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IEEE Baltimore Section
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/
IEEE ExCom Section Meeting
1/13/2006
Attendees
X Boris Gramatikov – Chair Chair
X Roberto Cuellar – Vice Chair
X Bill Semancik – Treasurer
X Brian Sequeira – Outgoing Chair
X David Sherman – Secretary
X Jeff Friedhoffer – Past Chair
X John Dentler – Region 2 Director Elect
Christopher Nemarich – Program Director
X Neville Jacobs – Student Activities
X Jay Gamerman – Student Activities
X 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 –
X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor
Thad Welch – Communication Society
X Dave Boyd –
X Dwayne Daley –Chair, PES
Mark Welsko – Chair, IAS
Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications
X Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability
X Robert Berkovits
– Chair,
Doug Kremer –
Wole Akpose –
Domenic Georgantas
– Chair,
Yamaris Soto – WIE
Tom Clark – Chair, LEOS
Bill Dixon – Acting Chair,
Jerry Gibbon - R2 Chair, South Area
Amarjeet Basra - Chair, Northern Virginia Section
Paul Matthews - LEOS Vice Chair
Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society
James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair
Gary Tartanian – COMSOC Secretary
Dick Schafer – Awards
Steve Bonk – IEEE
X John Anderson-
X Lamarr Brown Guest-IEEE Senior Member
Boris called the meeting to order at approximately
Education Society First order of business was initiative to form local chapter of IEEE Education society; the initiative was begun by Rob Reilly in the Boston section; need volunteers to serve as chairs and hold other officer positions; initially without a response from Baltimore section effort was moved to DC; perhaps together both sections can generate willingness to find solutions
Right now proposition is hanging in airà who will champion this chapter? Steve Bren (??) reports that there is local section enthusiasm but has not identified people to do the job w/re to Education Society
Neville volunteered especially if the efforts of the IEEE Education are focused upon pre-college efforts. This could be the primary focus at least initially for the chapter.
Discussion focused the fact that there is not a big demand for the society; Debate is--no one is really enthusiastic about having an Education society and so do we really want to get involved with a chapter that might default within a year.
Instructions were to email Rob and so contact him about local representative enthusiasm—i.e. “taking their temperature” Neville suggested using robot challenge as a method of furthering pre-college goals of spreading the word about engineering—so we already have a nucleus of people involved in those activities;
Boris ,
Jeff and Neville will report on status of local section including invitation of
persons; they will drop a line to Rob Reilly so the wish is understand scope of
activities desired; they will
extend an invitation to petition the IEEE-hdqtrs.—
Treasurer’s report (Robert Cuellar)—balance reported of $52,755; $55,655 anticipated after checks clear; general statement of underspending expenditures
Secretary’s
report (Bill Semancik)—re: reporting
requirements—good shape re: L-31 reporting; all told 78 L-31’s were
sent in;
WIE was in compliance as affinity groups need only have 2 meetings and an annual roster will be necessary as well.
SO far only 3 chapters did officer reports—WIE, Industrial Applications and LEOS—the chapters need only provide chapter chair information so L50’s need to be filed
Walt Willing—nothing to report
David Sherman (former EMB chair)—search for chapter
chair continues—possible is this new guy who has relocated to
John Dentler—(region 2 affairs)—here to help with filing of L50s/Annual Report; there is a region 2 meeting on the 3rd or 4th of February (1st weekend in February?)—this will feature help for the entrepreneur or independent business person—namely, tips on medical insurance and disability insurance; there will be presentations about financial planning as well.
Dr. Brian Sequeira (past chair)—
Brian recognized folks who helped make his tenure as chair special—including the formation of the WIE group; LEOS and SP chapters formed;
Jeffrey Friedhoffer’s report—ESB judging will place during Engineer’s week—David Sherman, 2005 award winner will judge the award for this year. The category of the nominee from the IEEE is Robert Runser—for young engineer of the year
Rob Berkovits—
Dave Boyd—Annapolis—in beginning of season there is an admin meeting; in this subsection there is a request from the midshipmen for a speaker on MS OS such as VISTA—suggestion of George Spix; also a meeting of the student chapter at the Naval Academy Dry Dock—a meeting for spring planning
Dewayne Daley—PES chair—2006 is a rebuilding year—more than rebuilding it is to meet minimum requirements; here we discussed getting funding for the high school meeting and Engineer’s Week Dinner to be in part underwritten by BGE but that is unknown at this point so full support is requested; Bob Berkovits suggested an alternate venue instead of the Marriott BWI namely Pioneer Hall—Local section addresses need for participation of society; several of the students worked with Neville as robot challenge participants—so these participants will be limited to 2 students plus chaperone; Jeff suggested to contact IAS rebuilding participation; send request for help from PACE funds;-- motion carried to fund PES
SP
society—Ronald Aloysius possible speaker for Einstein centennial meeting
is physicist Dr. Gates—for a possible March date; probable meeting for
February—will notify over email;
there is a joint SP/
Neville Jacobs
discussed current status of student
acrtivities—95 teams instead of 65 this
year—50 more kids will be participating; there will be a workshop on January 21
to furnish help for teachers mentors judges; this will be a 4 hour workshop at the
Baltimore Museum of Industry from 10-2 PM—details are in the student
activities status report which is attached.; Neville made a request for digital
photographers; the dates for the Robot
Challenge are the weekend of April 22-23, 2006—Saturday session starts at
Written reports judging takes place on Monday April 17 at the NGC which is the day after Easter
Tom Patton—question of giveaways was debated regarding the total cost of the dinner; likewise the question of who’s coming to dinner; cost—of $35/person to make $5000/year allocation which appears to be plenty if the giveaway cost is held in check; we will have a sit-down dinner with giveways—paper block pad approved as a giveaway.
Appendix—Neville Report Details—Status
Student Activities
The minutes were prepared by David Sherman (bmedsp@ieee.org)