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Please join the IEEE Seattle Section Feb 10 th EXCOM Meeting at Seattle University Harding Building 143 - Classroom Prior to EXCOM , 6pm - 6:45pm Distinquished lecture EXCOM immediately follow 7PM - 8:30pm Distinquished Lecture: Mohammad S. Sharawi, Ph.D., P.E. (ing.), Fellow-IEEE RF/Communications Lead (Principal Eng), Blue Origin LLC, WA, USA Affiliate Full-Professor with the ECE Department at the University of Washington, USA , (former Research Group Lead and Tenured Full-Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, Canada) IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2025) IEEE Seattle AP/MTT/ED joint Chapter Co-Chair (2024) Topic: Space: A new fertile potential for AI Abstract Space vehicles and networks are evolving at an unprecedented rate in history. The era of Mega satellite constellations, massive connectivity, cheap access to space via reusable launch vehicles, plans to land humans to the moon as well as considering human landing on mars is already in the work. Intelligent, reconfigurable and adaptive networks and computing systems are key in adjusting mission links, decisions and more. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new paradigm that is being integrated with various technologies to make things cheaper with smarter decision-making capabilities. AI relies on high end computing platforms that suffer from high energy consumption. This talk will present several new dimensions where AI might be a candidate to help in future Space applications with a focus on some of the latest Blue Origin contributions to space, in addition to some of the collaborative work with NASA on future Lunar missions. Bio Mohammad S. Sharawi is currently a Principal Engineer at Blue Origin, LLC, where he is leading the development of antenna and radio-frequency (RF) systems for space applications. He is also an affiliate Full-Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He has been developing antenna solutions for 4G, 5G and sub-THz applications (from bio-sensors, to base station and satellite arrays) during his 20 years tenure as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at various institutions around the world since 2006. He joined the Space Industry early 2023. He has 28 granted antenna related patents with the USPO, and more than 430 Publications in refereed journals and international conferences in addition to 3 Books in the field. He has major contributions in MIMO antenna systems, active reconfigurable antennas, mm-wave antenna arrays and encapsulated dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). Parking Link. PLease register for free parking Here's the parking link for Feb 10th To reserve parking, click on the following link: https://www.offstreet.io/events/79DI63VG and enter your vehicle license plate. Co-sponsored by: dennis.m.lewis, Erik Godo, Janet Oneil, Abraham Shiny, sheree wen Agenda: Feb 10th, 2026, Pacific Time 6:00pm- 6:50 pm. Distinquished speaker: Mohammad S. Sharawi, Ph.D., P.E. (ing.), Fellow-IEEE, 7:00pm- 8:30pm; IEEE Seattle section EXCOM 1) Jan 2026 EXCOM Meeting minutess approval Section business 2) Section finance, update 3) Election Update 4) Chapter report; 5) Stubent Branch report 6) other business Room: 143, Bldg: Harding Building , 901 12th Avenue, , Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537140

Please join the the Distinquished lecture by Professor Mohammad S. Sharawi. Harding Building 143 - Classroom 6pm - 6:45pm Distinquished Lecture EXCOM immediately follow 7PM - 8:30pm Distinquished Lecture: Mohammad S. Sharawi, Ph.D., P.E. (ing.), Fellow-IEEE RF/Communications Lead (Principal Eng), Blue Origin LLC, WA, USA Affiliate Full-Professor with the ECE Department at the University of Washington, USA , (former Research Group Lead and Tenured Full-Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, Canada) IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2025) IEEE Seattle AP/MTT/ED joint Chapter Co-Chair (2024) Topic: Space: A new fertile potential for AI Abstract Space vehicles and networks are evolving at an unprecedented rate in history. The era of Mega satellite constellations, massive connectivity, cheap access to space via reusable launch vehicles, plans to land humans to the moon as well as considering human landing on mars is already in the work. Intelligent, reconfigurable and adaptive networks and computing systems are key in adjusting mission links, decisions and more. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new paradigm that is being integrated with various technologies to make things cheaper with smarter decision-making capabilities. AI relies on high end computing platforms that suffer from high energy consumption. This talk will present several new dimensions where AI might be a candidate to help in future Space applications with a focus on some of the latest Blue Origin contributions to space, in addition to some of the collaborative work with NASA on future Lunar missions. Bio Mohammad S. Sharawi is currently a Principal Engineer at Blue Origin, LLC, where he is leading the development of antenna and radio-frequency (RF) systems for space applications. He is also an affiliate Full-Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He has been developing antenna solutions for 4G, 5G and sub-THz applications (from bio-sensors, to base station and satellite arrays) during his 20 years tenure as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at various institutions around the world since 2006. He joined the Space Industry early 2023. He has 28 granted antenna related patents with the USPO, and more than 430 Publications in refereed journals and international conferences in addition to 3 Books in the field. He has major contributions in MIMO antenna systems, active reconfigurable antennas, mm-wave antenna arrays and encapsulated dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). Parking Link. PLease register for free parking Here's the parking link for Feb 10th To reserve parking, click on the following link: https://www.offstreet.io/events/79DI63VG and enter your vehicle license plate. Co-sponsored by: dennis.m.lewis, Erik Godo, Janet Oneil, Abraham Shiny, sheree wen, Priyank Desai, Neha Shety Agenda: Feb 10th, 2026, Pacific Time 6:00pm- 6:45 pm. Distinquished speaker: Mohammad S. Sharawi, Ph.D., P.E. (ing.), Fellow-IEEE, 7:00pm- 8:30pm; IEEE Seattle section EXCOM Room: 143, Bldg: Harding Building , 901 12th Avenue, , Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537335

This meeting we are providing our members an introduction to using Arduinos. This will be the first of a series of 3-4 workshops. This workshop, we will set up groups of members on using Arduinos, and getting used to the Arduino IDE. This part focuses on understanding sketches in Arduinos and how to control LEDs for basic signal control. Room: CP 108, Bldg: Cherry Parkes, 1900 Commerce St, Tacoma, Washington, United States, 98402