IEEE - Florida West Coast Section
                            Section Report
                   Activities Ending December 2001

Section 2001/2002 Officers:

Chairman -        Quang Tang, q.tang@ieee.org
Vice Chairman -   James Beall, j.beall@ieee.org
Secretary -       Jules Joslow, jjoslowemi@aol.com
Treasurer -       John Conrad, john.conrad@ieee.org
Section Website - https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/floridawc/

Activities:

Florida West Coast Section has shown a tremendous success for year 2001
with the following activities:

*   Successfully hosted IEEE Power Engineering Society Substation
    Committee Annual Meeting in Tampa,

*   Held nine (9) Section Meetings,

*   Held thirty one (33) Chapters Meetings and seminars,

*   Held one (1) Forum for Combined Industry, Government, and
    Education,

*   Held one (1) Major Banquet with other local Engineering
    Societies - Engineers Week Banquet, 

*   Strong Life Member Chapter with five meetings,

*   Model for Teacher In-Service Series Program with six programs
    presented to teachers,

*   FWCS has been selected to host the IEEE Sections Congress 2005,

*   Distributed Section Newsletters electronically to members with
    over 1,700 email addresses in database,

*   One member, Dr. Robert Ashley, received Region 3 Outstanding
    Service Award,

*   FWCS nominated and won the first IEEE Educational Activities
    Board Pre-College Educator Award,

*   FWCS has submitted nominations for both Florida Council and Region
    3 Awards (Outstanding Service, Educator, and Engineer of the
    Year).

Major accomplishments are IEEE PES Substation Committee Annual
Meeting, Region 3 Outstanding Service Award, IEEE EAB Pre-College
Educator Award, Teacher In-Service Series, very strong Life Member
Chapter, Sections Congress 2005, and electronics newsletters to
members.  The Section has made approximately three thousands dollars
in surplus from the PES Substation Committee Annual Meeting.
Section's Teacher In-Service Series Program has been the model for
national.  Programs and materials from the Section have been utilized
in Headquarters' In-service Program Section Champion Training.
Members with email addresses have been received electronics
newsletters a week prior to receiving the hard copies.  Outstanding
Life Member Chapter with five meetings for the year.  And yet,
Sections Congress 2005 is coming to Tampa.
 
Goals:

*   To continue supporting Teacher In-Service Series Program.

*   To elevate 40 Senior Members in year 2002.

*   Each Chapter will hold at least one seminar that provides
    Continued Education Units (CEU) to members.  This goal will help
    our PE members maintaining their certification.

*   Committed to host Southcon2003

*   Committed to host 2004 I&CPS Technical Conference.

*   Committed to host 2005 Sections Congress.

*   Committed to host 2006 IAS Annual Meeting.