We’ve got some big things coming up, and you can be involved!

• Committee Meeting – this Thursday, 6pm, at the IEEE office. All are welcome!

• YII Conference at CMU, April 3rd and 4th. Take a look at the following website for more info: http://www.younginventors.org/conference. If you’d like to attend, let me know ASAP as spots are extremely limited!

• Event at Univ. of Wisconsin – April 17-19. All regional branches of IEEE are invited to attend, and it will be a great chance to get to know students from nearby schools. There will also be an industry tour with either Epic Systems or Google!

Send me (Mike) an email at mwilli26@illinois.edu if you’re interested in getting involved!

written by Mike

Over the weekend of EOH, IEEE and its members earned a number of awards.

Erik Johnson and his team received First Prize for the Technical Encore Exhibit category of Engineering Open House awards! Their project was the Multitouch Display, which is one of IEEE’s current SEED Projects.

Our Jerry Sanders Design Competition team placed 3rd out of 16 teams attending on Saturday in normal competition, and 2nd place in the demolition round.  Videos of the rounds IEEE participated in can be found in a convenient YouTube playlist, located here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6FDC6BC6AC731AFE (yes, that is Engineering Freshman Committee’s robot that is being launched off of our robot at the start of the demolition round).

written by Donald