Agenda:The Sacramento Valley YP Group Meeting is a coordination and planning forum for events and next steps.

This training will be targeted to volunteers who are fairly new to vTools and OU Analytics and want to learn to use them more effectively. It will include live walkthroughs of common tasks. Please feel free to forward this invite to others who are interested. 

The slides from the event are available here. Contact Chris Gunning (cgunning@ieee.org) if you need a copy of the original pptx file.

Zoom call hosted by Open Research Institute (ORI). IEEE members and guests are welcome. This is a technical roundtable of FPGA projects from the Open Source hardware community. Participants report what they've done over the past week, what they have planned for the next week, if they have any roadblocks, and if they need any resources. The roundtable is sometimes followed by open office hours if anyone has additional questions or discussions.  

Officer Meeting to plan for the next 2 weeks. 

To go over the Schedule, Budget, and Special Opportunities the student branch/club has. 

The Making of a Chip is an introductory technical and career-focused session designed to provide participants with a comprehensive overview of the complete ASIC development lifecycle. The event will guide attendees through each critical phase of chip creation, starting from system and ASIC/VLSI specifications, progressing through design and verification, and concluding with post-silicon validation.

Participants will gain insights into how real-world requirements are translated into silicon-ready designs, the role of RTL design and functional verification, and the importance of validation after fabrication to ensure performance, reliability, and compliance. In addition to the technical flow, the session will highlight current industry practices, tools, and skills required at each stage of the semiconductor lifecycle.

The event will also focus on career opportunities for graduates in the semiconductor industry, outlining various job roles such as ASIC/VLSI design engineer, verification engineer, validation engineer, and related entry-level positions. Industry expectations, essential skill sets, and career pathways will be discussed to help students and early-career professionals prepare for roles in chip design and development.

This session is ideal for engineering students and graduates who are interested in understanding ASIC/VLSI design workflows and exploring career opportunities in the semiconductor domain.

IEEE Alaska Executive Committee Meeting

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 ⋅ 6:00 – 7:30pm (Alaska Time - Anchorage)

Jeremie Smith is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting using the IEEE Alaska Section Account

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98832778456?pwd=WnhVWFpOOGQ0YkZEVnlqMlJjWG5lZz09

Meeting ID: 988 3277 8456
Passcode: 269832

Please register if you will be attending.

In today’s saturated job market, submitting applications alone is rarely enough. This session explores advanced job-search strategies that go beyond online postings, with a focus on purposeful networking that leads to real conversations, referrals, and opportunities. Participants will learn how to identify the right people to connect with, how to approach networking in a professional and authentic way, and how to position themselves for roles that may never be publicly advertised. This webinar is designed to help job-seeking professionals compete effectively in a highly crowded market.

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers 

Annika Thomas is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT whose work lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and spatial intelligence. After beginning her academic path in Idaho at Renaissance High School and The College of Idaho, she went on to study mathematics, physics, and engineering through a dual-degree program at Columbia University, then to MIT. Over the course of her studies, she has contributed to astrophysics research, rocket propulsion, and the design and deployment of satellites currently in orbit, and she has worked in field robotics labs around the globe.

Her current research focuses on developing photorealistic, semantically rich, and shareable map representations for autonomous robots using Gaussian Splatting and multi-modal sensor fusion. These structured world models enable multi-agent mapping, loop closure, and planetary-scale localization. Applications range from terrestrial robotic perception to lunar surface mapping for upcoming space missions with NASA.

Her journey illustrates how a STEM career can unfold from small-town beginnings to cutting-edge global research. Alongside her technical work, she is committed to clear and accessible scientific communication, which has led her to share ideas on collaborative robotics for lunar and Martian exploration through TEDx talks and international presentations across four continents. Annika ultimately aims to launch her own lab centered on intelligent mapping and embodied AI while contributing to a more inclusive culture for women in STEM.

