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Ekta Shah Director, ECE Pulse 2012

Ekta Shah Director, ECE Pulse 2012. Purpose. Ignite students' interests in various fields of ECE Expose them to upcoming technologies Engage in technical fun activities Offer a platform for networking Initiate a new ECE tradition!. Rewinding…. IEEE S-PAC 2011 Professional conference

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Ekta Shah Director, ECE Pulse 2012

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  1. Ekta Shah Director, ECE Pulse 2012

  2. Purpose • Ignite students' interests in various fields of ECE • Expose them to upcoming technologies • Engage in technical fun activities • Offer a platform for networking • Initiate a new ECE tradition!

  3. Rewinding… • IEEE S-PAC 2011 • Professional conference • Dr. Gordon Day (IEEE President) • ~130 students What’s next? A technical conference!

  4. Step 0 ECESAC Appreciation Luncheon • IEEE + WECE + HKN + ECESAC  “ECE” event • Response: “Ambitious”  • Got their blessings and support to start off! Student leaders started talking about it passionately, as our event!

  5. Brainstorming & Planning • First joint event  durable structure + responsibilities • Lots of meetings, lots of emails, lots of ideas! • Keynote speaker • Companies + topics • Budget + sponsorship • Technical competition Had < 2 months, practically…

  6. Website & Publicity • Website: Oliver Cai(IEEE) http://pulse.ece.illinois.edu • Designer: Emelyn Baker • Mass mail was super- effective • Newsletters • 400 registrations! • Facebook, Twitter, in-class publicity, word-of-mouth

  7. Black-box Competition • Saturday, Feb 18th • Analog, Digital, Software • 6 types of challenges • > 30 participants • Prizes: NVIDIA • Dinner: One-World Pizza

  8. Participating Companies

  9. Networking Dinner • Friday, Feb 24th • NCSA Auditorium • Innauguration speech by Prof. Cangellaris • Keynote speaker: Michael Callahan (Inventor of the Audeo, winner of the first Lemelson-Illinois Student Prize) • Catering: Noodles & Company and Insomnia Cookies

  10. Networking Dinner

  11. Tech Talks • Saturday, Feb 25th • DCL, Everitt Lab • 8 talks • 11 am to 5 pm • Catering: Subway

  12. Tech Talks • ARM: David Williamson – ARM Fellow, Chief Architect • “Exploring the Design of the Cortex A15 processor” • Caterpillar: Brett Nee – Engineering Specialist R&D • “Real-time Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation” • IBM: Rich Salz – WebSphere Appliance Architect • “Smarter Planet, workload optimized systems” • Infinera: Jon Rossi – Sr. Principal, Hardware Dev. Engineer • “Infinera Photonic Integration & Networking System”

  13. Tech Talks • NCSA: William Krammer – Deputy Dir. of Blue Waters • “Blue Waters – A Super System for Super Hard Problems” • NVIDIA: Chris Lamb – GPU Computing Sys. Software Dir. • “GPU Revolution: Simplifying the Future of Heterogeneous Computing” • Qualcomm: Brian Redding – Engineer, Sr. Staff • “The Power of Connections: How to get the Internet of Things” • Schlumberger: Jason Gardner – Sr. Electrical Engineer • “Electrical Engineering in Oilfield Technology”

  14. Tech Talks

  15. Social Mixer • Saturday, Feb 25th • Legend’s • Informal Mixer with company reps

  16. Student Turnout • ~35 – Technical Competition • ~180 – Networking Dinner • ~200 – Tech talks (throughout the day) • ~50 – Social Mixer

  17. Next Pulse • Start early! • Well-balanced team with clear roles • Equal participation from all 4 organizations • Schedule talks with no conflicts • Research Park companies • Alumni involvement

  18. Thank you!! • ECE Student Orgs: IEEE, WECE, HKN, ECESAC • ECE Staff: Brad, Sarah, Nikki, Tom • Prof. Cangellaris Thank you for supporting our venture!

  19. Questions & Feedback

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