Welcome to the IEEE Central Virginia Section. As shown on the map, we cover most of the Shenandoah Valley and the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Specifically, the Central Virginia Section includes the counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Culpeper, Fauquier, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, Orange, Page, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah, and Warren, as well at the independent cities of Bedford, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, Staunton, and Waynesboro.

Since our section is geographically widespread, meetings usually alternate between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. Please see the Next Meeting page for meeting details. You can browse some of our recent meetings at the Past Meeting page.

Awards

The Central Virginia Section congratulates Toby Berger who has received the 2011 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal from the IEEE. We are honored to have you in our section!

Senior Member Upgrade

The Senior Member grade is the highest level of IEEE membership for which application may be made and requires experience reflecting professional maturity.  For more information and links to online application forms, please visit the Senior Member Upgrade page.

Congratulations to our newest Senior Members: Sathish Anabathula who was approved in March 2011 and Carl Pettiford who was approved in April 2011!

Fellow Grade

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred only by invitation of the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE’s designated fields of interest.

We congratulate one of our members who has been elevated to Fellow as of January 2009:

Prof. Tetsuya Iwasaki
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4746

for contributions to robust control and dynamical systems analysis