January 27, 2010

Dear Sir/Madam,

On behalf of the Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA- San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CIE/USA-SF), we are seeking your participation in our 2010 Annual Conference, which will be held on Saturday, February 20, 2010, at DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose, 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA 95110.

CIE/USA is a non-profit, non-political organization serving the local engineering community. Founded in 1917, CIE/USA is one of the oldest and the most prestigious Chinese-American engineering associations in U.S. It has 6 chapters in the U.S. including the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. CIE/USA also co-hosts three biannual engineering seminars in Taipei, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

The conference will be filled with activities and fun. There will be a delightful gala banquet in the evening featuring keynote speech, scholarship award, Technology and Humanity award, and entertainment. The keynote speaker for the banquet will be Dr. Ta-Lin Hsu, Chairman and Founder of H&Q Asia Pacific. This year's theme is "A Changing World: An Engineer's Perspective". As the world faces many uncertainties such as those in economic, climate and energy, Dr. Hsu will give us his view about the changing world.

In the afternoon, there will be three parallel tracks of seminars including "Emerging Technologies", "Business & Law", nd "Humanities". The afternoon seminars will be organized in concert with the conference theme.

We anticipate hundreds of people to attend the conference and we sincerely invite you to come. As a leading engineering association, we are sure your participation will lead you to a fruitful encounter with the elites of the engineering profession. For dinner banquet ticket information, please visit our website below or contact Dr. John Xie by phone at 408-544-8095 or by email at jxie@altera.com, or visit http://www.eventbee.com/event?eid=630196294 .

Sincerely,

Larry Wang, Ph.D
President, CIE/USA-SF

Tony Liu, Ph.D.
Annual Conference Co-Chair

Charles Feng
Annual Conference Co-Chair

CIE/USA-SF
P.O.Box 2880
Cupertino, CA 95015
http://www.cie-sf.org

31st CIE/USA-SF Annual Conference

"A Changing World: An Engineer's Perspective"

Saturday, February 20, 2010

1:00 pm - 9:45 pm

DoubleTree Hotel San Jose

2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA 95110

Afternoon Programs

1:00 p.m. Registration (Afternoon sessions are free)
1:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony

2:00 p.m. Parallel Tracks

Session I:   Emerging Technologies

Moderator: Dr. William Kao

1. "Light Emitting Plasma: Changing the World of High Output Lighting", Mr. Tony McGettigan, Luxim Corporation

2. "Intel Eco-Technology: Delivering Efficiency and Innovation", Henry Wong, Intel Corporation

3. "Cloud Computing - IT infrastructure's evolution for next decade", Rajesh Ramchandani, Sun Microsystems

4. "Climate Change 2010: Report from Copenhagen", Dr. William Kao

Session II:   Business Perspectives

Moderator: Dr. Joe Tai

1. Panel: "Fianancing for Emerging Growth Companies and Cross-Border Transactions", Calvin Cheng, Scott Chou, Victor Chang , and James Chapman.

2. "Flash of Genius: How to Invent and What to Include in a Patent Application", Joe Tai, Alex Zhang and Frank Lu.

3. "AIYA!!! ... I Just Got Sued for Patent Infringement!", Chris Kao.

4. "Business Interests and Community Property Law", Vivian Lu.

Session III:   Humanities

Moderator: Dr. Chi-Min Chu

1. "Chiang Kai-Shek Reappraised: Unlocking Modern China History", Tai-Chun Kuo (郭岱君), Stanford University Hoover Research Institute

Dinner Banquet

5:30 p.m.   General Registration for Evening Banquet
6:00 p.m.   Dinner Banquet (please purchase tickets in advance)
                 Ms. Elaine Kuo, MC
6:45 p.m.   CIE General Businesses and Announcements
7:15 p.m.   CIE/USA-SF Technology and Humanity Award
                 Dr. David Fong

7:45 p.m.   Keynote Speech
                 "A Changing World: An Engineer's Perspective"
                 Dr. Ta-Lin Hsu (徐大麟博士)
                 Chairman and Founder, H&Q Asia Pacific

8:40 p.m.   Student Scholastic and Special Achievement Awards
9:00 p.m.   Entertainment - People's Band
9:45 p.m.   Closing

For conference registration and banquet ticket purchase, please visit: http://www.eventbee.com/event?eid=630196294.

[Oct. 06, 2009 - San Jose, CA]
CIE-SF held its 2009 Short Course Program on 9/26/2009 and 10/3/2009 at San Jose State University (SJSU). Four courses in the fields of 4G LTE, RF Systems and Circuits, Image Processing with FPGA, and OpenSparc were taught by Dr. Tony Liu, Mr. Simon Ma, Mr. Jose Alvarez, and Dr. Jhy-Chun Wang, respectively. Hundreds of industry professionals and students attended these courses. Thanks for MediaTek's sponsorship that CIE-SF made the short courses free to all attendees this year.