The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

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

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

2/07/2005

 

Attendees

X  Brian Sequeira – Chair

X  Boris Gramatikov – Vice Chair

     Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer

X  Bill Semancik – Secretary

X  Jeff Friedhoffer – Past Chair

    John Dentler  –  Region 2 Director Elect

    Christopher Nemarich  – Program Director

X  Neville Jacobs  – Student Activities

X  Jay Gamerman – Student Activities

    Tom Patton – Awards

    Carole Carey – Professional Activities 1 / ESB Rep

    Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla –  Professional Activities 2

X 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

   David Sherman – EMB

   Mark Welsko – Chair, IAS

   Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications

   Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability

X Robert Berkovits – Chair, EMC

    Doug Kremer – APS/MTT

    Wole Akpose – GOLD

    Domenic Georgantas – Chair, GOLD

   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

    Paul Matthews -  LEOS Vice Chair

X  Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society

X  James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair

 

 

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

 

Executive Reports

Section Chair (Brian Sequeira): 

  • Officers’ training session 5 Feb Boniface attended
  • IEEE members who are awardees from ESB were noted: David Sherman and Neville Jacobs
  • John Dentler and Robert Cuellar having a concurrent side meeting putting together budget for submission to IEEE
  • Special meeting of officers was held on 31 Jan to discuss budget.
  • Motion for supporting ESB dinner with $200 from section made and approved

 

Section Vice-Chair (Boris Grammikov): 

  • Reviewed David Sherman’s nomination that was awarded by ESB.
  • Presented a summary of the meetings per chapter. Discussion regarding lack of entries for PES. Contact to be made before submission of L50.

 

Treasurer (Bob Cuellar):

  • As noted by section chair was not present at EXCOM meeting while attending concurrent budget meeting with John Dentler

 

Secretary (Bill Semancik)

·        Bill Semancik made minutes available from January meeting and were approved with minor modifications.

 

Section Chair emeritus (Jeff Friedhoffer)

·         Reviewed Neville’s nomination to ESB. Note for future nominations that civic activities count heavily in evaluation of the nomination packages.

 

Old Business and Action items:

 

  • Section Chair planned to write letter to DC and NoVa chapters of WIE but proceeding according to counsel to meet face-to face first.
  • Section Chair reiterated need for section to support startup of WIE
  • Jeff Friedhoffer discussed the student paper contest. More judges are needed for the contest. Papers are due 1 April. Paper judging will occur on 9 April and is planned to be at the Historical Electronics Museum
  • Friedhoffer suggested that the section schedule some leadership training locally to the Baltimore section. A suggestion was made that 4 hours on a Saturday morning would be sufficient.
  • Jeff Friedhoffer noted that a new letter for signature authority for IEEE MD license plates was needed.
  • Reopened discussion about contribution to ESB dinner. Previous vote was for support of dinner. Action to contact ESB for option to sponsor table for 10 as an alternative to sponsoring $200 without a return. Brian will take action. E-mail vote to follow.
  • Jeff Friedhoffer noted that the section did not plan an Engineers Week dinner this year. The section chair planned to call AES to see if something can be done to

 

  • January meeting actions

·         For Section dinner, Tom Patton is to consider options on cash bar vs. open bar. Patton not available

·         Followup on  1st International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Networks. Nothing new

·         Followup on Globecom 2007 sponsorship JF attended a meeting two weeks prior to the February EXCOM meeting.

·         The section would have to advance $5,000. The expected return from the conference receipts would be $6000-7000. Timing of the event would beafter Thanksgiving 2007

·         Motion made and passed to advance $5000 to Globecom 2007 for startup of the conference. It was noted that the section currently has the money in the account.

 

  • November meeting actions:

 

·         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.

 

 

 

Report Highlights from Directors and Chapter Chairs

 

 

Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)

 

  • Ron contacted Lawrence Crouse as possible section dinner speaker. Mr. Crouse was noted to ask for $10000 per speaking engagement. The section will look for alternative speakers.
  • Dave Sherman interested in starting up Signal Processing Society. After two solicitations to IEEE mailing list have eight on first solicitation. 101 responses on second solicitation. .

 

 

EMC (Robert Berkovitz)

 

  • Volunteer from EMC will talk on Ultra Wideband on 13 April .
  • Trying to coordinate a future talk on Alaskan network for telemedicine

 

Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):

  • Have 74 teams from 26 schools compared with 64 teams from 22 schools. More 4 leg teams
  • Expect over 45 teams to show up and will require more judges
  • Workshop held on 5 February

 

 

ED (James Oliver)

            John Zolper of DARPA presented at January ED/SSC meeting on DARPA’s device programs

            19 March planned for a distinguished speaker lecture. Topic to be provided later.

           

 EMB (David Sherman)

  • 24 Feb talk from a local bio-medical start-up firm Infinite Biomedical
  • Planning a talk later in the year from patent office
  • On formation of a Signal Processing Society chapter – happy with response, putting down mission statement, trying to pin down goals, plan to kick off first meeting next September

 

Computer (Boniface Nwugwo)

  • No meeting yet
  • Planning on 3 chapter meetings
  • No speakers lined up yet
  • Noted by section chair that core team needed in order to successfully form a chapter and that only 2 technical meetings are minimum qualification

 

Subsection Chair Report

 

Annapolis subsection (Dave Boyd)

  • Kits night very successful. Planning 24th field trip to Northrup Grumman. Planning for an EW speaker at the March.

 

 

Affinity Groups

 

  • None present
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New business

 

 

  • Baltimore IEEE presence is requested at APL function honoring IEEE and AAIA fellows at Kossiakoff Conference Center. IEEE will need representatives 22 Feb 1030 -1230 minimum. Will need 2 people. Boniface Nwugwo volunteered to be one representative. Semancik is to check availability and to e-mail status as possible 2nd representative.
  • Possibility was discussed of sponsoring EMC conference DC area in 2006
  • EMC will likely have more meetings at NRL. The site was more convenient than others.
  • Discussed possibility of a technical meeting at FCC lab in Columbia

 

 Adjourn 2010

 

Minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik

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