IEEE Baltimore section—meeting minutes—February 13,
2006—
X Boris Gramatikov – Chair Chair
X Roberto Cuellar – Vice Chair
X Bill Semancik – Treasurer
Brian Sequeira – Outgoing Chair
X David Sherman – 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
X Joseph Pollitt – Audits & Bylaws
Vil Arafiles – R2 Treasurer; Membership Development –
X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor
Thad Welch – Communication Society
Dave Boyd –
Dwayne Daley –Chair, PES
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
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
X John Anderson- EMC Chair Elect
Lamarr Brown Guest-IEEE Senior Member
X Bill Allen-applicant for senior member
X Brian Jenkins—
IAS/PES nominee for senior membership—Bill Allen—is introduced
Chair Boris Gramatikov convened the meeting at 6:45 PM; then introductions
Region 2 (R2) meeting on Feb. 4-5 in
Pre-college students club affiliatied with IEEE interested in affiliating with us
Power Electronics chapter approved
Education society News
Tina (WIE) email—which are the most important meetings to attend? Will suggest those in future. Formal invitation to WIE next time;
Engineer Week Students dinner—sponsored by Dewayne & PES—wish to have at least one token ExecComm engineer at dinner; $25 fee for engineers; domation expected; Neville will go; so will Boris; Marriott; Feb. 21 6-9PM; William Semancik; Jay; tour of the museum is added
ESB dinner—Fireball dinner; who will go? set for Feb. 18
John Dentler sent a reminder about Mentoring Program initiative—want to facilitate connection between young engineers and seasoned engineers—what is the mechanism for this? Enter data and get connected; how to apply for mentor https://www.ieee.org/mentoring--mentoring program coordinator Kathy Downer; Bob suggested that outside people will be interested in mentoring program;
Professional Society Expo—Feb. 22 at APL; Brian Sequiera – David will attend; Neville will attend;
Treasurer-balance $58294.41; rebate is $2617; outstanding checks are still coming; L50 working on it—missing- EMB; Reliability, EMC; IAS; SP have outstanding reports—expenditures
Secretary—ex—Bill Semancik—several society have not reported officers contact
Ron Aloysius reports-- Einstein meeting is dead; SP society meeting canceled; newsletter is going out at the end of the on Feb. 24 Need topic that is enticing;
Neville—33 schools—106 teams which is greater than 26 schools and 72 teams; flip side is that more judges are necessary; 1/3 of teams will bow out so that 20 more judgeswill be necessary;
With corporate sponsorship there may be more opportunity for individual trophies; more prizes for different categories.
Gift certificates could be given to students and teachers—more incentives—Neville proposal consists of individual trophies—for each member of winning team; each of teachers gets a $100 gift certificates; $25 for mentors; 7 teams; 5 members per team—7 teachers; for a grand total of $1400; Boris proposed funding Neville’s proposal; motion carried;
N. went to 1st competition at UMBC—HS and middle level school students ---lot of engineers and $12-15 K is sponsorship cost; liven our show a little with TV displays do we want to consider doing this? Do we want to strive for this?; Jeff mentioned that space is tight and too busy at Museum of Industry; N mentioned that only airplane and robot takes place on that day; need to find someone to do this task of video recorder—Community college connection might be important—particularly UMBC and Dundalk Communityu College.
Probably get a team from Flowers HS for ITEA; chapter to reimburse—Brois moved to reimburse Jeff seconded; motion carried—up to $350;
EMC-June 6th all day workshop in Waldorf-two technical tracks—new and experienced people in EMC; 25th April afternoon—Janet O’neill and Mark Hatfield—topic EMI mode stirred chambers—Dahlgren aircraft testing facility; --Product Safety engineer society—talk volunteered—for product safety—joint meeting; inter-society meeting
Jay Gameran will attend ITEA—will man booth—will reimburse $125 admission—robot teams are moving along nicely.
Jeff Fried—R2 meeting—financial planning for our members—upstate NYS—members mention R2 get 50% discount; section wide topics—wanted at Lincoln Univ—Life member chapter—handle meetings like Einstein—it is an affinity group; technical chapter—have meetings at different companies. For better attenfance
Brian Jenkins—LEOS student poster competition—asking for money for student poster competiin -6 teams from 6 universiites—judges already gotten together—Boris wants recruitment material there; flyers applications; membership cards--$250 request for prize money; motion carries Boris moved
Adjournment at 8:30PM