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| May 29, 2008 | Joint IEEE Section and the Power & Energy Society Event Topic: Saving Energy: A practical guide for the application of Variable Frequency Drives Speaker: Robin S. Priestley, Power Control Manager, Rockwell Automation |
| April 15, 2008 | Joint IEEE Section and the MVCA Society Event Topic: State of the State in Telecom, Legislation, Developments and Regulation Speakers: Anne Boyle and Gene Hand |
| March 27, 2008 | Joint IEEE Section and the Power & Energy Society Event Topic: OPPD’s 345kV Nebraska City Station Unit 2 Transmission Line Speakers: Kent M. Herzog and Gregory S. Givens, OPPD Transmission Engineering |
| February 21, 2008 | Joint IEEE Section and Engineer's Roundtable Event Topic: The Power of Using Sketchup and Google Earth Speaker: Ken Patchett, Operations Site Management of The Dalles, Oregon Googleplex |
| December 11, 2007 | Joint IEEE and Communications Society Event Topic: Unified Communications Speaker: Kevin Hogan, Unified Communications Systems Engineer for Cisco Systems |
| December 4, 2007 | Joint IEEE and NSPE Breakfast Meeting Topic: New SuperComputer at the Peter Kiewit Institute Speaker: Jim Skirvin, President Holland Computing Center |
| November 16, 2007 | IEEE Section Workshop Topic: IEEE Career and Membership Awareness Workshop Speaker: Tarek Lahdhiri, Ph.D., P.E. Region 4 Membership Development Chair |
| November 15, 2007 | IEEE Section & IEEE Communication Society Event Topic: Power Line EMI and Ground Fault impact on Railroad Signal Systems - Problems and Mitigation Speaker: David W. McCord, P.E. of McCord Engineering |
| October 16, 2007 | IEEE Section & IEEE Communication Society Event Topic: Bonding and Grounding for Communications Speaker: Tom Turner, Panduit Corporation’s Manager for Grounding and Bonding Products |
| September 18, 2007 | IEEE Section & IEEE Power Society Event Topic: Tour of Nebraska City Unit 2 Speaker: Dave Wesely, Site Project Manager for the construction of Nebraska City Unit 2 |
| June 27, 2007 | IEEE Section & IEEE Computer Society Event Topic: Designing and Implementing a Video Tele-medicine Consultation System Speaker: Dr. Ann Fruhling, Dept of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis, College of Information Science & Technology, Peter Kiewit Institute, UNO |
| April 26, 2007 | IEEE Section & IEEE Computer Society Event Topic: Predictive Analytical Software Speaker: Robert J. Zwerling P.E., CEO ISIS Solutions, Inc. |
| February 15, 2007 | IEEE Communications & Power Engineering Society Event Topic: Power Drive: High School Electric Car Competition Speaker: Steve Anderson - OPPD Manager of Transportation |
| January 23, 2007 | IEEE Communications & Power Engineering Society Event Topic: Distribution Circuit Abnormal Power Quality Events: Ferroresonance or Not? Speaker: Pat Duckworth, P.E. - Senior Technical Services Engineer for OPPD |
| January 16, 2007 | IEEE Communications Society & Missouri Valley Communications Association Event Topic: Power Over Ethernet And The State of Ethernet Over Copper Speaker: Don Doberstein, RCDD - Systems Engineer at Anixter |
| December 6, 2006 | Joint IEEE Section & NSPE Breakfast Meeting Topic: Nebraska's preparations for dealing with pandemics Speaker: Rick Sheehy, Nebraska’s Lieutenant Governor |
| November 21, 2006 | IEEE Section & Power Engineering Society Event Topic: The Olean Energy Project and a Tour of the Duster's Microbrewery Speakers: Mike Hasenkamp, P.E., P.M.P., Project Manager, NPPD; and Danny Kluthe, Owner, Olean Energy |
| October 20, 2006 | IEEE Section & Computer Society Event Topic: Trends in Wireless Technologies Speaker: Myung J. Lee, P.H.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering, City University of New York |
| September 19, 2006 | IEEE Section, Power Society, & MVCA Event Topic: Security in Voice & Data Networks Speaker: Joe Seanor - Chief Security Officer for Cross Telecom |
| August 24, 2006 | IEEE Section & Power Society Event Topic: Tour of LES Salt Valley Generating Station Speaker: Bradley Hans - Supervisor of LES Salt Valley Generating Station |
| May 22, 2006 | IEEE Section & Computer Society Event Topic: The State of Medical Data Exchange for Public Health Speaker: Steven Hinrichs, M.D. - Professor and Director: University of Nebraska Center for Biosecurity Location: Johnny's Cafe, 4702 South 27th Street, Omaha |
| April 27, 2006 | IEEE Section & Communications Society Event Topic: Failure and Replacement of the KETV Radio Tower Speaker: Warren Behrens - Chief Engineer for KETV Location: Johnny's Cafe, 4702 South 27th Street, Omaha |
| March 30, 2006 | IEEE Section & Power Society Event Topic: Tour of Pedersen Power Products Speaker: John Salzmann Location: Pedersen Power Products 3900 Dahlman Avenue , Omaha, NE with a dinner following at Johnny's Cafe, 4702 South 27th Street, Omaha, NE |
| March 21, 2006 | IEEE Section & Communications Society Event Topic: The "State of the State" in Telecom, Legislation, Developments, and Regulation Speakers: Gene Hand & Ann Boyle Location: Venice Inn, 6920 Pacific, Omaha, NE |
| March 14, 2006 | IEEE Section & Communications Society Event Topic: Tour of UNO TV with a presentation of High Definition TV Speakers: Jim Adams & Gary Repair Location: UNO Engineering Building room 001 (basement) UNO Campus: South of 66th & Dodge, Omaha, NE with dinner following at Venice Inn |
| February 23, 2006 | Engineer's Roundtable Banquet Topic: New Trends in Urban Planning Speaker: Marty Shukert Location: Cascio's Steakhouse, 1620 S. 10th Street, Omaha, NE |
| February 21, 2006 | Joint IEEE Section & MVCA Event Topic: A Tour of the Nebraska Educational Television Station Speaker: NET Staff Members Location: NET Studios 33rd & Fair Street, Lincoln, NE |
| January 24, 2006 | IEEE Section Event Topic: Stories from the Nebraska Board of Engineers and Architects Speaker: Melinda E. Pearson, AIA Location: Caniglia's Venice Inn - 6920 Pacific St, Omaha, NE |
| December 13, 2005 | Joint NSPE Breakfast Topic: Safety the Zachry Way Speaker: Earl Chapman Location: Scott Conference Center, 6450 Pine Street, Omaha, NE |
| December 7, 2005 | Section Meeting Topic: What is Really Going on in Congress and How Engineers Can Have an Impact Speaker: Russell T. Harrison Location: Piccolo’s Restaurant, 2202 South 20th Street, Omaha, NE |
| November 22, 2005 | Section, Communication Society, & MVCA Meeting Topic: Convergence in Today's Voice Marketplace Speaker: Mike Albertson Location: Caniglia's Venice Inn, 6920 Pacific St., Omaha, NE |
| November 17, 2005 | Section Meeting Topic: Computer Aided Drafting Technologies - Existing and Emerging CAD Programs and Implementation Speaker: Todd Shackelford - Avatech Solutions Location: Jerico's Restaurant - 11732 W. Dodge, Omaha, NE |
| October 26, 2005 | Joint Student Section Meeting Topic: Insuring Your Future Speaker: John Curry Location: UNL Avery Hall, Room 115, East of Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE. |
| October 20, 2005 | Joint Power Society Meeting Topic: Wind Energy & the Ainsworth Wind Energy Facility Speaker: Mike Hasenkamp Location: Duster's Restaurant - 2804 13th Street, Columbus, NE. |
| September 15, 2005 | Computer Society Meeting Topic: Design Automation Methods for Droplet-Based "Digital" Microfluidic Biochips Speaker: Krishnendu Chakrabarty - an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University Location: Misty's Restaurant - 6235 Havelock Avenue, Lincoln, NE. |
| August 25, 2005 | Communications Society Meeting Topic: Application of fiber optics as a communications conduit to the home Speaker: Rich Poland Location: Anthony's Restaurant - 7220 F Street, Omaha, NE. Sign in at 5:00 PM, dinner at 5:30 PM, presentation at 6:15PM. |
| May 24, 2005 | IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference Topic: Dealing with Harmonic Distortion on the Distribution System Speaker: Roger Dugan , EPRI Solutions, Inc. |
| May 22-25, 2005 | Electro/Information Technology Conference and The University of Nebraska Topic: Conference presentations all relate to Information Technology. Topics range from the hardware and software issues of the IT world (both wired and wireless) to reliability, telemedicine, and nanotechnology. Location: The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska |
| May 19, 2005 | Joint IEEE Section and Power Society Meeting Topic: Tour & Presentation OPPD’s New Substation 1216 Speaker: Dannie D. Buelt, Substation Design Engineer, and Matthew R. Eibes, Protection Engineering, Omaha Public Power District |
| April 7, 2005 | Joint IEEE Section and Communications Society Meeting Topic: Image and Video Compression - Algorithms and Standards Speaker: Khalid Sayood, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Nebraska at Lincoln |
| March 10, 2005 | Joint IEEE Section and Computer Society Meeting Topic: Information Assurance - Where We've Been and Where We Are Going Speaker: Blaine W. Burnham, Executive Director of Nebraska University Consortium on Information Assurance at the College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| February 24, 2005 | Joint IEEE Section and Communications Society Meeting Topic: Wireless Phone Systems Speaker: Mr. Jerry Alderson |
| February 23, 2005 | E-Week Banquet Speakers: Mr. Bruce Carpenter, Senior Vice President of HDR Architecture Inc. and Ms. Susan Morris, President of Heritage Services |