The talk is co-hosted by the following organizational units in the IEEE Boise Section:

IEEE Boise Communications Society/Robotics & Automation Society/Signal Processing Joint Chapter
IEEE Boise Computer Society Chapter
IEEE Boise Women In Engineering Affinity Group
IEEE Boise Young Professional Affinity Group
IEEE Boise State University Student Branch

This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is optional but helps us plan the headcount.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS FOR CHAPTER OFFICERS OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY SECTION, SAN FRANCISCO SECTION AND OAKLAND-EAST BAY SECTION ONLY

Greetings!

This year's officer training is being conducted for officers of San Francisco Bay Area Council at the Plug and Play Tech Center in San Jose, CA. This is meant to provide the Chapter officers with training related to the different aspects of the chapter operations. Below are some of the topics that will be covered in the training:

2. Concur Expense

3. Nextgen banking and reporting

4. Senior member elevation program

5. How to run an effective chapter

6. Web presence

Zoom call hosted by Open Research Institute (ORI). IEEE members and guests are welcome. This is a technical roundtable of FPGA projects from the Open Source hardware community. Participants report what they've done over the past week, what they have planned for the next week, if they have any roadblocks, and if they need any resources. The roundtable is sometimes followed by open office hours if anyone has additional questions or discussions.  

This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either.

In 1984, the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) was invented at Silicon Valley startup Xilinx by its co-founder Ross Freeman. It was not an obviously good technology as it had serious drawbacks in speed, cost, power, and capacity.  However, its novel design transformed the technology industry as it rode the wave of Moore’s Law. As this transformation was not a straight road, companies that did not recognize fundamental industry changes created by the FPGA fell by the wayside.  If companies did not stretch to find new uses for this technology, or did not deploy its resources in building a new ecosystem, they also failed.

Xilinx’s FPGA invention led to the major industry transformation of the Fabless semiconductor model, and step-by-step Xilinx navigated this field of potential failure. These steps tell of a company growing from a hyper-lean adrenaline-driven startup to a multi-billion-dollar success story. Not every step was correct, and certainly there was some luck.  However, considerable effort was required to achieve that luck, and even more effort to capitalize on it.

In this talk, IEEE Fellow Steve Trimberger will discuss change: the changing value of semiconductor scaling, the changing needs of EDA, the changing barriers to entry, the changing application of the technology, and the changing role of consultants and corporate relationships over the course of many years. These changes got us to 2026 – what change is next?

Please note that an IEEE Milestone for the FPGA will be dedicated on Thu, March 12. Information about attending its dedication online will be available soon.

Every year, over one million people in the U.S. rush to the emergency room after experiencing their first seizure or seizure-like event. For many, the journey that follows is frustrating and uncertain. Epilepsy is notoriously difficult to diagnose - so much so that nearly 30% of patients receive the wrong diagnosis. The most common mistake? Being told they have epilepsy when they do not. These misdiagnosed patients spend months or even years trying ineffective medications, enduring unnecessary side effects, and living with the fear of seizures they don’t actually have only to later discover they have a completely different condition. Why is diagnosing epilepsy so difficult? Unlike other diseases, there has been no reliable biomarker. Our team has identified an EEG-based biomarker for epilepsy, a game-changing discovery that is currently being tested in three major epilepsy centers across the U.S. This new tool, EpiScalp, has the potential to revolutionize epilepsy diagnosis, ensuring patients receive the right answers and the right treatment from their very first visit to a neurologist.

Join us for delicious pizza from Sgt Pepperoni's Pizza Store and meet other IEEE members in person at our monthly networking event in Irvine! There will be Senior IEEE members who can provide endorsement for members looking for senior membership. Please register with your IEEE #. There will be both meat and vegetarian pizza. If you have any projects, please bring them along!

Group photo - October 2025: https://r6.ieee.org/ocs/2025/10/october-2025-ieee-day-celebration/

IEEE Orange County Section Executive Committee Monthly meeting - occurs every 2nd Thursday of the month. This March is an exception as our IEEE OC Chair was not available on the second Thursday of the month. 

All IEEE OC Committee/Chapter/Affinity/SIG Chair/Key Volunteers (or their proxy) are requested to attend. Other IEEE members are also welcome to attend. Please RVSP here to receive the meeting login information. Routine attendance is required to qualify for your chapter annual IEEE rebate.

