This Week’s Events
Through-hole + SMD Soldering Workshop
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on October 20th, 2022 the first floor Boelter Makerspace (1805 Boelter)
If you want to have the ability to build your own projects, soldering is one of those essential EE skills that you must have! Join us as we teach you how to solder through-hole and SMD(Surface Mount Device) resistors, LEDs, ICs, and much more! As the hands-on experience for this workshop, you will be making your very own light up IEEE sign! Be on the look out for a RSVP link, since there are a limited amount of boards. RSVP here!
Next Week’s Events
PCB Design Workshop
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm on October 25th, 2022, online
Are you also tired of breadboards and messy jumper wires? No worries, we got you covered. Make sure to join our PCB designing workshop, where we will teach you how to design a functioning PCB board from scratch. Starting from the basics we will teach you how to draw a schematic diagram to generating a PCB board. We will teach you the DOs and DON'Ts of tracing your PCB board. After this workshop, you will be able to design any basic PCBs.
Projects
Micromouse Lecture 2
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm on October 18th, 2022 in the Shannon Room in Engineering IV
Second lecture for Micromouse! Come learn more about Motors and Encoders and how to make your mouse move!
OPS Project 1 Worksession
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on October 19th, 2022 in the IEEE Lab
Gear up for your very first OPS project! Come in during our Project 1 Worksession for help, advice, or just some good company! Remember, Project 1 will be due Sunday at 11:59pm, so this is a GREAT opportunity to get it done before the lab closes on the weekend. Hope to see many of you there!
Pocket Racers Lecture 2
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm on October 19th, 2022 in the Shannon Room in Engineering IV
Opportunities
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Join the Outreach Committee!
Join the Outreach Committee! The purpose of this committee is to give back to our local community by providing resources and support in the form of workshops, panels, and exhibitions. If you are interested in helping students from local high schools and community colleges learn technical ECE skills, or speaking to prospective students at panels, consider joining the ECE Outreach Committee!
The interest form can be found here.
We already have some workshops and exhibits lined up for the upcoming school year, and we're really excited to see how we can impact the community around us. This committee is low commitment (you won't get kicked out if you don't attend an event), so don't worry about not having enough time, we would be happy if you can help out whenever you can!
Please feel free to ask Ryan, our Outreach Coordinator, or email outreach@ieeebruins.com if you have any questions regarding the committee.
IEEE Alumni Mentorship Program
Applications are open until Monday, November 7th at 11:59pm.
The Alumni Mentorship Program applications are now open to all IEEE members! This program aims to inspire, guide, and engage current IEEE members through the experienced guidance of IEEE alumni. Our mentors have a broad range of experiences in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science industries/education. You will be matched to a mentor who can best provide advice on what you need. Apply here now! If you are an alumni, you can apply to be a mentor or a guest panelist here and here!
Urgent Opening for a Raspberry Pi Internship @Traction Labs LLC
We need a person with experience using Raspberry Pis and similar devices as well as C++ and familiarity with java and understanding of python. Experience or understanding of AWS cloud with lambda functions is a plus.
Tasks may include upgrading the pi OS and possibly designing new features such as adding a Wi-Fi module or cellular boards onto the pi.
Ideally, we are looking for a student due to graduate in the next term or year; we are also open to international students - most, if not all of the work can be done remotely. We would want the hired intern to start as early as possible, preferably starting September.
Please contact Ravindra Kondagunta (Ravi) at ravi@traction-labs.com for more information & any questions. Thank you!
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Member of the Week
Eli Foerst
Year and major: Sophomore, Electrical Engineering
Involvement with IEEE: OPS Co-Lead
Hobbies: Going to the beach, rowing, getting coffee, poker, late night festivities
Favorite memory with IEEE: We got swazied at the retreat, was insane 🤯. *Swaze is patent pending by the IEEE Cool Kids Collab*
Your most useless talent or fun fact: I can pop my pinkie on command
What you would be doing if time and money were not an issue: Traveling the world, start with Singapore, to Berlin, to Haiti, to the Swiss Alps
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