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The Professional Activities Committee for Engineers (PACE) aims to help you maintain your technical vitality and professional development.
We will aim to encourage you to engage in life long learning by bringing training courses and educational opportunities to your attention and where applicable holding seminars and workshops on professional development topics.
We also aim to bring you networking opportunities and opportunities for you to serve the engineering profession in as many ways as possible.
Any suggestions for improvements and new topics to be covered will be welcome.
Email: Adrian Pais
Christmas
Best Wishes to members for the Festive Season and for a relaxing holiday break.
Recent Events
The NZIM have published their 2006 Customer Service Programme, so someone is getting us ready for next year's training!
In November, the IEEE North GOLD Group funded a two night Project Management Workshop run by a former IEEE North Section Chair Loreen Ozolins. Loreen is an experienced project manager and presenter, which made the workshop an enjoyable and rich learning experience for the twenty people who attended.
2005 PACE Seminar
Dr John Hoskin of Auckland University and Paul de Bazin of Orion Health presented an informative seminar on the subject of University/Industry Joint Project Development on 17 November. Those who attended gained useful pointers on how academia can work with industry and the benefits gained by both parties in this cooperation.
Consultant Database
The Consultant Database continues to grow, but as I keep saying, there is always room for more members!
Intellectual Property Brief
See this section for useful articles from Chapman Tripp.
If you want to make yourself available for Consultancy or Expert Witness services, you should apply for listing in this database!
The Database will hold your professional profile and will make your name available to anyone who searches for a discipline with which you have identified through a Key Phrase. The inquirer will then contact you directly and negotiate a contract for services.
We aim to advertise this service to the initial target audience of Engineering Consultancy Practices during December, or earlier if there are sufficient entries in the Database to make it viable. Beyond the direct advertising of the service, the Database Web Page is already visible to anyone searching the World Wide Web, so anyone listing in the Database could expect inquiries from anywhere in the world.
This is a unique opportunity to present your skills 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to the widest possible group of potential clients at a cost that could not be lower…
This facility has been provided as a free service for all IEEE New Zealand members, who may list indefinitely on proof of current membership.
Non IEEE members may also list, but only for a 12 month period.
The listing will be converted to an indefinite listing if the consultant has taken up IEEE membership.
The Consultant Database is accessed through the IEEE New Zealand North Home Page:
http://www.ieeenorth.org.nz
Look for the link "Consultant Database" and apply for a listing.
If you have any queries please email Peter Over (p [dot] h [dot] over [at] ieee [dot] org)
IEEE COURSES
IEEE provides many self study courses which you can order direct from IEEE.
From time to time we will highlight existing courses or announce new ones.
To order your desired course either visit the the IEEE Web Page yourself (select "Training and Education") or use the order form included in the PACE Pages.
NON IEEE COURSES
We will list any non IEEE courses that come to our attention along with the contact addresses, phone/fax numbers which will enable you to book yourself on the course.
Have YOU attended a good course lately or undertaken a rewarding self-study course?
How about letting us know so that we can pass on the news to others?
ALC Training
Their courses are listed at: www.alctraining.co.nz.
This section aims to highlight courses or seminars which relate to the non
technical
aspects of your career, for example the transition to managerial
responsibilities.
Whether you are in management, aspiring to management or needing extra skills in areas such as effective communication, there may be the course here for you.
New Zealand Institute of Management
As usual, the NZIM have published their 2005 Public Programme Planner,.
Go to www.nzim.net.nz and click the Public Programme Planner tab for course details.
Short Courses
The Auckland University Business School has a plethora of courses available on business related topics.
See: www.shortcourses.ac.nz for further information.
IEEE BOOKS
These can be found at the IEEE USA BOOKSHOP and ordered directly using the IEEE PRODUCT ORDER FORM or through the Web. We will highlight any interesting new publications that come to our attention. IEEE books cover both the Technical and Professional Development aspects of your career.
NON IEEE BOOKS
We will also highlight any non IEEE books that seem interesting, so that you can order them directly from the supplier or publisher.
CRC Press
Are always worth looking at, with many texts listed for electrical & electronics engineering and information technology. 2004 is no exception, with lots of texts published. Visit them at: www.crcpress.com.
Books 24 x 7
Now you don't have to buy any books if you don't want to! For US$ 299 per year, you can have online access to virtually every IT reference publication available. You will also get email advice of new publications.
Have a look at marketing.books24x7.com and register for a free trial.
Marcel Dekker Inc
Worth a look if you need a subject title you have been unable to find elsewhere. Go to: www.dekker.com and select "Engineering" from the Home Page list, then "Electrical Engineering and Electronics" from the Series listbox in the following page.
Bram van Melle of Chapman Tripp has shared the following Intellectual Property and other legal articles:
A link to Chapman Tripp's Resource Library.
A Chapman Tripp Tech Law Update "But I just want to know who owns it!"
A Chapman Tripp Tech Law Update, leading with "Is your domain name enough?"
A Chapman Tripp IP Update which deals with topical IP issues.
An issue of Chapman Tripp's "Counsel" dealing with the Crimes Amendment Act (i.e. the anti-hacking law).
An issue of Counsel dealing with commercialisation of University intellectual property (etc)
A Tech Law Update dealing with Technology Issues
Throughout the history of the IEEE organisation, focus has been on expanding and enhancing members technical knowledge in all areas of engineering. Within the past 10 years however, the demands and roles of engineers have shifted. As a result of these new pressures, the membership of the IEEE has changed as well.
In order to address this change, an amendment to the original IEEE Constitution was passed assigning a task force, the United States Activities Board (USAB), to:
IEEE Bylaw 311
"... recommend policies and implement programs specifically intended to serve the members...in appropriate nontechnical professional areas of economic, ethical, legislative, and social concern,..."
This amendment subtly changes the focus of the IEEE from a purely technical society to one in which the changing concern of its membership are heard and responded to. The group within the IEEE which facilitates this change is the IEEE United States Activities Board through its Professional Activities Committee for Engineers or PACE Network.
PACE achieves its goal of aiding the professional careers of engineers through a variety of methods:
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