Time:             June 17, 2010, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue:           ITRI International, 2870 Zanker Rd., Suite #140, San Jose, CA 95134

Sponsors:      CARES/CIE

Admission:     Free

Speakers:       Dr. Chin-Ching Huang, VP & CTO NeoPacOptoelectronics

"Main Factors of LED Lighting"

Abstract:
Recently, there have been many new developments in the LED lighting industry. In this seminar, Dr. Huang will be discussing many important LED factors such as electrical, thermal, optical characteristics, performance, reliability, safety and cost. Moreover, he will discuss why and when LED lighting will hit the real, mainstream business.

For presentation file, please click here.



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Sponsored by National Science Council, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Organized by CIE, TECO, CBA, NATEA, CASPA, TAITA

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Theme:         Information Technology for Biomedical Applications

Time:            Saturday, June 12, 2010, 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location:      Silicon Valley Conference Room, TECHMART
                    5201 Great America Parkway
                    Santa Clara, California, USA 95054

Fee:              FREE Admission with pre-registration

On-line registration: http://cieshortcourse.eventbee.com/event?eid=785132213

Schedule:
             1:00 pm - 1:30 pm    Registration
             1:30 pm - 1:40 pm    Welcome Remarks
             1:40 pm - 2:20 pm    HealthTech -- to Make Healthcare More Cost Efficient
             2:20 pm - 3:00 pm    Health Management
             3:00 pm - 3:15 pm    Break
             3:15 pm - 3:55 pm    IT Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Institutions
             3:55 pm - 4:35 pm    Changing Landscape for Health Information System
             4:35 pm - 4:50 pm    Break
             4:50 pm - 5:30 pm    Engineering Solutions Meet Medical Applications

Distinguished Speakers:

Anne DeGheest, Managing Director, Medstars and HealthTech Capital
"HealthTech, New Product Opportunities to Make Healthcare More Cost Efficient"

Wu-Fu Chen, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Acorn Campus Ventures
"Health Management - A New Paradigm to Healthcare"

Scott May, Santa Clara Area Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente
"IT Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Institutions"

Jerry Rankin, Director of Product Management, Lawson Healthcare
"The Changing and Challenging Landscape for Health Information Systems"

James Lei, Vice President, Business Development, Applied Harmonics Corp.
"Engineering Solutions Meeting Medical Applications - How I Benefit from This Experience"


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Date: June 5, 2010 (Saturday) 12:30pm -- 5:30pm
Place: 595 Lawrence Expressway, 2nd floor, Sunnyvale, CA
         (Herguan University)
Free Admission, complementary refreshment. You are invited to join the seminar.

Seminar Agenda (Click here for Seminar Flyer)

12:30pm-1:00pm	Registration
1:00pm-2:00pm	Panel discussion on "Career Perspective and risk management" is led by Dr. Gerry Liu, Sr. VP of marketing of Pericomand a panel of broad international work experience. Questions from audience are welcomed to collectively seek the path!
2:00pm-2:05pm	Break, complimentary refreshment, networking.
2:05pm-4:35pm	Talks by career coach, HR manager and recruiter, inspire audiences, recognizing & utilizing your skills: Speakers Talk Topic Paul Bagen, Owner at Premier Career Coaching Don't Just Sit There...Make It Happen! Fidel Sanchez, Employment Development Specialist at Work2Future Job Search Strategies Leon Bezdikian, HR Vice President at Sibeam Managing Your Career to Find a Job in Tough Economic Conditions Steve Lu, Senior Director of DMR , Direct Management Recruiters To Sell Yourself as What you Want to be Bette Young SPHR, Career Coach/Consultant with Drake Beam Morin (DBM) Hiring from the HR perspective
4:35pm-4:40pm	Break, complimentary refreshment, networking.
4:45pm-5:30pm	Plenary session of College graduates sharing job search experience, advice/feedback from HR professionals New Graduates Current position Eugene Berson, Williams College '08 Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley Irving Chien, UCLA '08 Law Student at Santa Clara University Clifford Lin, Berkeley '08 Software Engineer at Cisco Systems Yvonne Ho, UPenn '08 Consultant at Accenture

Close to 200 attended this event on June 5th. The audience was very enthusiastic about this event and warmly requested more in the future. Quite a lot of the attendance expressed the desire to join CIE as a member.

The Career Seminar was made up of 3 sessions. It started with a panel discussion on "Career Perspective and Risk Management". The panel is made up of
Dr. Gerry Liu, SVP Marketing of Pericom,
Dr. Wen Wang, President of Multech Engineering Consultant and adjunct professor in SJSU,
Dr. Bernard Shung, co-founder and VP of SiBEAM, and
Dr. Lee Yang, Fellow of SMIC.

Several subjects were discussed, including: career decision making, the respective risk in large corporation/small company/startup/consultant, impact to employees during M&A, and the most important mindset in 21st century.



The 2nd session had 5 experts on human resource, executive recruiter and career coaching sharing their views on the job search skill, mindset, and how it is done from the employer's perspective. The audience responded warmly with many questions. The presenters were
Mr. Paul Bagen, from Premier career Coaching,


Mr. Fidel Sanchez, Work2Future


Mr. Leon Bezdikian, VP of HR of SiBEAM


Mr. Steve Lu, Direct Management Recruiters, and


Ms. Bette Young, Career Coach with Drake Beam Morin.


The last session was contributed by 5 recent graduates from college. They shared their job search experience and how the college background helped them. CIE-SF thanks
Mr. Eugene Berson,
Mr. Irving Chien
Mr. Clifford Lin
Ms. Yvonne Ho and
Ms. Jennifer Soong.


This event was free to attendees with complimentary refreshment. CIE-SF is grateful to the sponsors who made this event possible. Special thanks to Worldjounral which helped reaching out to the community by posting the event on its newspaper.

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[ San Jose , CA. Feb. 20, 2010] The Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CIE/USA-SF) held its 31st Annual Conference at San Jose Double Tree Hotel on Feb. 20, 2010. Marvell's new board member, Dr. Ta-Lin Hsu (Chairman and Founder of H&Q Asia Pacific), was the keynote speaker in the conference dinner banquet, and Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. was a "Platinum Sponsor" for this event. Dr. Hsu's speech topic was "A Changing World: An Engineer's Perspective". As the world faces many uncertainties such as those in economic, climate and energy, Dr. Hsu gave his insights about the changing world.

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

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 conferences in Taipei, Beijing, and Hong Kong .

The conference attracted hundreds of attendees including Cupertino City Mayor Kris Wang, Cupertino City Councilman Barry Chang, many Marvell employees, local engineering societies, media reporters and a group of UC Berkeley students.

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

Click here for 2010 Conference Proceedings

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.


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