From: Hill, Donald W [DHILL@ppd.uky.edu] Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 1:41 PM To: Region 3 Excomm 98 Cc: Green, Dave (UAB); steve bryant Subject: PAOC Com Report to Excomm Your Professional Activities Operating Committee has been moving ahead on several fronts this year. We found and lost our vice chair, Dave Hulett, to a job opportunity move another IEEE Region; our loss is their gain. George McClure, as our Professional Activities Committee for Engineers chair, has moved on more fronts than space allows to list here. George provided leadership and training at the annual PACE conference attended by many of you. George is our expert at pensions and labor issues that come before Congress and serves on several national committees for the benefit of all IEEE members. George prepared a list of excellent PACE programs for you to execute in your section, area, or society. Call George (g.mcclure@ieee.org) or myself(d.w.hill@ieee.org) to get another copy of the programs or more information on presenting these programs to your members. Lee Stogner has requested your immediate attention to the H-1B issue before Congress. As of today, IEEE did poorly. Congress combined the H-1B issue into the monster 99 budget bill and passed both (and who knows what else) yesterday. We will continue to take our ideas before Congress for further consideration. Vernon Powers continues his energetic activities to benefit all IEEE members, even those outside our Region. Vernon has refreshed the Electro Technology Industrial(ETI) database. Please continue to spread the word about this membership benefit. Anyone planning on a job change, across town, your state, the Region, or the country should consult the database for potential employers. David Green has guided the technical execution the database throughout the year and received an IEEE-USA award for his efforts. Charles Lord has successfully planned and held a member professional awareness conference(M- PAC) in North Carolina. Charles is ready to share his plan with any member entity that wishes to have such a conference in your area. Kathy Drevik has joined our committee to support pre-college education. Kathy will use her experiences in TN to train more of us about pre-college education and how to enhance it in our areas of responsibilities. Guy Meador hit the ground running with our PAOC Awards program and hasn't looked back. Guy wants your input and will be calling on each of you to help recognize the individuals in your area that deserve a 'pat on the back' from the Region or IEEE-USA. Lee Stogner and his committee members prepared and executed an excellent PACE conference this year. The conference format changed this year; the conference is not just a training meeting for PACE chairs, but a full fledged conference to benefit any technically minded individual. As you know, IEEE- USA was born this year. We now have our national organization under the IEEE umbrella. The PACE conference will become a self funded conference and draw many interested individuals beyond the PACE network. Dale Caston, our Director, recommends and I encourage each Regional IEEE organization to review George McClure's PACE projects list, pick one for immediate implementation, and then find a good project to sink your teeth into for spring 1999. I will be asking about your success stories in the near future. Don Hill, chair PAOC