May 27, 2010

Dear Members and Friends,

CIE-SF offers humanities event in addition to technical activities in the past. In view of the rapid change of the job market and the economic downturn, CIE-SF is holding a Career Development Seminar under the theme "The new career perspective and job market skill in the 21st century after the internet revolution" on June 5th 2010 at Herguan University, No.595 Lawrence Expressway, 2nd floor, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

As the corporation life span of S&P 500 is shortened to about 10 years, job change becomes a sure thing. New career perspective is needed with different mindset in the 21st century. Job market skill, besides the basic engineering skill, is an important integral part of the "Career Skill". Career development is about recognizing and utilizing the skills you already acquired throughout your life.

In view of the new challenges, CIE-SF starts with this event as the first of its series to exploring your careers, skills, futures and ultimately empower yourselves. The event starts with a discussion on the "career risk management": Is working in large corporation more secure? What should be expected when employer enters into merge and acquisition? How can one leverage the rapid growth in Asia Pacific? The panel is led by Dr. Gerry Liu, VP of Marketing of Pericom and a panel of broad international work experience. Questions from audience are welcomed to collectively seek the path!

It is followed by discussions among career coaches, HR managers, recruiters, new college graduates, and several high tech industry veterans to share information about job search, interview skill, resume writing, risk management, importance of networking. A group of new college graduate will share their job search experience, and receive the input//feedback from the human resource professionals.

We believe this event is a rare opportunity for all levels of people to come together and communicate; a chance for you to learn about yourselves and reconnect with your careers, a chance to inspire and engage a new generation in a meaningful way in life. Your participation at the event is therefore highly essential. Admission is free, complimentary refreshment is provided, donation is welcome!

Please find enclosed with this letter full details about this event. We hope to see you at the CIE Career Development Seminar on June 5th, 2010. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require any further information.

Sincerely,
Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA - SF Bay Area chapter
www.cie-sf.org/
A non-profit organization, we welcome new members to serve the engineering community together!

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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

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The Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE/USA) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter is now accepting applications for the Scholastic and Special Achievement Award. The names of the winners will be announced and awards will be presented at the CIE/SF Annual Conference on February 20, 2010.

Following a long-standing tradition of pursuing excellence, CIE/SF has established this award program to encourage and recognize the outstanding scholastic and special achievements of the children of its members. Selection criteria will be based on a balanced achievement of applicants' outstanding academic accomplishments, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in community service. Each award winner will receive a Certificate of Merit and a check of two hundred dollars and shall attend the CIE/SF Annual Conference in 2010.

All applicants must meet the following qualifications:

1. A CIE/SF member's children
2. Currently a Junior or Senior (11th or 12th grade) in high school
3. Has never received the award from the CIE/SF Chapter before

All applicants must submit the following documents in soft copies

1. A completed application form (use the attached one).
2. A passport type personal photo (to be published in the CIE publications)
3. A high school Transcript
4. A personal essay (no more than 300 words) which includes information such as:
   honor and awards received, offices of student organizations held, extracurricular activities, community service involved, volunteer work experience, etc.
   
5. An information page (use the template on the second page of this attached file)
6. (For Non-CIE/SF member only) A completed CIE/SF membership application form (attached) and annual membership fee.

The deadline for the application is Jan. 15, 2010. For 12th grade student, please send in your application ASAP for possible early decision.

Contact Person: Patrick Lam
Application material please email to mandplam@gmail.com or
mail to CIE/USA-SF, P.O. Box 2880, Cupertino CA 95015

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CHINESE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS/USA (CIE/USA)-San Francisco Chapter

The CIE/USA-San Francisco Chapter is accepting nominations for the Distinguished Achievements Award in Technology and Humanity for 2010. The award will be presented at its annual conference banquet to honor a distinguished engineer who not only has proven achievements in the engineering profession but also has made exemplary contributions to humanity and his or her community. It will include a plaque and a citation in recognition of the recipient's accomplishments.

I. SELECTION CRITERIA

The Board of Directors of the CIE/USA-San Francisco Chapter is charged with the responsibility for selecting the recipient based on the following evaluation criteria and weighting factors:

1. Basic requirements:
   Must be a resident of USA.
   Must be a practicing engineer or engineering educator.
   Must be committed to physically attending the reception of the award at the local chapter's annual award banquet.
   
   
2. Education
   List all degrees and dates earned, the names and locations of the institutions from which degrees were earned.
   
   
3. Professional Achievements (up to 40%):
   (1) The current or last professional employment including position, the name and location of the company or institution; Responsibilities, e.g. staff supervisions, handling of annual budget; Accountability, e.g. job functions and the challenges;
   (2) All previous employment with names and locations, and the candidate's position and principal responsibilities in each of the previous employment;
   (3) List technical publications, keynote speeches, patents and honor awards in a reverse chronological order of dates.
   
   
4. Contributions to humanity and impact (up to 60%)
   List candidate's contributions and services in humanity as an individual, or to organizations, including the offices held and committee assigned with dates. Attach statements of significance of all contributions and services rendered to the communities or countries resulting from the candidate's endeavor.
   
   
5. General Guidelines
   All candidacy information and evaluation shall be kept strictly confidential among CIE-USA/SF BOD. Candidate who has passed the initial review shall expect to be contacted to submit further references, support documents, and may be interviewed either by phone or fact-to-face.

