Area 6 Report: Fall 2001
Lowell Brothers

The Alabama Section chaired by Greg Vaughn is having an excellent year
with some outstanding programs on interesting topics such as "Are Cell
Phones Safe", "Intelligent Vehicles", "Supercapacitors", "Planetary
Exploration", and "Engineering Ethics".  The Section has completed a
strong Long Range Plan for 2002-2007 which addresses the section's
strengths, opportunities and weaknesses and provides a road map to
insure the section meets the needs of the members while growing the
section and supporting Region 3 and the IEEE at the same time.  One of
the key components of the plan is to host the Spring 2002 Vehicular
Technology Conference (VTC) at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel on May
4-9, 2002.  This conference will provide attendees the opportunity to
hear and see technical papers and posters, tutorials and exhibits that
represent technical inn0ovation and applications associated with an
ever-expanding mobile wireless industry.  The section is also having
regular technical society meetings in the areas of Industry
Applications, Communications, and Power.

The Huntsville Section chaired by Eric Grigorian started a Joint
Communication/APS/MTT Society with anticipated monthly meetings for
the rest of the year.  The Section is actively engaged in preparation
for the 2002 AUTOTESTCON which will be held in October 2002 in
Huntsville.  The Section also will be sponsoring a Conference on
Advances of Signal Processing for Military Applications in October of
2002.  The Section also approved submitting a proposal to AES for
hosting 2003 RADARCON in May of 2003 in Huntsville.

The Mobile Section, chaired by Marie Prosser, has been on summer break
but does plan three more meetings for the year.  The meeting for
December may be a joint meeting with the Mobile Chapter of the Alabama
Society of Professional Engineers to talk about the current state of
ABET.

No reports available from the Mississippi Section or the Montgomery
Subsection.  If any are received later they will be forwarded.