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CAS/SSC Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Fall Planning Meeting September 7, 2013 San Marcos, TX. Chapter Leadership Team. Chapter Updates. Meeting location: UT Campus ACES 2.402 Thirteen technical seminars so far this year 2012 Workshop Story is published in SSCS Magazine
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CAS/SSC ChapterIEEE Central Texas Section Fall Planning MeetingSeptember 7, 2013 San Marcos, TX
Chapter Updates • Meeting location: UT Campus ACES 2.402 • Thirteen technical seminars so far this year • 2012 Workshop Story is published in SSCS Magazine • Seminars for September and October on the calendar - November and December seminars in planning stages • March 8 Workshop: IEEE CTS CAS/SSC/CEDA Workshop: Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration (TexasWISE) • http://texaswise.tamu.edu • Speakers from Stanford, MIT, Rice, and UT Dallas • Attendance: 98 • Manage Your Career -- Don't Get Blindsided by Reality: IEEE Workshop • New officer elections to be held in upcoming meeting
SWOT Analysis • Strengths • Good technical talks, DL program. • Stable attendance rate. • Strong sponsorship for other local chapter events • Continued strength in workshops. • Good leadership pipeline. • Stable funding resource from CAS and SSC Society. • Extra subsidy funding from CAS and SSC for workshop or extra events to promote memberships. • Weaknesses • Find more good technical talks and workshop topics. • Increase attendance rate. • Little social events outside of technical seminar meetings
SWOT Analysis • Opportunities • Local chip design and EDA companies • University of Texas, Austin • Threats • Seminars inside companies and Universities • A less interesting workshop may get cancelled or need more funding.
Chapter Plans / Issues • Two more DL speakers committed for this year • Chapter social event planning for early December