IEEE Baltimore
section—meeting minutes—September 11, 2006—
X Boris Gramatikov – Chair Chair
X Roberto Cuellar – Vice Chair
Bill Semancik – Treasurer
Brian Sequeira – Outgoing Chair
X David Sherman – Secretary
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
Joseph Pollitt – Audits & Bylaws
Vil Arafiles – R2 Treasurer;
Membership Development –
X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor
Thad Welch – Communication Society
X Dave Boyd –
X Dewane 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
X Tanner Horner—Chair, IEEE GOLD
Jerry Gibbon - R2 Chair, South Area
Amarjeet Basra - Chair, Northern Virginia Section
Paul Matthews - LEOS Vice Chair
X Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society
James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair
Gary Tartanian – COMSOC Secretary
Dick Schafer – Awards
Steve Bonk – IEEE
X John Anderson-
X Brian VIgna-GOLD--Secy
X Josh Blum—Guest—JHU IEEE Student Chapter—Vice Chair
X Andrew Liu--Guest—JHU IEEE Student Chapter—Chair
X David Cummings— Guest—JHU IEEE Student Chapter—Secretary
X Philip Nigon-- Guest—JHU IEEE Student Chapter—former chair
X David Bourner—Guest--Professor of the Practice, UMBC—Originator of Balto./DC Education
X John Pinkston—GUEST—Professor UMBC
X Alan Pressman—Treasurer, Baltimore PES
X Kelvin Liang--EMB
IEEE Baltimore Section: Executive Committee Meeting September 12, 2006
Boris
From UMBC: David Bourner, John Pinkston
From PES: Alan Pressman, treasurer
From JHU Student Chapter of the IEEE: Present and Former Officers: Phil Ngon,
Afterwards Boris presented the Historical Electronics Museum curator Mike Simmons with an award and plaque courtesy of the Region 2 RAB
RE: GLOBECOM—Jeff will report on the status; there was a $5K cap of support with liability voted on last June
RE: support for local Vehicular Technology Conference—there is no local chapter as they expected local chapter to organize this; as this never happened they moved this conference to another city perhaps
RE: Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society chapter—last June with the possibility of a merger with SP society under the auspices of Ronald Aloysius; there was interest as no member can give time to do this; the chapter has now been defunct for three yrs.; we have found there is no other society that AES members have a decided preference for.
RE: Education Society—support
sought from MIT folks as petitions were signed and a quorum exists for its
existence; Neville
Power Electronics Society is up and functioning
PES
Boris received email from
WIE—MPAC conference—Carole Carey—BWI airport—Embassy Suites—they are asking for $1000 support and register 3 people from section including volunteers and students; topic focuses on women in engineering and strategies for career survival; registration is $115/person; support for section attendees from regular registrants include $495 for setting up a table; Many relevant topics for professional growth; Motion for $1000 donation; was seconded and motion carried. Check to be given; registration need not be compulsory.
Election issues for Region 2—Bill Walsh and Amarjeet Basra are in the running for Region 2 chair; there are links on the section website to their position papers
Boris received an email about software called C-vent for conferences & congresses organizing software that handles invites as well; Boris will report on this software for the next ExecComm meeting though it is highly unlikely that we will buy it for ourselves
There is the availability of a speaker, Karl Sellinger who has book on soft skills for success in the real world; he can give a talk for individual chapters; topics include: How they can sell themselves? Manage themselves for success?
No new senior members
Pictures from chapter chairs dinner are now on website
Onto section business and individual reports:
John Pinkston UMBC professor and former chair of the CE dept.and David Bourner are here from UMBC: there is a 2 semester capstone course and they are seeking senior mentors from the IEEE Baltimore sections; Projects require modeling & design and then construction; the work involve a team environment; several ideas can be pursued; industry people are asked to mentor; industrial environment is key as they wish to have real life simulated; Consultation at this point about the projects come from John and David and the ideas are distributed through them; Earlier projects had to do with instruments for registering seismic activity and then telemetry back to base stationŕ essential ingredients are building interfaces; computer processing and sensors; NET centric control; More ambitious projects this semester—devices of different scales; weigh stations for transportation; essential to have device specs for interfacing equipment; decided to pass list of topics to different chapter chairs and to be discussed among us so that appropriate mentors can be found by area; hardware component is necessary; the newsletter is essential for disseminating information so that mentors with different levels of expertise can be found;
JHU students—from the IEEE student chapter—Andrew Wu, chair; Josh Blum, vice-chair; Dave Cummings, secretary and former chair Phil Nigon reported on status of student chapter—surviving well but need to have fresh list of speakers from CS & EE; suggested speaker were from to be taken from fro\m areas of law and I.P.; ways of organizing a student chapter could be taken from the Region 2 conference—they should send a student representative to this conference; topic may include speaking about ‘students mentoring students as in the Robot competition;
Neville-reports—sponsorships sought for different prizes during the robot competition; past judges should email comments for Neville
Rob Cuellar—vice chair—No reports
David
Sherman—New chair for EMB will be Kelvin Liang,
former EMB Baltimore chapter treasurer—we will take advantage of new graduate
student classification from IEEE so that officers particularly chapter chairs
can be students; EMB chapter in
Baltimore section is primarily student based in the first place so a student
chair will aid in recruiting and holding some substantive meetings with great attendance. David will also attend the Biometrics
Consortium conference this month and assist IEEE representative from
Brian Vigna & Tanner Horner—GOLD-rapid expansion of member list; annual picnic had good attendance; they are planning a social event at Arundel Mills; likewise a resume workshop at UMBC, Morgan or JHU.
Alan Pressman—PES-Sept 27 meeting planned at BGE; Fall social planned to enable networking as well as a wine tasting event; future venues include aquarium, Engineer’s Club and a membership drive is planned as well
John Anderson—EMC—colloquium broke even—couple of possible meetings upcoming includes a discussion of standards Dyespan Baltimore; Alliance Science on next generation radios & spectrum management; likewise there is a talk in DC section from Preston Marshall from DARPA on standards and policy; other possibilities include Don Witter talking on EMI issues in hospitals and Laird technologies on shielding materials
Boniface Nwugwo—Computer Society—meeting next week—Sept. 21; 3rd meeting of the year; with meetings planned for Oct., Nov. and Dec.—meeting planned on Reconfigurable Computing
Ronald Aloysius—SP society—Speaker is Philip Regalia—talking about Information Hiding; October meeting is about Intelligent Vehicle design; last June’s talk by Dr. Tulay Adali was well attended with 7 people going to dinner afterwards; Advertising is going in the Northrop Grumman newsletter; website is under construction and templates have been downloaded. Future talk are planned for Lockheed Martin and APL.