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CEDA Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Fall Planning Meeting September 7, 2013 San Marcos, TX. Chapter Leadership Team. Chapter Updates. Meeting location: South University Auditorium Nine technical seminars so far this year 2012 Workshop Story is published in SSCS Magazine
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CEDA ChapterIEEE Central Texas Section Fall Planning MeetingSeptember 7, 2013 San Marcos, TX
Chapter Updates • Meeting location: South University Auditorium • Nine technical seminars so far this year • 2012 Workshop Story is published in SSCS Magazine • DAC is very successful in Austin • Co-sponsor SWDFT workshop collocated at DAC • 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
DAC 2013 • Similar attendance as previous DAC at Bay Area • Thank all of you! • Brian Bailey remarked in EE Times, “There was a lot of speculation leading up to DAC about the effectiveness of holding the conference in Austin. … Now we have the official numbers and … DAC was a success by every measure you can think of” (B. Bailey, “DAC in Austin: Success or Failure,” EE Times, blog, 11 June 2013). • CEDA Newsletter • A primary reason for DAC’s success was the grassroots work of the IEEE Central Texas CEDA Chapter (led by Zhuo Li), the Design Automation Technical Committee (led by Chuck Alpert), and the IEEE Central Texas Sec-tion (led by Kenny Rice). … they formed the Austin Local Commit-tee, which made it their mission to bring new people to DAC from Central Texas. They worked tirelessly, promoting the Designer Track, helping form the Designed in Texas part of the program, and holding promotions at different to sign designers up for the DAC show. • 2,354 exhibitor-only attendees that showed up at DAC. • 60 percent of those at DAC were attending the conference for the first time. • So successful, and plan to form a local committee in Bay Area to promote 2014
SWOT Analysis • Strengths • Year-old chapter with enthusiastic officers! • Weaknesses • Need more local speakers • Opportunities • Local chip design and EDA companies, UT Austin • Co-sponsor events with other chapters • Threats • Differentiate with other parent societies/chapters