IEEE Foothill Section

EXCOM Minutes for September 2003

The following minutes capture the highlights of the Foothill Section Executive Committee (EXCOM) Meeting held at the International House of Pancakes Restaurant (IHOP) in Upland, CA on September 11th 2003.

I.  Call to Order

The meeting was called to order by the Chair, Lyle McCurdy at 7:15 pm. 

a. Quorum review    Lyle McCurdy

A quorum was present.  The following officers and guests attended the meeting; 

Lyle McCurdy, Mike Sedlar, Tariq Qayyum, Steve Powell, Bill Holbrook, Charles Antoniak, Walt Whipple, Keith Reno, Carol (Keith’s friend), Art Sutton, and Jay Park. 

b. Approval of minutes Mike Sedlar

Mike presented the August 21st minutes.  It was moved and seconded to accept the minutes as written, and the motion was approved. 

c. Approval of agenda - any new items or changes?   Lyle McCurdy

No changes were proposed.

II. Section and committee Reports

a.       Chair's report (update on LAC; WESCON 04; committee reports) Lyle

Lyle reported that he attended the 9/6 meeting on WESCON.  They are trying to produce a “surplus” next year.  Next LAC meeting is 9/13.  Lyle has turned down LAC chair but may run for treasurer.  Don Mare will run for Chair, Walt for Publicity chair

b. Treasurer's report   Art Sutton

Art reported that Scout Day is first Saturday in February.  Mathcounts will be held at Cal Poly with Math dept. professors and students to help.  Art will bring a signup card to next EXCOM for PFF bank.  No account status was available.

c. Membership Committee report  Chuck Antoniak

Chuck will consider SAMIEEE web training so that he can gather membership data more readily.

d. Education Committee report   Lyle McCurdy

None.

e. Student Activities report (DeVry, Cal Poly Pomona, Harvey Mudd, UC Riverside)   Lyle McCurdy

Art reported that Molinder (?) will talk to Harvey Mudd about re-starting their branch.

f. Student-chapter reports or requests, if any  Student Rep(s) present

None—no student leaders were present.

g. PACE activities report  Bill Holbrook

Bill reported that he sent in a request for $500 PACE funds for Mathcounts and it is confusing in the forms about whether we are requesting for future or past event funding.  He also planned to request $100 for Future Cities, but we never spent that much before.  Chuck confirmed that this was too much and that we should get LAC to get the trophies and present them if they plan to tie presentations into their Eng Week dinner and to continue to reward students in LA vs. Inland Empire.

h. GOLD activities report   anyone?

We have a member who is interested in GOLD (requested via e-mail)  

i. AP/MTT Chapter report    Chuck Antoniak

Nothing new to report.

j. Circuits & Systems/Electronic Devices Chapter report TariqQayyum

Tariq reported that the next meeting will be in November or earlier.  He looked into holding something at the Chino Planes of Fame Air museum perhaps tied into electronic systems used in legacy aircraft and found that they have no experts in avionics systems and cannot guarantee which docents will be there on any given day.  They want $6.50 each for parties of 10 or more.

k. Communication Chapter Report  Steve Powell

14 people have signed up.  An official approval for the chapter was received from IEEE National.  Steve is the interim Chair.  We agreed that our Oct EXCOM meeting will be a joint Comm Chapter Exec meeting and we will focus on organizing the chapter.  We need to consider what the chapter will specialize in.  We also need to consider if we will get an affiliated student chapter with CPP ECE, ENG, Computer Science and a new org vs. SWIFT.

l. Awards Committee report  Keith Reno

Nothing new to report.

m. Section Webmaster report Bill Holbrook

Bill reported that he added the info for Walt’s symposium and will update to the latest info he receives from Walt.  Bill will also add a page on the new Comm Chapter.  

III. Old Business

a.       Update on new-officer ballot/selection/nominations (use of e-mail ballot?) Keith Reno

(propose d new officer slate—Chair: Holbrook, VC: Qayyum, Secy: Sedlar: Treas: Sutton

We discussed options including regular mail (too much work and too much money), e-mail (preferred so far), bribery (everyone who votes has a chance to win a Palm Pilot).  We agreed that Sedlar will send out a request for nominations with deadline of 10/1.  We will finalize the ballot at the 10/9 EXCOM.  Jay volunteered for Education Chair ((Section education and Student activities)

b.       Update on WTS 2004 (May 14-15, 2004 at Cal Poly & Call for Papers)  Steve Powell

Steve reported that he is trying to get technical committee support from IEE HQ and is looking for more speakers.  A deposit has been placed on the Nixon library for Friday reception 5pm to 12 Midnight.

c.       Update on Broadband Seminar at Cal Poly Pomona  Steve Powell

Meeting to be held Nov 21 at CPP Union with meeting room for 100.  SWIFT and EE student chapter to be involved..  AT&T lab head has been invited.

d.       Update on C/C++ and Job Shop Seminars  Walt Whipple

Walt reported that he has received one registration for C, one for C++.  One member wrote that he wrote a book on job shopping and Walt is evaluating it.  Ad went into the Sept bulletin, will also get in to the Nov bulletin.

e.       Update on Webinars (We based seminars) Mike Sedlar

No progress yet.  Mike will contact HQ about the technology they use and look into Net Meeting.  Steve may be able to get students at CPP to study the alternatives and make a recommendation.  

f.         Planning for Fall activities—see Activities and Planning Calendar, attached including :  all proposed 8/21:  In-Flight Entertainment Systems—Rockwell Collins with dinner (Sedlar/Holbrook), Mathcounts (Sutton), Future Cities (Antoniak), Boy Scout Day (Sutton.Hayler)  

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