Personally meet each of them if you buy Patron Level tickets!

IEEE Members, don’t miss this one! You can buy tickets at incredible discounts and experience four unforgettable evenings with world level opinion shapers!

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We have made arrangements with this prestigious organization to offer members of the Oregon Section an opportunity to hear these four world-class speakers, and at significantly discounted prices. All lectures will be held at the Rose Schnitzer Auditorium in downtown Portland. The first lecture, with Jim Lehrer, is on February 3, 2012; the fourth, with Sima Samar, concludes the series on April 27, 2012. You’ll not only hear these world-renowned speakers, but for those who obtain Patron Level tickets, you’ll also have the opportunity to meet with each of them after the lecture at a small, specially arranged catered reception, and ask any questions that come to mind!

Painting Science Abstracts By Lynne Taylor, ISEPP cover artist Conceptual ideas can be presented in photographs, but paintings offer an opportunity to leave the real world and create a new image based on evidence, theories and insight. While engineers may need to ultimately force their output to comply with reality, the artist’s imaginative process requires leaving the “step by step” real world and jump into both the creative and conceptual parts of one’s mind, bypassing all the “how it should be”s. Becoming familiar with this creative process can be valuable to technical minds, particularly when venturing into new areas or projects where engineers are not exactly sure where to begin. Examining art based on science, engineering and mathematics can expand the creative process even in the most left brained of engineers.

Based on Material Posted In: Life Sciences

Taken in part from material By MARILYNN MARCHIONE – AP Medical Writer – Associated Press

There is growing evidence indicating that males spending substantial time with their children have a significant drop in their testosterone levels. That is fatherhood may be a kick in the old testosterone, but it may also help keep a man alive. New research suggests that dads are less likely to die of heart-related problems than are childless men as well as men, married or not, who don’t spend much time with their children.

This is particularly important to male engineers because male engineers generally have higher testosterone levels than males in many other professions.

2011 OREGON INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW

SKY HIGH EXCITEMENT FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY!!

By

Anita Matthews
Contributing Editor

Figure 1 Hillsboro Air Show 2011, Pre-show – The field is ready!

On Sunday, August 21, over two hundred IEEE members, their families and friends, converged on the Portland Hillsboro Airport, to join the roughly 75,000 overall attendees participating in the three day yearly [...]

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    There were two trips down the river that day, one [...]

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