Northwest Florida Section Report to the IEEE Region 3 Committee 10/11/04 Section Officers: Chair: Mr. Jeremy Wyatt Vice Chair: Dr. Mohamed Khabou Secretary: Dr. Dale Harrell Treasurer: Mr. Rick Sanchez Membership Development: Mr. Andy Keith Educational Outreach Chair: Dr. Maqsood Mohammed Computer Society Chair: Mr. Robert Riley Activities - Monthly section meetings excluding summer o 4/22/04 - Using Expert Systems In The Design of Passive Element Harmonic Filters (Speaker: Dr. Dale Harrell) o 5/20/04 - Altera programmable logic solutions (Speaker: Mr. Bruce Louzon - "Lunch & Learn Format" o 5/25/04 - ExCom Meeting o 6/17/04 - Memory Exploitation in Reconfigurable Computing Systems (Speaker: Dr. Chandra Curtis) - Acceptance of IEEE Northwest Florida Computer/Communication Society - Chapter ID: CH03197. Official as of 10/1/04. - Pushing more "Lunch & Learn" 3rd party sponsored lunch time events. - IEEE hosted 2nd annual Regional Science Bowl for High School Students in Okaloosa County at the Okaloosa/Walton Community College - Held February 21, 2004 - Upgraded from majordomo to ListServ. Extracted and added all membership email addresses from SAMIeee database to ListServ. Still learning ListServ system but progress is good. - In process of upgrading website to a more informative format to even further reduce the need for paper announcements. - Planned Meetings: o 10/28/04 - Company Profiles: Total Parts Plus (Electronics Obsolescence Management and Mitigation) and ActiGraph (Human Actigraphy). o 11/17/04 - Automatic Target Recognition Using Morphological Neural Nets o 12/?/04 - Social Event at The University of West Fla. Announcement of 2005 Officers. - Preferred Keynote: Gulf Power Associate discussing Hurricane Ivan Recovery o Planning for a combined meeting with Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) in early 2005 o ExCom Notables - Teleconferences offering new way for section officers to communicate (www.freeconference.com) - Efficiency and feasibility of monthly meeting announcements via USPS website was in question at previous FL Council and R3 meeting - Still going very well with strong membership support. - Considering beefing up scholarship funding in 2005 year - Goals - Organize and assist nomination committee - Prepare and send representatives to SC05 - Increase Sr. Member count - Offer networking support for local companies interested in hiring engineers Jeremy Wyatt Chair - IEEE Northwest Florida https://www.ieee.org/nwf Ph: 850.244.7211 x256 F: 850-664.5349