From: Andy Shulick Date: September 9, 2004
To: VA IEEE Council
Subject: Richmond VA Section Report for the 3rd Qt. 2004

Our officers for the 2004 year are:
Chair: Andrew P. Shulick, P.E., PMP, MBA, IEEE Senior Member
Vice Chairman: Mark F. Walker
Treasurer: Gregory B. Tait, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member
Secretary: A. Vennie Filippas, Ph.D.

Activities:

Little activity during the 3rd quarter due to summer shutdown between May and September.
We have a new meeting location at the Hilton Garden Inn at Innsbrook.
Please visit our web site for the 2004-2005 monthly section meeting program schedule.
We have implemented IEEE-enotice. The service is very friendly, easy to use, and provides us a means to notify our membership in an expedient and frequent method at no costs. We have used it for our monthly newsletter, to notify membership of important notices that must be acted upon before the next newsletter distribution, and to send out a second, short notice of the monthly meeting in addition to the newsletter notice. We still print and send out the monthly newsletter via US mail.
Southeastcon 2007 - Hotel RFPs were solicited and received.
We have been in contact with John Csomay on the future status of PE 31.
Ralph Russell,II has made a proposal to the board on participation/support of the July 2005 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Caroline County, VA.
A list of all Section positions was sent in the newsletter to all members. It is hoped that some will notify us of their interest in filling a position. In addition to this action, members that have indicated some interest in helping will be contact on a one-on-one basis to solicit their help in filling open positions.
Lynn Simms, Ralph Russell and Andy Shulick have volunteered to serve as reviewers to support the NSF proposed project of focusing on developing instructional materials for elementary teachers – Richmond, VA is a pilot. The Project is to help elementary teacher extend and enrich their understanding of technology and enable them to teach Design Engineering and Technology more effectively in their classrooms.

Section Goals:

Continual support of our two student branches – Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia State University
Increase participation of membership in meetings and activities
Provide value added monthly programs for the membership
Increase and enhance communications to the membership
Cultivate public awareness of the IEEE organization and its membership

Respectively submitted,

Andy Shulick
IEEE Richmond VA Section 2004 Chair