[TriEmbed] [TAR] [TAR Meeting Monday Oct 7th, 2019 at 7:00pm - NCSU EB1 1005]

Sun Oct 6 12:27:44 CDT 2019

Friends,

We are having our monthly R&A meeting on Oct 7th, 2019 at 7:00pm (6:30 pm
for pizza) in 1005 NCSU Engineering Building 1.  The topic will be

"*LEGO Mindstorms Robots for STEM Education by Charles Lord, Rodney Radford
+ Jetbot Robot using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal*"
All of our speakers Charles Lord, Rodney Radford and Dr. Paul MacDougal are
highly experienced professionals in the industry.

Registration link:

*https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/197396
<https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/197396>*
Please refer to event details in the forwarded email below for more
details.  Our monthly events are open to public including non-IEEE
members.  All are invited.

Thank you.

Mahesh Balasubramaniam
IEEE ENCS RA24 Chair
IEEE SouthEastCon Program Committee
maheshba at ieee.org
919-649-6902

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From: <enotice at ieee.org>
Date: Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 12:58 PM
Subject: LEGO Mindstorms Robots for STEM Education by Charles Lord, Rodney
Radford + Jetbot Robot using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal
To: <maheshba at ieee.org>

To view complete details for this event, click here to view the announcement
<https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/197396>
LEGO Mindstorms Robots for STEM Education by Charles Lord, Rodney Radford +
Jetbot Robot using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal
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*LEGO Mindstorms Robots for STEM Education by Charles Lord, Rodney Radford
+ Jetbot Robot using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal*
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*Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) are simple when
there is enough interest and understanding on the subject matter.*

To emphasize this key message which is an eminent noble task, *Charles Lord*
will talk about and walkthrough effective methods of using LEGO mindstorms
robots for STEM motivational education in every level of academic
institutions.  *Rodney Radford* will be helping on the demonstration part
of the talk.  It is interesting to note, Lego Mindstom Nxt has opensource
components abstracting a simple but efficient embedded systems - providing
easy to use SDK(Software Development Kit), HDK(Hardware Development Kit)
and BDK(Bluetooth Development kit) along with multiple programming
languages including C, Python, Matlab, Ada, Lua & graphical NXT-G.

*Dr. Paul MacDougal* will present about Jetbot robot using NVIDIA Jetson
Nano.  NVIDIA Jetson Nano is an affordable System On Modue(SOM) with CPU,
GPU, Power Management IC, DRAM & Flash - a Maxwell architecture with 128
NVIDIA CUDA cores for performance and power efficiency to run autonomous
machines, faster with less power. It is interesting to note, Jetbot has a
Robot Operating System(ROS) port along with a model for Gazebo Robotics
Simulator.

https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/jetbot/wiki

*Speaker Information:*

*Charles Lord PE* is the Chair of Western North Carolina section, a veteran
serving for the technology community through IEEE holding multiple
positions in past few decades. Charles has also led several IEEE
SouthEastCon conferences and the General Co-Chair of *IEEE SouthEastCon
2020*.  *Rodney Radford* is an expert senior embedded software developer
and maker, Chair of IEEE NC Council and past IEEE RA24 chair.  Rodney also
leads the Student and hardware competition programs in IEEE SouthEastcon
2020.

*Dr. Paul MacDougal* is a Design Engineer in the architecture team of
NVIDIA designing and profiling advanced graphics architectures.  Paul holds
a PhD in computer science from Ohio state university.

*Parking Information:*

*Plenty of free parking available at following locations adjacent to EB1
Building.*

911 Partners Way, Raleigh NC 27606 (EB1 entry)

890 Oval Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606   (EB2 entry)

1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606 (Hunts library 0.2m away)
Date and Time

   - Date: *07 Oct 2019*
   - Time: *06:30 PM to 08:30 PM*
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Location

   - 911 Partners Way
   - Raleigh, North Carolina
   - United States 27606
   - Building: Engineering Building 1 (EB1)
   - Room Number: 1005

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Contact

   - Email event contact <maheshba at ieee.org>
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   Mahesh Balasubramaniam

   maheshba at ieee.org

Registration

   - Starts *08 April 2019 12:00 AM*
   - Ends *07 October 2019 08:30 PM*
   - All times are US/Eastern
   - No Admission Charge

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Agenda

6:30-7:00pm Networking with pizza and soda

The times below are approximate and are given just as a guideline:

7:00-7:10pm News and Announcements

7:10-7:40pm  Use of LEGO Mindstorm Robots for STEM Education by Charles
Lord PE & Rodney Radford, IEEE

7:40-8:10pm Jetbot Robot Using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal

8:10-8:30pm Show & tell by interested hobbyists

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