IEEE Baltimore Section

https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/

Attendees
X Vil Arafiles – Chair
X Jeff Friedhoffer – Vice Chair
Hoosam Bandukwalla – Treasurer
X Brian Sequeira – Secretary
Heath Bebout – Chair AES
X Robert Berkovits – Chair EMC
Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection
Carole Carey – ESB and Publications
X Joe Carl – Newsletter Chair
X John Dentler – Area Chair Maryland
X Bill Dixon – PACE
X Boris Gramatikov – Chair EMB
X David Sherman – EMB
X Neville Jacobs – Student Activities
Tina Kohler – WIE
X Garth McKenzie – Chair Computer Society
Tom Patton – Awards
Kirk Rae – PES
X Jim Ryan – PES Vice Chair
X Mel Hotz – Chairman of the Maryland State of Licensed Professional Engineers
Walt Willing – Chair Reliability
X George Matthew – member
X Mark Althouse – Member
Steve Bonk – visitor, Senior Member Applicant
Mitch Buchman Senior member applicant

Executive reports:
Chair (Vil Arafiles)
Section Congress: Chapters must have 2 technical meetings before the 15th of this month. AP/MTT and AES will not qualify for attendance at Congress. We can send a member from each active chapter. Should we send Brian & Boris to Congress?

Motion to send Brian Sequeira and Boris Gramatikov to Section Congress proposed by Vil Arafiles, seconded by John Dentler and passed unanimously.

Vil stressed the need for filling a form authorizing the Congress to bill the section for 11 members and the consequent need for Chapters to provide names of their delegates.

Vice Chair’s (Jeff Friedhoffer) report: None. Post meetings on calendar.

Treasurer’s (Hoosam Bandukwalla) report: None

Secretary’s (Brian Sequeira) report: Minutes and action item list handed out at meeting.
Motion to approve minutes of meeting as submitted made by Jeff Friedhoffer, seconded by Bill Dixon and carried unanimously.

Clarifications:
1. Members may use IEEE number as an identifier for section balloting. Only FAX ed or scanned image accepted as valid ballot. (Vil Arafiles)
2. Students do not have to pay registration while volunteering at IEEE congress. Section congress will cover student’s transportation costs.(John Dentler)

Director’s and Chapter Chair reports
Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):
1. Two schools signed up for 7 kits. Slow start partly due to change in leadership at Museum of Industry. Hope to elicit greater interest at Teacher workshop November 7.
2. Automation kits improved as a result of feedback from April Challenge. Cost has been reduced somewhat and kits will be slightly easier to assemble, although the four-legged kit will be a bit more challenging educationally.
3. Change in design of the automation kits required a major update of the automation manual. This has now been completed, and the manuals have been printed.
4. All the parts for the Automation kits are now in house and we need to have a kitting party to make them up. Party scheduled for 5 PM on October 14 and need 6 volunteers to help out.
5. Parts for 31 kits received and Treasurer requested to send check to Kelvin for $1376.56 to cover cost plus shipping. Plan to have manuals printed for all 70 kits now on order, and reiterate request for $450 for printing manuals.
6. At the previous ExCom meeting, I received a check for $630 to cover $122.25 in miscellaneous expenses that I submitted to the Treasurer, plus $508.75 in anticipated expenses for parts from Radio Shack and Automation manuals. At that time the plan was to keep the expenses for the school where I teach separate from the charges incurred for IEEE material. This is no longer practical, so I will add these expenses, whiel at the same time charging the school and crediting IEEE for the total number of kits used. The actual cost of the parts purchased and the Automation manuals printed is $1021.01. Automation components for kits 2 from Peter Anderson came to $76.89 and the Robot Instruction Manuals is $450. So I am requesting a check for $1021.01 + $76.89 - $508.75 + $450.00 = $1039.15. I anticipate obtaining a check from Beth Tfiloh school in the amount of $896.
7. We plan to exhibit robots at the Section Congress in Washington DC on October 18 through 20. John Dentler is preparing an attractive banner that we will be able to use at other events as well. We will dismantle the booth early Sunday evening as I have another conference to attend on Monday in Baltimore. Would like to have 2 high school students on Friday afternoon and college students on Saturday and Sunday morning.

EMB: Organized talk at JHU by Dr Hillol Kargupta on September 19. Topic: Distributed Data mining for Pervasive Applications. Next meeting on October 17 by Dr. Jonathan Simons. Topic: Signal Processing of Auditory Responses from Magnetoencephalography. Question: Students do not have transportation to get to the IEEE congress. (See clarifications)
PES: Oct 15 meeting Joe Dzwonzyk firmed up. Co-sponsoring meeting with IAS 6-week course on bonding/grounding in February time frame. PES has a high-performing chapter grant of $1000.
EMC: Bob Hinkle, Radar Spectrum Engineering Criteria (mil-std-469) (Joint with AES).
No other possibilities.
Computer Society: Meeting on the 15 at HEM, on Semiotics
PACE: MPAC seminar on December 7. Speakers from IEEE-USA. $25 registration. Topic not yet defined. Serve continental breakfast & coffee
Annapolis: Held meeting on Thursday September 12, 2002 at USNA. Talk by Dr. Samara Firebaugh at 7:00 PM on “Size Matters: The World of MEMS.” Further details at www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/Subsection/crab-line.html.
COMSOC: Has meeting at HEM on Turbo codes on 10/10.
EDS: Having a meeting at NG.
Mel Holz: Want volunteers to help make up the exam for the PE. Would like at least one person from the Baltimore section. Do not have to be PE, but must not be taking the exam. Volunteers in any field of expertise. Council has gone to all multiple choice. PnP is open book. FE is a morning exam. Group 1 exams administered in April. Group 2 exams in October. Jeff: Write this up for the newsletter to get to the membership.
John Dentler: Partner program - help with hosting. Exhort students to help with activities.

Action Items:

From April
(b) Still open
(c) Send summary to Carl
(d) Open
(e) Open

From October
(a) Jeff, John, and Hoosam to develop a budget for next year.
(b) Mel Hotz to provide paragraph describing FE/PE program and asking for volunteers to make up exam.

New Business
PES - Jim Ryan
ABET has a new process called Criteria 2000. Put onus on school to state goals and describe how students are doing. One measure is to see how students fare at the FE exams. Outcomes assessment tells how students from a school do in each subject area. Need a statistically significant number of students. Results not published.

Meeting adjourned at 7:50 pm.