Our Blog Featured On "IEEE Spectrum Online" Tech Talk Blog

The IEEE Richmond Section Blog was highlighted on the "IEEE Spectrum Online" Tech Talk Blog today. We are honored to have our blog mentioned by Susan Hassler, IEEE Spectrum's Editor-in-Chief. It appears that the blog by the IEEE Richmond Section is the first at the IEEE Section or Chapter level. What do you think? If you are aware of other Sections or Chapters that have a blog to serve their members, please let us know.

Instrument control, data acquisition, signal conditioning and DSP

Instrument control, data acquisition, signal conditioning and DSP What student of engineering or science, what practicing engineer hasn’t heard or, and probably used LabVIEW? Our speaker will address “Distributed Processing”. He will talk about the trends towards smaller, distributed processing systems and use LabVIEW to demonstrate examples of this technology. The speaker for the 2 March 2006 meeting of the IEEE Richmond Section will be Christian Hahn, Field Engineer, National Instruments.

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Trends In Renewable Energy For Corporate Users

Evan Bates , CEO , Intrinergy, LLC will be the speaker at the IEEE Richmond Section Meeting on Thursday, 2 February 2006 at the Hilton Garden Inn at Innsbrook. Registration and social starts at 5:30 PM. Visit our website at www.ieee.org/richmond to register and for more details. Mr. Bates' presentation "Trends in Renewable Energy for Corporate Users" will address the dramatic changes in the availability of renewable energy for corporate uses seen in the last twenty-four months. Energy costs are rising and companies are under mounting pressure to adopt environmentally friendly operations. Now you can lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce landfill contributions, conserve natural resources, and lower your energy costs with an Intrinergy renewable energy system instead of fossil fuels.

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Welcome to the IEEE Richmond Section Program Blog. We serve our 750+ members and the technical community in the Richmond, VA USA metropolitan area. The goal of this Blog is to add membership value to our local members and to help increase technical literacy in the local community. Each month we will post a new Blog on our monthly meeting presentation topic. In many cases, our monthly speaker will be the Blog moderator.