Piedmont Section Report - 2003-11

The Piedmont Section has slowly pulling itself out of the officer
vacuum it has been in the last few years.  Next year we plan to have a
full compliment of officers.

Current Officer List
CHAIR/VICE-CHAIR: Mark Stokes 
TREASURER: Rob Scruggs 
SECRETARY: Andrew Pang

All officers are on track to move up one position this year w/ the
addition of Jerry Clark as our new Secretary.  Additional officer
positions can be seen online:
https://ewh.ieee.org/r3/piedmont/ofcrdir.html

We have had 2 Excom meetings and regular section meetings on each of
the following months:

January - Student Paper competition
March - Intellectual Property
April - Developing a Retirement Plan & The Principles of Investing
May - A Parallelism, Instruction Throughput, and Cycle Time Model of Computer
  Architectures 
June - Retired Engineers Volunteer Help Science Teachers Through
  Re-Seed Program
September - High Temperature Superconducting Motors: Past, Present and Future
October - Become a Senior Member!

The newsletter (the "Piedmont Potential") continues to be published
online and is available back to 1996.  Many also contain .pdf "pretty
print" versions of the actual published document.  We continue to
email out newsletters to all members and students of our section that
have an email address listed in the SamIEEE database.  For those
members that don't have an email, we have chosen to mail a copy of the
newsletter via USPS at a cost of around $0.83 per USPS mailed to
member (first class).

I will be unable to attend the regional meeting and am sending Jerry
Clark for training and as our section representative.

-Mark Stokes
IEEE Piedmont section chair
IEEE Piedmont section vice-chair
IEEE Piedmont section newsletter editor
IEEE Piedmont section SAMIEEE recipient