IEEE Savannah Section Region 3 Report
March 27, 2002

Section Chair: Joe Buxton
Vice Chair: Charles Cobb
Secretary/Treasurer: Joy Reed

We recently held an election, and have a new Section Chair,
Secretary/Treasurer, and Vice Chair.  New officer appointments are:
Program Chair and two Education Chairs (coastal Georgia and
Beaufort/Jasper SC).  All other appointed officers have agreed to
serve another year.

The Education Chair (SC) supplied judges for the Sea Island Science
Fair, March 21, 2002, and selected recipients for IEEE Savannah
Section Awards, from a group of outstanding contestants.  The First
Place winner will give a presentation to our Section, at our annual
Awards meeting in June.  All awards will be presented at that time.

In May, we will be hosting the Industrial & Commercial Power Systems
Technical Conference 2002.  A lot of hard work has gone into planning
this conference, and it looks to be a great success.  It can be viewed
at: https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/savannah/icps2002

Recent tours include the River Street Power Plant (put in operation in
1911), a Hargray Switching Office, and the Elba Island, Southern LNG
facility, recently re-commissioned.  The power plant is like a museum,
but can still be operated, in an emergency.

Recent presentation topics include Pocket PCs, Armstrong Atlantic's
Computer Science activities, and Saber Technologies Internet Marketing
Service.

For various reasons, in the past two years we have lost several senior
members.  We have been fortunate to attract several new members, that
are now active in the Section, but the senior members are certainly
missed.

One of our top priorities this year is more inter-action with teachers
and students, both at the high school and university levels. The
Section excom will use e-conferencing.

Last year, we had a joint meeting with the Macon Section, at the
Allen-Bradley manufacturing facility in Dublin, GA.  The student
participation was very good, both from Georgia Southern, and from
Mercer.  We would like to do something similar, perhaps this fall.