IEEE DAYTONA SECTION
                                          Region 3
                                    October 13,2005 Report

    We have been gaining momentum throughout the year.  During the Summer
break we had a field trip to Canaveral and an Excom meeting and many calls
and emails.

    We met with Dr. Helfrick and others of the EE and ESystems Department of
ERAU.  We are planning a joint conference with ERAU on CyberSecurity and
DSP.  Our VC Charles Husbands and Dr. Liu are organizing it now and finding
participants.  It will include tutorial activities to bring students and
others up to speed.  We may seek sponsors.  We can consider the conference
committee a protochapter.  We welcome the participation of  members of other
sections and their suggestions for speakers and activities.

    I was able to have a quarter page op-ed piece vaunting the joys of
science and engineering education placed in the local Daytona Beach
News-Journal, using the IEEE identification.  Obtaining space is a matter of
matching needs of the paper and the section and sometimes waiting for an
issue in which several education items are addressed.

    Meetings in the recent past or planned future include:

    Simulation Support to ISAF Networks by Dr. Wittman of MITRE on September 22,

    Analysis or High Level Systems by Robert Haviland of UNK on October 20.

    Satellite Communication, Status and Trends, by Distinguished Lecturer
    Dr. Saj Durrani, NASA and CSC, ret., November 17,

    Probable private tour in  the Museum of Arts and Sciences in December,

    Reliability Analysis of Power Distribution Systems by E. Lee Pettit,
    UNK, January 19, 2006,

    and Meetings on  February 16, March 16, and April 20, 2006.

    We have extended the circulation of  our Newsletter Sparks to include
selected local businesses and institutions.

    We are thinking of  having a table with techy toys and IEEE and
engineering information at local fairs.  We also throw around ideas like the
creation of engineering board games and survival reality shows in which
participants must recreate EE conveniences and necessities.

    Our student section has a high level of enthousiasm.  Three members went
to the Tennessee Training Session.   They collected some school supplies for
Katrina victims and delivered them to a local bank for pick-up by the Red
Cross.  They are planning to have Ed Kirchner of Northop Grumman in
Melbourne conduct a seminar.  They also have a program for obtaining free
Ham Radio  licences, another for making AM radios, and  support for an
Autonomous UAV Contest with the Robotics Club.

    We are trying to renew some activities at local precollege schools which
now require more paperwork and planning because of new rules about outsiders
on campus, even when accompanied.  While ERAU is the most natural fit for
IEEE activities, we seek to form relationships with other colleges.  Down
the line, ERAU will have an incubator park, and we will see if we can be
supportive of this effort.  Our role may be to help the academic, basic
industrial, and public sectors protect themselves by diversification through
each other.

    Respectfully Submitted,

    Dr. J

    Chair; Dr. Jane Owen, rubric@ieee.org
    Vice Chair: Charles Husbands, husbands@blackhorsecom.com
    Secretary: Allan Jusko, A.JUSKO@ieee.org
    Treasurer: Elmer Pettit, ELPettit@compuserve.com
    Life Member Chair: Tracy Wichman, Tracy@alum.mit.edu
    Student Activities Chair : Dr. Albert Helfrick, helfrica@erau.edu and Dr. Liu, Jianhua.Liu@erau.edu
    Professional Activities Chair: Dr. Albert Helfrick, helfrica@erau.edu
    Membership Liason and Upgrade: Lew Unnewehr, ecubass@aol.com