IEEE at UCLA

What a way to end the year! 🎉

Congratulations to all the graduates! A heartfelt thank you to our outgoing officers for their dedication to IEEE. We look forward to achieving great things with our new officer board next year!

Have a great summer 😁🎊

AAMC RECAP! 🐭 🚗💨

Thanks to everyone who came out this year! We had a fantastic event, and we hope that everyone had an amazing time, met new people, and learned a lot throughout the work session and competition!

A special thanks to all of the volunteers; this event would not have been possible without you, and we truly appreciate your efforts in making this year's AAMC successful.

ECE faculty and students! Join us at Engineering VI Mong Auditorium on Friday May 31, at 12 PM as IEEE hosts its second annual Project Showcase, where students from our year-long projects, in addition to students who have completed individual projects, present the technical knowledge they’ve learned and accomplishments they’ve made during this year.

The event will feature demos of our five main projects, our small group projects from the Student Project Initiative, and many more, including:
- A tesla coil designed from scratch
- An RF communication system, designed entirely from scratch on transistor levels, sending messages across the room.
- Maze-solving robots designed from scratch, from PCB design to controls to algorithms on embedded microcontrollers
- Electric guitar pedals producing different audio effects
- Small Autonomous vehicles using machine learning and computer vision to drive on a track
- Audio signal processing and arcade games implemented in hardware on FPGAs
- Games and sound players implemented on Arduinos

Check out the schedule here!
https://tinyurl.com/ProjectsShowcase2024

Happy Memorial Day! Here are the IEEE events of weeks 9 and 10!

We are reaching the final stretch of the quarter and school year. Projects Showcase is coming up as well as GB Banquet!

Have a restful day and a terri(EEE)fic week! 😌

GB members! RSVP NOW for GB Banquet 🫨 no cooking necessary, so come and eat amazing food with your GB members and cousins NEXT SATURDAY!!

Date: Saturday, 6/1/24 from 6 - 8 PM
Location: E6 Breezeway and Patio

RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/gbbanquet2024fr
(note: we will only provide enough food for those that rsvp 😔 )

AAMC is coming up!
AAMC (All America Micromouse Competition) is an inter-collegiate Micromouse competition hosted by IEEE at UCLA every Spring. Competing teams, groups of 3-5 people, try to reach the middle of a large 16x16 maze as fast as possible using their autonomous maze-solving robots. The competition is judged on a ruleset based on the International Micromouse Competition rulesets.

Link to more information: https://tinyurl.com/UCLAAAMC

Best of luck to all the AAMC ’24 participants! Happy Micromousing! 🐭⚡️🚗💨

Here are the IEEE events of weeks 8 and 9!

Can you belie(EE)ve it's already week 8? The next two weeks will be busy with work sessions. AAMC is on Sunday, and the Projects Showcase and GB Banquet are coming up in week 9!

Have an (IEE)Epic week 😄

This isn’t Spofity Wrapped, it’s Workshops Wrapped! Join us to finish up any demos from the workshops or if you missed a workshop get a kit to do it yourself! We’ll be here to answer any last questions about any of our workshops this year! We cannot wait to see you all there! ⚡️

Here are the IEEE events of weeks 7 and 8!

If you're interested in learning more about Arduino, come to the Advanced Arduino Activities workshop on Tuesday in the IEEE Lab! AAMC is also coming up for Micromousers 🐭 next Sunday

Have an (IEE)Excellent week gamers 💪

Looking to do more with an Arduino? Come out to our next Spring workshop centered around peripherals, serial communication, and more in order to best utilize an Arduino in a summer project or the next hackathon competition. We cannot wait to see you all there!

It’s become that time of year again! Committee applications are now OPEN if you would like to help organize the West Coast’s largest hardware-based hackathon, IDEA Hacks!!!

This massive event is only made possible through a coordinated team effort, including corporate outreach, creating stunning graphics, planning food and snacks for the weekend, designing the website, and much more! Any member can hopefully find a role that fits your strengths, interests, and/or schedule. No experience is necessary to join a committee and we encourage you all to apply!

Here are descriptions of the various IDEA Hacks committees:
https://tinyurl.com/committeedescriptions2025

Applications are due Monday, May 20th at 11:59pm and can be found here:
https://tinyurl.com/IDEAHacksCommitteesApplication
(Note that website committee has a supplemental application)

Applications are now open for IDEA Hacks 2024! IDEA Hacks, hosted by IEEE at UCLA, is the largest hardware hackathon on the West Coast and is back in town January 12-14! You bring ideas, and we'll provide everything else... parts, workshops, tools, free meals and snacks, everything you need to build a project. Our theme this year is Celebrating Our Communities as we celebrate our 10th year anniversary! 🎊 Compete for our legendary prizes, given to the best projects and winners of minigames and raffles spread throughout the weekend. For more information and to apply, please refer to our website: https://www.ideahacks.la/ (also in the link in our bio). Applications are due Sunday, 12/18

