IEEE THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.

Baltimore Section EXCOM Meeting Minutes

Place: Historic Electronic Museum (HEM), 1745 W. Nursery Rd., Linthicum, MD (410) 765-2345

Date: January 11, 1999 Time: 6:30pm - 7:45pm

Prepared By: Carole C. Carey, Section Secretary

Presiding Officer: Chair, Baltimore Section, Bill Dixon

Attendees: there were 7 participants (See separate Attendance Sheet)

Report and Approval of Minutes, December meeting - Bill Dixon

[Report from last meeting was not received]

Report from Vice-Chair - Ralph Bruce [Absent]
- Bill reiterated that Officers List need to be updated. Send list to Randy Bruce. Three reports are required by IEEE heaquarters before we can receive our rebate.

List of New Officers, 1999
Meeting Reports, 1998
Treasurer's Reports, 1998

- Chapters are responsible for submitting the Meeting Reports to Randy and the Treasurer's Report to Carole. Treasurer's Reports are due in February. Carole handed out copies of the various topic categories as a guide when preparing reports (i.e., Chart of Accounts, attached).

Report from Secretary - Ralph Bruce (Incoming, Carole Carey)
[Randy was absent. Will bring report in next month's meeting.]

Report from Treasurer - Carole Carey (Incoming, Vil Arafiles [Absent])
- Carole reported that we now have a relationship account that links the Checking and Money Market accounts. This will allow us to avoid monthly maintenance.

New Priority items requiring action [None.]

Reports

Report from Directors

Program - Wes Miller [Absent]

1). IMTC 2000 - Chris Nemarich [Absent]

Student Activities - Neville Jacobs

Volunteers needed! [see attached Summary Report]
- A motion was made and approved on Neville's request for $400 ($223.44 reimbursement of past expenses and $176.56 of future expenses).
- Two checks that were previously mailed to Kelvin Electronics had to be reissued "lost." This raises the issue in the future whether we should mail them certified. It costs money to cancel a check. Bill suggested that perhaps checks > $400 or so should be certified. The downside - it would take longer for vendors to receive payments requiring an extra trip to the post office, cost more to mail, time consuming and a burdensome to the volunteer treasurer. It was noted that this is the only case of many checks mailed in the regular manner where it was reported 'not received.'

Newsletter Editor - Dave Stevens
- The Fall/Winter issue is soon to be mailed.

Educational Activities (Vacant)

- The Director position is OPEN. This involves activities for the practicing engineer. Contact Bill if anyone is interested.

Membership - Jim Gillin [Absent]
- Bill mentioned that we have a 3.1% gain in membership between Baltimore (3,002 members) and Annapolis (1,140 members) combined.

Chapter/Awards - Tom Patton [Absent]
- Bill reminded everyone about the Chapter Chairs dinner that is scheduled on May 5, 1999. Officers and spouses are invited.

PACE - Kate Carus [Absent]

Report from Annapolis Sub-Section - David Boyd
[verbal report, no written report]

- Met with student chapter advisers. Plans for 3/18 and 4/29 presentations in the Naval Academy. Planning a field trip, National Engineers' Week.

Reports from Society Chapter Chairs

Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES-10) - Heath Bebout
- will revise treasurer's report and send to section treasurer

Antenna and Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques (AP-03/MTT-17) -Brian Sequeira [Absent]

Communications (COM-19) - Mark Todd [Absent]

Computer (C-16) - Vacant

Electron Devices/Solid State Circuits (ED-15/SSC-37) - Arlene Santos [Absent] January report from Paul Potyraj attached

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC-27) -Ted Harwood [Absent]

represented by Chuck Gaston; meeting Feb. 9

Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB-18) - Glenn Bell [Absent]

Industry Applications (IA-34) - Wes Miller [Absent]

Power Engineering (PE-31) - Joe Bunch [Absent]

January report attached. New chair, Amy Hagemann

Reliability (R-07) - Walt Willing [Absent]

Report from Engineers Council of Maryland - Kate Carus [Absent]

Report from Associate Society Council (ESB - ASC) - Kate Carus [Absent]

Report from Maryland Board of Registration - Mel Hotz [Absent]

Report from Audits and Bylaws Committee - Mel Hotz [Absent]

Report from Nominating Committee - John Dentler [Absent]

New Business [None]

REMINDER: In addition to submitting the 1998 Treasurer's Report, each Chapter should submit a budget for 1999.

Next Meeting - Monday February 8, 1999, 6:30pm