Max Cherubin Represented Foothill Section at Region 6 OpCom Meeting in Las Vegas

Max Cherubin attended the Operating Committee meeting representing the Foothill Chapter on Jan. 29-31, 2016 with joint activities with Region 4, 5 and 6  at Las Vegas, NV.

In addition, Tribhuwan Choubey received the PES Chapter Award 2015 for its continued excellence in providing technical programs and quality services to the membership of both students and practicing engineers.

Cal Poly Pomona Student Chapter Winter Quarter Soldering Tutorial

Our Cal Poly Pomona IEEE student branch chapter hosted our Winter Quarter Soldering Tutorial sponsored by Max Cherubin at IEEE Foothill and collaborated Panatron, Inc. This was our largest turn out of engineering students attending this event on Saturday, January 23, 2016 as over 30 students learned how to properly solder and assemble a variety of PCB kits sold by the IEEE Student Chapter Club.

A variety of Soldering Kits were offered for purchase at a discounted rate, ranging from $6 to $30, between beginner’s PCB’s to the more advance soldering kits, Surface Mounts. The following Soldering Kits are: Capacitance Meter, Clock Kit, Breadboard Power Supply, USB Blinky Kit, Simon Says (One color & Multi Color), Dice Kit, Binary Blaster Kit, Electronic Fortune Wheel Kit, and the Spinning LED Wheel.

A well-presented PowerPoint introduction was led by the two IEEE Officer Project Development Chair, Xavier Viste and Gregory Lynch. They thoroughly explained the tools to be used that day as well as how to correctly solder and clean up their kits.

Towards the end of the 5 hour Soldering Event, students were able to compete their soldering work with others in hopes to win three prizes: 1st - $30, 2nd - $20, and 3rd - $10. Josue Herrera got the first prize, Timothy Kheang as the second and Daniel Gamboa landed on third. Quality Soldering work is judged based on clean well-done solder, shine, and if the kit itself worked properly. The contest was judged by Max Cherubin - IEEE F oothill Chair, Club President Byron Phung, and the two Project Development Chair, Gregory and Xavier.

Overall, the day was filled with an interactive activity and presentation where students were provided the experiences and opportunities to develop their soldering skills and the fundamentals that it came with the techniques. Students were able to learn something not provided by the school’s curriculum.

     

 

CPP-IEEE Student Chapter's Lunch n' Learn with Max Cherubin and Panatron, Inc.

Cal Poly Pomona's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers student branch chapter invited Max Cherubin to represent Panatron, Inc. and the IEEE for their Industry Lunch n' Learns activity. It's one of their most popular activities that occurs from 12 noon - 1 pm on Tuesdays, also known as University Hour where no one has classes, in which industry professionals volunteer their time to inform student engineers about their company, technical topics or both.

Max Cherubin of Panatron, Inc. was invited to do the talk on Nov 24, 2015. There were about 40 students who attended the Lunch n' Learn activity. Max talked about himself professionally, his working experience in the technical field, of working for Panatron and the day-to-day duties and projects.

He also talked about IEEE; of volunteering for IEEE as the MTT-APS chair, of how important it is to stay with IEEE for students specially after graduation, the networking groups, and how IEEE helps to advance working careers. He also suggested students that while they're pursuing their education, it would be best to get a part time job in the field that they're interested in.

In the end, it was an hour event that's interactive with the students and very productive. Max gave out business cards to students and told them that they could contact  him should they have questions in their fields at any time.