The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

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

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

6/13/2005

 

Attendees

    Brian Sequeira – Chair

X  Boris Gramatikov – Vice Chair

X  Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer

   Bill Semancik – Secretary

    Jeff Friedhoffer – Past Chair

X John Dentler  –  Region 2 Director Elect

    Christopher Nemarich  – Program Director

X  Neville Jacobs  – Student Activities

    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

X  Eric Henlon – PES Chair

    Dewane Daley – Vice Chair, PES

X  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

    Ken Umberger – Member

    Paul Matthews -  LEOS Vice Chair

    Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society

    James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair

    Dick Schafer – Awards

X  Shunyou (Alan) Long – Member

X  Lamarr Brown - Member

 


 

Motions Approved

 

1.      Dave Boyd approved purchase of robot kits ($5000); John Dentler seconded this motion—Approved

 

2.      J Dentler put forward motion to give $2500 to PES to cover book scholarships; D. Sherman seconded; motion approved

 

 

Individual Reports

 

John Dentler-R2 Director-Elect—

  • Education Society Chapter- has submitted petition for charter and has been approved
  • Wished to have board of directors meeting for region 2 about communication setup within region-wished to speak to Brian Sequiera about this matter

 

Dave Boyd—Annapolis Subsection—

  • Administrative meeting in May (5-2) for planning session in the fall

 

Alan Long—Visitor inquiring about senior membership—Works in High-ThroughPut Drug Screening Facility at JHU

 

Ronald Aloysius—Newsletter Editor

  • May Newsletter went out—Contains Signal Processing society announcement

 

David Sherman—EMB Chair

  • No EMB news to report
  • Petition to approve Signal Processing Chapter has been approved—will organize over the summer with Ronald Aloysius—Kick-off meeting will feature Delores Etter, Prof. at USNA

 

Rob Berkovits—EMC Chair

  • Wished to correct April minutes: 49 attended April 13 meeting: 32 IEEE members; 6 EMC members; 13 COMSOC members; 16 non-IEEE members
  • Possible future speakers: Vil Parafiles;  Dr. Kenneth Foster of U-Penn (possible joint meeting with EMB)
  • Mentioned new Product Safety Engineer society chair—Dr. Sandy Weiniger of FDA—as another possible speaker

 

6/13 Minutes continued

  • Planning joint meeting with PES to recruit new members

 

Boris Gramatikov-Vice-Chair, Baltimore Section

  • Talked about Continuing Education Initiative
    • Would target IEEE member 40+ yrs old—who potentially sees job threatened; though appeals to GOLD members as well
    • 1-2 hr. talks which would occur occasionally; response was modes so far
    • Described in Newsletter
    • Wanted to have specialists teach courses
      • Printed circuit board
      • Tele-communications
      • C++, C# programming
      • Java programming
    • Have talks that appeal to general audience
    • This represents a networking opportunity
    • These are potential money-makers
    • Though certificate issue remains
    • APL speakers available on simulation and printed circuit board design
    • Definite action item for the future
    • Ron Aloysius and David Sherman mentioned that SP society might sponsor lecturers
    • Engage Newsletter as outlet for announcements

 

Neville Jacobs—Student Activities

  • Attached supplementary materials entered into record dealing with June 13 robot challenge status report
  • Additionally suggested ordering 100 robot kits at a cost of $5000—breakdown $3500 for standard robot kits; $800 for automated kits plus another $700 for documentation

 

    • Dave Boyd approved purchase of robot kits; John Dentler seconded this motion--Approved

 

  • Depend on judges for evaluations to go back to schools as this is a critical way of maintaining robot competition alive in these schools
  • Need to get data to Carole Carey to get back $2000-2500 rebate back from PACE
  • Sustaining the robot challenge—need to continue to contact schools—more teams are necessary to compete other high school challenges
  • Need to exhibit to recruit—But what conference?
    • AIMS—association of independent/private middle schools—2 yrs ago successful but only $200 paid for the booth—now they want to up it to $400
    • ITEA conference coming to Baltimore (March 23-26) looking to get them on board for 2006-2007 school year--$1200 for exhibit space—except that lower rate might be desired for non-profit—plus we will deliver paper at conference—aim now is to get literature in hands of right people; distribute CD of robot competition movies
  • Dentler said that IEEE EAB may be able to sponsor robots

 

 

6/13 meeting minutes

 

Eric Henlon—PES

  • Changing of guard time at PES-revitalize—wants new strategy
  • Need more corporate sponsorship
  • Made presentation to
    • Constellation Energy
    • BGE leadership
    • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Resources
    • Book scholarships to students
    • Courses to members—used to be one of the respective ways of getting funds
    • Engineer’s Week dinners as well (IEEE section) paid for that
  • $2000 check wished to cover book scholarships
  • Hoped to get other commitments from corporate sponsors
  • J. Dentler wanted to tie book scholarship to paper contest (section-wide)
  • J Dentler put forward motion to give $2500 to PES to cover book scholarships; D. Sherman seconded; motion approved

 

Robert Cuellar—Treasurer’s Report

  • SunTrust-- acct at Suntrust will be closed out; transferred to Wachovia
  • Accounting of current account holdings reported.
  • Rebate from IEEE National expected to be $20,000
  • Real large section expenses are robots and chapter chairs dinner

 

The minutes were prepared by David Sherman