To AVOID unauthorized attendance you MUST REGISTER for this event so that you can be sent the meeting link.

Come join us for MOVE’s 10th Anniversary Town Hall Meeting—a special opportunity to celebrate a decade of impact and hear from leaders shaping the future of MOVE.

Featured speakers include:

• Mary Ellen Randall, MOVE Founder & IEEE President

• Barry Tilton, IEEE-USA President

• Brad Kieserman, Vice President, Disaster Operations & Logistics, American Red Cross National Headquarters

• MOVE Global and Local Leads: Francisco Carrero, Loretta Arellano, and Sadhana Attavar, highlighting key achievements from 2025 and what’s ahead in 2026

Learn more about MOVE’s 10-year journey, upcoming milestones, and the celebrations planned throughout the anniversary year. We hope you’ll join us for this engaging and informative event.

Abstract: Agentic AI is rapidly transforming enterprises from reactive chatbot deployments to autonomous, goal-driven systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting across complex business workflows. In this technical talk, Agentic AI in Enterprises: From Fundamentals to Production Implementation, we move from first principles—agent architectures spanning perception, memory, reasoning, and action; Chain-of-Thought and advanced reasoning patterns such as ReAct and reflection; Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG); tool use; and memory hierarchies to real-world production systems delivering measurable ROI. Through three detailed end-to-end case studies in e-commerce customer support, healthcare prior authorization, and autonomous procurement, attendees will see complete workflow breakdowns illustrating how agents integrate with enterprise systems, apply multi-step reasoning, manage long-running context, and operate securely at scale. We will also confront the hard problems: hallucination, prompt injection, observability for non-deterministic systems, governance, cost control, and build-vs-buy strategy. Designed for engineering leaders, AI practitioners, architects, and technical executives, this session connects foundational concepts with real-world operational considerations, providing practical architectural patterns, evaluation frameworks, and implementation guidance to help organizations deploy agentic AI systems that are reliable, secure, and scalable in production environments.

Bi-Monthly ExCom Meeting held on the third Wednesday of every odd month. 

Our Favorite DIY Projects

Our Birds of a Feather (BOF) meetings are about sharing.
Come and share (tell us about) your favorite hand-built project.

What makes it special?

Should our young engineers (or students) build it too?

Are there "simple" and inexpensive projects that really show off (visualize or experience) an engineering concept?
So much of modern technology is invisible. Miniaturized into invisibility. 
Are there projects that bring concepts back into view?

Are there projects we should bring to the young engineers?

This meeting is a no-host event. Come and share a drink or a meal together.

The present power grid faces increasing challenges arising from congestion and blackouts associated with high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and growing demand, compounded by lagging infrastructure upgrades. This presentation discusses how advanced power electronics is modernizing existing transmission and distribution networks. It further highlights the development of universal One-Cycle Control–based power electronic systems for rapid and precise control of grid operations, with objectives including the enhancement of power quality, provision of reactive power support, and mitigation of congestion. Case studies demonstrate that these approaches enhance system resilience, operational flexibility, and overall efficiency, thereby supporting sustainable long-term growth.

About the Speaker:

