ACTIVITIES: 5:30 PM Social, 6:30 PM Dinner (from the menu, individual billing), 7:30 Elections and Speaker, Steve Wolterstorff

RESERVATIONS: Call your reservations in to Jayme Huber, (712) 546-3531 before Noon on Tuesday, May 26.

DIRECTIONS: From I-29 take the Russell Street Exit and head East on Russell Street about 1.5 miles to West Avenue. Turn South (right) and go about 3 blocks to Madison Street. Turn Right and then turn into the parking lot at George’s which can be seen from the intersection of West and Madison.

After dinner we will elect officers for the next year of operations. Your vote is coveted. The nominations are announced below. If you cannot make it to this meeting, you can vote by mail. Absentee voting is possible. Send a letter to Jayme Huber (address is at the end of this newsletter—back page) indicating your vote in time to arrive before the May meeting. Absentee votes will not be counted if a second vote is needed to break a tie.

Our speaker, Steve Wolterstorff, is our section’s home page editor and a Systems Analyst at Missouri Basin Municipal Power Agency. He will explain how our section’s web site was built and deployed. If you’ve been looking for an easy way to develop web pages or entire sites, this meeting is for you. Topics will include using Microsoft’s FrontPage and their Internet Information Server for Windows NT, database connectivity for the web site using Microsoft’s Visual InterDev, and dynamic HTML.

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Chairperson ______________________________ Murat Tanyel
Vice Chairperson _________________________ Lewis Brown
Secretary/Treasurer_______________________ Steve Hietpas
Professional Activities Chairperson ______ Jayme Huber
Educational Activities Chairperson _______ Dave Galipeau
Student Activities Chairperson ___________ Alfred Andrawis
Membership Activities Chairperson ________ Lewis Brown
Newsletter Editor ________________________ Doug De Boer
Homepage Editor __________________________ Steve Wolterstorff
Section Awards Chairperson _______________ Madeleine Andrawis
Power Engineering Chapter Chairperson ____ Jayme Huber
SDSU Student Branch Advisor ______________ Alfred Andrawis
Dordt Student Branch Advisor _____________ Murat Tanyel
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The Graduate School of South Dakota State University’s College of Engineering wishes to determine if there is sufficient interest in graduate level engineering education to justify offering more graduate level engineering courses in Sioux Falls. As a professional courtesy please take a few minutes to fill out the enclosed survey and mail it, regardless of your level of interest in graduate studies. A postage-paid envelope is enclosed (U.S. Mail edition only) for your response. The survey may be copied and given to any other interested persons as well. They should mail the survey to:

South Dakota State University
Sioux Falls Programs
132 South Dakota Avenue
Sioux Falls SD 57104-6412
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PISCATAWAY, NJ, April 28, 1998 _ A high demand for adjustable speed drive (ASD) systems in utility, industrial, and commercial sectors has created an increase in a wide variety of drive applications. This increase in the many drive options poses a potential concern about a lack of sufficient understanding of drive technologies, their benefits, and applications including emerging power quality issues.

To help engineers better understand the capabilities of motor drive technologies, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. is offering a self-study course on ASD. This continuing education course, authored by Wayne L. Stebbins, an electrical engineer at Hoechst Celanese, presents general guidelines for the proper selection of ASD systems. "Knowing and understanding these guidelines will help engineers select ASDs that can perform to their optimal level in a specific application," says Mr. Stebbins.

Among many objectives, the course teaches the following:

This course consists of a 13-chapter study guide, a 400-page textbook, and an optional ASD master software. A final examination follows the course. Those who successfully complete the course will be awarded eight Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and the IEEE Certificate of Achievement.
To order this self-study course, use the following product numbers:

Including Software HL5741; Member price: $359; List price: $499. Without Software HL5750; Member price: $299; List price: $399. Order from the IEEE Customer Service, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331. Make checks payable to IEEE. For single sales, call 1-800-678-IEEE; for company or institutional sales, call 1-800-701-IEEE; or fax 732-981-9667.

South Dakota State University’s College of Engineering, Graduate School and Sioux Falls Programs are interested in determining if there is sufficient interest in graduate level engineering education to merit bringing additional courses and/or degrees to Sioux Falls for delivery. Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions to assist us in this assessment.

Please feel free to duplicate this questionnaire and share with colleagues who may be interested.

Name: _______________________ (optional)
Address:______________________________________________
Telephone Number: ___________(home) _________________(office)
Employer: ____________________ Position: ______________________
Have you completed an undergraduate degree in engineering or a closely related field?______ yes ______ no
If yes, what degree and where? __________________________________
Would you be interested in completing a master’s degree if it were available in Sioux Falls?

If interested, would you prefer __ full time or __ part time?
If interested, would you take courses (check all that apply)
__ day __ evening __ weekend __ Summer __ Fall __ Winter

For additional information please contact David Hilderbrand at SDSU Sioux Falls Programs, 132 South Dakota Avenue, Sioux Falls SD 57104 (367-5641) or Virgil Ellerbruch at the College of Engineering, SDSU, Brookings SD (688-4161).