<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>There are three great meetings on Monday and Tuesday of this week. As with all the meetings, registration is not required but is strongly suggested so we can order the correct amount of food and drink for the meetings.<br><br>----------------------------------------<br><br></div>Monday night is the monthly IEEE / TAR meeting and we will have the NCSU underwater robotics team presenting. We will also have Butch Shadwell as a visitor (speaker at the two events on Tuesday).<br><br><a href="https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35384">https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35384</a><br><br></div>Tuesday noon/afternoon is a Student Technical Career strategies talk by Butch Shadwell Come out to hear Butch give the ultimate tutorial on how to have the
best career possible in the fields of applied physical science and
engineering! Specific information on interviewing, graduate school,
winning the talent competition, and optimizing your income and standard
of living. If you want to be able to take control of your professional
future, you will want to attend this talk. <br><br><a href="https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/36058" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/36058</a><br><br></div>Tuesday night hear Butch give his talk on the IEEE Humanitarian
Technology Challenge. Butch has directed
the development of experimental power systems that have been deployed
in some of the poorest parts of the world. A technical review and case
studies of installation sites.<br><a href="https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35533" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><br>https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35533</a>.<br><br></div><strong>Butch Shadwell</strong> has been working in electronics since
he was 12 years old. Starting with vacuum tube technology, he has
designed systems through the evolution of transistors, SSI, MSI, and
LSI. In his extraordinary career he has worked with almost every kind of
technology in the electronics industry, including applied research and
development in nuclear medicine, opto-electronics, electronic warfare,
robotics, industrial automation, machine vision, artificial
intelligence, digital television, special sensors and embedded systems.
<p>A senior member of the IEEE, he is active on the IEEE Energy Policy
Committee and the IEEE Research Policy Committee. In 2009 he was
selected as the international chair of the IEEE Humanitarian Technology
Challenge – Reliable Electricity.</p>
<p>He has conducted sponsored research at Carnegie-Mellon Robotics
Institute and received over $1.5 million in grants for his work in
machine vision. For the past nineteen years he has had a successful
consulting practice developing new technologies for dozens of companies.
His clients include multi-billion dollar companies, and as an active
volunteer in IEEE has been a featured speaker at many universities,
sections, and student branches around the world.</p><br></div>