II. Nomination and Deadline

The CIE/USA-San Francisco Chapter welcomes nominations by its members. Nominations shall be submitted to Dr. Wen C. Wang, Nomination Committee member, at wen_c_wang@yahoo.com. Deadline for nominations is 1 PM, December 4, 2009.

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[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.



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In an unprecedented move, the respective boards of the Chinese-American Renewable Energy Society (CARES) and the Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CIE/USA-SF) have decided to initiate the merging process of the two associations. CARES is to become the Renewable Energy Group of CIE/USA-SF. A ceremony of the signing of the memorandum of understanding, by the President of CARES Dr. Bill Kao and the President of CIE/USA-SF Dr. Larry Wang, took place on September 1st, 2009 in Cupertino, California.

This is the first time two Bay Area Chinese-American science and technology associations integrate into one. This integration sets an example for the many associations in the area. Due to the large number of Chinese-American technology associations, many of them having the same mission and goals, the limited resources get divided, and it is very difficult for any one association to put together an in-depth activity. CIE has recognized this issue thoroughly, and put in tremendous effort in joining other associations in planning and holding large-scale seminars and activities, with outstanding results.

This past June, under the leadership of CIE, five of the large science and technology associations (CIE, CASPA, NATEA, CBA, CARES) collaborated with TECO Science and Technology Division in holding two seminars "Job Opportunities for Green Technology" and "Biomedical Engineering Forum" in the TechMart of Santa Clara. This move established the foundation for the cooperation among the associations and foretells the new vision of future collaboration among the associations.

It is under this scenario that CIE and CARES recognized the importance of resource integration. With this in mind the two organizations decided to merge in order to provide better services to the community. As a result, CIE will have a new force in addition to the existing groups of EE and Computer Science, Communications, Civil Engineering, Electronics Manufacturing and Packaging, Electronics Design Automation, and Biotechnology. With this augmented organization, CIE will continue to provide high quality service to the Bay Area Chinese-American technologists.

As noted by Dr. Bill Kao, current president of CARES: "We are pleased to merge with the most senior science and technology association in the Bay Area. In doing this we will have more financial and human resources available to provide continuous service to our friends in the energy technology area." President of CIE/USA-SF Dr. Larry Wang also welcomes the joining of CARES in CIE and hopes to share the joy of knowledge and truth seeking with our allied association members in the Family of CIE.

CARES' web page can be found here.





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Chinese Institute of Engineers USA (CIE/USA) Recognizes

Science and Technology Visionaries

2008 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and President of Bell Labs among 15 Honorees

     SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 6, 2009 - The Chinese Institute of Engineers USA (CIE/USA), a leading engineering society in North America, announced today in celebration of the National Engineers Week (E-Week), CIE will recognize visionaries from the worlds of science and technology with its 2009 Asian American Engineer of the Year award (AAEOY). CIE is honoring these prominent Asian American scientists and engineers for outstanding contributions to their industries, entrepreneurial spirit and leadership acumen.

     An annual tradition started in 2003; CIE will present two special awards in 2009: Dr. Roger Tsien, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and a professor at the University of California, San Diego will receive the Distinguished Science and Technology Award, and Dr. Jeong Kim, president of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs will be awarded with the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. The Royal Swedish Academy of Science acknowledged Dr. Tsien with a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work leading to the development of multiple colorful markers beyond GFP, enabling the simultaneous monitoring of multiple signals and interactions inside cells. In addition, Dr. Tsien has been a pioneer in molecular engineering-building molecules to solve complex biological problems, such as the imaging signal transduction of cells in real time.

    Dr. Kim, who is a former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer and a professor of engineering, manages Bell Lab's teams which design innovative solutions and services for the communications sector.

     CIE will also recognize 13 other visionaries for research and development projects in areas such as RF photonics, wireless communications, naval architecture, biochemical engineering and the environment:

• Dr. David Boyarski, Lockheed-Martin
• Dr. Thomas Bui, Boeing
• Dr. Francis Chan, U.S. Navy
• Dr. Harry Chen, Northrop-Grumman
• Dr. Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Labs
• Mr. Ray Harishankar, IBM
• Dr. Chen He, Freescale
• Dr. Chung Hsu, Genentech
• Dr. Jae H Kim, Boeing
• Dr. Kyung K Kim, Lockheed-Martin
• Ms. Nora Lin, Northrop-Grumman
• Mr. Jayant Patel, Boeing
• Dr. Satish Reddy, Fluor

     "Our organization is proud to honor these distinguished individuals whose knowledge, leadership, and efforts have made a positive impact in our communities and throughout the world," said Dr. An-Yu Kuo, president of the CIE/USA San Francisco Bay Area chapter. "We believe it is important to showcase the contributions made by Asian-American engineers to encourage younger generations to pursue careers in academia, business, science, and engineering."

     For more information about the award and CIE, please visit http://www.cie-usa.org.

About CIE

Established in 1917 in New York by a group of talented and forward-looking Chinese engineers who had graduated from American universities, the United States chapter was re-established in 1953 as a professional, non-profit organization. Since 2002, CIE - USA has selected 110 Asian-American engineers as recipients of the annual AAEOY award. Founded in 1979, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter currently has more than 1,500 members.

The AAEOY award event will be held Sat., Feb. 21, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif.. The event will feature workshops, a cocktail reception, dinner and the awards presentation.

Media Contact:

Johanna Vallecillo
Weber Shandwick, for CIE
408.685.0615
jvallecillo@webershandwick.com

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