| February 15, 2005 | Joint IEEE Section and Communications Society Meeting Topic: Communications Regulatory Update in Omaha Speaker: To be announced. |
| January 20, 2005 | Joint IEEE Section and GOLD Meeting Topic: Financial Planning for Your Future Speaker: Jerry Doell, Wells Fargo Private Client Services |
| December 3, 2004 | IEEE Nebraska Section Workshop Topic: Negotiating Skills for Engineers: Successful Approaches, Tactics, and Strategies Workshop Speaker: Larry L. Teply, J.D., LL.M. |
| September 16, 2004 | IEEE Power Society and Section Meeting Topic: Molex Manufacturing Speaker: To be Announced |
| August 24, 2004 | IEEE Computer Society and Section Meeting Topic: Local Area Network Speeds Speaker: Don Doberstein, RCDD, a 14-year veteran at Anixter in their equipment testing area |
| May 27, 2004 | IEEE Nebraska Section Workshop Topic: Leadership Skills for Engineers in the Workplace Conference Speaker: Charles P. Rubenstein, Ph.D. |
| April 22, 2004 | IEEE Section and Power Society Meeting Topic: NPRB and NIEC Speakers: Tim Texel, Exec. Director Nebraska Power Review Board, and Skip Morris , Exec. Director of the Nebraska Iowa Electrical Council |
| March 25, 2004 | IEEE Section and Computer Society Meeting Topic: Financial Multi-Application Smartcards Speaker: Dr Jerry Dijak, Strategic Technology Research and Strategic Technology Projects for the Consumer Banking Group of First National Bank of Omaha |
| February 17, 2004 | IEEE Section and Communications Society Meeting Topic: The "State of the State" in Telecom, Legislation, Developments and Regulation Speaker: Gene Hand, Director of Communications for the Nebraska PSC |
| January 29, 2004 | IEEE Section Meeting Topic: Code Inspections and Code Enforcement From the Front Lines Speaker: Terry Scholl, Chief Electrical Inspector for the City of Omaha |
| December 18, 2003 | Joint IEEE and NSPE Meeting Topic: Privatization of the Offutt Air Force Base Housing Speaker: Chris Wolf, CPM, of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. |
| November 20, 2003 | Joint Section and Power Society Meeting Topic: The Impact of the Energy Bill on Nebraska and the Nation Speaker: Larry Pearce, assistant director, Governor's Policy Research and Energy Office |
| November 13, 2003 | Joint Section and Communications Society Meeting Topic: Wireless Systems Compliance with FCC Regulations Speaker: William Graff, President of American Telecommunications Certification Bureau |
| October 16, 2003 | Joint Section and Communications Society Meeting Topic: Roll-Out of Large Multi-Site Voice-Over-IP Phone Systems Speaker: Brian Meder, Director of Marketing for TipnRing LLC |
| October 6, 2003 | Distributed Generation Seminar Presented by Nebraska's IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Speaker: William Feero, P.E. |
| September 25, 2003 | Joint Computer Society and Nebraska Section Meeting Topic: Future of the High-Speed Computer Networks Speaker: Professor M. Guizani, Chair of Computer Science Department at the University of Western Michigan |
| September 4, 2003 | Project Management Workshop Speaker: Dr. Tarek Lahdhiri, IEEE Region 4 Professional Activity Chair and Lab Manager for General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan |
| August 21, 2003 | Section and Power Society Meeting Topic: OPPD Microturbine Tour & Presentation Speakers: Jon Ressler, Project Engineer at OPPD and Bryan Swanson, Interstate Power |
| May 15, 2003 | Section and Communications Society Meeting Topic: "Show Me the Bandwidth" Broadband Techniques: DSL, Cable Modems, and Wireless. Speaker: Bob Tupper, President of RVW Consulting |
| May 1, 2003 | Event: IEEE Joint Nebraska Section and Student Charter Meeting Topic:IEEE Nebraska Section Awards Banquet Speaker: Hamid Vakilzadian, IEEE Nebraska Section President Entertainer:Kirby McGill, a hypnotist from Omaha |
| April 24, 2003 | Event: IEEE Power Engineering Society and Section Meeting Tour:E-Week Design Displays and Evaluation of Senior Electrical/Computer Engineering Design Projects Meeting Topic: How to Start and Maintain a Successful Professional Life? |
| March 27, 2003 | Event: Section and Computer Society Meeting Topic: Future Directions in Parallel Architecture for High-End Network Server Systems Speaker: Keith North, IBM expert in area of eServer (pSeries). |
| February 21, 2003 | Event: E-Week Awards Meeting (Sponsored by the Engineer's Roundtable) Topic: Using Virtual Reality to Help Design and Fund Raise All in One Package Speaker: Dr. Lee G. Simmons, Director of Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo |