.com/opr-irsj-uyz
Friday – December 4th, 2020 (9:30am – 11:30am EST) Florida West Coast Section
The Rules and Laws and Ethics for Professional Engineer, By: Art Nordlinger, PE
The Rules and Laws That Govern the Practice of, Ethics and the Practice of Engineering in Florida. This course is at a basic to intermediate level. This presentation will award one CEH for Rules & Laws that Govern the Practice of Engineering in Florida and one CEH for Ethics and the Practice of Engineering in Florida. All are welcomed to attend. 2CEH for PE renewal will be offered.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/239252
Virtual Meeting: (Meeting link will be sent 1 day in advance of the event to all registrants.)
Friday – December 4th, 2020 (1:30pm – 3:00pm EST) Atlanta Section
Powering Wireless Microsystems, By: Professor Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora
Networked wireless microsystems can not only monitor and manage power consumption in small- and large-scale applications for space, military, medical, agricultural, and consumer markets but also add cost-, energy-, and life-saving intelligence to large infrastructures and tiny devices in remote and difficult-to-reach places. Ultra-small systems, however, cannot store sufficient energy to sustain monitoring, interface, processing, and telemetry functions for long. And replacing or recharging the batteries of hundreds of networked nodes can be labor intensive, expensive, and oftentimes impossible. This is why alternate sources are the subject of ardent research today. Except power densities are low, and in many cases, intermittent, so supplying functional blocks is challenging. Plus, tiny lithium-ion batteries and super capacitors, while power dense, cannot sustain life for extended periods. This talk illustrates how emerging microelectronic systems can draw energy from elusive ambient sources to power tiny wireless sensors.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/248205
Virtual Meeting: (Meeting link will be sent 1 day in advance of the event to all registrants.)
Tuesday – December 8th, 2020 (2:00pm – 3:00pm EST) Jacksonville Section
Machine Learning Demystified, By: Carol J. McDonald
Machine Learning requires large data sets and offers a variety of algorithmic tools. Ms. McDonald will give an overview of Machine learning and Deep Learning with real-world examples. The advancement of streaming analytics, distributed processing, and cloud technologies has opened up new vistas for machine learning. Successful business implementations require understanding the goals and limitations of the technology to include which tools best support the data and the analysis objectives.
Registration Website Link: https://www.meetup.com/Machine-Learning-AI-Sponsor-IEEE-Jacksonville/events/267275830/
Virtual Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/hud-gpym-qxc
Tuesday – December 8th, 2020 (7:00pm – 8:00pm EST) Atlanta Section
“Picture a Scientist” Movie Viewing and Discussion, By: Atlanta Women in Engineering (WIE)
When you picture a scientist, do you picture a man, or a woman? Join us for a discussion of the movie “Picture a Scientist”, which explores the experiences of 3 female scientists in navigating and overcoming the bias and harassment they encounter. Their stories are compelling and engaging, and you’ll be encouraged for the future by the end of the movie. Even if you can’t make the discussion, sign up to watch the movie!
Registration Website Link: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/247794
Movie Trailer (2 minutes): https://www.pictureascientist.com/media
Virtual Meeting: (Meeting link will be emailed in advance of the event to all registrants.)
Wednesday – December 9th, 2020 (7:00pm – 8:00pm EST) Atlanta Section
Mobile Edge Computing and Communications from the Sky, By: Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Kun Yang
With the advancement of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) edge computing and communications from the sky become possible and indeed provide an effective way to complement the current ground-based horizontal edge computing and communications. This talk starts with a brief introduction of UAV and UAV-assisted wireless communications, and then moves on to discuss the necessity of a close collaboration of the two important resources in any ICT system, namely, communication and computation, again in the context of UAVs….(see more on website)
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/245583
Virtual Meeting: (Meeting link will be emailed in advance of the event to all registrants.)
Thursday – December 10th, 2020 (2:00pm – 3:00pm EST) Jacksonville Section
Low Code Machine Learning: Model Development with Fast.AI (Part 2, Images), By: Robert Hobbs
Why tune in to Part 2 – Working with Images? This presentation will provide an overview of the ability of Fast.ai to rapidly develop and test models. The webinar will run through numeric regression analysis and an image object classification. The process will highlight the speed and consistency Fast.ai gives to model development. For Part 2, we will start with a brief overview of Fast.ai for tabular data and then provide an overview of image processing with Fast.ai.
Registration Website Link: https://www.meetup.com/Machine-Learning-AI-Sponsor-IEEE-Jacksonville/events/274809967/
Virtual Meeting: https://meet.google.com/qkm-rfkk-spr
Tuesday – December 15th, 2020 (7:00pm – 8:00pm EST) Orlando Section
Network Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries, By: Dr. Radia Perlman
This talk will shine light on the backstory of why and how the network protocols that make up our internet today were developed. The talk will cover the following areas: A bit of tutorial on some of the protocols we’ll talk about, Making a case that some decisions the industry made were wrong, and talking about good technologies that might never had been invented if the world had made the right decisions originally.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/248787
Virtual Meeting: (Meeting link will be emailed in advance of the event to all registrants.)
Thursday – December 17th, 2020 (2:00pm – 3:00pm EST) Jacksonville Section
Low Code Machine Learning: Pycaret: Part2 – Automation and Integration, By: Robert Hobbs
Low-code approaches to machine learning provide a low-threshold entry into exciting possibilities with ML. This session will expand on the November session on Pycaret with a focus on its potential to handle complex analysis tasks. The presentation will use a forms-based front end to highlight model and tuning options.
Registration Website Link: https://www.meetup.com/Machine-Learning-AI-Sponsor-IEEE-Jacksonville/events/274810174/
Virtual Meeting: https://meet.google.com/jqw-pyei-yww (Up to 100 participants)
Friday – January 22nd, 2021 (10:00am – 2:00pm EST) Florida West Coast Section
“Recommended Practice for Establishing Methods and Procedures that Provide Supplemental Support for Implementation Strategies for Expanded Use of IEEE Standard 1547“, By: Mr. Wayne Hartman
This session explores the IEEE 1547.8, Draft 8, “Recommended Practice for Establishing Methods and Procedures that Provide Supplemental Support for Implementation Strategies for Expanded Use of IEEE Standard 1547.” 4CEH’s will be presented.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/242289
Virtual Meeting: (Meeting link will be emailed in advance of the event to all registrants.)
Friday – February 12th, 2021 (8:00am – 4:30pm EST) Florida West Coast Section
Arc Flash – Update and Training on NFPA 70E-2021, By: John Leedy, PE
This training session will be devoted to the subject of Electrical Safety in the workplace. Topics such as “how does electrical safety and the NFPA-70E apply to the workplace” and “what is required to be compliant with the standards” will be covered. A copy of the standard, NFPA-70E-2021 Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace is included in the training costs. 8CEH’s will be offered.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/247106
Virtual Meeting: (Meeting link will be emailed in advance of the event to all registrants.)
The more attendees the merrier! Feel free to join us in some virtual knowledge sharing this holiday season….
Sincerely,
Sonya Dillard/Chair
R3 Member Communications Committee