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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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IEEE Baltimore Section
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/
IEEE
ExCom Section Meeting
3/14/2005
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
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
X Domenic
Georgantas – Chair, GOLD
Tina Kohler – WIE
X Tom
Clark – Chair, LEOS
Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES
X Jerry Gibbon - R2 Chair, South
Area
Amarjeet Basra - Chair, Northern Virginia Section
Ken
Umberger – Member
Paul
Matthews - LEOS Vice Chair
X Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society
James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair
X Eric Fiore -
Member
The Section Chair, Brian Sequeira,
chaired the meeting and called it to order at 6:34 pm.
Executive Reports
Section Chair (Brian Sequeira):
- Baltimore section received an invitation from Northern Virginia section to include pre-college
activities in their section report. Neville Deed to follow up with
providing information to NoVa Section on the
Robot Challenge
- Brian Sequeira attended the expo at Applied Physics
Laboratory. Also represented the section were
Robert Berkovitz, Dave Sherman and Boniface Nwugwo. 14 people took IEEE membership applications
- 2
senior members applicants were asked to come to meeting to the
evening’s meeting to receive help in submitting their applications
Section Vice-Chair (Boris Gramatikov):
- Boris Gramatikov had inputs for the Region meeting
- PES
did not list having a meeting last year. The chatpter
officers did reply to officer request but provided no meeting response.
Suggestion made by Jeff Friedhoffer that Chair
or Vice-chair contact the past officers and find out the current state of
the chapter.
- Reported
the Section treasurer was ill and would not be present at the this Excom meeting
- A
discussion started about closing SunTrust account and moving to
Concentration Banking. When Concentration Banking was with Mellon, that
company did not have a local branch making banking inconvenient. Now that
Wachovia has the account and it is local there is not much a reason for
consolidation. Suggestion made by Brian to table the discussion until John
Dentler can attend.
Treasurer (Bob
Cuellar):
Secretary (Bill Semancik)
- Submitted
minutes from Feb 2005 meeting
- Presented
preliminary info for R2 report
Old Business and Action items:
·
A discussion was held regarding the section
dinner. The primary goal was to achieve a cost savings to reduce the deficit
for the Section this year.
Options for reducing costs
1) no
giveaways
2) $10
charge for attendance
3) Cash
bar
4) Drink
tickets
5) Buffet
vs sit down
Motion made and carried coming in
favor of cash bar with sodas no drinks, no handouts, 1 glass of wine at table,
sit down table. Semancik to summarize
Report Highlights from Directors and Chapter Chairs
Region 2 report (Jerry Gibbons)
- Region
2 web page updated. Look for the updates
- Region
2 meeting at 4 Points Sheraton at BWI, 9,10 April
- Region
2 fall meeting in October in Tampa,
FL. Date to be provided
- Brought
copy of the scanner
Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)
- Published
newsletter with no issues
- Majority
of effort spent trying to start SPS. The procedure was covered for getting
the Chair signature on the petition. Still a few signatures short of
necessary number required for submitting the petition.
EMC (Robert Berkovitz)
- 13
April meeting at 6:00PM at HEM, Dr, William Duff on UWB Electromagnetic
Interference
- 17
March meeting at FCC
- Local
bid for 2010 EMC meeting to be in DC
Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):
- 77
Teams registered. 15 teams look less likely to submit but that would still
leave 62 teams. No response outside MD this year. The challenge has had a
good response for judges but there was an appeal for additional judges.
John Dentler has been organizer but will not be
able to attend. Jay Gamerman will substitute.
Computer (Boniface Nwugwo)
- An
organizing meeting for the Computer Society was planned for Thursday, 17
March at the HEM. Boniface expected 30-40 people to attend. He was also
updating the web site.
LEOS (Tom Clark)
- At a
recent meeting, Brent Little of Little Optics was speaker.
- Held a
graduate student paper presentation meeting
- Next
meeting planned in 27 April. The speaker will be from Infinera.
Chair Emeritus (Friedhoffer)
- Training
on 19 March 6 participants
- At the
time of the Excom meeting there was no response
for the high school student paper contest
·
Jeff is following two conference activities:1st
Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Networks and GLOBECOM 2007
- Jeff
also made the suggestion that another section had a senior member rodeo
for getting senior members. Baltimore
section could consider doing the same.
AES
- Eric
Fiore has volunteered to revive AES
- Semancik to take action to put Fiore on the section
officer list so that he can get access to the IEEE listserve
for the section AES members.
- There
was also a discussion regarding the long response time for IEEE on Mr.
Fiore’s senior membership application. Action as given to Semancik to follow up on Fiore senior membership application
Subsection Chair Report
Annapolis subsection (Dave
Boyd) see notes
- 3 March meeting, light turnout. Andy
Vittia from the Association of Old Crows talked on
Electronic Warfare. SIGINT.
The National Engineers Week trip for Midshipmen to Northrop Grumman was
finally executed after being rescheduled for 10 March because of an
earlier snowstorm.
Affinity Groups
GOLD (Domenic Georgantas)
New business
- Discussion
was held on information for the Baltimore Section input to the Region 2 report
due 20 March. Actions given to sent Semancik
information for completing needed information for the report.
- L50
and L31 filed on time
The meeting adjourned at 2005
The minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik.
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