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IEEE Baltimore Section
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IEEE ExCom Section Meeting
October 20, 2003
Attendees
X Jeff Friedhoffer – Chair
X Hoosam Bandukwalla – Vice Chair
X Brian Sequeira – Secretary
X Boris Gramatikov – Treasurer
X Vil Arafiles – Membership development
Heath Bebout – Chair AES
X Robert Berkovits – Chair EMC
Thad Welch – Annapolis subsection
Carole Carey – ESB and Publications
X Roberto Cuellar –
X John Dentler – Area Chair Maryland
Bill Dixon – PACE
David Sherman – EMB
Neville Jacobs – Student Activities
Tina Kohler – WIE
X Christopher Nemarich – Program Director
Garth McKenzie – Chair Computer Society
X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor
Tom Patton – Awards
Jim Ryan – PES Chair
Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications
Mel Hotz – Chairman of the Maryland State of Licensed Professional Engineers
X Walt Willing – Chair Reliability
Wole Akpose – GOLD
Jeff Friedhoffer chaired the meeting, which was called to order at 6:34 pm.
Section Chair (Jeffrey Friedhoffer)
Section Vice-Chair (Hoosam Bandukwalla)
None
Treasurer (Boris Gramatikov)
Secretary (Brian Sequeira)
Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)
Awards & Recognition (Tom Patton)
None
Membership Development (Vil Arafiles)
Student Activities (presented by John Dentler)
We exhibited our Robots at the TEAM (Tech. Ed.) conference on October 17 at the Baltimore Museum of Industry (BMI). There were a lot of teachers from public high schools in attendance and much interest in the robots. Six kits were distributed and we got a number of names of teachers who would check with their students for interest.
Chris Smith is running the Challenges and he is working with Ellie Elgin and Bob Gray at the BMI. Chris has developed an interest in the Robots and agreed to display a working model that John Dentler prepared at a Science and Technology Conference on October 10. I gather that he got quite a few inquiries.
Our next exhibit is at the Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS) conference on October 27. This cost us $200 to get in, but it is likely that we will get a totally different target audience of teachers from Private Schools, many of whom we have not approached in the past.
We were contacted by Newman Dogan, Chair of the Central IEEE section for North Carolina. They have some good programs for college students but are looking for something suitable for high school students. They are very interested in our robots and would like to start with 20 to 30 kits. Will advise shortly.
Seven robot kits and 5 automation kits have been distributed to Beth Tfiloh, one to Milton C. Wright, and 6 to 5 other schools at the TEAM conference. Parkville might be back this year with a fairly large order. We started with about 60 kits, so we can cope with our immediate needs but it is likely that we may run out of supply by the end of the year. Because there is a 2 to 3-month lead time, we will need to make a decision now. Suggest a minimum of 40 kits or a more comfortable 70 kits should demand pick up (current cost is $33.40 + $2.34 S&H – significantly less than we paid before thanks to the new Chinese parts).
We need to contact all schools that had robot teams last year and encourage them to participate again. We need to be sure that we have a support crew to mentor the teams and provide technical support and spare parts as needed.
Expenses for this period will be detailed in the next report.
WIE (Tina Kohler)
None
Region (John Dentler)
None
GOLD (Wole Akpose)
None
Professional Activities (Carole Carey)
Programs (Chris Nemarich)
PES (Jim Ryan)
None
EMC (Robert Berkovits)
EMB (David Sherman)
COMSOC (Jeffrey Friedhoffer)
Annapolis Subsection (David Boyd)
None
Student Chapters
None
Chapter chairs not well trained in using web tools. Chair proposed that section would buy copies of Frontpage/Dreamweaver for use by section and chapters. Action 10.13: Look into licensing of web tools (Hoosam)
Look into training section and chapters (Jeffrey Friedhoffer)
Motion to adjourn proposed by John Dentler, seconded by Chris Nemarich, and unanimously carried. The meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm.
