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.

IEEE Foothill Computer Society Symantec Security Presentation

IEEE Foothill Section

Computer Society Chapter Meeting

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Harvey Mudd College

 OLIN Science Center Building

Beckman Lecture Hall

1250 N. Dartmouth Ave., 

Claremont, CA 91711

Topic: Computer security versus today’s threats: 

Mobile, Social Media, and more..

Speaker: Kevin Haley, Director,

Security Response; Symantec Corp.  

Back by popular demand from Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network (he spoke to IEEE last in 2011 on the Claremont Colleges Campus: 

Attackers are following us onto mobile devices, social media, and even IoT.  Meanwhile attacks against PC are getting more complex.  This session looked at the threat landscape in 2015 and shared some thoughts on what we'll see in 2016 and how best to protect our businesses and ourselves. 

Event Sponsored by HMC & IEEE Foothill Section

Kevin Haley

Director, Symantec Security Response

Bio: Kevin Haley is Director of Product Management for Symantec Security Technology And Response where he is responsible for ensuring the security content gathered from Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network is actionable for its customers.  He is the technical advisor and main spokesperson for Symantec Internet Security Threat Report.  He served as a technical advisor for Anthony E. Zuiker's digital crime thriller, “Cybergeddon” and appeared in the documentary “Most Dangerous Town”. He also frequently appears as a security expert for media including The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, MSNBC, USA Today, New York Times, Forbes, Dow Jones and many others.  During his sixteen years at Symantec, Haley has also acted as the Group Product Manager for Symantec Endpoint Protection and our mail security products.

Antenna Measurement Techniques Association 2015 Student Day

What: AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association) 2015 Student Day

Where: Hyatt Regency Long Beach, 200 South Pine Ave., Long Beach, CA

When: Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 11:30 AM - 6:15 PM

Who: Undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in electromagnetics, antennas or anyone interested in networking with members of industry, government and academia.

AMTA Student Day 2015 in Long Beach, CA was a day to remember. We had approximately 10 students from our IEEE Foothill section schools Cal Poly Pomona and UC Riverside. There were also students from Cal State Northridge, UCIrvine and UCLA. AMTA provided 2 great speakers for the students. First was Brian Kent, Ph. D. from ARA (Applied Research Associates) who spoke on the Space Shuttle Return to Flight effort which focused primarily on RADAR systems to help track launch debris. The second speaker was Dr. Yahya Rahmat-Samii from UCLA and a well known expert in Antenna Design and Analysis. Along with the talks the students were given special presentations by four manufacturers in the Exhibit Hall and they participated in a hands-on antenna design competition where the students had to design. fabricate and test a helical antenna. The group that won the challenge was Cal State Northridge. Many thanks to Pat Pelland and his AMTA colleagues from NearField Systems in Torrance, CA for coordinating the AMTA student day.