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Ekta ShahDirector, 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– Dr. Gordon Day
(IEEE President)– ~130 students
What’s next? A technical conference!
Step 0ECESAC 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!
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…
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
Black-box Competition• Saturday, Feb 18th • Analog, Digital,
Software• 6 types of challenges• > 30 participants• Prizes: NVIDIA• Dinner: One-World
Pizza
Participating Companies
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
Networking Dinner
Tech Talks
• Saturday, Feb 25th • DCL, Everitt Lab• 8 talks• 11 am to 5 pm• Catering: Subway
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”
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”
Tech Talks
Social Mixer
• Saturday, Feb 25th • Legend’s• Informal Mixer with
company reps
Student Turnout
• ~35 – Technical Competition• ~180 – Networking Dinner• ~200 – Tech talks (throughout the day) • ~50 – Social Mixer
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
Thank you!!
• ECE Student Orgs: IEEE, WECE, HKN, ECESAC• ECE Staff: Brad, Sarah, Nikki, Tom• Prof. Cangellaris
Thank you for supporting our venture!
Questions & Feedback