February 2022 Meeting Announcements
Region 3 Members,
This is your Monthly Member Communication – February 2022 Edition
Hello Everyone! It’s Ground Hogs Day, so I wonder what’s going to happen with this crazy weather? According to his official handlers in the Groundhogs Club, he saw his shadow, Boo – this means we are in for 6 more weeks of winter. I am so ready for the warmer spring. Every Section is challenged to register for and help us get the word out about our upcoming SoutheastCon! See details below for registration. We are back LIVE and our R3 signature conference will be hosted in a wonderful location – Mobile, Alabama. We also want every IEEE member to participate in at least one Engineer’s Week activity this month. This is the month that celebrates engineers, and we should take time out to recognize the many innovations fellow co-workers are contributing to within your local communities. Be sure to post photos of your EWeek events on our social media platforms and the Region 3 website, located at: https://r3.ieee.org/
February 2022 – Region 3 Upcoming Virtual Meetings & Announcements
Wednesday – February 9th, 2022 (12:00pm – 1:00pm EST) Florida West Coast Section
Basics of Grounding Modeling and Design, Lunch-n-Learn, By: Biren Patel & Keith Wallace
The Basics of Grounding Modeling and Design – lunch & learn – will go over the basics of grounding design for substations applications. The webinar will review what happens during a fault, the risk to personnel, what goes into a typical grounding model, and how to interpret the results. The lunch & learn will also introduce the various types of testing techniques to serve as inputs for grounding models as well as post installation verification of models and safe touch and step potentials. While this lunch & learn presentation isn’t supposed to be a complete how-to guide to complete a design or test, it will introduce utility engineers about the grounding study process, and how to interpret the results of a grounding report and help them understand the often-underrated importance of testing.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/294841
Virtual Meeting Link: Meeting Link will be emailed to registrants.
Wednesday – February 16th, 2022 (4:00pm – 5:00pm PT) Atlanta Section
IEEE COMSOC Distinguished Lecturer: UAV-based Wireless Communications, Computing and Charging
By: Prof. Kun Yang (University of Essex, UK)
This is a joint meeting of the Sacramento Valley Section and the Atlanta Section
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 will provide a brief introduction to UAV and UAV-assisted wireless communications as well as wireless energy charging, which is carried out together with communications, i.e., the so-called data and energy integrated networks (DEIN). Key research issues and our solutions are presented, including not only theoretical aspects such as problem formulation and algorithms but also experimental implementations. The talk is easy to follow and is suitable to young researchers who are just starting their research study and to anybody who is interested in wireless charging and mobile edge computing and communications.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/299792
Virtual Meeting Link: https://csus.zoom.us/j/81037830987
Wednesday – February 24th, 2022 (12:00pm – 1:00pm EST) Melbourne Section Chapter, PE31
Power Modules and Associated Front-End Products, By: Christian Jonglas of Gaia Converter
Christian Jonglas will provide a talk about Gaia Converters that offer one of the widest power module and associated front-end portfolios in the industry to help you design complete power supply architectures, from the input power connector, all the way to the point of load, from 4W to 400W power or more. These power modules and front-ends are specifically designed to meet design requirements. Company Website: https://gaia-converter.com/
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/281306
Virtual Meeting Link: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86873172063?pwd=L2pDMlllRVdBM0w1N0ZaOWNsL2V0Zz09
Meeting ID: 868 7317 2063
Passcode: 941624
Thursday – February 24th, 2022 (12:00pm – 1:00pm EST) Florida West Coast Section
Current Transformer (CT) Basics for System Protection – Lunch-n-Learn, By: Mallur Satyanarayan
Are you new to the field of system protection or have you ever been curious as to the difference between your typical “step-up” or “step-down” transformers used in substation/switchyard utility applications as compared to current transformers used for metering and relay inputs? This lunch and learn presentation will cover the following as it relates to current transformers, also known as “CTs:
- A basic introduction to Current Transformers,
- How Current Transformers are different from “Regular” Transformers,
- A brief overview of the characteristics of Current Transformers as applied to a relay protection scheme, and
- Selection of Current Transformers with respect to core saturation for relay/protection scheme applications
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/294046
Virtual Meeting Link: Link will be emailed to registrants.
Thursday – February 24th, 2022 (6:00pm – 7:15pm CST) IEEE Huntsville Section
2022 DiscoverE EWeek Virtual Awards Celebration, By: Leandro Barajas, Section Chair
This annual event is held locally in Huntsville, Alabama to promote engineering and awards to our local engineers for the outstanding contributions they have made in the community, within industry and academia. For decades this event has been hosted live as a dinner awards banquet. However, due to the pandemic it was decided to host a virtual awards celebration instead this year to continue to recognize several of the engineers in our local community. Please join the celebration at this special event!
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/299290
Virtual Meeting Link: Link will be emailed to registrants.
Thursday – (March 31st – April 3rd) SoutheastCon, 2022 in Mobile, Alabama
SoutheastCon is an annual conference primarily for the members of IEEE in Region 3, bringing together engineering professionals, computer scientists, engineering faculty, students, and businesspeople to share results of the latest in original technical research through information exchange, tutorials, exhibits, seminars, workshops, and student competitions. During the most recent history of the conference, SoutheastCon has extended its reach beyond regional activity as we have seen increased participation by our national and international colleagues. Registration is now open for this conference. Book your hotel now, because rooms will sell out quickly.
SoutheastCon Information: https://ieeesoutheastcon.org/
Conference Registration: https://ieeesoutheastcon.org/registration/conference-registration/
Hotel Registration: https://ieeesoutheastcon.org/registration/hotel-registration/ (Hotel Block Deadline 3/2/22)
Thursday – March 31st, 2022 (2:00pm – 3:30pm EST) Atlanta Section Chapter, PEL35
Distinguished Lecture: Power Conversion Technology for Renewable Energy Systems Integrated into Medium Voltage DC Grids, By: Prof. Kai Sun (Tsinghua University)
In the future smart grid, it is a significant trend to integrate large capacity renewable energy into medium voltage (MV) DC grids. The high-power conversion techniques for wind generation, photovoltaic generation and hydrogen energy system integrated into MVDC grids are reviewed and compared in this lecture, including the system configurations, AC-DC and DC-DC converter designs, control strategies and fault protection. Novel solutions of DC grid-connected photovoltaic generation system are presented, providing new ways to integrate solar energy to DC grids with high efficiency and high-power density. As the key element of high-power isolated DC-DC converters, high frequency transformers with high withstand voltage are studied in terms of multi-physics modeling, magnetic integration, insulation design, thermal design and multi-objective optimization.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/301548
Virtual Meeting Link: Link will be provided to all registrants.
Looking forward to seeing you all at our upcoming meetings in 2022.
Sincerely,
Sonya Dillard, Chair
R3 Member Communications Committee