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IEEE Club The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an international professional organization dedicated to the field of electrical engineering, especially in the areas of education and research. At Montana Tech, the student IEEE club is an affiliate of that IEEE. The Montana Tech IEEE has been active for many years and presently has about 15 active members. The major activities of the club are tours to regional industries that have a significant application in the area of electrical engineering. Recent tours occurred at the Northwestern Power Control center in Butte, the Poly Silicon production facility in Butte, Schwitzer Research Labs in Pullman, WA. The Idaho National Laboratroy in Idaho Falls, Micron IC fabrication facility in Boise, and the Coal Strip power plant in eastern Montana. Future tours are planned for the Lockheed Martin Company in Denver, CO and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA. Our most recent tour was to Idaho National Lab on November 1, 2007 and one of the tours was dedicated to Cyber Security Research, a laboratory that was performing research on welding procedures on spent fuel rod and capsulation, then we toured the Energy Storage Technology lab that does all testing associated with high tech batteries and ultra capacitors. On November 2, 2007 we toured the city of Idaho Falls' alternate energy low head bulb turbine power generation facility. In the afternoon, we went to the wind farm that is on the hills outside of Idaho Falls and they had about 50 megawatts of wind turbine generators. The INEL technical guide to the wind turbine tour has agreed to be the speaker for the Undergraduate Research Symposium and will talk on alternate energy for power generation. HIs name is Gary Seiffort. Many members of the club regularly attend the monthly professional IEEE luncheons where seminars are given by area electrical engineers on technical topics of interest. In the past, several Montana Tech students have given those talks on projects or research they have done. The club has supported local community charitable activities such as the Masonic Bikes for Books program. Other club activities include the configuration and sale of tool kits to EE students and the sale of common electronic parts to EE students. High volume procurement by the club enables discount prices to EE students. Fund raising efforts by the club include the sale of graduation Tee Shirts, a barbeque lunch offered during the FE Exam, and the sale of soda pop and coffee in the General Engineering office.
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