Coastal South Carolina Section Report April 2003
 
2003 Officers
Chair: Russell Albright
Vice Chair: Kenneth Lindler
Secretary/Treasurer: Jack Swick
Web Master: James Southard
Past Chair; Tim Washington
 
2002 Officers
Chair: Tim Washington
Vice Chair: Russell Albright
Secretary/Treasurer: Kenneth Lindler
Web Master: Jack Swick
 
We submitted our 2002 L-31 & L-50 annual reports before the Feb 22,
2003 deadline and should receive our 10% bonus.
 
We will revise and submit our Section Bylaws this year.
 
Attendance at our meetings held steady in 2002 with an increase in
2003.  We average about 20 attendees at our meetings, with a peak 49
attending our January 2003 lunch meeting.
 
2002 Meetings:
 
January 15 2002:
Mr. Glenn Stephens, Santee Cooper's new 900 MHz Trunked Radio System.

Feb 19, 2002
Mr Bobby Clair, SC DOT, The New Cooper River Bridge Project
(Charleston Engineers Joint Council Annual Banquet) 

Mar 19, 2002
Dr. Robert Dougal, University of South Carolina, The Virtual Test Bed
(The Citadel Razor Lecture)

Apr 23, 2002
The Citadel, Senior EE students demonstrated their Senior Project
Hardware, including the entry for the SoutheastCon 2002 hardware
contest.

May 22, 2002
Automated Trading Desk (automated limit stock trading,) tour of
facility under construction

Oct 23, 2002
Mr. David Smoak, Navy SPAWAR, Software Radios for Military Applications

Dec 19, 2002
Holiday Social, 2003 Elections, Petition to form
Communications/Computer Chapter, Fish Restaurant, Charleston

 
2003 Meetings:
 
Jan 16, 2003
Dr. Robert Barsanti, Passive Acoustic Target Tracking

Jan 21, 2003
Officers' Meeting - Conference call w/Vicki Waldman - IEEE

Feb 20, 2003
Mr. Joe Bryant, SC Port Expansion in North Charleston (Charleston
Engineers Joint Council Annual Banquet)

Feb 26, 2003
Dr Hee Lee, Challenges of Wireless Internet Services- Inaugural
Communications/Computer Chapter meeting and elections.

Mar 4, 2003
Dr Mark Kroll, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (The Citadel
Razor Lecture)
 
Upcoming 2003 Meetings:
 
May 1, 2003
Tour of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) High Voltage Circuit Breaker
Manufacturing Plant

May 28, 2003
Lunch Meeting at Embassy Suites; Dr. Raj Jain, Communications Society
Distinguished Lecturer

June 10, 2003
Lunch Meeting at Embassy Suites; Mr. Robert Gezelter, Computer
Consultant, Computer Security

June/July 2003
Motorola presentation on mobile data

Fall 2003
Tour of NUCOR steel plant
Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Lecture
Stingrays Hockey Game group event

Dec. Social Meeting and elections
 
Russell Albright
Chair, 2003
Coastal SC Section