Reminder:  Upcoming Meetings this Week

• April ECN Meeting: "Tour of the Grainger Makerspace"

  
  • Entrepreneurs and Consultants Network Meeting
  • Professional Meeting
  • Date:  Thursday, April 5th at 12:00 Noon
  • Meet at 11:45 at the Wendt Commons Lobby
  • Fee: Free
  • Location:  
        Grainger Makerspace
        Wendt Commons
        215 N Randall Ave, Madison, WI  53706
  • Please Register at the IEEE-Madison  event page.
  • Non-member guests are always welcome.
    

    Tour: The Makerspace is the student-run, rapid prototyping facility within the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab. This was all made possible through a multi-million dollar commitment from The Grainger Foundation. We are a community of designers and builders at UW-Madison run within the College of Engineering (CoE). Our facilities include 12,000 ft^2 of shop and flex space with a wide range of rapid prototyping equipment. Largely student run, we strive to empower students and create a community immersed in emerging technologies and focused on creating innovative products. We are part of the CoE ecosystem of fabrication facilities, which includes the Makerspace (rapid prototyping), TEAM-Lab (precision machining, fee for service job-shop) and Visualization Suite (virtual reality and data visualization). These facilities together are over 25,000 ft^2, run by 10 professional full-time staff members and ~50 student workers and contain millions of dollars of high-tech equipment. Students can build anything here: from micro to macro and from virtual to the physical.

    Optional LUNCH: Those interested in a post-tour lunch at are welcome to join us at the Union South Sett Pub. Typical Pub fare is available, or you can purchase food and drink at other counters on the first floor of Union South.

• April UW-Madison Student Branch Meeting:
  "So You Want to Build a Drone?"Date: Thursday, April 5th, 2018

  

  • Speaker: Tom Kaminski
  • Details: Food, Social Time, Lecture 5:00 PM
  • Pizza and Beverages will be served.  $5 Members, Students Free, Else $10
  • Please Register at the IEEE Madison Section  event page.
  • Location: 
        UW-Madison Engineering Hall
        1415 Engineering Drive
        Madison,  WI53706
        Room:  2317 Engineering Hall
    
  

  Talk: Drones are now quite commonplace. Aerial photography is one of the most often seen application for camera-equipped drones. Tom will discuss how to build a drone-based on student projects and courses. He will also discuss the UW-Madison Student Branch project to develop a Radio Direction Finding system that can be used to track simple radio beacons. Those beacons are frequently used to track animals or people with autism or dementia who wander. The talk will discuss how to build a drone and how to use the Software-Defined Radio components to listen to radio signals and implement RDF systems.

  Bio: Tom Kaminski has been an electrical engineer for over 45 years and is a recently retired Instructor of the Industrial Maintenance Department at Madison College. He recently taught technicians electrical, electronics, and automation subjects. His primary interest is automation systems with emphasis on instrumentation and control. Tom has many years of engineering experience in instrumentation and digital systems and has spent the last 15 years as a teacher and mentor, helping engineers and technicians to understand the increasingly complex automation systems used in modern manufacturing.