Hello new Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering students and transfers! Welcome to UCLA from IEEE, IEEE WATT and HKN (UCLA’s premier ECE student organizations). We are so excited you are here. To welcome you all and give you a taste of what it is like to be a student at UCLA, we will be hosting an Electrical and Computer Engineering Welcome Day on Wednesday, September 27 from 3:30-6 PM in the Mong Learning Center in Engineering 6. There will be a panel with current EE, CE and CSE students, bonding activities, snacks, an opportunity to chat with professors and more! We encourage all of you to attend as you will all learn valuable information to be a successful student at UCLA and have a lot of fun too! Please fill out this RSVP form to register for the event: https://forms.gle/DuXrhpd74y1ZE6gGA
We look forward to seeing all of you there 🙂

Make sure to RSVP here: https://forms.gle/QDsZjwjeH8xyaKqp9 for the upcoming IEEE Alumni BBQ coming up in two weeks! Enjoy the grill and good vibes with past and present IEEE members for some fun during the summer 🌼

Closing out the year by celebrating this past year with some nice dinner! Best of luck to the outgoing officers and thank you for your hard work!

Attention ECE faculty and students! Join us at Engineering VI Mong Auditorium on Saturday June 3, 2023 as IEEE hosts its first annual Project Showcase, where students from our year long projects, in addition to students who have completed individual projects, present the technical knowledge they’ve learned and accomplishments they’ve made during this year.

The event will feature demos of our five main projects, which include:
- Games and sound players implemented on Arduinos
- Maze-solving robots designed from scratch, from PCB design to controls to algorithms on embedded microcontrollers
- Small Autonomous vehicles using machine learning and computer vision to drive on a track
- Audio signal processing and arcade games implemented in hardware on FPGAs
- A communication system, designed entirely from scratch, sending messages across the room.

There will also be demos of individual/small group projects from our Student Project Initiative program, including:
- A 2.4 GHz FMCW radar system capable of measuring the range and speed of cars and people
- A “BB-8” style robot capable of standing up on a rolling ball
- A small self driving car dubbed “bibimbot” that uses cameras and lidar sensors

Have some feedback you’d like to share with the ECE Department? IEEE, WATT, and HKN are excited to host the ECE department’s Spring 2023 Townhall on Wednesday of Week 8, May 24th, from 6-8pm in the Shannon Room (Engineering IV - Room 54-134). This is your opportunity to share your concerns with and advice for the department! Please fill out the anonymous survey for free pizza at the event here: https://forms.gle/vcLefHP76MnJcmCX7
The results of the survey will be shared with the EE department and guide discussion at the townhall.
Separate from the anonymous survey form, please RSVP with this link: https://forms.gle/5c1HbB1foiCbR3DNA!

A busier week as our projects reach the final stretch! Make sure to show up to some of the last worksessions and lectures - or face the consequences...

Hey all! Interested in joining the IEEE officer 👮‍♂️ board next year? Make sure to pull up to our Officer Speed Dating event this Friday, at 6:00 PM in the E4 Maxwell Room (57-124). You’ll learn about all the different officer roles and get to talk to our officers about what they do! And as always, there will be free food 🍕 🥳

Thanks for coming out to our climbing social! For those of you who want to climb more, worry not- we’ll be going again soon :) Y’all rock 🪨 🥳

Want a break from the ads? Come slIEEEde with us during an exciting night of Iceblocking :) Join us at the Tongva steps at 6:00 on Friday to iceblock, a UCLA tradition where we sled down the hill 🥳

Come out to the annual IEEE x HKN ECE Research Fair, where you can learn about the labs looking for undergraduate students to get hands-on experience in research! Whether or not you are considering a career in research, this is the perfect event for you to speak to current graduate students and explore different aspects of being an ECE student here at UCLA. And if that's not enough to convince you to come out, there will be free pizza :)

Join us on February 23 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm for a dinner and power electronics workshop with Liquid Instruments company representatives! There will only be enough hardware and food for 20 students, so please fill out the application in our Discord announcement if you are interested in attending! Hope to see you there!

Thank you all for coming out to our KBBQ social! Hope everyone had as great of a time grilling as we did 🥳

Ready to dive more into computers? Want to know how to code an FPGA? Have no idea what HDL means? Come to our Verilog workshop, where you will learn all the fundamentals of how to program in digital logic!

Interested in learning about working for Marvell? Join us on February 7th for an info session hosted by Marvell Technology, a major semiconductor company, and learn about their work and how you can get involved! Food and swag will be provided, hope to see you there!

Looking for a relaxing Sunday night? Come join IEEE as we enter the immersive, exciting world of Puss In Boots 2: The Last Wish- as said by the Simpsonian, "Puss in Boots 2 is actually good". (An anonymous source is currently claiming that it is the greatest movie they have ever watched)

In the mood for some KBBQ? We've got you covered! Come with us to KTown for some incredible food and incredible vibes :) Transportation will be covered; RSVP by Wednesday, February 1st at the link below! The link is also in the Linktree.

https://tinyurl.com/IEEEKBBQ2023RSVP

Keep an eye out for our upcoming socials! Hope to see you there!

IDEA Hacks is starting today! Swipe left to see all the fun events planned for this weekend!