Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting January 2013 San Marcos, TX

Chapter Leadership Team Chair: Kristi Hummel Vice-Chair: Luis Cabeza Sec./Treas: Farjad Zaheer Program Chair: Robert Flake, Jeffrey Vah Publicity Chair: Terry Duepner Notes:

2012 Chapter Meetings Date Technical/Admin Topic Speaker L31 1/12/12 Planning meeting with officers X 1/16/12 Technical A/D Converters – Looking Beyond the Specifications Jerome Johnston (Intersil) 2/20/12 Evolution of Timekeeping and Synchronized Time over the last 150 years Ken Reindel (NI) 4/16/12 Seeing their World through their Ears: The Exotic World of Bats Dr. George Pollak (UT) 5/21/12 CMOS Handheld Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Systems Dr. Nan Sun (UT) 7/11/12 9/17/12 Designing Instrumentation for Regulated Industry: Case Study – bioPotential Module Nachiket M. Kharalkar (NI) 10/15/12 Microcontrollers in Healthcare Donnie Garcia (Freescale) 11/19/12 Technical/Officer Elections RF Measurement Systems for Demanding RF Applications of Today and Tomorrow Jaffar Shah (NI) Notes:

2013 Chapter Meetings Date Technical/Admin Topic Speaker L31 1/9/13 Planning meeting with officers 1/21/13 Technical Preventing Large Hadron Collider at CERN From Melting Away: Using FPGAs for Collimator Control Dr. Ravi Marawar, NI 2/18/13 Eweek – TBD 3/18/13 Topic is TBD Dr. Nan Sun, UT 4/15/13 Joint I&M and PES meeting idea Notes:

Visualizing Success… Consistent attendance at every meeting: 20-30 I&M Chapter would have an identity Members are involved at higher levels of IEEE Volunteers are plentiful Members’ employers value membership in IEEE and our chapter Goals for 2013 Average attendance of 20-25 at each meeting Hold at least 6 chapter meetings (3 spring, 3 fall) Hold 1 social event Notes: