ExCom Minutes for 21 March 2006
The following minutes capture the highlights of the Foothill
Section Executive Committee (EXCOM) Meeting held at
the IHOP Restaurant in Upland, CA on 21 March, 2006.
I.
Administrative I
Call to order, Quorum review, Approval of minutes and Agenda
The meeting was called to order by the Chair, Bill Holbrook at 6:57
pm.
A quorum was present including: Dave Perry, Mike Sedlar, Bill
Holbrook, Keith Reno, Carol Daniell, Chuck Antoniak,
Tom Cylkowski, Tariq Qayyum, Lyle McCurdy, Ilir Progri,
Sophia, and Art Sutton.
Mike Sedlar presented the 7 February 2006 minutes. And they were approved “as delivered”.
II. Section
Business Meeting (Topics Listed in Suggested Order of
Priority)
a. Boy Scout Day 2007
Discussions and planning
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Recommend that
Foothill Section continues the recently discontinued
Cal Poly event for IEEE related Boy Scout merit
badges;
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Electricity
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Electronics
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Radio
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Computer Science
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Other?
There was a lot of discussion.
In previous years Cal Poly charged $15/boy and
did not provide them with lunch (only the instructors
got lunches)—the group could not figure out where
the money went. It
was generally agreed that facilities and instructors
are key to pulling off the event.
It would be held on the first Saturday in
February 2007. Cal
Poly and DeVry are possible venues.
Art agreed to contact Tina and the Dean of
Engineering at Cal Poly to find out if they can
support the event with facilities.
Bill offered to contact DeVry (Moria Dishner
(sp?) Is the president there) if the Cal Poly venue
does not work out.
Tariq volunteered for Computer Science Merit
Badge instructor.
We also need to get the student chapters
involved—the students have been very helpful in
teaching and mentoring the scouts in previous years
and could assume a larger role.
Jamie is now the chair of the student
engineering council and should be contacted.
It is urgent to get this moving—it will take
a lot of planning and early advertising to pull it
off.
b. April 01 Southern
Area Meeting, CSU Northridge
·
Foothill Section
Report (review chairman’s update)—Tom or Art will
cover the report
·
Volunteer
attendees
·
Volunteer Student
Paper judges—Tom has agreed to volunteer to judge
·
Student Paper
Prizes—The So Area (Erimita) has agreed to pay for
them
c. Brainstorming for
Section Meeting events for the remainder of 2006
·
Ideas already
suggested by some of the embers as noted;
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Re-establishing
co-meetings with chapters and student branches—Tariq
is working on a NASA presentation at the end of May
o
Engineering in
Egypt (Dave Perry has a contact)—Sophia volunteered
for June
o
Engineering in
Iraq (Art Sutton has a contact)—plan for May 16th
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Other (please be
thinking of possibilities between now and
Tuesday)—Bill Holbrook in the Fall—Aircraft
protection from MANPADS (based on a scanning reticule
developed by the Nazis)
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The possibility of
an SBIR conference was suggested and discussed—it
might be possible to get speakers from government
agencies.
d. Dave Perry overview
of his 5 day energy conference plans
Dave provided a Power Point presentation with an overview of a
possible 5 day conference on energy including global
warming, energy use, and reasons for a large
conference. He
anticipates spending 3-4 years to prepare for this
conference. Corporate,
IEEE and other engineering organizations are potential
sponsors. See
the Central Coast Section website for more details.
Dave will provide more details in his talk at
the Section meeting on April 18th.
e. Chapter and Student
Brach business items followed by Committee business
items
There were no student representatives present.
f. Summary Report
about the 2006 IEEE-USA Leadership Workshop in St.
Louis
The Workshop was held 3-5 March ands Bill Holbrook represented the
Section. See
the IEEE-USA website for the presentations provided at
the workshop. See
Bill’s summary of the Workshop (attached)
III.
Administrative II
The next EXCOM meeting (short) was selected for April 18th
to coincide with the Section meeting.
The meeting was adjourned by the Chair at 9:06 pm.
Recorded and submitted by;
Michael Sedlar, Secretary 2006
Please provide all corrections and/or comments to Mike as soon as
possible
Summary of OPEN Foothill Section
Executive Committee Motions for
2005-2006
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Motion and Date |
Moved |
Seconded |
Approved |
Completed (check No. and Date, if applicable) |
Comments |
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04/14/05:
Lyle
presented a proposal for the Section to sponsor
a wine and cheese reception at the Annual ASEE/PSW
Conference to be held at Cal Poly April 20-2,
2006. $500
was requested.
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Lyle moved that the money be allocated |
and Tom seconded. |
The motion was carried unanimously. |
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06/09/05:
Provide
the BTS05/CTS06 funding as suggested (BTS --$500
COMSOC and $500 from AP/MTT for a reception,
CTS--$500 COMSOC) and Lyle seconded suggesting
that perhaps we could get some PACE $.
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Mike
moved |
Lyle
Seconded |
The motion was carried unanimously. |
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06/09/05:
Provide funding for WTS06 at $1000 for
the Section sponsorship, $500 for COMSOC, and
$500 for AP/MTT. |
Lyle
Moved |
Tom
Seconded |
and the motion was carried unanimously. |
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08/11/05:
Jim
Wyler of the San Gabriel Valley chapter has
requested $100 from our chapter to help support
a joint AP/MTT meeting at Cal Tech. |
Chuck so moved, |
Lyle seconded, |
and the motion was carried unanimously. |
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08/11/05:
LAC
is asking each section to provide $150 for
student paper awards at AutoTestCon.
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Lyle so moved, |
Mike seconded, |
and the motion was carried unanimously. |
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02/07/06
The Section
to pay for Keith and Carol’s dinners as our
official representatives at the ICES banquet. |
Chuck moved and |
Tom seconded |
and the motion was carried unanimously. |
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02/07/06
SWIFT
(Michael Wong) sent a request for $250 to fund a
Networking Workshop to be held at Cal Poly on
Sat 2/18 (see paper provided). |
Art moved and |
Mike seconded a motion to provide the funds, |
and the motion was carried unanimously. |
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02/07/06
PACE
Meeting 3-5 March in St Louis.
Bill is going and will get re-imbursed,
but he needs some seed money;
Air fare at $242, Hotel at $254 and
Conference Fees at $350 for a total of about
$846. |
Art Moved to advance the money to Bill with the understanding
that IEE/PACE will re-imburse most of it. |
and Tom seconded |
The motion was carried unanimously. |
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02/07/06
Netmeeting for future Section meetings. Tom agreed to look into the costs involved. |
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