IEEE Foothill Section

EXCOM Minutes for March 2002

Subject: Foothill Section Executive Committee (EXCOM) Minutes for 7 March 2002

I. Call to Order 
The meeting was called to order by the Chair, Lyle McCurdy at 6:45 pm
a. Quorum Review. 
A quorum was present. The following officers and guests attended the meeting:
Lyle McCurdy, Art Sutton, Keith Reno, Mike Sedlar, Bill Holbrook, Dave Perry, and Tariq Qayyum. Steve Powell was introduced as a member of CIS at Cal Poly. Rosia Pan was introduced as a representative from Aerojet (now Northrop Grumman).

b. Approval of minutes
The minutes of the January 10th meeting were approved with minor corrections; item IIg--should be Gerald Hayler of Cal Poly, item IVg CLCPE is correct.

c. Approval of Agenda--new items to add to the agenda? 
Dave requested an add-on to item IVb and Steve requested that we add item IVe. See these items under New Business, below.

II. Section and Committee Reports
a. Section Report
1. Region 6 Meeting at Las Vegas NV (attachment #1 to the agenda).
Lyle and Bill attended. Bill reported on the meeting. Over 30 papers are available on disk. Bill has four copies of the disk and provided one to the secretary. The message of the meeting was that we need to enable and serve our members.

2. Eng Council Awards Banquet (attachment #2)
Lyle was coerced by Larry Dalton into attending this meeting. It was not very interesting.

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

Mike requested that new signature cards be provided next month and that a treasurer's address change be provided to the bank (Art Sutton is the new Treasurer). Mike also reported that the CY2001 Treasurer's report was filled with HQ on time.

c. Membership Committee Report Chuck Antoniak
Chuck was not present, so there was no report.

d. Education Committee Report Lyle McCurdy
We still need to send the student leaders their awards for the Roy Siegal fund. We have an address for Kelly and need to send a check.

e. PACE Report Bill Holbrook
Bill Holbrook reported that there was a PACE meeting Sunday in Las Vegas. He provided a separate report. The theme of the meeting was finding jobs/unemployment. Congress has shifted R&D budgets from the hard sciences to "soft sciences" like environmental). Now we are trying to get the $ back. There are 5 active committees in IEEE-USA and all members are encouraged to sign-up on the webpages. There are intern programs in Washington for children of IEEE members. There are some plans for engineering employment assistance by state--not much for CA, but OR has an active program.

Next PACE meeting is April 12-14 in Dallas Texas.

f. Awards Report Keith Reno
Nothing to report. Dave Perry suggested that we provide an award to the Earthquake Center for 5 years of accomplishments. He will e-mail a proposal to Keith for discussion at the May EXCOM.

g. AP/MTT Chapter Report
Art reported that the planned joint meeting needs funds for food. Art made a motion to provide up to $100 and Keith seconded the motion. The motion was passed.

h. Circuits and Systems/Electronic Devices Chapter Report Tariq Qayyum
Tariq reported that there will be a meeting on April 18th at Maury Microwave, hosted by Dick Webb.

Tariq/Lyle requested that the section provide a $500 loan to buy software for students (BSquare logic design software at $35/person). This request was previously approved by the committee, but it was 1-2 years ago. Art moved and Tariq seconded a motion to provide the loan. The motion was passed. The money will not be needed until September.

i. Student Activities Report Art Sutton
There has been no contact yet with Mudd or DeVry. Lyle is willing to repeat the SPICE course again next quarter.

j. Inland Empire Council of Engineers and Scientists (IECES) Report Keith Reno
Frank DeMartino CEO of Parsons was the speaker and provided an interesting talk about security, and terrorism in the wake of 9/11. Six members received rebates from the treasurer for attending the meeting.

III. Old Business

a. Need for Section Committee officers--Education Committee, Student Activities Committee Lyle McCurdy
We need to get help for Chuck, Lyle, Art, and Bill (each has two jobs). Dick Webb was suggested for Membership with Chuck possibly moving to Education.

b. LA Council Report--ECI, WESCON 2002, can we help (attachment #3 to the agenda) Ray Aker, Art Sutton
Another meeting is scheduled for Saturday March 9--Working on an agreement. ECI employees have threatened to walk if IEEE takes over. A win-win situation is needed. The IEEE president has talked to the LAC. The LAC wants sections to get involved with WESCON this year including volunteers, sponsoring meetings, etc. Mike should send out a request to the members.

c. Trip Report and funding request for Lyle's attendance at CIEC 2002 (agenda attachment #4) Lyle McCurdy
Lyle spend $1486.38 and wants the section to cover 1/2 or $724.88. There was lots of discussion about getting budgets pre-approved, etc. Art moved that we provide $600 and that Lyle would cover the rest. Bill seconded the motion and it was passed.

d. Student Chapter Awards Art Sutton
Art will get "Del mar's" address so the he can get his award.

IV. New Business

a. Recognition for Foothill Section's support of Mathcounts and Future Cities competitions? Lyle McCurdy
We're not mentioned in the SF Valley agenda (see attachment 2b). We need to advertise our presence more. We also still need a Mathcounts leader.

b. Section Technical Meeting--Seismic Net Interpretation, May 16, 2002 confirmed Dave Perry
Dave reported that the date was confirmed but details of the topic have not been firmed up. This is needed by the end of March to get into the LAC bulletin for May. Dave also reported that he is moving to Pomona and will be renting out the house in West Covina.

c. Future Speaker Sources
1. IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program (agenda attachment #5) Lyle McCurdy
2. JPL Speakers Bureau (agenda attachment #6) Lyle McCurdy
Art suggested that we investigate SafeTrans for a section meeting, possibluy in June. Rosia also offered a meeting at the former Aerojet for June. She will work out the details.

d. Set next Executive Committee meeting. May 2nd or with Tech meeting on May 16? Lyle McCurdy
The group agreed on May 2nd at IHOP.

e. Other
Steve Powell of CIS is planning a symposium at Cal Poly re: Wireless Telecommunications and seeks our support. Art moved that we sponsor and advise. Mike seconded the motion and it was passed.

Steve also requested support for a joint Masters Degree Program to cover Telecommunications and Computer Networking. Art/Lyle/Steve agreed to hold a side meting on this since it is more of a Cal Poly issue than and IEEE issue.

V. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned by the Chair at 9:03 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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