The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

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

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

10/17/2005

 

Attendees

X  Brian Sequeira – Chair

    Boris Gramatikov – Vice Chair

X 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

     Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

     Eric Henlon – PES Chair

X  Dwayne Daley – Vice Chair, PES

     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

X  Yamaris Soto – WIE

X  Tom Clark – Chair, LEOS

     Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES

     Jerry Gibbon - R2 Chair, South Area         

     Amarjeet Basra  - Chair, Northern Virginia Section

X   Mel Hotz – Member

     Paul Matthews - LEOS Vice Chair

X  Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society

     James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair

     Gary Tartanian – COMSOC Secretary

     Dick Schafer – Awards

X  Russell Harrison – IEEE USA

X  Lee Hollaar – IEEE USA

 

 

Meeting called to order at 18:30 

 

1. INTRODUCTIONS


2. EXECUTIVE REPORTS

·         Chair (Brian Sequeira)

 

·         It was reported that some officers were at the Section Congress in Tampa

·         AUTOTESTCON – Conference organizers withdrew request for support when queried about the management company. This is no longer an issue for the Baltimore section

·         The Chair was introduced to Project Lead the Way – organization to promote pre-engineering curriculum at high school level. Asked Neville Jacobs to review the program and make a recommendation to the section for whether or not to participate

·         IEEE Sales and Marketing has program for corporate sponsors that would result in a rebate to the section. Chair suggested that perhaps members should consider offering an incentive for members to pursue a corporate sponsor.

·         Draft process for inviting people to section chair dinner was generated. Since Vice-Chair would inherit the process next year the vote on the process was tabled until the Vice-Chair could be present for the vote. Chair will take action to mail out latest version to the officers.

·         Chair took part in a conference call on inventor rights. Russell Harrison was introduced from IEEE –USA. See more information under New Business.

 

·         Vice Chair (Boris Gramatikov)

 

·         Absent from the meeting while section congress.

 

·         Treasurer (Bob Cuellar)

 

·         Detailed present account balances. The treasurer questioned expenditure rates for robot challenge and student activities but was assured by Neville Jacobs that the expenditures would come close to allocated budget. Chapter support expenses are also under-running expected outlays.

 

·         Secretary (Bill Semancik)

 

·         Agenda and last meeting minutes posted. Please send comments to Bill Semancik (wsemancik@ieee.org) for any corrections. Will be attending IEEE sponsored Accelerating Innovations Conference in DC on 19-20 October.

 

3. CHAPTER CHAIRS AND INDIVIDUAL REPORTS

 

Chair emeritus (Jeff Friedhoffer) Reiterated the primary officers for the section. John Dentler will not continue in the continuing education position. Programs chair will be discontinued.  Neville Jacobs will hold the Student Activities position. Vil Arafiles will continue in the membership development position. Carole Carey will continue in the Professional Activities position. Jeff still wants to have senior member day on 3 December at HEM. He also wants to repeat student paper contest in 2006.

 

 

 

Dwayne Daley (PES) Eric Hanlon resigned from BGE. Dwayne is not sure of Eric’s continued participation. Dwayne is still trying to rebuild the chapter. 15 new engineers have been hired at BGE. No meetings are scheduled for this year for PES. He hopes to restart chapter in 2006. Currently have 140 members in Baltimore section. He wants to continue high school scholarship efforts. Friedhoffer reminded that PES normally ran Engineering Week activities. They did not do so last year. Jeff Friedhoffer asked whether or not PES plans on running the activities for 2006. The bottom line is that the section needs to look for alternate chapter to run the activities but need old records.

 

 

Student Activities (Neville Jacobs) Responses have been received so far from C. H. Flowers, Beth Tfiloh, and ARL High School. Totals run 39 regular kits and 19 automation kits. They have a good stock of regular kits but have a shortage of automation kits. New manuals have been printed. The manuals include sections on how to read the drawings. New versions of the automation software will now work with modern computers with USB ports. Jeff Friedhoffer will be keeping the web page up to date. A new supplier is being found for automation kits.

 

 

EMC (Robert Berkovits) Hoping to have former officer run that will be first angel the section will have had in years.

 

 

 

Newsletter (Ron Aloysius) Ron will be soliciting for input to newsletter. Signal Processing Society had its first talk on watermarking in digital media. Aloysius was elected chapter chair. David Sherman was elected vice-chair. Ron is trying to get speaker for 100th anniversary of Einstein’s theory of relativity – Dr. Gates of U of MD. Unknown the required stipend. Requested Jeff Friedhoffer to put himself and David Sherman on the list of chapter officers. Also asked Jeff Friedhoffer for a list of possible speakers.

 

 

 

Tom Clark (LEOS) Meeting in September. Two more meetings planned this calendar year. November 2 and November 30. The first by Dr. Curtis Menyuk and the second on Broadband over Powerline. LEOS has started a mentoring program

 

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Computer (Boniface Nwugwo) Computer Society held meeting on 15 September. The topic was Information Security concerns in VoIP. Next meeting 20 October on Service Oriented Atchitecture

 

David Boyd (Annapolis Section) 20 Oct meeting for Annapolis Section. This is the annual Demolition Night where students take apart common items.

 

Mel Hotz – represented electrical engineers on professional engineer board for 17 years. He reminded the section that a person needs to have a license to sit on the board. Hester Farinas is new electrical engineer on the board. Mel’s term ended June next year. Section will not be asked to submit names for about 4 more years.

 

Nominations for Engineering Society of Baltimore have come out again. Nominations due postmarked by December 19 2005.

 

 

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4.  OLD BUSINESS AND REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS

  • IEEE Baltimore Section Education Chapter
  • IEEE Mentoring Program Pilot Invitation - Call for Mentors – deferred until the vice chair returns next month.

 

5. NEW BUSINESS    

  • Chapters not meeting minimum IEEE requirements – PES, WIE, AES
    1. PES covered their activities.
    2. AES did not attend
    3. WIE came early to get financial guidance but did not attend main meeting
  • IEEE initiative on inventor rights: IEEE-USA is trying to encourage state legislatures to pass simple laws on what companies can expect from employees. So far 8 states have passed recommended legislation. The IEEE is aiming at 3 additional states – MD, OH, FL passing the legislation in the next year or so. Hand out passed around consisted of the version generated of a release as of Friday 14 October. The IEEE wants to make sure that inventors have more rights to IP developed on their own time that is unrelated to the firm. A firm must compensate former employees who are required to help secure IP rights after they leave a firm. The legislation will hopefully help formulate future legislation. The effort is also to be an inroad to greater contacts with the State government. IEEE-USA wants help developing  contacts with state legislator Kumar, the National Association of Manufacturers, the local Chamber of Commerce, other engineering organizations. They want IEEE members to contact state legislators. They want local engineers to meet with local business community. They need IEEE members to go to local legislators. Neville will help IEEE make contact with 2 state senators and the Engineering Society of Baltimore.

 

 

6. ADJOURN at 2015.

 

The minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik