The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

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

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

12/13/2004

 

Attendees

X  Jeff Friedhoffer – Chair

     Brian Sequeira – Vice Chair

     Boris Gramatikov – Secretary

X  Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer

X  John Dentler  –  Continuing Education

    Christopher Nemarich  – Program Director

X  Neville Jacobs  – Student Activities

X  Jay Gamerman - Robots

    Tom Patton – Awards

    Carole Carey – Professional Activities 1 / ESB Rep

    Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla –  Professional Activities 2

    Joseph Pollitt  – Audits & Bylaws

    Vil Arafiles – R2 Treasurer; Membership Development – Baltimore Section

X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor

   Thad Welch – Communication Society

X  Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

    Eric Henlon – PES Chair

X David Sherman – EMB

    Mark Welsko – Chair, IAS

    Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications

X Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability

    Garth McKenzie – Chair Computer Society

X  Robert Berkovits – Chair, EMC

    Doug Kremer – APS/MTT

    Wole Akpose – GOLD

X  Domenic Georgantas – Chair, GOLD

    Tina Kohler – WIE

    Debi Siering – WIE, Greater Washington DC

   Tom Clark – Chair, LEOS

    Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES

X  Jerry Gibbon -  R2 Chair, South Area         

    Amarjeet Basra  - Chair, Northern Virginia Section

    Bill Semancik  - IEEE member

X  Art Jeyes

X  Ray Sova -  LEOS

X  Ken Umberger  - Industrial Society


 

The Section Chair, Jeff Friedhoffer, chaired the meeting and called it to order at 6:15 pm.

 

No minutes available from last month's meeting.

 

Executive Reports

Section Chair (Jeffrey Friedhoffer): 

-  We would like to start reviewing budgetary submissions on a monthly basis to keep better track.

-  We have been paying HEM $500 per year for the use of the facility for meetings and events.

-  The news letter budget is currently running around $1000 for copying and mailing.  We are looking for ways to reduce the cost, possibly reducing the number of mailings per year.

-  The budget line items will be set for lower numbers for 2005 and if the item exceeds the budget it will come before the executive committee for approval.

-  Spending so far for 2004 is $28545.97.

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Treasurer (Bob Cuellar)

·        Resported the funds available in the Sun Trust account which has been changed from a business account to a free checking account to save on monthly service charges,  He also report on the Mellon Bank account

 

Reports from IEEE Executives

 

Jerry Gibbon -  R2 Chair, South Area

 

Report Highlights from Directors and Chapter Chairs

 

Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)

            A request for information has been sent out for the January news letter.

 

Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):

2005 ROBOT CHALLENGE SCHOOLS
Summary of situation as of 12/13/04:
As a result of some early registrations and the TECH-EXPO that was held at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on October 15, 2004, we have:
Total number of teams: 53, number of schools: 11
 number of manual kits: 44, and 9 automation kits.
 
Mentors are reporting a fairly good response.  We are hoping to improve on the usual 30% drop that occurs each year.
 

IEEE received a Gold Plus Sponsor Award plaque in recognition of their support of the Challenges program (the plaque Jeff and will be hung in the HEM).  We plan to insert a small add in the program in 2005 and requested a check made out to the Baltimore Museum of Industry for $75.

 

We are still pursuing schools that have approached us with inquiries and some schools that participated last year but have not signed up yet.

 

Walt Willing  - Reliability

There will be a reliability meeting on Tuesday 12/14 with a presentation on life testing to all who are interested.

 

Bob Berkovits – EMC

- Bob is getting a sample sign in sheet for future meetings with larger type size and more room for other information

 -We would like to find a way to make announcements of meetings in other publications across societies and outside of IEEE.

 -Nat Ostroff, VP of new technologies at Sinclair Broadcast Group and president of Acrodyne Industries has volunteered for a talk next year.

- Fred Heather is looking to hold a 1 day seminar on EMC sometime in the mid March to May time frame.

 

Ray Sova – LEOS

-  APL tech kick off meeting last month had 40+ attendees.

-  Loyola Career Night in November had 50+ attendees.  There was a lot of enthusiasm from the students that attended.

-  They are looking into having a similar event at Johns Hopkins University.

-  There will be a Tech Talk session on Feb 18 given by Dr. Little on photo optics.

-   March activities

            - grad student poster contest

            - education outreach program for middle schools to kick off.

 

           

 

Subsection and Chapter Chair Reports

 

Annapolis subsection (Dave Boyd)

There will be an administrative meeting after the 1st of the year.

The Middies would like a tour of the Northrop Grumman facility at BWI.  Walt Willing will look into arrangements.

 

 

Affinity Groups

 

GOLD (Domenic Georgantas)

 

 

 

Minutes were prepared by Jay Gamerman.