From: Lilley, Richard [rlilley@harris.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 11:15 AM
To: 'r3-excom1999@ieee.org'
Cc: 'r.d.lilley@ieee.org'
Subject: Melbourne Section Report

Melbourne FL Section Report
March 1999 SECon
Richard Lilley, Chairman

1. Activities continuing as normal. We are working to establish a computer
chapter this year. We are also working closely with the FIT student chapter to
get it up and running. The section continues to have problems recruiting
volunteers.  

2. No speaker in January. Our February speaker was Paul Austin from Harris Corp.
He discusses the application of commercial CMOS integrated circuits in
traditional RAD Hard environments (mainly space). The speaker was well received
with a turnout of 21 members. 

3. The March speaker was Tony Awtrey from Awtrey consulting. He gave an
excellent presentation on Home Networking. This included a tutorial on basic
networking, various options (coax, phone lines, power lines, wireless, etc). He
also discussed performance and problems. Extremely well received - attended by
48 members. 

4. The section co-sponsored Engineers Week activities with the FIT student
chapter and ASME. The week long activities included student project
presentations, lab tours and a speaker who gave a presentation on Network
Security.