Antennas & Propagation (AP-S) Microwave Theory &Techniques (MTT-S) Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting Jan 26, 2012 San Marcos, TX

Chapter Leadership Team Andrea Alù (chair) Ali Yilmaz (vice-chair, treasurer) Just re-elected UT Austin – Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Notes:

Chapter Updates Frequent chapter meetings and seminars this past semester Involvement of graduate students and faculty, in addition to local companies Notes:

2012 Fall Chapter Meetings Date Technical/Admin Topic Speaker L31 (10/5) (Technical) Oliver Heaviside and the Technological Roots of “Maxwell’s Equations” Prof. Bruce Hunt (Yes) (11/2) High-Performance Micromagnetics for Nanostructured Materials and Devices Prof. Vitaliy Lomakin (12/14) Wideband Microwave, Millimeter-Wave and Light-Wave Antennas Dr. Hongyu Zhou (1/17) Evolutionary Planar Transmission-Line Structures: Their Physics and Practicality Prof. Ching-Kuang Clive Tzuang (1/25) AP-S Distinguished Lecture Fast Solvers Based on Hybrid FFT-Integral Equations Prof. Joshua Le-Wei Li Notes:

SWOT Analysis Strengths: University / Department support, Graduate student base, Undergraduate involvement and close interaction with student chapter Weaknesses: Didn’t attract strong company base Opportunities: IEEE Distinguished Lecturers (1 come, 1 planned), Faculty involvement, Technical meetings Threats: Losing the company component of our chapter Notes:

Chapter Plans / Issues IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Visits, we plan to have up to another two in 2013 Keep going with monthly seminars Notes:

QUESTIONS??? Thanks If you’d like to learn more about electronic services, you’ll want to attend the session on the Electronic Services being presented this afternoon by Christian Borgert (BORE-GERT) and Chip Dawson. If you miss this afternoon’s session, you can see it tomorrow morning. Now I’d like to answer your questions about newsletters and electronic services . . . (After Q&A) I’m sorry we don’t have time to answer all of your questions, but we have an abundance of expertise with us this weekend, and much of it is in the Computer Lab upstairs. Stop by and get more information anytime.