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Welcome to the NIU IEEE Student Chapter Website!


Announcement:

IEEE will be having general meetings Thursdays at 5:00 in the Engineering Building, Room 358. All students are encouraged to attend, with or without prior electrical experience. We do not necessarily meet every Thursday. Please contact any of the officers to be put on our mailing list!

See below for important updates on what the club will be doing soon.

 

  • 2012: [Nov 29] The Thursday after Thanksgiving the NIU IEEE chapter is hosting the Rock River Valley Section (RRVS) regional meeting! Details are as follows:
    • Presenter and Title: Aron Somani, "Autonomous Aero-Visual and Sensor Based Inspection Network for Asset Monitoring"
    • Date and Time:
          Thursday Nov. 29, 2012
          6:00 PM Networking
          6:30 PM Dinner
          7:30 PM Presentation
    • Costs for dinner
         $5:00 IEEE member
         $10:00 Nonmember
         $2:00 IEEE student member
         $5:00 Student nonmember
    • Location:
             Northern Illinois University
              Engineering Building
              Room 354
              590 Garden Rd.
              DeKalb, IL 60115
    • A link to a google map for the engineering building:
    • A parking map can be found at:
    • For campus map information:
    • We are asking visitors to park in lot 40 off Kiswaukee Dr. east of the building.  We will have someone there to give out temporary parking passes for the evening.  A link to the parking is
    • Register here:  https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/15267

  • [Nov 16] More updates coming soon.
  • 2012: [Apr 13] Next week is the annual IEEE social event. If you haven't RSVP'd already, please visit https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/11983. For students, the social event will be $10.00. You may pay upon registering or at the meeting. It is being held at Cabana Charley’s of Sycamore. Join us Friday, April 20th from 6:00PM to 10:00PM!

 Here is a map:


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  • 2012: [Feb 6] As part of our regularly scheduled meeting, Thursday, February 9th the club will be having a soldering tutorial. Please come to the meeting and practice soldering techniques! There will be demonstration boards with which you can practice hot-air desoldering methods as well as soldering of wires and components to sacrificial boards. Anyone interested in soldering is encouraged to come. Have you got any boards that the club could use in the tutorial? Bring them along!
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  • 2011: [Oct 17] IEEE meeting will be held Thursday, October 20 at 6:00 in Engineering Building Room 209, we will be wrapping up the pumpkin battery, we will be discussing future project plans and setup a timeline. Please note the room change, which is due to the career fair taking place that same day.
  • [Oct 10] IEEE meeting will be held Thursday, October 13 at 6:00 in Engineering Building Room 358, we will continue designing and testing the Pumpkin Battery for STEM Fest 2011.
  • [Oct 9] The USOR paper has been written in in order to get funding for the Fuel Cell ElectricalGO-Kart, is currently being reviewed by IEEE officers.
  • [Oct 6] A test run of the Pumpkin Battery has provided successful results, further design and testing will continue durring next week's meeting.
  • [Oct 5] Orders for IEEE Embroidered Polo's and Zip-Up Hoodie's are being taken orders are due byFriday October 28, 2011. (press here to obtain an apparel order form)
  • [Apr 11] The Egg Contest has been renewed this year! You can still make a lighted egg. Awards are given out for battery life longevity and appearance/style. Email any of your IEEE officers for details (see them here).
  • [Mar 25] Check our events page! We are hoping for a big turnout this year at our IEEE Social event. Guests are welcome, as our non-members, student members, and professional members of IEEE. There is a $10 entrance expense for non-members and students. Professional members get in free. Check out this flyer our treasurer Pathik made
  • [Feb 23] Please note: Rock River Valley Section page has been added under the About Us page. The NIU Student Branch is a subsidiary of this section. We encourage you to visit the RRVS home page as well as check out details in the About Us -> RRVS page.
  • [Feb 21] Hoodie order form has been posted. Check the fundraiser page.
  • Updated all pages to new website template for 2011.
  • Fixed some broken links.
  • Added recent news. Please check out the Events page!
  • [Jan 24] Officer page is updated for 2010-2011.
  • [Jan 24] Check out these hoodies! The club is now selling them. Click the pictures. =)

Hoodie: FrontHoodie: Back


NIU IEEE t-shirt. Currently, we are going with the design in the attachment and the price of $12, with sizes S-XL. You have to let us know if you intend to order by filling out an order form and making a $5 deposit. The forms will be available at the project meeting and other IEEE events up to April 23rd, so do not put it off and order now!

NIU T-Shirt, Front and Back

NIU Scholarships (deadline February1)   http://www.niu.edu/ceet/scholarships/index.shtml 

Bimla Dogra Expendable Scholarship fund in Electrical Engineering 

  • full-time or part-time graduate student (preference given to thesis in Telecommunication Systems)

Joseph Bittorf Memorial Scholarship Fund in Industrial and Systems Engineering 

  • full-time or part-time undergraduate student at the freshman or sophomore level majoring in Industrial and Systems Engineering

Caterpillar Excellence Scholarship 

  • full-time undergraduate student at the sophomore level or higher majoring in the College of Engineering & Engineering Technology

Engineering and Technology Alumni Society (ETAS) Endowed Scholarship 

  • full-time undergraduate student at the sophomore level or higher majoring in the College of Engineering & Engineering Technology

Energy Systems Group (ESG) Scholarship Award in Engineering 

  • full-time undergraduate student, declared major in ELE, ISYE or MEE.

The Mullick Family Scholarship 

  • full-time undergraduate student at the sophomore level or higher majoring in ELE, ISYE or MEE

NECA-Northeastern Illinois Chapter Scholarship 

  • full-time undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology

Doc & Betty Newell Scholarship 

  • full-time undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology

OMRON Foundation Electronic Engineering Scholarship 

  • full-time undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering with junior or senior standing

Shure Incorporated Scholarship 

  • undergraduate student in electrical or mechanical engineering with junior or senior standing

Max Zar Scholarship in Engineering 

  • full-time undergraduate student in electrical, industrial & systems or mechanical engineering, must have senior standing.

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