IEEE Foothill Section

EXCOM Minutes for January 2002

IEEE Foothill Section Executive Committee (EXCOM) Minutes for January 10, 2002

I. Call to Order 
The meeting was called to order by the Chair, Lyle McCurdy at 6:40 pm
a. Quorum Review. 
A quorum was present. The following officers and guests attended the meeting:
Lyle McCurdy, Art Sutton, Keith Reno, Keith's guest, Dick Webb, Mike Sedlar, Ray Aker, Chuck Antoniak, and Tariq Qayyum. Dick Webb was introduced as a new engineer at Maury Microwave who is interested in serving in the section. Tariq Qayyum of Cal Poly was introduced as the new Chair and advisor of the Circuits and Systems/Electronic Devices Chapter.

b. Approval of minutes
The minutes of the Dec. 6th meeting were approved with minor corrections.

c. Approval of Agenda--new items to add to the agenda? 
Mike Sedlar requested that several items be added. See added items under New Business, below.

II. Section and Committee Reports
a. Section Report
The new slate of officers elected at the December meeting was presented as follows:
Section Chair Lyle McCurdy (909) 869-2525 lbmccurdy@csupomona.edu
Chapter Chair, AP/MTT Chuck Antoniak (909) 273-4947 antoniakce@corona.navy.mil
Chapter Chair, Circuits and Sys Tariq Qayyum (909) 869-2546 taqayyum@csupomona.edu
Section Vice Chair Bill Holbrook (909) 945-1208 bill_holbrook@msn.com
Secretary Mike Sedlar (909) 868-2463 mfsedlar@rockwellcollins.com
Treasurer Art Sutton (909) 869-2524 awsutton@csupomona.edu
Membership Chuck Antoniak (909) 273-4947 c.antoniak@ieee.org
Professional Bill Holbrook (909) 945-1208 bill_holbrook@msn.com
Publicity Mike Sedlar (909) 868-2463 mfsedlar@rockwellcollins.com
Education Lyle McCurdy (909) 869-2525 lbmccurdy@csupomona.edu
Student Activities Art Sutton (909) 869-2524 awsutton@csupomona.edu
Awards Keith Reno (909) 886-9412 kreno@concentric.net
IECES Representative Keith Reno (909) 886-9412 kreno@concentric.net

Ray Aker also reported on the LAC meeting of Dec 8th. The LAC members prefer the ECI continue to operate with autonomy to plan and operate WESCON each year. The IEEE regional and national directors prefer to dissolve ECI and plan and operate WESCON with IEEE employees (who might be hired from ECI). There will be another meeting next week at Manhattan Beach and on the 19th with IEEE headquarters. The plan is to prepare a memorandum of understanding on the issue between the LAC, ECI, and IEEE headquarters.

There is a Region VI meeting in LasVegas on Feb 1-3 at the Crown Plaza Hotel. The section should be represented.

b. Treasurer's Report
The outgoing Treasurer, Mike Sedlar reported on the amounts in the Section accounts.

Ray reported that for 2002 we need to have an up to date bank signature card with the regional finance officer included on the card. Mike Sedlar reported that the card includes the IEEE exec, but does not include all of the current officers. Mike made a motion that the signature card(s) be updated to include the slate of officers that was voted in last December. The motion was seconded by Art Sutton and passed unanimously.

c. Membership Committee Report
Bill Holbrook was not present, but Mike Sedlar reported that from the National Database we have 1418 active members and 2078 total members in the Foothill Section as of 31 Dec, 2001.

d. Education Committee Report
Anyone can nominate a course and get a VHS tape for training--this is not just tied to students. We may want to consider sponsoring a seminar at WESCON as part of member education.

e. PACE Report
Bill Holbrook was not in attendance so there was no report.

f. AP/MTT Chapter Report
Dick Webb has agreed to become acting Secretary/Treasurer for the Chapter. It was pointed out that we actually only have one treasurer for the section and the chapters do not have separate accounts.

