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The IEEE Insulated Conductors Committee is issuing a call for Presentations for its Spring 1999 meeting in Charlotte, NC, May 23-26. The ICC is an international forum on the design, testing and application of electrical cable systems, its insulation and jacketing systems, and associated accessories. The ICC also prepares and maintains standards and guides for the IEEE covering a wide variety of subjects related to electrical cable systems.
ICC Spring '99 seeks presentations about significant contributions to the broad field of electrical cable systems. Presentations are invited which are concerned with both theory and practice which fall into one of the following areas:
- Cable Construction and Design: issues related to materials, construction, design and manufacturing of insulated cables.
- Accessories: issues related to testing, construction and design of cable terminations and joints.
- Cable Systems: issues related to testing, assembly and operation of cable systems.
- Station, Control and Utilization Cables: issues related to testing, assembly and operation and construction of cable systems not normally employed on transmission and distribution systems. This includes station cables, control cables, fiber optic cables, etc.
Presentations are limited to 15-20 minutes (which includes a suggested 5 minute question and answer period).
Each presenter is required to submit an abstract of 100-150 words. These abstracts will be posted on the ICC website and will be used by attendees to plan their sessions.
Presenters are encouraged to make their commitment and submit their abstract as soon as possible but no later than May 7th to one of the following Chairman (as appropriate)
Cable Construction and Design - John Tanaka, UCONN, j.tanaka@ieee.org
Accessories: Bob Gear, Underground Systems Inc., r.b.gear@ieee.org
Cable Systems: John H. Cooper, Power Delivery Consultants, j.h.cooper@ieee.org
Station, Control and Utilization Cable: K. E. Bow, Dupont Dow, kebow@dow.com
Presenters are reminded that in accordance with the ICC Guidelines, the following must be observed in both the slides and in the documents submitted for inclusion in the Minutes of the ICC:
- Overt commercialism is not allowed in technical presentations.
- Company name and/or logo should be limited to first slide/page of technical presentation or handout.
- Subcommittee/Working Group Chairmen are responsible for enforcement of policy.
Finally, presenters are reminded to make slides and overheads clear and concise. Less is almost always better and please LARGE FONTS! Those considering computer-based presentations should be sure to read the following notice.
The Minutes of the ICC will include the following based on your presentation:
- [Preferred] A short (maximum of five pages, including graphics) summary of the presentation.
- Copies of the slides (prepared according to the ICC Guideline) with conclusion/implications summary statement.
Please contact the Subcommittee Chairmen listed above for more guidelines regarding your presentation.
To see a list of the currrently scheduled topics, visit the Technical Presentations page.
At the Fall 1998 meeting, the ICC provided computer projection equipment in response to numerous requests to improve the overall quality of presentations during the Opening and Subcommittee sessions. The feedback has been very positive (see the general guidelines on presentations listed above and be sure to contact the relevant Subcommittee Chairman for more details).
Though ICC provided a computer, some presenters preferred to use their own machines or had presentations too large to be transferred on a floppy. We observed that there was considerable delay when computers had to be swapped. Therefore, beginning with the Charlotte meeting, we are asking that all presentations be preloaded onto the ICC computer. This will greatly improve the flow of the meetings. For those presentations too large to be transferred on a floppy, a Zip Drive will also be available.
Also new at this meeting will be a Sunday afternoon preload and test session from 2-5 pm to enable you to transfer your presentation to the ICC computer hard drive (which will speed the presentations) and to view your slides with the equipment that will be used during the Subcommittee meetings. This will be held in the Hilton's North Carolina Hall.
Make slides clear and concise. Less is almost always better! Use LARGE FONTS! Visual aids can make or break a presentation and we want your presentation to be a success!
At the Charlotte meeting we will provide:
- A Pentium driven laptop computer with a 3.5" floppy
- Microsoft's PowerPoint 97 software
- An SVGA video projector
- A Zip Drive
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For further information, please contact :
Kent W. Brown
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E-mail: k.w.brown@ieee.org
Phone: 423-751-8227
FAX: 423-751-8247
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