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April 4, 2017 Free Drinks, Pizza, and Tour of CLU Hub101:
6:00 PM AbstractStartup Communities + Entrepreneurial Engineers play critical roles in expanding our economy and creating jobs! Come for co-working, stay for community. CLU Hub101 is a member-based co-working space and event venue for entrepreneurs, which in turn creates a positive impact in Ventura County. Just six weeks is all it takes to build a winning investor pitch deck, run experiments to get traction, learn from the best mentors in the region, refine your business model and get the edge you need to grow your startup into a business. Hub 101 was designed for entrepreneurs who are either working on their startup on evenings and weekends, or busy running their startup during the day; the new Hub101 incubator program format is made up of 6 weekly meetings on Monday evenings from 4pm-7pm at Hub101 in Westlake Village. To date, 20 startups have come through Hub101 incubator programs, and every founder has experienced a personal and professional growth not easily duplicated on their own. If you have a good idea and are willing to work hard to see it through you too can find incredible succeed in the USA or even worldwide. Over 40 million American jobs have been created through startup companies over the last thirty years. Recovering from the deep recession in a sustainable manner depend on a community’s ability to innovate. The CLU Hub101 provides startups and entrepreneurs with space, community and mentorship. About the FacilitatorGreg Monterrosa, Community Manager at Hub101: Greg’s passions lie in two distinct areas: tacos and startups. He is the Community Manager and one of the founders of Hub101, a startup incubator and coworking space located in Westlake Village, California with a mission of encouraging businesses to “create, launch, grow.” As a Startup Weekend global mentor and organizer, he is able to interact with and learn from the innovative minds behind startups worldwide. In 2011, the Pacific Coast Business Times selected him as one of the top 40 up-and-coming business leaders in the tri-county area. In 2015, he mentored over 100 different startups in France and London. In 2016, he received a 40 Under 40 award from the Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce as well as Congressional recognition of his efforts in supporting the local startup community. In 2017, he joined the City of Thousand Oaks Business Roundtable. Monterrosa is also a speaker and Cofounder of one of the nation's leading business formations company, MyLLC.com. Greg organizes entrepreneurship related events, initiates and maintains working relationships with startup community members. Greg Monterrosa also serves as advisor for the Cal Lutheran University Entrepreneurship Club. LocationHub101 Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura Section April 12, 2017 Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM AbstractFIRST® is the largest national robotics competition of its kind at the high school level. Students have only six weeks to design, build, program, and test a robot to perform against a field of competitors. he game, the rules and the robot specifications are different every year. This year, the game is FIRST® STEAMWORKSSM. In
this competition, students get to: We will hear an introduction from the teams, followed (weather permitting) by an extended demonstration and Q&A outside. This is an excellent opportunity to get kids interested in science and engineering. LocationCLU - Gilbert
Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room 253 Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef (map). Do not park in the faculty/staff/reserved lots. Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura Computer Society Chapter April 20, 2017 Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM AbstractCSUNSat1 is the product of a California State University Northridge (CSUN) / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) collaboration to space test a new low temperature capable power system. Engineers at JPL provided the payload consisting of a new cold temperature capable lithium ion battery technology and supercapacitors. A team of over 70 CSUN faculty and students designed, built, programmed, and tested the spacecraft that will carry this payload into low earth orbit and test the power system’s performance in space. The ground station located on the CSUN campus was also designed and programmed by the CSUN team. The collaboration began in 2013 as a program to improve the pipeline of engineering graduates from CSUN to JPL. With funding from a NASA Smallsat Technology Partnership grant and NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, CSUNSat1 was completed and launched in March 2017. Professors Jay Flynn and Sharlene Katz will discuss the CSUNSat1 mission along with the challenges faced during its development. About the SpeakersProfessor Jay Flynn has been a part time faculty member the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State University, Northridge for seven years. He holds a B.S. (1977) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts (1981) degree from Northwestern University. Before joining the faculty, he spent thirty years as a consulting engineer, specializing in broadcasting and communications in both the U.S. and Europe. At CSUN he has led a number of research projects in the area of communications, signal processing, and software defined radio. Professor Sharlene Katz, Ph. D., has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State University, Northridge. For over 30 years. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with B.S. (1975), M.S. (1976), and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Electrical Engineering. Her areas of research interest include communications systems, software defined radio, signal processing, electronics, and neural networks. Dr. Katz is a licensed professional engineer in the state of California. Over the past 10 years, Professors Katz and Flynn have collaborated on a number of research projects for the military (Navy, Air Force) and industry in the fields of communications and signal processing. Typically these projects involve undergraduate and graduate students in the engineering program at CSUN. For the past four years, they have collaborated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on CSUNSat1, a 2U CubeSat now awaiting launch in March 2017. LocationCLU - Gilbert
Sports and Fitness Center, 2nd Floor, Room 254 Parking: Free parking is available in the lot east of the Gilbert building. Additional free parking is available in the lot on the southwest corner of Olsen and Mountclef (map). Do not park in the faculty/staff/reserved lots. Presented By: IEEE Buenaventura Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Flyer (PDF) April
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IEEE Buenaventura Section Gives Awards at Ventura County Science Fair 2017Ventura, March 28, 2017 - The Ventura County Science Fair was held in the Ventura County Fair Grounds with the organization of VC Office of Education. VCOE celebrated the 63rd anniversary of this premier annual event. Students from numerous middle and high schools of Ventura County displayed their science projects in fourteen different categories. The top three projects from each category were selected by volunteer judges from the local industries and academia. Top projects on each category have the option of entering the State Science Fair held on April 20. Participation in VCSF have been growing steadily since its inception in 1955 when eight budding scientists entered their projects. This year 850 students entered 720 projects in this event. In addition to awards given by VCOE, special awards are given by professional organization and industries to exceptional projects. IEEE Buenaventura Section participated in this special awards category. All projects that generated or used electricity for the implementation of the project were eligible for IEEE special awards. This included projects that use computers. Six years ago when this award was introduced there were very few projects that fell in this category. This year there were over a 100 projects that met this criterion. This award is having a clear effect on increasing interest among students in the field of electrical engineering and computer science. It was encouraging to see many projects involved generation and storage of electricity. There is a saying that, "If enough people start thinking about solving a problem then the solution will reveal itself ". IEEE judges selected four exceptional projects for these special awards. First prize went to the team of Sammy Pederson, Caroline Perez & Jonathan Van Hyning for their project "The Hyperloop". Second prize went to Mathew Brawder for his project "How to make a robotic IRIS". Third place went to Leif Rudling for their project "Aircraft Weight and Balance Calculator", and fourth place went to the team of Kendall Case & Hailiegh Nunez for their project "How does having a prosthetic arm affect daily life". 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th place winners received $225 ($75x3), $100, $75 & $50 ($25x2) prize respectively from IEEE BV Section. In addition, winners were awarded virtual reality headset from IEEE, which was very well received. IEEE Buenaventura Section would like to thank Howard Turner (IEEE), Charles Seabury (IEEE) & Momin Quddus (IEEE) for judging in the special awards category and presenting the awards at the ceremony. See the full report including photos from the event Photos from Previous IEEE EventsImplementing Vision Feedback In A Closed Loop Servo For
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