Issue 1: April 2001

Welcome

Welcome to the inaugural issue of ICEnews, the Instrumentation, Control Engineering news source.

We want to make this bimonthly newsletter a source of information that YOU and use in YOUR job, while also keeping you informed on what is happening in our industry both directly and indirectly. If you have something, you would like to contribute, please send it to the editor at Ian Verhappen (verhap@telusplanet.net) or Jim Russell (jimrussell@iceweb.com.au). We welcome your Press Releases, information, AND any technical articles you may have that could be appropriate for this newsletter or our web site http://www.iceweb.com.au.

ICEweb’s primary purpose is to disseminate information about Instrumentation, Control Engineering to you the practitioners and developers of these arts. ICEnews is another mechanism to get this information out to you.

The newsletter materials are ‘subdivided’ into various topics as follows though not all categories may be present in every issue:

	Technical articles related to instrumentation and control.
	Information on any of the 26 different bus systems in use in the area of instrumentation and control. The authors however have a definite bias towards Foundation Fieldbus.
	Small tidbits of information that may be of interest to you but if nothing else could some day be useful when trying to amaze your friends with all the stuff you know. It may also become useful for “Trivial Pursuit” some day as well.
	A summary of the topics discussed since the last issue of ICEnews on the ICEweb bulletin board system, a place for information sharing and problem solving.
	News about promotions and changes about people in the Instrumentation Control Engineering world.
	General interest articles.
	Electronic newsletters of potential interest to our readers.
	Letters and correspondence with the members of this electronic community.
	Mergers, organizational changes, and acquisitions in the Instrumentation Control Engineering community.
	Newsletter sponsor recognition. Normally at the beginning and end of the newsletter. These people have kindly contributed to the creation and sharing of this information by offsetting the costs associated with its production and distribution.
	Seminars, Tradeshows, Conferences and Events of interest to our readership. (Despite the fact that I am a Canadian, this will not include a listing of ALL the ice hockey games I know of or participate in.)
	Instrumentation and control tips on how to do your job quicker, easier and better.
	Software and offers that will help with engineering design.

To sponsor this newsletter, please contact Jim Russell, ICEweb Director at jimrussell@iceweb.com.au. Benefits of sponsorship, in addition to being prominently displayed in the newsletter include a web link to your corporate site from your listing and any related articles, “top billing” of your article(s) in the appropriate news groups and your company name highlighted in any articles in which it appears.

ICENews is copyright 2001 Jim Russell and Ian Verhappen.
Graphics and layout by Ian Verhappen and Paul Dowling