IEEE Savannah Section Report for Region 3 Meeting at Fort Lauderdale,
Florida - April 8-10, 2005

Chair:  Bob Cook
Treasurer: Matt Conner
Vice Chair:  Joy Reed

Bob Cook of Georgia Southern University continues as Chair for the
section. We are happy to welcome back Matt Conner from Savannah
Electric as Treasurer. Joy Reed of Armstrong Atlantic State University
moves from Treasurer to Vice-Chair.

Several of our Excom meetings this year were to plan for our 50th
celebration festivities. Our anniversary meeting was held to the day
in October 2004, 50 years after the first one. About 50 members and
guests celebrated with a fine dinner, and enjoyable speech by one of
the local newscasters. We want to thank Region 3 for financial help
for our 50th Anniversary in October through SSVR (Section Support Via
Region) funds.

The Section held ten Section meetings this year, in Savannah,
Statesboro, and Hilton Head. We have tried adjusting the meeting
schedules and locations with mixed results. The evening meetings still
seem to have the best attendance 10-20+. Our monthly newsletter, the
Annunciator, publicizes these meetings. Andrew Laughlin serves as
editor.

Scott Hamlin, Chair, Savannah Section Education Activities, has agreed to
participate in the Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) and attend the Training
Workshop to be held on July 23, 2005 in Atlanta, GA.

Scott  continues to serve as a director of a regional South Carolina
science fair. The Section makes awards to winners of two regional
science fairs in Georgia and South Carolina, and several Section
members serve as judges. The science fair projects in the physical
sciences, math and computer related fields are extremely disappointing
and efforts to reach the teachers have been unsuccessful. We are
looking forward to the TISP initiative to help stimulate cooperation
in helping to influence our pre-college youth towards careers in
science and engineering.

The Section co-sponsored Savannah Engineering Academy for high school
students, with Armstrong Atlantic State and Georgia Southern
Universities. We also provided funds to support a student Hovercraft
project at Armstrong Atlantic University. We co-sponsored an
Engineering Week Symposium with other societies.

There will be three members participating at the SoutheastCon 2005 this year.

Respectfully Submitted, April 4, 2005
Joy Reed