December 2023 Meeting Announcements
Greetings R3 Members,
This is our final monthly email for 2023. Region 3 local Sections should be sending out your holiday event announcements and upcoming new officer installations. We have so much to look forward to in the new year. Check out your local activities and take some time to out meet and engage with your new members and invite them to upcoming planning meetings. Share Photos of your holiday events on our Region 3 website and social media, located at: https://r3.ieee.org/
December 2023 – Region 3 Announcements & Upcoming Virtual Meetings
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Announcements:
Are you interested in Volunteering within your local IEEE Section or within Region 3?
Use the volunteer platform to sign-up, https://volunteer.ieee.org
We are pleased to announce that the Region 3 wiki is now live! Go to https://kb.ieee.org/r3 to get answers to your IEEE R3 questions. If you have more questions, leave a message on the page or email r3-ssc@ieee.org
SAC Training is Back! This is a one-stop platform for all questions regarding branch reporting, events, and funding. Register for upcoming training on this link. https://bit.ly/SAC-training Recordings for the past training sessions, are on the IEEE.tv on this link: https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/students
Introducing the R3 SAC Newsletter Series! With the leadership and initiation of Bailey Heyman, R3 Chair of the Students Activities Committee (SAC), we have launched an R3 SAC specific newsletter series targeted specifically for Student Branches and students for exploring IEEE opportunities. We will be posting these newsletters on the R3 Website. https://r3.ieee.org/
Virtual and Hybrid Meetings:
Thursday – December 7th, 2023 (9:00am – 2:00pm ET) IEEE WIE Outreach Event
Science Fair Judges Needed
Ronald E. McNair Middle School in Decatur (Dekalb County) is looking for a few good judges!
Their annual school Science and Engineering fair will be held next Thursday Dec 7, and they are looking for a few more STEM professionals to assist in judging student projects. The Science and Engineering Fair will take place from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m, but judges should arrive around 9:00 a.m. to be briefed on judging protocols and student projects. Please contact Katrina Hammonds (Katrina_Hammonds@dekalbschoolsga.org) with any questions and sign up. Come make a difference to the next generation of aspiring scientists and engineers. We hope to see you there!
This event is about 1 mile off Rt. 20. Live Event is located at 2190 Wallingford Drive, Decatur, GA. 30032
Website URL: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387890
Friday – December 8th, 2023 (2:30pm – 4:30pm CT) Central Tennessee Section
IEEE MOVE Truck Exhibition in Nashville
This is an opportunity to visit one of the IEEE MOVE vehicles that assist in natural disasters. The MOVE vehicle is equipped to assist victims with mobile device charging, Internet service, computers, and lighting.
When not responding to disasters, the MOVE vehicle is taken to schools, fairs, and other venues to educate the public by showcasing leading technologies and raising awareness about the positive impact these technologies have on society. Attendance is free for members and non-members.
For more information on the MOVE Program visit the website at https://move.ieeeusa.org.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/388248
This is a live event located at 800 Fort Negley Blvd. Nashville, TN. 37203
Thursday – December 14th, 2023 (2:00pm – 3:45pm ET) Richmond Section
Insight to Action: Grid Analytics Journey, By: Richmond Chapter of the IEEE PES
Exelon’s Infrastructure and Safety Analytics team is helping develop analytic insights to support Distribution, Transmission, Operation optimizations to drive reliability, resiliency, cost benefits for grid investments and enhancing organization safety by moving from lagging to leading indicators. This webinar will focus on a T&S Advanced Analytics project, to showcase the importance of investment during project ideation on adoption strategy, creating actionable insights, empowering business/ engineers to lead and take active role in analytic projects, how to identify change management and external dependencies upfront as part of analytics prioritization.
Utilities have been heavily reliant on subject matter knowledge in the last century to drive preventive maintenance (PM) program and schedule PM for a variety of assets. Our engineers are experts in the industry and have leveraged their and industry knowledge of asset measurements and inspection results to manage these programs, however, as human beings, we are limited in terms of considering a variety of factors and assessing the distribution of each factor. This is where data driven approaches shine and enables subject matter experts with checking million to billion combinations to come up with the best model to predict future. These models can then be used to supplement engineer knowledge, and support industry-wide acceptance of a systematic approach to transition to condition-based maintenance programs. The latest model was validated against business-as-usual to provide 85% accuracy using success criteria developed for this project. PECO’s team is quantifying and confirming the benefits of the model output to extract technical and data science success, including that the model can be used in the real world for “what would we do differently”. For more info, email: PESRichmond@ieee.org
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387282
Virtual Meeting Link: Will be provided after online registration.
Wednesday – December 20th, 2023 (8:00pm – 9:30pm ET) Region 3
IEEE MOVE Radio Club (IMRC) – Bluetooth, By: Joe Decuir
Bluetooth — “The what and the why”: IEEE Fellow and IMRC member Joe Decuir KF7BMD will provide a rich exploration of Bluetooth. Based on his involvement and experience, Joe will provide insights on how Bluetooth came to be, some insights on the (IEEE) standards process and the associated radio technology, and the protocols used.
Registration Website Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/367394
WebEx Meeting Link: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/j.php?MTID=m844c8eb2bb77a5336d1ab673fe733b2f
Have a great holiday season and blessings to you and your family in the new year!
Sincerely,
Sonya Dillard, Chair
R3 Member Communications Committee (MCC)