Keyue Ma Smedley, Keyue Smedley, IEEE Fellow, received her BS in EE from Zhejiang University and her MS and Ph.D. in EE from Caltech. Dr. Smedley was the chief designer of magnet power converters for all accelerator rings at DOE Superconducting Super Collider Lab in early 1990s. She is currently a Professor in EECS, University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Founder/Director of the UCI Power Electronics Lab since 1992.  In addition, she is a co-founder of One-Cycle Control, Inc., that commercializes OCC technology. Dr. Smedley’s research is in power electronics. She is the inventor of the One-Cycle Control (OCC) method. Initially groundbreaking in high-fidelity audio applications during 1990s, OCC later unified four-quadrant control of single and three-phase power converters in the early 2000s. Today, OCC technology is widely applied across various market sectors, including professional audio, renewables, storage, power quality, grid stabilization, and defense. Dr. Smedley’s team also invented the Hexagram multilevel converter in the late 2000s, deployed and tested the first fault current limiter on the U.S. grid in the 2010s, and demonstrated OCC-DVC technology for fast and precise grid control during the same period. More recently, her team has achieved breakthroughs in full-range gain control of resonant switched-capacitor converters, opening the door to magnetic-less power conversion and enabling significant reductions in the size and weight of power electronic converters. Dr. Smedley is dedicated to innovation and impact. Her research has yielded >200 publications, >15 US and international patents, two startup companies, and wide industry acceptance. She has received numerous recognitions, including UCI Innovation Award in 2005, IEEE Fellow in 2008, and a DOD Achievement Award in Pentagon 2010 with OCC, Inc. She was an IEEE PEL Distinguished Lecturer in 2021-2024. Dr. Smedley won 2024 IEEE Power Electronics Society RD Middlebrook Achievement Award.

The majority of the health care costs related to the treatment of chronic and infectious diseases are attributed to direct care costs (e.g., hospital admissions and readmissions). The prevalence of chronic diseases and associated costs in the United States is growing at an alarming pace. The COVID-19 pandemic has further impacted the health of high-risk individuals by increasing the likelihood of more severe illness for those with underlying health conditions and associated healthcare costs. There have been ample efforts from researchers and clinicians to develop remote healthcare systems and wearable devices to manage patients with chronic and infectious diseases in home settings, which has reduced the burden on inpatient care facilities and gained further momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there is a lack of reliable wearable devices that can provide clinically acceptable information to healthcare professionals, as well as a lack of emphasis on validating wearable and artificial intelligence technologies in representative populations to enable a reliable and equitable remote health management system. This talk will present the challenges and potential solutions for developing tools (i.e., wearable sensors and computational algorithms) for reliable and equitable remote patient monitoring systems for chronic and infectious diseases.

Come join us for lunch, and this important talk - IN-PERSON ONLY

Co-packaged optics (CPO) are heterogeneous integration packaging methods to integrate the optical engine (OE) which consists of photonic ICs (PIC) such as the photodiode laser, etc. and the electrical engine (EE) which consists of the electronic ICs (EIC) such as the laser driver, transimpedance amplifier, etc. as well as the switch ASIC (application specific IC). The advantages of CPO are: (a) to reduce the length of the electrical interface between the OE/EE (or PIC/EIC) and the ASIC, (b) to reduce the energy required to drive the signal, and (c) to cut the latency which leads to better electrical performance. In the next few years, we will see more implementations of a higher level of heterogeneous integration of switch, PIC and EIC, whether it is for performance, form factor, power consumption or cost. The content of this lecture:
— Silicon Photonics
— Data Centers
— Optical Transceivers
— Optical Engine (OE) and Electrical Engine (EE)
— OBO (on-board optics)
— NPO (near-board optics)
— CPO (co-packaged optics)
— 3D Integration of the PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, PIC and EIC
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, PIC and EIC with Bridges
— 3D Heterogeneous Integration of ASIC Switch, EIC and PIC embedded in Glass-core Substrate
— Various Forms of CPO

Breaking into today’s competitive job market requires more than technical excellence. It requires clarity, positioning, and the ability to communicate your value with confidence.

In this practical and engaging session, career strategist Shima Ghaheri shares how hiring managers actually evaluate candidates — and how students and early-career professionals can strategically present their academic work, projects, internships, and experiences to stand out.

Participants will learn how to:

• Build a LinkedIn profile that signals clarity and direction

• Structure resumes around measurable impact rather than task lists

• Approach interviews with preparation and strategic storytelling

• Translate technical competence into compelling professional narratives

Designed specifically for college students and entry-level professionals, this session offers actionable tools to move from being “qualified on paper” to being selected with confidence. By making hiring systems more transparent, the session aims to reduce opportunity gaps and empower participants to compete through preparation, clarity, and strategy.

Whether you are preparing for internships, full-time roles, or your next career move, this session will equip you with frameworks you can implement immediately.