IEEE Baltimore section—meeting minutes—September 11, 2006—Historical Electronics Museum

 

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 – Baltimore Section

X  Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor

     Thad Welch – Communication Society

 X Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

  X Dewane 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

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 USA

X  John Anderson- EMC Chair Elect

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 [IEEE Baltimore chair] called the meeting to order after short introductions of the guests involved in current topics of interest to the Section::

 

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 [Jacobs] is the contact person; there have not been further updates;  David Bourner who is from UMBC, founder of the DC section  and is present at this meeting reports that the possibility of joint meetings with the DC section are possible.

 

Power Electronics Society is up and functioning

 

PES [Power Engineering society] reports from Dewane Daley-- request for monies to defer cost of Engineer’s dinner meeting; amount requested is $597; this dinner is a cornerstone of the society’s support and a normal part of the disbursement from the section;  as is the book scholarship program now in its 4th yr.; this is the 1st request for the money from section ExecComm; they had their first Exec Comm meeting and invited 6-8 attendees;  at first it was thought that this was too much money for a revived section’s  first technical meeting—money is usually not given for so few technical meetings; vote on amount between $500-$1000; later charge will be requested as well; two courses are planned for later this year starter funds are requested through this initial allocation of funds; 20-30 potential new members are anticipated this year;  topic of next meeting is Automated Meter Infrastructure or AMI; monies requested for rebirth of section; normal requisition is voted on and approved

 

Boris received email from Park School (former participant in our robot competition); specifically Jane Crosson; requested assistance in the FIRST robotic competition; this competition  is expensive with a $12-$15K outlay for Brooklandville school; IEEE consulting requested  by Mrs. Schneider;  there seems to be mentorship/funding problems; recommendation from Neville: project doubtful for success

 

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 Piscataway, NJ, Bichlien Hoang, with the manning of the IEEE booth.

 

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.