IEEE
Meeting Goals:
· Update members on committees’ status
· Close open action items (A/I)
· Firm up plans for Jan - Mar meetings
· Select direction for spring short course
· Approve topics for spring meetings
· Approve M-PAC final plan
· Develop publicity plan for M-PAC
· Develop publicity plan for short courses
· Develop better "committee structure"
1. Secretary’s Report (D. Clark)
2. Treasurer’s Report (W. Cashman)
3. Chairman’s report (H. Michel)
a) Summer Board of Governors meeting
b) (A/I 0321) H. Michel: write draft for "second letter"
4. Committee Chair Reports
a) Programs: (M. Jones)
1. Aug. Brown Distinguished lecturer (H. Michel)
(A/I 0308) H. Michel: resolve Brown Dist. Lecturer (Nam Ling) talk details
2. Sept. Wireless and Steam meeting (H. Michel)
(A/I 0307) H.
Michel: resolve Steam/Wireless Museum Tour details
3. Oct. distinguished speaker (D. Clark)
4. Jan meeting
(A/I 0310) R. Vaccaro: get details for Jan. meeting
5. Feb meeting
(A/I 0311) H.
Michel: get details for Feb. meeting
6. Mar RI Hospital co-gen tour (M. Jones)
7. Mar "mammalian hearing" meeting
(A/I 0312) R. Vaccaro: get details for Mar. meeting
8. "future" meetings
b) Membership: (H. Belson)
1. Nothing to report
c) Education: (H. Michel)
1. Status of Power and OOSW Short courses
2. "Next" course
d)
1. Nov. C-Map meeting
2. Nov. PAVE PAWS meeting
e) Student activities: (D. Defanti)
1. Nothing to report
f)
PACE: (D.
1. December meeting: intellectual property (D. Casper)
(A/I 0314) B. Cashman: send check ($25) to White’s Rest
2. MPAC (H. Michel/T. Dawson)
(A/I 0313) D.
Casper: mail request for funding for MPAC
(A/I 0315) T. Dawson: MPAC draft agenda; meeting
announcement; identify speakers
(A/I 0316) H.
Michel: ATMC coordination
(A/I 0322) H. Michel/T. Dawson: work on MPAC meeting report
g) GOLD: (G. Choplin)
1. Progress in forming GOLD affinity group
(A/I 0317) G. Choplin: work on GOLD meeting for this month
(A/I 0318) R. Vaccaro: send GOLD members list to G. Choplin
h) Communications (R. Vaccaro)
1. Nothing to report
i) Student activities
1. (A/I 5) Investigate plans for an event for students (D. DeFanti)
j) Awards (W. Wilk)
1. (A/I 10, A/I 0306) Gift for Don Tufts (R. Vaccaro/W. Wilk)
(A/I 0319) R. Vaccaro: check with W. Wilk about D. Tufts gift
k) Others as required
5. Old Business
a) Plan for reallocating funds (W. Cashman)
(A/I 0320) B. Cashman: send fund allocation report to D. Clarke for inclusion in minutes
b) Elections
(A/I 0309) R. Vaccaro: send election information to Prov. Section mailing list
c) (A/I 11 and A/I 12) IEEE VC Web Conference (D. Defanti)
d) Continue “Big” project discussion (H. Michel)
1. Perception of Engineering, Engineers week (W. Cashman, T. Dawson)
2. Recruiting students into engineering (M. Jones, N. Pendergrass, G. Choplin)
3. Lego Robots (H. Michel)
4. Classroom Acoustics (S. Ehrlich)
6. New Business
a) Committee structure
7. Summary of action items and review of meeting goals
8. Next Meeting Date: October 16
EXECOM meeting
1. Discussion and vote on reallocation of funds
2. Approve tellers committee