g. Circuits and Systems/Electronic Devices Chapter Report
Darryl Hayden (?) of Cal Poly will act as Chapter Secretary/Treasurer. Since this Chapter reports into the LAC and is treated like a section, reports will have to be filled by the end of February (officer list, meeting report, financial report). There will be a chapter meeting in March.

h. Student Activities Report
We still need to get all of the names and addresses of the student chairs to be able to send them their $50 awards in honor of Roy Siegal. Art will try to find out who the chair is at Harvey Mudd. IEEE National also needs a list of advisors and student chairs for each student branch in 2002. Lyle will hold a seminar on "How to use SPICE" on Jan 31st.

i. Program Committee Report
Future Cities--Chuck reported that he has had no contacts lately. The competition is Sat Jan 26th at the LA Science Museum.
Mathcounts--Last organizational meeting coming up Jan 26th. The competition is Feb 23rd at Cardon School in Whittier. Ray is trying to find someone to take over the program as coordinator since he is moving out of the area. There is a possibility that Rockwell Collins could host the competition in 2003.
February--Will be the IECES Dinner to celebrate Engineers Week 2002. At the Univ of Redlands in the Casa Loma Room on Feb 20th. The topic is Military Preparedness as applied to the commercial sector. Several motions were proposed about paying for the dinner of the members who attend the IECES meeting. The final proposal was made by Art and seconded by Keith to pay for the first 10 members who attend the dinner including spouses. The motion passed unanimously.
March or April will be Earthquake topics from Dave Perry or a Joint Section and AP/MTT Chapter meeting at Maury Microwave.

j. Awards Committee Report
Keith is going to concentrate on getting more Senior Members signed up. We have only 48 in the section per the national database. The IAE Fellowship award for Bill Holbrook should be in the mail now.

III. Old Business

a. Need for Section Committee officers--Education Committee, Student Activities Committee
We have a "full slate" of officers but only because some people are doing more than one job. It would be much better to have more people involved, especially younger people.

b. Update on LAC Activities including ECI, and WESCON 2002
See Section report, above.

c. Student Chapter Chair Awards
See Student Activities report, above.

IV. New Business

a. Should the section rent a mailbox? There was some discussion, but it was decided that a mailbox was not needed. It would be too hard to coordinate access to it, etc.

b. Set next Executive Committee meeting.
We agreed to meet every other month with the March date tentatively agreed to as March 7th at IHOP. Confirmation will be sent to all via e-mail. Any other issues that come up between meetings will be handled via e-mail.

c. (Added) Cal Poly students to participate in Engineers Week events at Rockwell Collins?
Mike asked if the student chapters at Cal Poly would like to send representatives to help with the Eng Week activities at Rockwell Collins or perhaps to participate (students going head to head with engineers in the competitions?). It turns out that Cal Poly has already planned its events for 2002, including an event where the students estimate how long it will take for a block of ice to melt. It may be possible to coordinate something for 2003.

d. (Added) Mike Sedlar to forward job opportunities for RF engineers to AP/MTT chapter members?
The committee agreed that Mike could forward some job opportunities for RF engineers to the AP/MTT members, without endorsing the opportunities, just providing them as information for our members.

e. Keith Reno reported that IECES dues for the section are due for 2002 and IECES also has no record of us paying the 2001 dues. Keith made a motion to pay the dues for 2001 and 2002 at $50 per year. The motion was seconded by Chuck Antoniak and was passed unanimously.

f. All agreed that it would be a good idea to get a gavel for the chair to use at the meetings. We should check to find what we can order from National and also ex-chairs should check at home because we used to have a gavel.

g. Art made a motion that the section fund $150/each for up to 4 meetings of the CLCPE instead of getting the LAC to pay. The motion was seconded by Chuck and passed.

h. Ray expressed his thanks for all of the support that the officers provided to him during his terms. Lyle also commended Ray for his efforts as past Chair and thanked him for a job well done with a tremendous accolade. He also stated that we wish him well in his new role as LAC Chair which includes much more responsibility.

V. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned by the Chair at 9:07 pm.

Recorded and submitted by;

Michael Sedlar, Section Secretary 2002

Please provide all corrections and/or comments to Mike as soon as possible.
 
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