From donohoe@ECE.MsState.EDU Wed Dec 1 16:35:25 1999 Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 15:32:39 -0600 From: J. Patrick Donohoe To: Region 3 ExCom 1999 Subject: Student Activities Report - Fall 1999 EXCOM To: Region 3 Executive Committee From: J. Patrick Donohoe Region 3 Student Activities Chair Subject: Student Activities Report for Fall 1999 Region 3 EXCOM Meeting Region 3 conducted three separate Student Branch Leadership Training Workshops this fall at sites spread throughout the Region. These workshops are designed to provide new Student Branch officers with the tools and information necessary to operate an IEEE Student Branch in an efficient manner. The workshop dates, host schools and locations were: Bowling Green, Kentucky (Western Kentucky University), October 2,1999; Birmingham, Alabama (University of Alabama-Birmingham), October 30, 1999; and Daytona, Florida (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), November 13, 1999. The totals for the workshops were 41 attendees who represented 11 student branches. The reviews of the workshops were very positive. The Region 3 Student Conference for 2000 will be held at Southeastcon 2000 on April 7-9 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Student Conference will be hosted jointly by the Student Branches at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State University and Tennessee Tech University. The rules for the Southeastcon 2000 Student Hardware Competition ("Y2K Bug") were distributed at Southeastcon '99. Updates to these rules and other sources of information about the Region 3 Student Conference are being posted on the Southeastcon 2000 website. Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Walcott (Student Branch Counselor at the University of Kentucky) for receiving the 1998-99 Outstanding Branch Counselor Award. This award was one of only 9 presented this year to more than 900 Branch Counselors and 200 Branch Chapter Advisors throughout the world. Dr. Walcott currently serves as Region 3 Student Activities Vice Chair. -- ____________________________________________ J. Patrick Donohoe, Ph.D, P.E. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mississippi State University Box 9571 Mississippi State, MS 39762 Email: donohoe@ece.msstate.edu j.donohoe@ieee.org phone: 601-325-2180 fax: 601-325-2298 ____________________________________________