Canaveral Section Report

Officers:

Section Chair:  Kathy Rinehart
Section Vice-Chair:  Leon Migdalski
Section Secretary:  Open
Section Treasurer:  Wayne Rendla
Section's AESS/COMP Society Chapter Chair:  Chuck Chapman
Section's COMP Society Chapter Vice-Chair:  Dr. Bahman Motlagh
Section's AESS Society Chapter Vice-Chair:  Karen Beauchamp
Section's PAOC Committee Chair:  Dr. Bahman Motlagh
Joint Canaveral-Melbourne Life Member Chapter Chair:  Art Greene
Newsletter Editor:  Open

Activities since August, and Future Activities planned:

(1)  August meeting (joint with Melbourne section) featuring a program
     on Computer Forensics
(2)  September meeting offering a basic tutorial of C++ programming
(3)  September tour of Shuttle Logistical Depot with AIAA and ASME
(4)  October meeting (rescheduled to November, joint with AIAA and
     ASME)
(5)  November meeting with Society of American Military Engineers
     (SAME) and joint Canaveral-Melbourne Life Member Chapter
     featuring grandson of Admiral Husband Kimmel.
(6)  Plans to assist IEEE Computer Society with 2003 IEEE
     International Conference on Data Mining 19-22 November in
     Melbourne, FL.
(7)  Local (Melbourne-Canaveral) IEEE Consultants Network Affinity
     Group is getting started.
(8)  Participation/nomination of candidates for Florida Council and
     Region 3 awards (in progress)
(9)  December social and end-of-year meeting

Major Goals:

(1)  Migrate to electronic means of communication as much as possible,
     to reduce demands upon volunteers and hopefully yield more timely
     delivery.
(2)  Continue to assist unemployed members where possible.  Efforts
     providing opportunities to meet engineers in other disciplines
     over last three years have been very successful.
(3)  Return to efforts to see members upgraded to highest grade for
     which they qualify.  (These took a backseat to basic employment
     efforts this year.)
(4)  Continue to influence activities in the Canaveral Council of
     Technical Societies (CCTS) by having members involved.
(5)  Continue to be involved in PAOC activities, including
     Congressional Visit Day next year.
(6)  Budget for assisting Sections Congress 2005, including sending
     more than one section representative.

Discussion Item for Upcoming Meeting:  

Experiencing a challenge to fund section activities via web-based
purchases without using officer's personal credit cards.  (Currently
required for USPS generation of meeting announcements.)

Respectfully submitted,

Kathy Rinehart
IEEE Canaveral Section Chair