Meeting Schedule

Council meetings are open to all IEEE members. At a minimum, Council Officers and Section Chairs are expected. If you cannot attend, please send me your updates. Section Chairs may send an alternate attendee. Please make announcement of these meetings in your local section and chapter meetings and newsletters. The next meeting is:

Wednesday, June 12 @ 7:30 p.m.(e-conference); Face-to face meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 28 @ 6:30 p.m. at Zorba’s restaurant

BYLAWS

The proposed bylaws have been posted on the Council web site. On the main page for the Council, click Bylaws, then "Click here for proposed bylaws". The Columbia Section has approved the bylaws- still waiting on word from other sections. As sections vote on the proposed bylaws, the vote results need to be sent to Brent Baker.

AWARDS

No awards nominations were received.

STUDENT PAPER CONTEST

Contest was cancelled since a date could not be agreed upon in which all students from USC and Clemson could participate

Section Activities

Each section was asked to report on activities conducted throughout the current year; a brief synopsis of each section’s activities is given(feel free to correct me on any errors I may have or information I may have left out, there was a lot if information given in a short amount of time):

• Central Savannah – Scheduled to have joint meeting with SC Professional Engineers; will have two plant tours scheduled for May
• Coastal – 2001: had nine meetings(including 3 officer meetings); held one section meeting in Myrtle Beach to reach out to members in northern part of the section; held one joint meeting with The Citadel’s annual Razor Lecture as well as a joint meeting with the Charleston Engineers Joint Council; 2002: have held six meetings so far(including 3 officer meetings) with plans for thirteen meetings total for the year; prior meetings included joint meeting with the Charleston Joint Engineers Council and The Citadel Razor Lecture; scheduled to have a social meeting in May at Darlington Raceway as well as a plant tour in June, a meeting in Myrtle Beach in September, technical presentations in October and November, and a holiday party in December
• Columbia – Have held 2 meetings so far this year, along with conference call-style officer meetings; have scheduled a picnic for May; still in planning stage for fall meetings(September through November), with a holiday party in December
• Piedmont – 2001: Following SEC 2001, the Piedmont section endowed $7,000 to Clemson to establish a full scholarship(started donating money for a scholarship to Clemson in the early 1980’s); Had a joint meeting with the student branch in January(student paper contest) and February(joint career night) – 15-20 students attended(not all EEs); a casual meeting has been scheduled for April; a plant tour has been scheduled for May; expressed problems in obtaining new officers for the section

NEW BUSINESS

Lee Stogner discussed the SC Council website features with special emphasis on the Jobs and Careers feature

The PACE conference is set for April 12-14 with approximately 200 members expected

Marilene discussed going into poorer school districts to recruit possible future engineers

John Montague discussed the possibility of organizing a SC chapter of the Computer Society so that a Distinguished Lecturer can be established; formation will require 20 signatures from Computer Society members; there is the possibility of getting the amount of signatures required by means of utilizing another society(Power Industry) in conjunction with the Computer Society members

DISMISSAL

The meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.

Executive Committee Officers

Secretary Brent Baker bdbaker@ieee.org

Section Chairs

Central Savannah River David Mills d.mills@ieee.org

Coastal SC Tim Washington twashing@scires.com