[IEEE @ UCLA] Week 9, Spring 2024
Final stretch!!! Have a restful memorial day :)
This Week’s Events
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Projects Showcase
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm on May 31st, 2024, in E6 Mong + Breezeway + Cohen Room
Attention ECE faculty and students! Join us at Engineering VI Mong Auditorium on Friday May 31, 2024 at noon as IEEE hosts its second annual Project Showcase, where students from our year long projects, in addition to students who have completed individual projects, present the technical knowledge they’ve learned and accomplishments they’ve made during this year. Please keep an eye out for the finalized schedule on our social media!
The event will feature demos of our five main projects, our small group projects from the Student Project Initiative, and many more, including:
A tesla coil designed from scratch
An RF communication system, designed entirely from scratch on transistor levels, sending messages across the room.
Maze-solving robots designed from scratch, from PCB design to controls to algorithms on embedded microcontrollers
Electric guitar pedals producing different audio effects
Small Autonomous vehicles using machine learning and computer vision to drive on a track
Audio signal processing and arcade games implemented in hardware on FPGAs
Games and sound players implemented on Arduinos
GB Banquet
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on June 1st, 2024, in E6 Breezeway + Patio
Pull up to the LAST EVER GB BANQUET!! As the school year comes to an end, meet up with you GB parents and siblings one last time. 😎 Come for some AMAZING food and to finally find out which GB is TRULY THE BEST. 🔥🔥 Dress up in THEME with your GB for even more extra points. 🫣🥶
RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/gbbanquet2024rsvp
Next Week’s Events
DAVaoke
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm on June 6th, 2024, in the Tesla Room
Projects
OPS Worksession
6:00 to 8:00 pm on May 30th, 2024 in the IEEE Lab
Opportunities/Plugs
EDI Townhall
IEEE, WATT, and HKN are organizing our very first "EDI Townhall" where we plan on sharing student experiences and opinions about current EDI issues at UCLA School of Engineering. While we are focusing this round of efforts on the student organization experience, we want to hear from you and your opinions on various EDI related topics. If you have 5 minutes, please fill out this form and help us get feedback!
The form is here: https://tinyurl.com/uclaedi
Member of the Week
Sparsh Johri
Year and major: Sophomore, Computer Science
Hobbies: Rock climbing, music/composition, conlanging
Favorite memory with IEEE: Spending the evening on the beach during the bonfire
Your most useless talent or fun fact: I have acquired perfect pitch
Favorite Artist, Song, or Album: Chopin
What you would be doing if time and money were not an issue: I would get every degree.
Piece of advice to our readers: It is useful to cultivate a sense of absolute clarity regarding your own motivations. Be honest with yourself about what you want and why you want it.
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