REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! For Virtual attendance, we have extended the registration deadline through April 2, 2024. Please see details below for registration. The IEEE-KC PES/IAS Joint Chapter is pleased to announce its Technical Seminar Series for Spring 2024! This year we will be returning to an in-person hybrid format, although we will also offer a virtual option. Please see below for location details. Regional Transmission Operations Topics This evening's seminar will cover various topics related to the current state of energy markets and how they are changing to meet the needs of evolving power systems. We will first explore the impacts of newer variable energy resources and changing demand patterns and what challenges they present for energy markets. We will then cover the generation interconnection process from the transmission owner's perspective, covering the studies and agreements that must take place in order to bring new resources into the energy market. Topics for this year are: - April 2 (Tuesday) - Regional Transmission Operations Topics - April 9 (Tuesday) - (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/410789) - April 16 (Tuesday) - (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/410796) - April 30 (Tuesday) - (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/410798) Fee Schedule: - Student Members - $25 (in-person w/meal) - $0 (virtual or in-person w/o meal) - IEEE Members: - $35 (in-person) - $15 (virtual) - Non-Members: - $40 (in-person) - $20 (virtual) - Corporate members: $140 per seat for all four events (in-person)* *Please contact the PES officer team for corporate registration. PES Officer & Volunteer team contact information: - Evergy: Jason Weil ([email protected]); Luis Gonzalez ([email protected]) - Burns & McDonnell: Mahfooz Hilaly ([email protected]); Jason Ottens ([email protected]) - Siemens: Chris Dyer ([email protected]) - Kiewit: Tony Locatelli ([email protected]) - Black & Veatch: Soham Ghosh ([email protected]) - Univ. of Central Missouri: Mohammad Sadi ([email protected]) Parking Directions: Please enter the campus from the south side on 90th Street. Follow the diagram below to locate parking and the main entrance to the building. Speaker(s): Andrew Calvert & Blake Poole, Dr. Antonio Conejo Agenda: Doors to the in-person event open at 5:00pm. Dinner will be served at approximately 5:00pm as well. The evening's seminar will include two presentations and will begin promptly at 6:00pm CDT. Each presentation will include 1 break, as well as a short quiz and survey. Completion of the quiz will be required to receive a PDH certificate. Kiewit Engineering, 8900 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, Kansas, United States, 66219, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/408955

Stress can be defined as a state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation. 45% of American college students claimed to undergo "more than average stress" while 33% of students reported "average stress." Stress influences our mood, affects our relationships and inhibits our success. In this webinar, we'll discuss how stress impacts our lives (including beneficial ways) and steps we can take to reduce and even prevent stress. Speaker(s): Carmen Osborne Agenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession. For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: (https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/) (https://newsletter.smartbrief.com/rest/sign-up/2479DAB0-4089-43E7-925D-86AE0C1E6244?campaign=e0d52cef) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409050

With the rapid development of Internet of Things, a vast number of small, low-cost, and low-power mobile electronic devices, such as radio frequency identification tags and wireless sensors, will become integral parts of our society. Supplying electrical power to these devices wirelessly would eliminate/relieve their battery life limitation. Since wireless power delivery must be dedicated to the designated receivers in space, it is inevitable to employ one narrow electromagnetic beam as the carrier of wireless power toward each mobile device. The retro-reflective beamforming technique has excellent potential to accomplish efficient wireless power transmission in the context of Internet of Things and can track multiple mobile devices, generating wireless power to the devices accordingly. The primary merit of retro-reflective beamforming technique is that wireless power transmission is augmented by radar tracking. Specifically, wireless power transmission is initiated by pilot signals broadcasted from wireless power receiver(s); and in response to the pilot signals, a wireless power transmitter delivers directional microwave power beams to the receiver(s). Results collected in our research demonstrate that the retro-reflective beamforming scheme enables microwave power beams to follow the location of mobile wireless power receiver(s) dynamically when the receiver(s) broadcast pilot signals periodically. Speaker(s): Dr. Mingyu Lu Room: Library, Bldg: Leonard C. Nelson College of Engineering and Sciences, 512 South Kanawha Street, Beckley, West Virginia, United States, WV 25801, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/414643