Louisville Section Report for Region 3 Annual Meeting @ Southeast con The year 2002 for IEEE Louisville Section was good with five meetings held as setforth below: 1/21/02 - joint technical meeting with ISA on Space Hardware Optimization Technology 6/17/02 - joint technical meeting with ISA on Nanotube Electronic Devices 9/20/02 - Fall Picnic 10/21/02 - joint technical meeting with ISA on Wireless Telemetry in Treatment of Eye Diseases 12/12/02 - joint meeting with IEEE Lexington Section on KY Economic Development, Xmas Dinner In addition, the Louisville Section has helped support local organizations for awards or projects. Although the number of members attending meetings has always been a small percentage of our local membership, we have found abit of improvement when we had joint dinner/speaker meetings with the local ISA. The IEEE member's dinner is partially paid by the Louisville Section. Of concern is the lack of industry support,and dwindling Executive Committee participation. We have done away with our 8.5x11 mailer which required a bulk mail permit, in favor of a postcard and a 20 cent stamp. Our section's Computer Society is in danger of being disbanded for failure to provide yearly reports for 2001 and 2002. The coming year 2003 looks promising. We'll keep to our standard of support for local science fairs & achievement awards, technical meetings, the Fall Picnic, and the December Xmas dinner. We will continue joint meetings with the local ISA and IEEE Lexington Section. The officer list is as follows: C R Davis as Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary J D Cole as PACE Chairman Tom Jessee as Newsletter Editor Hope you will have a good Region 3 meeting at Southeastcon. Regards, C R Davis