Action Items
Number |
Action/Disposition |
03.4 |
Compile a history of the section over the past 100 years (Chris Nemarich). /Open |
03.1 |
Write up award citation for Neville Jacobs (Carole Carey)./see 10.12 |
03.4 |
Compile a history of the section over the past 100 years (Chris Nemarich). /Open |
09.1 |
Invite nominations for officers from section membership./ Closed |
09.2 |
Close nominations for officers on September 19. Send list of nominees to Leonard Bathgate for production and distribution of ballots./ Closed |
09.3 |
Submit draft proposal to Carole for History of Aviation in Flight./Closed |
09.4 |
Assist Ken Freelain with event at HEM on October 18./Closed |
10.1 |
Contact Bill Dixon to find out status about AES checks (Boris Gramatikov) |
10.2 |
Forward electronic copy of report to Tracy Hawkins. (Brian Sequeira) |
10.3 |
Present action taken with proposal on History of Electronics in Flight (Carole Carey). |
10.4 |
Provide copy of proposal to Newsletter editor (Brian Sequeira). |
10.5 |
Include student meeting of April 24 in Section tally (Brian Sequeira) |
10.6 |
Provide details of meeting of Robot committee (Neville Jacobs) |
10.7 |
Include robot committee meeting in section tally when details provided (Brian Sequeira) |
10.8 |
EMC to file August 7 meeting on-line. (Bob Berkovits) |
10.9 |
File other EMC meetings on line (Brian Sequeira) |
10.10 |
Provide PR paragraph about robots for Newsletter (John Dentler). |
10.11 |
Confer and coordinate with John Dentler about Region meeting and generate a proposal for the celebration (Chirs Nemarich). |
10.12 |
Write up award citation for Neville Jacobs (Vil Arafiles)./Open |
10.13 |
Investigate licensing of web tools (Hoosam Bandukwalla) |
10.14 |
Arrange for web training (Jeffrey Friedhoffer) |
Appendix A
ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Ken
Freelain of the Historical Society approached the Section for help in
connection with activity hosted at the HEM on October 18, 2003. Mr. Freelain asked if IEEE Baltimore would
suggest speakers who would agree to discuss the history of electronics in aviation in a recorded program that
might be shown on local cable TV channels.
The
Section, through its secretary, took the following actions:
·
Contacted four individuals from local industry who could
speak authoritatively on aspects of this topic. These individuals were Leonard Carlson from TSC, Andrew Schust
from ARINC, Agam Sinha from MITRE Corporation, and Gene Strull (retired) from
Northrop Grumman.
·
In keeping with IEEE policy not to release member
information without their consent, the secretary sought and obtained the
consent of the individuals to have their contact information passed on to Ken
Freelain. Secretary also asked Mr.
Freelain for permission to have his contact information passed on to the
potential speakers.
·
Having received consent, the Section Secretary provided all
parties with the appropriate contact information.
Ken
Freelain indicated to Section Secretary that his preference was for Gene Strull
to receive the award from the Historical Society and present his talk as part
of an acceptance speech.
·
Ken asked for additional Section help in recommending Gene
Strull for the award based on Gene’s authorship of a book on the subject. Because this request was made rather late,
Section Secretary and Chair forwarded information about the book to Section
Officers with the hope that someone might have already read the book and was in
a position to make a speedy response.
Secretary is unaware of any further outcome (now moot) from this action.
Proposal for an exhibit on the evolution of electronics
in flight
The
year 2003 represents the 100th anniversary of the first historic
flight undertaken by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. As the Aerospace industry celebrates 100
years of flight, the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
has the opportunity to create an exhibit that reflects on the important role
that electronics played and continues to play in the evolution of flight.
Initial
developments of electronic systems focused on radio communications between
ground and aircraft and between aircraft in squadrons. Early developed in radar concentrated on
detection of airborne marauders during the World Wars. Soon those developments became more
cooperative as radars quickly became an essential part of the flight
cockpit. Special techniques such as
Displaced Phase Center, Pulse Doppler, and Synthetic Aperture were developed as
the radar went airborne. Today, these
techniques provide the pilot with unprecedented situation awareness and
decision options, and landing aids.
The
progression of navigation from celestial to radio represents another important
impact that electronics has had on flight.
The radar work mentioned above revealed the all-weather nature of radio
signal propagation and by extension its ability to service navigation needs irrespective
of weather. Consequently, radio
navigation systems evolved from modest beginnings: Variable Omni Range (VOR),
Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), LOng RAnge Navigation (LORAN), and the
military’s TACtical Air Navigation (TACAN).
Continuous improvements with these systems and the addition of Traffic
control and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS) firmly secured the importance of
electronics in navigation. The arrival
of the Global Position System (GPS) revolutionized the entire concept of navigation
to the point where new systems have been conceived such as the Wide Area
Augmentation System (WAAS) and Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) that will
allow wide flexibility of flight plans, direct-as-the-crow-flies routing, and
automated landing irrespective of human visibility.
None
of the modern developments would be possible without the ubiquitous digital
processor, which, in turn, owes its existence to the development of the
electronic integrated circuit.
Increasing processing speeds and shrinking chip sizes translate to a
high density of functions that can be crammed into limited cockpit space. Impressive strides in display technology
offer great flexibility in presentation format of the data, and important
extensions to human senses. For example,
the speeds of digital processors enable guidance and control functions that
exceed the capabilities of human reaction times. In short, electronics is now linked with nearly every aspect of
flight, from the sensors that provide situational information to the guidance
and control systems that respond to it.
