The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

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

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

1/10/2005

 

Attendees

X  Brian Sequeira – Chair

X  Boris Gramatikov – Vice Chair

     Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer

X  Bill Semancik – Secretary

X  Jeff Friedhoffer – Past Chair

X  John Dentler  –  Region 2 Director Elect

    Christopher Nemarich  – Program Director

X  Neville Jacobs  – Student Activities

    Jay Gamerman - Robots

    Tom Patton – Awards

    Carole Carey – Professional Activities 1 / ESB Rep

    Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla –  Professional Activities 2

    Joseph Pollitt  – Audits & Bylaws

X Vil Arafiles – R2 Treasurer; Membership Development – Baltimore Section

X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor

   Thad Welch – Communication Society

   Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

   Eric Henlon – PES Chair

   David Sherman – EMB

   Mark Welsko – Chair, IAS

   Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications

X Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability

X Robert Berkovits – Chair, EMC

    Doug Kremer – APS/MTT

    Wole Akpose – GOLD

    Domenic Georgantas – Chair, GOLD

X Tina Kohler – WIE

   Tom Clark – Chair, LEOS

    Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES

   Jerry Gibbon -  R2 Chair, South Area         

   Amarjeet Basra  - Chair, Northern Virginia Section

X Ken Umberger – Member

X  Paul Matthews -  LEOS Vice Chair

X  Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society

 

 

The Section Chair, Brian Sequeira, chaired the meeting and called it to order at 6:30 pm.

 

Boris Gramatikov made minutes from the November meeting available during his Vice Chair report.

 

Executive Reports

Section Chair (Brian Sequeira): 

  • Chair thanked Jeff Friedhoffer as outgoing chair.

 

  • Chair read letter from Washington WIE stating they were going to disband. Chair wants to offer support for reformation of a new WIE for the Washington Section. It was noted that Baltimore WIE formed in a tumultuous atmosphere. Chair notes that section needs to support Tina to help make the affinity group viable. Of 1200 potential members, only 60 affiliates. Suggestion is that No. Va also be included until DC WIE can be reformed.

 

  • Submission of reports is an emphasis for meeting.

 

  • Jeff Friedhoffer notes a deficit of $10000 existed for past year as one time effort. Need to decrease deficit over the next year. Suggestions: Decrease awards for student papers. Increase fees for Robot Challenge. Send fewer people to section congress.

 

  • Vil Arafiles: Makes suggestion to write to national IEEE Student Activities to ask for an allocation.

 

  • A motion is made by Jeff Friedhoffer and accepted for student paper awards to be made $1000, $500, $250.

 

  • A suggestion is made to send 1 person to congress at expense of section and send one person at expense of region.

 

  • Suggestion to send out ballots 3rd class rather than 1st class mail. This would require getting nominations 3 weeks earlier.

 

  • For Section dinner, Tom Patton is to consider options on cash bar vs. open bar.

 

  • Neville offers $800 savings by deferring middle school robot until next year and returning money for unused automation cuts.

 

Section Vice-Chair (Boris Grammikov): 

  • Only 5 chapters updated the section with new Officers information. This information needs to be submitted to IEEE Headquarters. A reminder will be sent out tomorrow. Assumption will be made that others unchanged if there is no response.

 

  • Discussion of possible nominations for the "Engineer of the Year" award of the Baltimore Engineers Week Council. John Dentler is taking an action for finding copy of past write-up for nomination to use as a template award for Dave Sherman. Jeff Friedhoffer to also re-submitting Meritorious Achievement Award Neville Jacobs. Jeff suggests perhaps nominate Robert Runser for Young Engineer of the year award.

 

 

  • Notes that Treasurer is not present at the meeting. Treasurer report is critical to IEEE. Bob Cuellar to be contacted.

 

Secretary (Bill Semancik)

·        Nothing to report

 

Old Business and Action items:

 

  • No actions from December.

 

  • November meeting actions:

·         Arrange for web page maintenance training upon demand. Note that training has been given as required. Action to be considered closed.

 

·         Action to organize section technical meeting for April timeframe. Note that previous years there was not a separate section meeting. Announcement is to be mailed to listserv with suggestion of topics.

 

·         For next meeting Boris will have a summary of meetings. Note that most chapters well above minimum two meetings.

 

 

 

Report Highlights from Directors and Chapter Chairs

 

LEOS (Paul Matthews)

  • Technical meeting Feb 23 @ APL Dr. Brent Little, Little Optics “High index photonics circuits for commercial applications”

 

  • Graduate Student Poster Combination Mar 23 joint w/ No Va Chapter also at APL

 

  • Last technical meeting 50 attendees.

 

Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)

 

  • IEEE USA trying to get people active with issues like visa.

 

Reliability (Walt Willing)

 

  • Reliability Last meeting on accelerated life testing.

 

  • All reports in.

 

EMC (Robert Berkovitz)

 

  • No Va EMC to have Jan 27 luncheon meeting at Naval Research Laboratory. Topic was unknown at the time of the meeting.

 

Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):

 

  • Present tally is 63 teams from 24 schools -  13 4 leg teams, 50 2 leg teams

 

  • Workshop to be held 22 Jan at Museum of Industry for the schools.

 

  • Still seeking judges for the competition on 16, 17 April.

 

  • Income of $1420, Expenses of $56.92

 

Member Development (Vil Arafiles)

  • Number of senior member applications have dwindled. Need to encourage members.

 

John Dentler: Nothing to report

 

 

AP/MTT

  • AES Pax River EMC chair trying to feel possibility for mini symposium w/ Baltimore and Washington. 1st or 2nd week of May. 2 possible speakers. 2 tracks.

 

  • Also suggested possible section meeting topic on telemedicine.

 

 

 

Subsection and Chapter Chair Reports

 

Annapolis subsection (Dave Boyd)

  • Annapolis subsection report submitted by e-mail and entered into record. Summary is as follows: Held Spring admin meeting 6 Jan, 2005. Four meetings planned for spring session. Issues that some lower Eastern Shore members would like to get to IEEE region meeting but distance is an obstacle.

 

 

Affinity Groups

 

Baltimore WIE (Tina Lohler)

  • Paperwork is completed and ready to start.

 

 

New business

 

  • President of COMSOC contacted Friedhoffer for help in sponsoring 1st International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Networks. This is an opportunity for the section to raise revenue from the investment in the symposium. A suggestion was made that we do some diligence to make sure that leaders are organized to realize the financial success of the meeting.

 

  • Globecom 2007 in Washington DC. Potential for helping to sponsor the conference.

 

  • Asst. Dean for engineering at UMBC. New systems engineering program. UMBC wants to advertise through IEEE.

 

  • UMBC going through ABET accreditation. Process wants to have employer evaluation of graduates. Consider using IEEE to help in accreditation process.

 

  • Saturday Feb 5 Wash No Va annual officer training session @ MitreTek 0830.

 

 

 

 

Minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik

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