[1] July 2007 Luncheon
The
Alaska Section of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc. will hold its monthly luncheon
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, Wednesday, July 18th , at the
Sourdough Mining Co. Restaurant, 5200 Juneau Street.
Our
July Luncheon speaker is Mr. John Pepe. Mr. Pepe is a
Senior Electrical Engineer with PDC Engineers and chapter
president and founder of Engineers Without Borders
Anchorage Section. Engineers Without Borders is a
non-profit humanitarian organization providing sustainable
engineering projects internationally.
The meeting is free and open to the public. The cost for a
buffet style lunch is $15 per person for IEEE members or $17
for nonmembers. Please RSVP by Tuesday, July 17th
to Steve
Kaleta, 762-4420 or e-mail
stevenkaleta "ąt" hotmail.com.
[3]
2nd Annual IEEE Picnic Summary
IEEE Members and Friends,
We just had our 2nd annual IEEE
picnic at Kincaid Park Chalet. I appreciate the great turn
out this year, there was about 32 people all together.
Everyone helped make it a successful and fun picnic.
The weather was fantastic with
a slight breeze and clear blue skies overhead, couldn't have
picked a better day.
I would encourage more people
to attend the 3rd annual IEEE picnic for summer 2008.
Also I would like to give a
special thanks to Aung our 2007 secretary for helping me
shop and prepare the food for the picnic and Harry our 2007
chair did a great job cooking on the bbq grill.
I appreciate everyone's support
in making this years picnic a great success.
Thank you,
Steven Kaleta, P.E.
2007 IEEE Alaska Vice Chair
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[2]
Call for Nominations for
IEEE
Achievement Awards
We'd like to remind all members that they're invited to
submit ideas or nominations for this year's IEEE achievement
awards.
Please send candidate names for the Individual Achievement,
Small Company Achievement, Large Company Achievement, and/or
Community Service Award to
Steve
Kaleta by e-mail to:
stevenkaleta "ąt" hotmail.com.
[4]
IEEE Position Statement on
B+30
Issue / P.E. Licensure
On June 15, 2007 the IEEE-USA
Board of Directors approved a
position statement on
education requirements for licensure in the United States.
The statement neither supports nor opposes the National
Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
recent revision to its Model Law, requiring all engineers
applying for licensure obtain an additional 30 credit hours
of engineering education, in addition to the baccalaureate
degree from an ABET-accredited engineering education
program.
The State of Alaska Board of
Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors
is in opposition to the NCEES requirement, and has no plans
to adopt that portion of the Model Law structure for Alaskan
license seekers.
The IEEE Alaska Section and
IEEE Region 6 Executive Committees have presented opposing
viewpoints to IEEE-USA adopting a supportive position of the
NCEES Model Law Change. IEEE Members concerned about this issue
and the impact to the public and profession should send
their comments to John Meredith, IEEE-USA President. Contact
for Mr. Meredith can be found at the IEEE-USA website
http://www.ieeeusa.org/about/3Ps_profiles.asp.
Please visit
www.ieee-alaska.org
to review the IEEE position statement.
[5] GCI
Sponsors IEEE Alaska Section
Website
Domain Hosting
On behalf of the IEEE Alaska
Section ExCom, I'd like to extend our utmost appreciation
and gratitude to GCI for their recent and continued support
of our website domain hosting needs.
GCI has graciously supported
the IEEE Alaska Section in many ways over the years, and we
appreciate their ongoing assistance in serving IEEE members
throughout the State of Alaska.
Sincerely,
Jason Reed, P.E.
Media Chair
IEEE Alaska Section
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