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Baltimore Section EXCOM Meeting Minutes

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

Date: March 8, 1999 Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Prepared By: Carole C. Carey, Section Secretary

Presiding Officer: Chair, Baltimore Section, Bill Dixon

Attendees: there were 13 participants (See separate Attendance Sheet)

Report and Approval of Minutes

February meeting minutes approved

Recognized Kate Carus, Engineer of the Year

Handouts:

Next Congress Region 2 meeting October 8-11 -- Randy will attend

Vil (treasurer) to look into the last 3 years Section spending and report next meeting.

Report from Vice-Chair - Ralph Bruce
Suggested a late fall Section activity - some type of "awards" for Engineer of the Year and so forth (the selected awardees would be the nominated to the annual Engineering Society of Baltimore Awards ceremony that occur about Engineer's Week). This would allow the section to act timely in submitting nominations. [There was some discussion. Although there was no objection, a decision was not made.]

Report from Secretary, Carole Carey [materials were previously mailed to ExCom members]; So far this year, only EMBS has sent meeting reports. Vil said he received some reports and turned them over.

Report from Treasurer , Vil Arafiles [verbal report]

New Priority items requiring action [None.]

Report from Directors

Programs - Chris Nemarich [See attached Call for Papers]; meeting tomorrow at NIST; need Publicity Chair (perhaps a volunteer from IAS); exhibitors needed.

Student Activities - Neville Jacobs [See attached Summary Report]; Judge training on March 22 ; $1,000 limit for food not a problem; 2.500 program printed. Copies were distributed.

Newsletter Editor - Dave Stevens [absent]

Educational Activities (Vacant)

Membership - Jim Gillin [Absent]

Chapter/Awards - Tom Patton [Absent]
Bill reminded everyone about the Chapter Chairs dinner that is scheduled on May 5, 1999. Information should be coming out in April

PACE - Kate Carus [verbal report] see attached Professional Activities Project Report prepared by Kate and John Dentler

Report from Annapolis Sub-Section - David Boyd
[written report attached]

Reports from Chapters

Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES-10) - Heath Bebout [written report attached]

Anten. and Propag./Microwave Theory and Techniq. (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) - Paul Potyraj [Absent]

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

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

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

Power Engineering (PE-31) - Amy Hagemann [Absent]

Reliability (R-07) - Walt Willing [Report Attached]

Report from Engineers Council of Maryland - Kate Carus -- need somebody to represent and attend meetings for ECM (tracks legislation stuff). If anyone is interested, they meet Thursday evenings every other week in Baltimore. Randy expressed an interest.

Report from Associate Society Council (ESB - ASC)

Report from Maryland Board of Registration - Mel Hotz -- the board is working on a law change for year 2000, something about a better definition of the scope of the practice of engineering. (the work is extensive and controversial); Mel has been reappointed to the board and confirmation is on March 22.

Report from Audits and Bylaws Committee - Mel Hotz -- The Section audit will be completed on March 17 meeting.

Report from Nominating Committee - John Dentler emphasized that we need to be thinking of new officers for Year 2000, especially finding a treasurer. Arlene Santos name was mentioned.

New Business

1) John Dentler -- discussed "Diamond Program" (some activity pertaining to getting the student chapters and our section to "link") -- will need seed money. Bill said that this will not be a problem.

 

Next Meeting - Monday, May 10, 1999, 6:30pm

 

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