IEEE DAYTONA SECTION Region 3 January 21, 2006 Report The nature of this report leads to much of it being a partial recap of reports made during the previous year. In addition to the following partial list of section events, our members have participated in regional activities. * January. Tracy Wichmann and Al Jusko help judge science projects. * January 20. Dinner Talk Charles Husbands on Spectral Sliced Technology Applied to Optical Local Area Networks. * February 24. Dinner Talk Dr. Davaid Gluch of ERAU on AAD Language Modeling of Avionic Systems. * March 24. Dinner Talk Roger Hoefer, curator of astonomy for Volusia County Schools and the Museum of Arts and Sciences Planetarium on Moons, Methane, and Saltwater Oceans and the Mars Landings. * April 21. Dinner Talk. Student Presentations * June 1. Trip to Cape Canaveral * July 9. ExCom Meeting * August 22. Student ExCom Meeting * August 31. Joint Meeting of ERAU IEEE faculty and most of ExCom at ERAU * September 3. Student ExCom Meeting. IEEE Students collect materials to help Katrina victims. * September 7. Student General Meeting * September 15. Student General Meeting * September 16-18. Student Fall Retreat and Training. Three of our students joint the program. * September 22. Dinner Talk. Simulation Support to ISAF Networks by Dr. Wittman of MITRE * September 27. Student ExCom Meeting * September 28. An Op-Ed piece describing the nature and benefits of a scientific education published in the main local paper, the Daytona News-Journal, written by Dr. Owen, identified as Chair of IEEE. We usually manage to get our meetings listed in this paper. * October 11. Student ExCom Meeting * October 12. Student General Meeting. Faculty guide sessions as students earn Ham Radio licenses and make radios. Students participate in Autonomous UAV Contest with Robotics Club. * October 20. Analysis or High Level Systems by Robert Haviland of UNK. * November 1. Student ExCom Meeting * November 16. Student General Meeting. John Blakley, graduate at Northrup Grumman makes presentation. IEEE T-shirts distributed. * November 17. Satellite Communication, Status and Trends, by Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Saj Durrani, NASA and CSC, ret. * November 24. Student seminar featurign Ed Kirchner of Northrup Grumman, of Melburne Section, cancelled because of weather. * November 29. CyberSecurity Conference Meeting * November 30. Student Fundraiser at Friendly's. * December 6. CyberSecurity Conference Meeting * December 7. ExCom Meeting * December 8. Submitted request, prepared over previous months with Howard Ward of Seabreeze High School, for PACE grant for small radio telescope. This scope matches one at Steton U. Faculty at Stetson and ERAU have agreed to help the Seabreeze project. * January 6, 2006. Private IEEE tour in the Museum of Arts and Sciences led by docent, our Charlie Husbands. * January 10. CyberSecurity Conference * January 19. Reliability Analysis of Power Distribution Systems by E. Lee Pettit, UNK. * January 21. Al Jusko and Jane Owen help judge science projects at fair. Future dinner talk meetings are scheduled for February 16, March 16, and April 20, 2006. A CyberSecurity Conference in conjunction with ERAU is scheduled for April 4. !!!! We would very much appreciate the ideas, the publicity, and the participation of members of all sections in this conference!!!! We have extended the circulation of our Newsletter Sparks to include selected local businesses and institutions. Our Membership Chair Roger Grubic has made contact with the historically Black Bethune College in order to involve them in the Section's activities and perhaps form their own student section to work with that at ERAU and to give support to their science, engineering, and computer studies efforts. There are other colleges which might be similarly inspired. We still need email addresses for more members and staff identifications in engineering enterprises. We are still open to the idea 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. We would like to train students to implement our various activities and give them recognition which they can use in their cv's. We are still 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. 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,386-428-1225, rubric@ieee.org PACE Liason Chair: Dr. Jane Owen Vice Chair: Charles Husbands, 386-760-7160, CHcusbands@cfl.rr.com Secretary: Allan Jusko, 386-671-3706, A.JUSKO@ieee.org Treasurer: Elmer Pettit, 386-673-2123, ELPettit1@cs.com Life Member Chair: Tracy Wichman, 386-673-2753, Tracy@alum.mit.edu Media Chair: Tracy Wichman, Tracy@alum.mit.edu Membership Development, Roger Grubic, 386-441-8958, r33grubic@netscape.net CyberSecurity Conference Chairs: Charles Husbands for the IEEE and IEEE ERAU faculty members Drs. Yang, 386-226-7098, Yang482@erau.edu, and Liu. Student Activities Chair : Dr. Liu, Jianhua.Liu@erau.edu Professional Activities Chair: Dr. Albert Helfrick, helfrica@erau.edu Membership Liason and Upgrade: Lew Unnewehr, ecubass@aol.com