IEEE Region 5 (Southwestern U.S.) History

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Link to Region 5

Region 5 Sections

Within Region 5, Sections are divided into four Areas: 

North - Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
South - Central and East Texas
East - Arkansas and Louisiana
West - Colorado, West Texas, Southeast New Mexico, East Wyoming, West South Dakota

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North Section Principal City
Kansas City Kansas City, MO
Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, OK
St. Louis, MO
- Rolla Subsection St. Louis, MO
Tulsa Tulsa, OK
Wichita Wichita, KS

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South Section Principal City
Central Texas Austin, TX
San Antonio, TX
Corpus Christi
- Rio Grande Vly Subsect Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas Dallas, TX
Fort Worth Fort Worth, TX
Galveston Bay Galveston, TX
Johnson Space Center
Houston
- Freeport Subsection Houston, TX

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East Section Principal City
Arkansas Little Rock, AK
Arkansas River Valley Russellville, AK
Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, LA
Beaumont Beaumont, TX
Lafayette Lafayette, LA
New Orleans New Orleans, LA
Ozark Fayetteville, AK
Shreveport Section
- Monroe Subsection Shreveport, LA

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West Section Principal City
Denver Section
- Black Hills Subsect
High Plains Section Denver, CO
El Paso El Paso, TX
Las Cruces,NM
Panhandle Amarillo, TX
Pikes Peak Colorado Springs, CO
South Plains Lubbock, TX

Region 5 History Links courtesy of John Meredith

The links below provide some interesting documentation relating to history of institutions in IEEE Region 5.

Johnson Space Center located in Galveston Bay, Texas

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/

NIST laboratories

are located in Boulder, Colorado.

http://www.100.nist.gov/ This link provides background information on NIST.

http://www.100.nist.gov/cent_toc.htm This is the portal for NIST history.

http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html A walk through time.

http://tf.nist.gov/general/museum/847history.htm NIST’s history in measuring time and frequency.

History of aviation in Wichita, Kansas

http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/article.asp?id=95 Wichita Aviation historic timeline

http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/list.asp Wichita aviation history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna Cessna history

http://www.kansasaviationmuseum.org Kansas Aviation museum Wichita.

Texas Instruments history

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/tihistory.shtml TI history timeline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments TI history.

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml Jack Kilby, inteventor of integrated circuit, interview.

http://www.robertcoats.net Robert Coats story (former TI employee).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor-transistor_logic History of Transistor-transistor-logic (TTL) at TI.

http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1963-TTL.html TI introduces SN5400 TTL logic family..

http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1969-Schottky.html TI introduction of 74S series Schottky TTL logic for high speed applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostek Mostek history.

Saint Louis history items

http://earlyradiohistory.us/1904sl.htm wireless telegraphy at 1904 St. Louis exposition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Aircraft_Corporation history of McDonnell Aircraft and precursor aircraft companies in St. Louis.

Rural Electrification History

http://www.lone-star.net/mall/txtrails/bartlett.htm history of first REA line in United States located in Bartlett, Texas.

Bell System and Western Electric

includes Bell System Operating Companies and Western Electric Works in Oklahoma City and Lee’s Summit Missouri

http://www.porticus.org/bell/bellsystem_history.html Bess System history.

http://www.porticus.org/bell/westernelectric_history.html Western Electric history.

History of Region 5 EE Programs

http://www.ee.lamar.edu/LUEEhistory.html Lamar College.

http://swco.ttu.edu/University_Archive/photos/uaphotoe.html#Electrical_Engineering Texas Tech.

http://www.egr.uh.edu/parameters/spring2002/?e=history University of Houston.

http://www.engr.utexas.edu/about/history/chronology University of Texas at Austin.

http://engineering.missouri.edu/ece/about/history.php University of Missouri

http://www.eecs.ku.edu/prospective/undergraduate/faq#EECS_history University of Kansas

http://www.engg.ksu.edu/about/history-of-the-college Kansas State University

http://www.supportengineering.colostate.edu/ece/news/centennial.shtml Colorado State University

http://ece.mst.edu/department/deptprofile.html Missouri University of Science and Technology