The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

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

  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 – Baltimore Section

X  Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor

     Thad Welch – Communication Society

 X  Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

  X Dwayne Daley –Chair, PES

      Mark Welsko – Chair, IAS

      Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications

  X Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability

  X  Robert Berkovits – Chair, EMC

      Doug Kremer – APS/MTT

      Wole AkposeGOLD

     Domenic Georgantas – Chair, GOLD

     Yamaris Soto – WIE

     Tom Clark – Chair, LEOS

     Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES

    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 USA

 X John Anderson- EMC Chair Elect

 X Lamarr Brown  Guest-IEEE Senior Member

 

 

 


Boris called the meeting to order at approximately 6:30 PM and everyone was introduced around the table

 

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.—Piscataway so assess seriousness

 

 

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;  AES is in trouble; and PES and A&P chapters had no meetings; AES will supposedly be taken over

 

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 Baltimore from Mass.Anindo Roy

 

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)—APL Professional Society Expo will be held Feb. 22@library near Kossiakoff hall in APL; last year there were 12 applications through active recruiting as well as information made available about senior member upgrades at an occasion such as this. Hdqtrs. In New Jersey will ship pkg. of brochures; paraphernalia; 2 volunteers are needed. 

 

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 BerkovitsEMC chair—will take pictures at the banquet this year—2 meetings fulfilled requirements for the section to stay viable.  Vice chair John Anderson may take over as chair this year. Possible talk with IAS is Doug Smith with DC Smith & associates; on web link to L31 is slow

 

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/AES meeting planned—perhaps two of them;  Tulay Adali is a probable speaker for March; Delores Etter might be speaker for banquet in May

 

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 8:45AM and the Sunday session begins at 12:30 PM

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 1-9-06

 

  1. We have 71 2-leg and 23 4-leg teams registered.  This compares with 50 and 13 teams registered at the same time last year.  We have 19 teams proposing to automate their robot compared to 10 teams last year.  We totally ran out of kits the very same day we received the new shipment of 60 kits from Kelvin.
  2. We received the first automation kits from Kelvin. and it has gone through preliminary evaluation.  Active components will be inserted in a working breadboard to make sure that everything is working together.  24 additional automation kits are on order.
  3. We should anticipate a significant increase in written reports, as well as the in the number of written reports as well number of teams attending the challenge over last year.
  4. This will translate into a need for a larger number of judges.  We have some new volunteers in the wings, some of whom will be attending the Teacher/Mentor Workshop.
  5. Workshop is scheduled for Saturday, January 21.  It’s a 4 hour session with lunch provided, and we have 13 signed up so far.  This number may increase.
  6. We have received a check for $540 from Long Reach High School and we received a check for $499 from JF Kennedy High School last November that was not previously reported.  I have not worked out this month’s expenses, but we anticipate receiving a bill from Kelvin for 60 kits and we will need to print additional manuals for them.

 

The minutes were prepared by David Sherman (bmedsp@ieee.org)