UAB Electrical & Computer Engineering

Alumnus Brian Cauble is cited in the online Birmingham Magazine as one of the 11 Big Thinkers/Innovators in Birmingham. Brian's area is iPhone applications.

In the recently held IEEE meetings, Prof. Green was selected as IEEE Secretary for 2010. As Secretary, he will also serve on the IEEE Board of Directors and chairs the IEEE Governance Committee. Dr. Vaughn has been appointed to serve on the IEEE-USA Nominating and Appointments Committee.

E&CE senior and UAB Student Branch Chair Jessica Ford made the news today as part of the UAB Homecoming celebration. As reported elsewhere as well, UAB Engineering had significant participation in the event.

Congrats to our team (see next news item). They are tired but they made it to the end. Precise results are not available for several days but the team placed in the top third forth of those competing. They found it enjoyable but very challenging. They are off to get well deserved rest now. Thanks to Prof. Green and Dr. Vaughn for serving as proctors for the event. The group talked a bit about potentially hosting a miniature version of the event as a UAB IEEE Student Branch activity.

Christoffer Koperniak, Casey Haralson, and Jacob Huggart are representing UAB's IEEE Student Branch in the IEEE Extreme Programming Contest this next 24 hours. Most of the problems are machine-graded so contest status information exists while the contest is running but real results won't be available for a few days. According to the IEEE Extreme Facebook page, there are 696 teams competing this year. Good luck to the team!

In the recently held IEEE elections, Prof. Green was elected IEEE Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect for 2010/2011. In 2012 (and 2013), he will serve as an IEEE Delegate/Director on the IEEE Board of Directors.

In summary, the overall survey results indicate that BSEE program graduates hold engineering positions, get promoted, see increased levels of responsibility, lead teams, pursue graduate or professional degrees, pursue licensure, pass the FE exam, and have the opinion that their undergraduate engineering education has been of value in their career.

Congratulations to IEEE on its 125th Anniversary. For more information on IEEE and its 125th Anniversary, please visit ieee125.org

The UAB EGR111 Team consisting of Justin Gray, Josh Jones, and Nolan Jones won the local race between the three competing teams from the Spring EGR111 Thursday class. This team created a robot based on a design consisting of Lego hardware and team written software that controlled motors, sound generation, and sonar. The contest's challenge to the teams was to navigate to a target arriving as close to the target as possible without touching it. On its best run, the winning team's car took 20 secs to position itself within 4 cm of the target.

In elections held 21 April 2009, members elected

• Chair - Jessica Ford
• Vice Chair - Jacob Huggart
• Treasurer - Chris Koperniak
• Secretary - Tareq Fayyad

These officers take over in Summer Semester. Congratulations to all. A big thank you to the outgoing officers who have served the group and the Department over the last year.

The IEEE Alabama section will have its Monday meeting at UAB (BEC157). Paul George and Jessica Ford will be the speakers. There is a pre-meeting meal for those who register (student meals are funded by the Section).

The UAB EE499 Class consisting of Jessica Ford, Arthur James, Dmitri Platonov, and Philip Ward entered the SoutheastCon 2009 Hardware Contest. The team's entry shown on the left placed 24th in a field of 38 ahead of sister schools UA and UAH. A YouTube show of all of the entries is online (UAB is about 3min 48sec into this video.) Other UAB students participated in the software contest, website contest, and t-shirt contest. A draft of the 2010 contest was also distributed at the event held in Atlanta, GA.