Miami Section of IEEE 
Section Report to the 
Florida Council and Region 3 Spring Meetings 
March 30-April 1, 2001 
Clemson, SC 

All section reports for the 2000 (officer's report, financial report and
activities reports) were submitted to headquarters on time.  

The section holds monthly EXCOM meetings during which, we discuss
current and planned section/chapter activities. We are in need of
volunteers and we need help in recruiting them (any ideas will be
appreciated). We are looking for EM Chapter chair and we are hopeful
that we will be able to fill this position soon.  

We have had several good activities and good news to report in the past
few months: 

	a. The section has awarded several deserving members awards for
outstanding engineer (Mr. Hassan Younes), outstanding educator (Dr.
Malcolm Heimer), outstanding service (Dr. Moez Tapia) and long life
achievement (Dr. Tazy Young) awards during the annual awards banquet
last November. 
	b. Dr. Nand Tripathi Won the PES outstanding PES Engineer Award
from the Power Engineering Society.  
	c. The PES chapter won the high performing chapter award by IEEE
PES and a check for $1000.00 
	d. The Communication Society chapter also won a high performing
chapter award and a check for $500.00. 
	e. We have conducted several technical, social and professional
activities during the Engineers Week this year in collaboration with
other engineering societies. 
	f. Society chapters in the section are conducting good technical
activities and field trips and inviting outside speakers. 
	g. The students branches are conducting good activities and
membership drives and are seeing moderate increase in student membership
at local universities.  
	h. IEEE President will visit the Miami Section on April 9, 2001
for a lunchtime lecture and interaction with section membership and
students. 
	i. The Miami Section Web site is now up and running at
https://ieee.aln.fiu.edu/ 

The section participated in community service through its
participation with the diversity program at FIU and was able to help
obtain a continuation on the Geer-UP grant from the US Department of
Education.  The Geer-UP project is focused at enhancing and following
the education of young minds and encouraging students to choose and
learn more about careers in Math, Science and Engineering. The program
is being implemented at two Homestead-area Junior High Schools. We are
also assisting in similar programs to assist young students in other
Miami geographical areas and will report on that soon. The section
will continue its participation in more activities that will enhance
the electrical and computer engineering profession as well as
activities that involve the community, students and deal with issues
of concern to the membership.

Osama A. Mohammed, Ph.D. 
Section Chair 
O.mohammed@ieee.org