From Rosenheck@aol.com Wed Apr  5 22:27:50 2000
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:49:16 EDT
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Subject: FWCS report to FC

Florida West Coast Section Report:

1.  Section reports for 1999 and the slate of new officers for 2000 were 
completed and submitted to HQ on time.

2.  Our section awards and recognition banquet was held aboard the Starlite 
Princess Riverboat in January, 2000. Millennium awards, local educator awards 
and Section awards were handed out while our members enjoyed an evening of 
dinner, dancing and inland waterway cruising.

3.  In February, along with 16 other Engineering Organizations from the Tampa 
Bay area we celebrated Engineers week with a Dinner banquet at the Biltmore 
hotel in Clearwater. Our Section also celebrated Engineers Week with a joint 
Section and PES/IAS Luncheon.

4.  We held monthly Executive Committee meetings to plan and coordinate 
section activities and continue to cosponsor meetings with the ASME, 
International Council on System Engineering, ISA and American Society on 
Quality. Since the beginning of the year have held a record 19 meetings.  
This month we are exploring start up of a Life Member Chapter and will hold 
an organizational meeting in the Sarasota area. Having surveyed our members 
we found there are many retirees in the Sections Southern area (Sarasota and 
Fort Myers) who would like to participate in IEEE activities. 

5.  We continue to have two active student branches, EE's and Computer 
Science. Both groups are USF based, active and well represented at our 
monthly ExCom meetings. Last month we cosponsored with USF College of 
Engineering an Industry/government/education forum (very successful) and due 
to careful student pricing and marketing we signed up some 52 new student 
IEEE members! 

6.  Our Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Conference 
preparations continue on track and from all indications it should be very 
successful. Pick up a FWCS SIGNAL newsletter and fill out the registration 
form. May 7-11, 2000.

Regards, 
Al Rosenheck
FWCS Chair