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EXCOM Minutes for April 2003
The meeting was called to order by the
Chair, Lyle McCurdy at 7:00 pm.
a. Quorum review
Lyle McCurdy
A quorum was present.
The following officers and guests attended the meeting;
Lyle McCurdy, Mike Sedlar, Laura Sedlar,
Keith Reno, Carol (Keith’s friend), and Bill Holbrook.
b. Approval of minutes Mike Sedlar
Mike reported that he had received a fax
of handwritten notes from the January meeting and he will be converting these
into minutes. He also reported that
as of 31 March the section has 2176 total members with 1132 of these categorized
as active.
c. Approval of agenda - any new items or
changes? Lyle McCurdy
The agenda was approved with no additions.
II.
Section and committee Reports
a. Chair's report, including update on LAC
activities Lyle McCurdy
Lyle reported that the LAC meeting was
held at DeVry. The discussion was
mostly about WESCON. Microelectronics
and nanotechnologies will be added in ’04 to try to bring new life to the
conference.
b. Treasurer's report
Art Sutton
Art was absent so there was no report.
c. Membership Committee report
Chuck Antoniak
Chuck was absent so there was no report.
d. Education Committee report
Lyle McCurdy
Lyle had nothing new to report.
e. Student Activities report (CPP Stu Ch
and C&S/ED Stu Br Ch activities) Lyle
McCurdy
Lyle had nothing new to report.
f. Student-chapter officer reports or
requests, if any Student Rep(s)
None of the student representatives were
present so there was no report.
g. PACE activities report (co-sponsor
Larry Dalton to PACE, Seattle) Bill
Holbrook
Larry Dalton agreed to go to the
conference in Seattle for us and we would pay ½ of the expenses (Metro section
to pay the rest?). The group
recommends that Larry come to speak to us at a section meeting about the
conference. Lyle agreed to speak to
Larry about this.
h. GOLD activities report
anyone?
There was nothing new to report.
i. AP/MTT Chapter report
Chuck Antoniak
Chuck was absent so there was no report.
j. Circuits & Systems/Electronic
Devices Chapter report TariqQayyum
Tariq was absent so there was no report.
k. Awards Committee report
Keith Reno
There was nothing new to report.
l. Section Webmaster report Bill Holbrook
Bill reported that he added a PACE section
page on H1B to our website. He also
added links to careers sites to help our members.
He still needs more content for the chapter and sub-committee pages.
III.
Old Business
a. Update on Joint Foothill Section and
LAC meeting at DeVry U, Sat, 03/15/03
Art, Lyle, others
See IIa, above.
b. Update on CIS/ECET Wireless Telecom
Symposium at CPP (Fri, May 2nd, 03) Lyle
McCurdy
There was a discussion about whether or
not the section should pay for members to attend the May 3rd symposium.
The consensus was that each member should pay his/her own way.
IV.
New Business
a.
Begin planning for next Mathcounts competition
Art Sutton
Lyle reported that Art will try to get the
competition moved to Cal Poly next year.
b.
Begin planning for next Future City competition
Chuck Antoniak
Chuck was absent so there was no report.
c. Begin planning for next Boy Scout Day
at CPP Art
Art was absent so there was no report.
d. Other?
There was some discussion about
resurrecting the practice of having IEEE booths at malls during National
Engineers Week to promote engineering. Keith
agreed to check with IECES to determine if they would like to sponsor this next
year.
There was discussion of possible future
section meeting topics. Holbrook
agreed to look into a speaker for October to talk about the battlefield internet
used during the Iraq war. See
updated meeting plan, below.
e. Next Section EXCOM Meeting
Lyle
The next EXCOM meeting is scheduled for
June 12th at IHOP.
V.
Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned by the Chair at
8:35 pm.
VI.
Actions [Note: Action items
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 were closed in minutes of previous
meetings]
2.
All officers need to review and comment on the website content.
Open. 9/7—This includes
trying out the feedback form. 11/14—Bill
reported that only 6 responses have been received on the feedback form and that
it is now “disconnected”. OPEN
8.
Sedlar and McCurdy to work the arrangements for the October meeting.
9/7—Pspice and Matlab on a Saturday most likely 9am-Noon.
OPEN 11/14—Will work for
the March meeting. OPEN
14. 11/14—All
to search for the latest bylaws and send out to the other officers.
OPEN
15. 11/14—Sedlar
to get a new list of GOLD members to MCurdy and check to see if Bob Burnett is
in our section. OPEN
16. 4/10—Sedlar
to send RCPS Mathcounts press release to Holbrook for inclusion on website.
Closed on 4/11.
17. 4/10—Sedlar
to send e-mail reminder to members about May 2 workshop and about accessing our
website. Closed 4/11.
18. 4/10—McCurdy
to arrange for Larry Dalton to speak to the section on the Seattle PACE
conference at a June Section meeting at IHOP.
OPEN
19. 4/10—McCurdy
to setup a Sept Section meeting on careers.
OPEN
20. 4/10—Holbrook
to arrange for speaker on careers from his PACE contacts.
OPEN
21. 4/10—All
chapter and sub-committee chairs to provide Holbrook with web page content about
their groups. OPEN
22. 4/10—Reno
to check with IECES to determine if they would like to sponsor mall
presentations during National Engineers Week next year
OPEN
23. 4/10—Holbrook
to arrange for speaker on Combat Internet for Oct section meeting.
OPEN
Tentative Planning Calendar for Foothill
Section
Jan 03 Earthquake Network meeting (Perry)
Done
Feb 03
ICES Dinner Meeting (Reno) Done;
Mathcounts (Sutton/Sedlar) Done; Boy
Scout Day (Sutton) Done
Mar 03
Cal Poly Nasa Incubator Center (Sutton) Done
Apr 03
Dark
May 03
Cal Poly; Wireless Telecom
Symposium, CPP, 05/02/03 (Lyle) Done
Jun 03
Larry Dalton on PACE meeting in Seattle—McCurdy to arrange
OPEN
Jul 03
Dark
Aug 03
Dark
Sep 03
Careers Presentation—Holbrook to arrange
OPEN
Oct 03
Combat Internet—Holbrook to arrange
OPEN
Nov 03
TBD
Dec 03
TBD
Recorded and submitted by;
Michael Sedlar, Secretary 2003
Please provide all corrections and/or
comments to Mike as soon as possible