We
propose an exhibit that presents the historical role that electronics played in
shaping the future of flight. Many of
the assets for this exhibit are already on display at the Historical Electronics
Museum in Baltimore. We will work with
the Museum’s curator to reassemble the sequence of the exhibits to more clearly
bring out the interplay between electronics and flight. We request a 1-month investigation that
leads to a down-selection of a set of artifacts that best weaves the theme that
we wish to present. This investigation
will also determine the logistics involved and the costs associated with the
construction of such an exhibition.
2003 IEEE SECTION
MEETING SUMMARY REPORT
R20003 BALTIMORE
MEETING TYPE: Code Meeting Date Tech Educ Prof Admn Soc Members Guests
BALTIMORE SECTION 13-Jan-03 0 0 0 1 0 14 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 10-Feb-03 0 0 0 1 0 13 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 10-Mar-03 0 0 0 1 0 10 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 14-Apr-03 0 0 0 1 0 13 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 12-May-03 0 0 0 0 1 34 44
BALTIMORE SECTION 09-Jun-03 0 0 0 1 0 11 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 08-Sep-03 0 0 0 1 0 11 1
Subgroup Total 0 0 0 6 1 107 45
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 09-Jan-03 0 0 0 1 0 5 0
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 06-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 28 2
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 13-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 26 6
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 26-Feb-03 0 1 0 0 0 10
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 20-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 23 6
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 10-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 34 7
Subgroup Total 4 1 0 1 0 126 21
AP03/MTT17 02004 10-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 32 8
AP03/MTT17 02004 15-May-03 1 0 0 0 0 10 5
Subgroup Total 2 0 0 0 0 42 13
COM19 02009 07-Jan-03 1 0 0 0 0 30 4
COM19 02009 04-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 25 5
COM19 02009 04-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 20 3
COM19 02009 01-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 17 2
COM19 02009 09-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 12 5
COM19 02009 06-May-03 1 0 0 0 0 14 1
COM19 02009 10-Jun-03 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
COM19 02009 09-Sep-03 1 0 0 0 0 11 1
Subgroup Total 7 0 0 1 0 133 21
ED15/SSC37 02138 27-Aug-03 0 0 0 1 0 5 0
ED15/SSC37 02138 25-Sep-03 1 0 0 0 0 27 25
Subgroup Total 1 0 0 1 0 32 25
EMB18 02008 20-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 7 8
EMB18 02008 13-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 20 12
EMB18 02008 25-Sep-03 0 0 1 0 0 2 12
Subgroup Total 2 0 1 0 0 29 32
EMC27 02012 20-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 5 8
EMC27 02012 25-Sep-03 0 0 1 0 0 27 25
Subgroup Total 1 0 1 0 0 32 33
IA34 02014 04-Apr-03 0 0 0 1 0 6 0
IA34 02014 16-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 45 30
IA34 02014 13-May-03 0 0 0 1 0 11
IA34 02014 21-May-03 0 0 0 0 1 40 29
IA34 02014 08-Jul-03 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
IA34 02014 12-Aug-03 0 0 0 1 0 12 0
Subgroup Total 1 0 0 4 1 122 59
WIE ? 8-Jan-03 0 1 0 0 0 10 3
WIE ? 5-Feb-03 0 1 0 0 0 11 1
WIE ? 30-May-03 0 0 1 0 0 25 5
Subgroup Total 0 2 1 0 0 46 8
TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A
REBATE:
- SECTIONS MUST HOLD 5 OR
MORE MEETINGS. THIS CAN INCLUDE CHAPTER
MEETINGS.
- CHAPTERS MUST HOLD 2 OR
MORE MEETINGS.
NOTE: The following meetings are unreported via
L-31:
EMC27 1
meeting
PE31 11 meetings
R07 1 meetings
GOLD 4 meetings
Observations and actions
1.
Annapolis
subsection reported meetings to IEEE but not to section as highlighted with teal color.
Section did not receive copy of other five meetings in your list. I have updated section records to reflect
these reports.
2.
IA34
copied only three of the 6 listed meetings to me. I have updated section records to reflect these reports.
3.
Listed
additions in red color
are reports filed to Baltimore section via Microsoft Word L-31 but does not
appear on your list. I will file L-31s
for these meetings online after ensuring that the chapter secretaries do not
duplicate this action. I need the
code numbers for WIE and GOLD to complete this action.
4.
There
are 18 meetings that have no L-31 filings either with you or me (see yellow highlighted text
on previous page). I have knowledge
that these meetings were held because of oral presentations made to that effect
by chapter representatives at section meetings or because the meetings were
listed on the web sites of the chapters.
I am pursuing this with the appropriate chapter secretaries.