Please join us for a fun filled IEEE Melbourne Section Picnic at Wickham Park including games, activities, and a cookout. Let’s have some have fun, win prizes, meet new people and network with IEEE members from different companies!


Reserve Saturday April 6th 2013 as a day to relax and have lots of fun.


2013 IEEE Melbourne Section Annual Picnic
Date: Saturday, April 6th 2013
Location: SE Pavilion
Wickham Park
Melbourne, FL
Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Cost: FREE – bring a side dish!


This year’s picnic is a POTLUCK event and it will be held at NO COST for members and guests. The Melbourne Section will provide hamburgers, brats and drinks. We need members to provide sides and desserts. RSVP by April 2nd to Nelson Garcia at ngarcia@ieee.org. Tell Nelson how many guests will be attending with you and what side or dessert you will be bringing. Please let us know if you have any vegetarian needs.

The latest meeting of the IEEE Melbourne Section Employment Network will take place Wed, April 10 at 6 PM at the Fee Ave library in Melbourne. We’ll have an interactive, hands-on interviewing workshop aimed at helping people improve their interviewing skills. Of course, the meeting will also provide a great forum for meeting other local engineers and growing your personal network. Light refreshments will be served. There is no cost, but please register at the following website:


https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/17337


Meeting specifics are also be found at the website. See you there!

Thank you to everyone who attended our recent excom meeting! It was great to see all of our new volunteers. I hope that any new attendees who are interested in volunteering have hooked up with the appropriate person for their area of interest. If you are still evaluating your area of interest that is ok too!

The section’s goals for 2012 are the following:

1. Continue holding our regular technical meetings (Tech Society Chairs)

2. Expand our Career Network meetings by inviting new speakers (PACE Chair)

3. Add general interest meetings (PACE Chair)

4. Infuse Networking Opportunities throughout all events and add more guided networking activities when feasible (all meeting organizers and Section Chair)

5. Review and update the Section’s Web Presence including the website, Linked in, Twitter, and Facebook (Web Presence Committee Chair)

6. Provide better access to mentors/speakers for FIT IEEE Students (Educational Activities Chair)

Even if you are performing a supporting role when compared to this list of goals – your contribution is important and needed to make up a strong and successful organization! I’d really like to see us help each other and the rest of the membership at large to build a strong local engineering network.

Jessica Beahn
IEEE Melbourne Section Chair

If you would like to contribute posts to the IEEE Melbourne site, the registration process is simple.

First, you must register an account. To register, click on the ‘Register’ link under the ‘Meta’ menu on the main page of the site:



After you register an account, you will need to e-mail me to request to become a contributor. My e-mail address is sfuller2010(at)my.fit.edu.

Once you are registered and have contributor status, simply log in via the ‘Log in’ link underneath the ‘Register’ link. This will take you to the WordPress Dashboard, from which you can add, edit, and delete your posts.

If you have any questions about the registration or posting process, please contact me at the above-listed e-mail address.

As part of our efforts to update and improve our web site, we would appreciate IEEE Melbourne members taking the time to complete the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IEEEMelbSectSurvey

The survey should not take very long, and will provide valuable feedback regarding the IEEE Melbourne web site.

As you may or may not know, IEEE members are eligible for discounts on a number of categories of products and services, including Insurance, Travel, Technology, and Home/Office.

Formerly known as the “IEEE Financial Advantage Program,” the newly re-branded “IEEE Member Discounts” page can be found here. All members are encouraged to make full use of these discount opportunities.

The next EXCOMM meeting will be on April 4th, from 6:00 – 8:30 pm. It will be held in Auditorium P133 of Evan’s Library at Florida Tech.

Available here is a copy of the presentation about resumes, from the March 16th, 2011 Career Development meeting. Included is a list of topics discussed at the meeting, and a list of additional local and IEEE career resources.

The next Career Development meeting will take place on May 18th, from 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM at the Melbourne Public Library. Further details and registration information will be available soon.

If you have any questions, please contact Ed Kirchner at ed.kirchner@ieee.org .

The next presentation of Florida Tech’s Series of Electrical & Computer Engineering Seminars will be held on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. The talk is entitled “Multi-Task Learning via Multiple Kernel-Induced Feature Spaces,” and will be presented by Dr. Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos. Please see the flyer for more information.

What: “Multi-Task Learning via Multiple Kernel-Induced Feature Spaces”

Who: Dr. Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

When: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 10:30 – 12:00

Where: Room EC337, Olin Engineering Building, FIT, Melbourne Main Campus

Available here is a copy of the presentation about interviewing, from the February 16th, 2011 Career Development meeting. Included is a list of topics discussed at the meeting, and a list of additional local and IEEE career resources.

The next Career Development meeting will take place on March 16th, from 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM at the Melbourne Public Library. Further details and registration information will be available soon.

If you have any questions, please contact Ed Kirchner at ed.kirchner@ieee.org .