Winston-Salem Section Status Report for Region 3 Meeting - Atlanta

October 2004
  
Executive Committee
   Chair -- Jim Kemerling (jkemerling@ieee.org)
    Vice Chair -- Ersin Bayram (ebayram@wfubmc.edu)
    Secretary/Treasurer -- Leon Shore (lshore@yadtel.net)
    Awards and Recognition -- Craig Hamilton (crhamilt@wfubmc.edu)
    PACE Chair -- Ed Fuller, past Chair  (e.j.fuller@ieee.org)
    Newsletter Editor, Membership Dir and Past Region 3 Dir -- Richard
    Riddle (r.riddle@ieee.org)
    Newsletter and Website Editor -- Dennis Dice (d.dice@ieee.org)
 

Note: Dennis Dice will be representing the Winston-Salem Section at the
Region 3 meeting in Atlanta. Leon Shore will be present as acting PACE
Chair.

Activities and Accomplishments

Our goal was 8 section meetings. So far we have had 6 with two more
scheduled for October and November.

We have upgraded one more of our members to Senior Member status, thanks
to the efforts of our Section Membership Director.

We have appointed a Chair for the EMBS/Computer Science Society Chapter
and are in the process of getting the petition filed.

Our monthly section meetings have had a steady increase in attendance to
an all time high of over 50 attendees in August.  We presently are
having a series of lectures on "Nanotechnology," organized by the
section's Vice Chair, which has become quite popular, so popular a
student section at one of our state colleges has asked us to
videoconference the series to them.

Overall, the section is doing well. Thanks in large part to the efforts
of our newsletter and website editors. They have been distributing
promotional information well in advance of the meetings via email and
hardcopy (the US Postal Service is still an effective way of getting
attention.) In addition, Wake Forest University Medical Engineering has
been vital to the section's success by providing excellent facilities
for the meetings.

 <>GOALS for the remainder of 2004
 1. Two more section meetings (Nanotechnology Series).
 2. Two more ExCom meetings (October and December).
 3. Have the EMBS/ComSci chapter established by the end of 2004.



 Jim Kemerling
 Winston-Salem Section Chair