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IEEE Baltimore Section
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/
IEEE
ExCom Section Meeting
April 19, 2004
Attendees
X Brian Sequeira – Vice Chair
X Boris Gramatikov – Secretary
X Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer
X John Dentler – Continuing Education
Christopher Nemarich – Program Director
Neville Jacobs – Student Activities
Tom Patton – Awards
X J. R. Schafer – Awards & Recognition
Joseph Pollitt – Audits & Bylaws
X Carole Carey – Professional Activities 1 / ESB Rep
Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla – Professional Activities 2
X Vil Arafiles – R2 Treasurer; Membership Development – Baltimore Section
X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor
Thad Welch – Communication Society
X Ron Osborn – Representing Thad Welch /ComSoc
X Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection
X Eric Henlon – PES Chair
X Dewane Daley – PES, Vice Chair
X David Sherman – EMB
Walt Willing – Chair Reliability
X Garth McKenzie – Chair Computer Society
Bill Dixon – Acting Chair AES
X Robert Berkovits – Chair EMC
X Doug Kremer – APS/MTT
Wole Akpose – GOLD
X Domenic Georgantas – GOLD
Tina Kohler – WIE
X Debi Siering – WIE, Greater Washington DC
Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications
Mel Hotz – Chairman of the Maryland State of Licensed Professional Engineers
Jay Gamerman – IEEE Member
Linda Perry – Regional
Activities Board (RAB)
X Jerry Gibbon - R2 Chair, South Area
X Amajeer Basra - Chair, Northern Virginia Section
X Roy Stehlik –
Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing, MTT, JSSC, Computer
Jeff Friedhoffer chaired the meeting, which was called to order at 6:30 pm.
Jeff made a reminder: there is a service called E-Notice (accessible from the IEEE main page) which allows forwarding text to society members locally.
Section Chair (Jeffrey Friedhoffer): Chapter Chairs’ Dinner will be on May 12, 2004.
Dick Schafer (Awards & Recognition): People should sign up for the Chapter Chairs’ Dinner a.s.a.p. Preparations go as planned, but the number of attendees is needed.
Section Vice-Chair (Brian Sequeira)
None
Secretary (Boris Gramatikov)
Treasurer (Bob Cuellar)
· Presented a Quarterly report. As of March 20, 2004, the balance with SunTrust was $6,731.51
· Experiences difficulties in establishing contact to IEEE Financial Officer Sameer Qureshi regarding the Concentration Banking account.
Professional Activities (Carole Carey)
· At the leadership Symposium in Atlanta, IEEE-USA decided on a Fly-In program, intended to give IEEE members the opportunity to come to Washington DC to discuss careers and offshoring with members of Congress. The event will take place on May 18 and 19. Register for Fly-In at: www.ieeeusa.org/policy/Careerflyin , questions: (202) 785-0017
· Paratek Microwave in Columbia, MD, is seeking a Director of Engineering; Jeff: will include in the web job listing for a limited period of time
· National Engineers Week Future City Competition for 7th and 8th grade students on futuristic concepts and practical science applications has been announced:
www.futurecity.org/home_mission.shtm
· Award nominations are welcome. For info – check the web site under “Awards” or contact Carole
Vil Arafiles has been elected R2 Treasurer. Congratulations, Vil!
1) Jeff Friedhoffer: Consultants Network – Dave Pfaltzgraff is organizing a Consultants group for networking in the Baltimore region, similar to the NSAC which is active in the DC area. A Baltimore region network could function efficiently for industrial professionals. Dave will set up an affinity group, and is expected to fill the necessary forms and obtain the endorsing signatures. A kick-off meeting will take place in the coming 2 weeks.
1) We should encourage:
2) In 2007 the ComSoc meeting will be held in Washington DC. Seed money will be needed – probably $5,000 from each Section in the Region. John Dentler offered help with software/spreadsheets for accounting.
3) The Region is setting up a job board.
The Northern Virginia Section is interested in joint work with the Baltimore Section.
Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)
· The May issue is in preparation.
· Contributions to the Newsletter on issues of common interest are welcome.
· Upcoming centennials appealing to engineers may be considered
Jeff: A general Section meeting on the last issue may be considered. Topics like Brian Greene’s String Theory would be of interest. He encouraged Ron to further explore this.
Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):
PES (Eric Henlon)
Jeff: Would be desirable PES to organize a meeting on “Power-Failure”.
EMC (Robert Berkovits)
Annapolis Subsection (David Boyd)
Events:
· UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) talk was given by Dr. Jay Willmoff on BAE Aerospace, Inc. on April 8th. Included flight hardware and videos of mini-UAV technology.
· Administrative meeting will be held on Thursday night, April 22 with incoming student chapter officers.
EMB (David Sherman)
· Chapter had on March 25 an interesting meeting “The Biomedical Engineer and Patient Safety: Looking Beyond Device Design” with Mark E. Bruley, Vice President, Accident and Forensic Investigation, ECRI, Plymouth Meeting, PA
· A meeting on FDA Engineering is being planned at the HEM in May
APS/MTT (Doug Kremer): planning upcoming meetings – first one on May 4 with EMC on “EMI/EMC Computational Modeling for Real-World Engineering Problems”.
WIE (Debi Siering – WIE, Greater Washington DC)
GOLD (Domenic Georgantas)
The meeting adjourned at 7:45 pm.
Action Items
Number |
Action/Disposition |
03.4 |
Compile a history of the section over the past 100 years (Chris Nemarich)./Open |
10.3 |
Present action taken with proposal on History of Electronics in Flight (Carole Carey). |
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). |
10.14 |
Arrange for web training (Jeffrey Friedhoffer) |
03.1 |
Jeff Friedhoffer to get together with IAS |
03.2 |
Organize a general Section meeting which would be of technical character and would be open to a broader membership i. e. “Nanotechnology” or “Big Blackout”. (Bob Berkovits) |
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