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2008-2009 Outstanding Professor

At the banquet the IEEE chapter awarded a plaque to the outstanding Computer and Electronics Engineering faculty member. Votes from all students were collected from each class. Seniors' votes had a weight of four, juniors' three, etc.

This years winner was Roger Sash, who is also the chapter adviser. This years runner-up was Dr. Lim Nguyen.

Past winners:
2007- Dr. Hamid Sharif
2006- Roger Sash

2009-2010 Officer

Starting in May the following officers were installed:

President (Chair)- Nicholas Spintig
Vice-President (Vice-Chair) Zachary Booth
Secretary- Scott Kenealy
Treasury- Ronnie Tyson
Parts Manager- Aaron Mills

Good luck to the officer team, may they keep the chapter involved and interesting.

Student Paper Contest

A chance to win prize money for your design reports.

Send any submissions to pki.ieee@gmail.com by May 8.

Guidelines:

http://sites.google.com/site/pkii3e/Home/files/Student_Paper_Contest_Info-2009.pdf?attredirects=0

http://sites.google.com/site/pkii3e/Home/files/Student_Paper_Contest_Guidelines-2009.pdf?attredirects=0

PKI-IEEE End of year Banquet

Agenda:

Food

New Officers

Outstanding Professor Award

PKI-CEEN Senior Thesis Open House Winners

Design Competition Participants

When: Friday, May 1st 6:30PM

Where: PKI Atrium

RSVP by April 24th to save $5

IEEE members: Free w/ RSVP $5 at the event

Everyone else: $5  w/ RSVP $10 at the event

Dinner: Qdoba Burrito and Taco Bar, soft drinks

Send RSVP to pki.ieee@gmail.com

Invite

Using the Anemometer

We are using the Vortex wind sensor from inspeed. This device has two wires and closes the connection once per rotation.

The best way I can think of to use this sensor is to power one wire and read the other wire for pulses. Use any digital pin to read the sensor other then 0 and 1 (rx and tx) because that will keep you from using the usb port.

For counting the pulses I would suggest a hardware interrupt. Anytime the port is triggered it will execute some code you choose. You can keep a counter running and use the time in between pulses to calculate the speed.

This arduino gas meter project uses a similar method.

1. void setup() {
2. Serial.begin(9600);
3. attachInterrupt(0, check, CHANGE); // attach an interrupt (interrupt 0 = digital pin 2)
4. }
5. 
   
6. void loop() {
7. }
8. 
   
9. void check() {
10. /*
11. stop timer
12. start timer
13. calculate and output speed
    
14. */
    
15. }
    

ill try and get the timer code implemented and tested later

IEEE Officer Duties

From the website:

http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/students/branchresources/adminbranchofficerduties.html