Event of Interest: BIOMEDevice San Jose

INCOSE members will receive free expo admission when you use source code ‘TC’ when checking out, and will get 20% off conference content when you use promo code ‘DISC20’.

Event: BIOMEDevice San Jose

Date: December 2-3, 2015

Location: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA

Website: BIOMEDeviceSanJose.com/Learn

 

Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) Open House 2015

The SVEC is hosting their complimentary Annual Open House event! Join them for a complimentary light buffet and an evening of exciting information and engineering camaraderie. Colleagues and spouses are invited to enjoy the festivities. The welcome reception will be from 5:30pm - 7:00pm and presentations will be from 7:00pm - 8:30pm. Register by November 17, 2015.

Register Here

Agenda:

• Welcoming Remarks
• Keynote Speaker: Mahmood Khan, MBA, PMP, BSc
•    "Future of IOT(Internet of Things): Industrialize and Automate Everything."
• Report from John J. Kowalchik, VP, Lockheed Martin Space Systems
•     "Boy Scouts Engineering Explorer Post at Lockheed"
• Acknowledgement of Sponsors
• SVEC Discover “E” Outreach
• Call for Applications for 2016 Scholarships
• 2016 Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame Inductees Announcement
• SVEC Engineers Week Banquet, February 2016

Bio of Speaker:
Mahmood Khan has over 18 years of experience in transforming business IT to generate new top line growth, reduce operation costs and improve profit margins. He has held leadership positions at CSC, HP/EDS, IBM-GS as a Client Principal, Practice Director, Solution Architect, and Program/Project Manager. He is a co-founder of G-ESI, an IT Professional Services and training company.

Mahmood is passionate about education and skills training to improving people’s  careers and life.  He has taught software program development and programming language skills development courses at Berkeley,  Santa Cruz Universities and at special events. He is a Board member at San Jose Conservation Corps and Charter School.

From John Kowalchik:
Lockheed Martin in conjunction with the Boy Scouts of America (Learning for Life) operates an Engineering Explorer Post here at our Sunnyvale facility.  This year we had about 50 future engineers and scientists in the program, and we've seen one of our past graduates return as a summer intern this year!  We'd like the opportunity to talk about the program in order to encourage other Bay Area companies to consider Exploring as a potential STEM activity.  The BSA makes all the logistics very easy and we simply administer the program via our staff engineering folks.  It turns out that we're the one and only Engineering Explorer Post in the entire Silicon Valley Monterey Bay area.  We'd like to see more.

INCOSE Regional Mini-Conference and Volunteer Opportunity

The INCOSE SFBAC Chapter is teaming with the Los Angeles, San Diego, Central and Southern Arizona Chapters to hold a regional mini conference. The conference will be April 8-9, 2016.  The call for papers will be released next month, abstracts will be due December 4, 2015 and final papers/presentation March 15, 2016.  Each chapter is asked to identify 2 reviewers of technical papers that will be considered for presentation.  If you are interested, please submit a bio for consideration to our Chapter President, Rollie Olsen, rollie.olson [at] incose.org 

SVEC 2015 Engineers Week Banquet 2/19 (Inductees: Gray, Qayoumi)

The Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) proudly presents its 2015 Silicon Valley Engineers Week Banquet on Thursday, February 19, 2015. The SVEC will honor several outstanding individuals for their contributions by welcoming them into its Hall of Fame and feature a distinguished keynote speaker and several scholarships. They welcome companies and engineering organizations to sponsor or have display tables at the reception which is a great networking event for engineers!

Register Here (No Ticket Sales at the Door)
Date/Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015, 5:30pm
Location: 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA 95110
Event Agenda:
5:30 PM    Reception and No-Host Bar
6:30 PM    SVEC President’s Welcome
6:45 PM    Dinner with Friends

Keynote Speaker

Mark Pasquale, Engineering VP, Lockheed Martin

        2015 Hall of Fame Inductees

Dr. Paul R. Gray, UC Berkeley Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Mohammed Humayon Qayoumi, President, San Jose State University

The Internet of Everything: A Stanford Engineering Symposium

Stanford Engineering is holding a symposium on The Internet of Everything. Any member of the community can view the live event free by registering and signing up through Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) by 4pm on December 4, 2014 here: http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=27224811. The symposium will take place Thursday, December 4, 2014 from 7:00 - 8:15 pm.

About the symposium:

A quiet technology revolution has made it possible for many objects to communicate electronically. Already more objects than humans are connected to the Internet, a trend that will only increase as more TVs, eyeglasses, watches, thermostats, cars and sensors link to the Internet and each other. Stanford Engineers and others are creating something new, a network of humans and things. It is the Internet of Everything.

Attend our next EngX symposium to hear from three Stanford Engineering faculty members working to create the Internet of Everything and learn more about the engineering challenges that surround it. EngX is a fast-paced event with three 20-minute talks and questions afterward.
 
Speakers

• Thomas Lee, a professor of Electrical Engineering, will provide an overview of the Internet of Everything and what it could enable. He has been researching wireless technology at Stanford University since 1994 and is a past Director of DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office. 
• Mark Horowitz is the Yahoo! Founders Professor at Stanford University and was chair of the Electrical Engineering Department from 2008 to 2012. He will talk about how Stanford engineers are investigating ways to build a secure Internet of Everything. Horowitz is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Armin Arbabian, an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering, will discuss the ant-sized radio he created, an inexpensive, self-powered radio controller that provides the web of connectivity and control between the global Internet and smart household devices - an essential requirement for the Internet of Everything.

Please note this event is not hosted or connected to the INCOSE SFBAC Chapter.