The IEEE Hawaii Section will be holding its monthly Executive Committee (ExCom) meeting on Thursday, June 7th from 6:30-7:30pm. The meeting will be held at UH Manoa Holmes Hall 244, with an online option available via WebEx.

No food will be provided at the in-person meeting.

Date: 07 June 2024

Time: 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM Hawaii Time

Location: University of Hawaii Holmes Hall 244 OR WebEx

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will host The 2024 IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Summit (ILS) on August 1-2, 2024 at Discovery Hall in Richland, Washington. PNNL is one of only ten locations worldwide selected to host the prestigious event. In 2019, PNNL hosted the event, which attracted nearly 400 attendees from academia, industry, and national laboratories—it was hailed as a huge success by IEEE.

🔍 Exceptional posters highlighting cutting-edge technologies and innovative policies are encouraged to submit. The poster session offers ILS attendees the opportunity to connect and exchange insights into their research endeavors. The IEEE Richland Section will honor the most outstanding poster with the Best Poster Award.

Students, post-bachelors, post-masters, and post-doctorates are encouraged to submit an abstract on a related topic for the poster session.

🌟 Exciting Distinguished lecturer: Physical and computational modeling of smart homes 🌟
Novel "smart" technologies such as smart homes, smart grids, variable pricing, and local energy markets promise both better overall efficiency for providers, a greener home, and lower prices. In this talk, we discuss the need for extensive modeling and simulation for all the components of such homes, including the physical environment, the smart controllers, the behavior of the humans, and the external environment, including the smart grids and local energy market to which the systems connect.
🗣️ Speaker: Dr. Turgut, Charles Millican Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida

Date: 5 June 2024 at 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM

Location: Virtual

🌟 Exciting IAS Seminar: Arc Flash Mitigation with Protection settings 🌟

🗣️ Speaker: Daniel (Dan) Ransom, PE, is a Senior Technical Application Engineer at GE Vernova (formerly of General Electric) and has a wealth of knowledge to share. He has many years of industrial and utility power-systems experience, specializing in protection products development and applications support. Dan is a IEEE Senior Member based in the Tacoma, WA, area and plays an active role in the IEEE IAS/PES/ComSoc/SA worlds.

Date: 11 June 2024 at 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Location: 733 Bishop ST, STE 2000, HONOLULU, Hawaii, United States 96813

The IEEE Hawaii Women In Engineering in Hawaii, in collaboration with the IEEE Hawaii Section, IEEE Hawaii Industry Applications Society, and Lawson & Associates, Inc. - Safety Intelligence Institute, is thrilled to cohost this event.

Unlocking Safety Intelligence: IQ + EQ3 = SQ
Safety Intelligence is the process that can help leaders put in place a safety management system focused on business improvement as a whole. This discussion will outline some key factors to create a successful safety culture. The discussion will be led by Tracy Lawson. She is the President & Founder of the Lawson & Associates, Inc and the Co-Founder of the Safety Intelligence Institute. Tracy has 30+ years’ experience in the occupational safety & health field and maintains several board certifications.

Date: 12 June 2024 at 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Location: 1312 Kaumualii St, Honolulu, HI, 96817

• 2024 IEEE Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SNW), 15 - 16 June 2024 | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | Event Format: In-person
• 2024 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits), 16 - 20 June 2024 | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | Event Format: In-person
• 2024 33rd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 29 - 31 July 2024 | Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA | Event Format: In-person
• 2024 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), 13 - 15 November 2024 | Hilo, Hawaii, USA | Event Format: In-person

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IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Hawaii Chapter hosted a seminar on generators with guest speaker and local legend, Cliff Yuen, from Hawthorne CAT in the Burns & McDonnell office on May 7, 2024. This talk helped electrical engineers of all experience levels to brush up on best generator design practices and to learn about alternative fuel options that are becoming ever so common in our push towards a sustainable, yet resilient Hawaii.

The IEEE Hawaii Section participated in the IEEE Region 6 Central Area Spring Meeting on May 25th hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno student branch at Incline Village Lake Tahoe campus with the IEEE Northern Nevada section. During the meeting, representatives had the opportunity to network with other volunteers and students from the Central Area and learn about successes within their Sections.

The 67th Hawaii State Science & Engineering Fair was held April 1-3, 2024 at the Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall and hosted by the Hawaii Academy of Science. For the past decade, IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) Hawaii presented special awards for outstanding projects related to Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Senior Research projects are grades 9-12 and Junior Research projects are grades 6-8. This year six IEEE Hawaii members and community members volunteered as judges and four were also Academy judges, Song Choi, Michael Hirakami, Eugene Chang, Tom Brotherton, Sophia Tang, and John Borland.

The three Senior Research project award winners of $200 went

1) ROBO-234 by Andy Chen of Kalani High School for “Harnessing Brainwaves for Robot Control with an Arduino Brainwave Reader”,

2) ROBO-235 by Aaron-James Santa Cruz of Waipahu High School for “Using Computer Vision toby Analyze Traffic”, and

3) ROBO-236 by Jisue Hong of Punahou School for “Can CNNs Accurately Classify Human Emotions? A Deep-Learning Facial Expression Recognition Study”.

The four Junior Research project award winners of $100 went

1) EGSD-469 by Steven Au, Alexi Terebenkov and Gordon Lai of Kaimuki Middle School for “Skyline Powered by the Breeze”,

2) EGSD-470 by Tanner Miller of Island School for “What Amount of Blades is the Most Efficient to Generate Energy with Wind Turbines?”,

3) EGSD-474 by Pierce Blanton, Ryan Doan and Wesley Mederios for “E-Car, an Efficient, Economical and Ecological Way to Generate Energy”,

4) ROBO-541 by Madilyn Corker of St. Michael School for “My Mess vs My Robot”.

On May 1st, the IEEE UH Manoa Student Branch held an End of the Year Social, where students challenged their peers to different games. The event helped to de-stress before finals and celebrate their hard work by relaxing with their classmates.