Western North Carolina section Report March 2006

Section Officers:

Chair:            Jim Erickson
V-Chair:        Jim Corr
Secretary:    AJ Burke
Treasurer:    Fred Orland


We have had a successful year so far.

Student Activities:
Our  University Student activities programs have been very effective. They 
have asked us back from last year.
1. Engineering Career Round Table meetings at UNCA.
2. Preliminary Engineering Student Project design reviews, section 
   members are the review team.
3. Student Project idea brainstorming sessions.
4. TISP program, working on setting up programs in the local schools 
   programs.
5. IEEE is helping with Hendersonville School in a robotic work shop.

No new projects have been started this year:

We have had 2 technical meetings, regular EXCOM meetings, and several 
project planning work session committee meetings.

We have 5 to 6 more section meetings and several committee working session 
planned for the balance of the year.

Attended: National IEEE PACE meeting in St Louis, MO

Officer Election took place in last November

Our challenges are:
1.    Increasing membership, meeting attendance and volunteerism.
2..   Finding good technical programs for section meetings
3.    Getting into the schools for the TISP program.


Needs:
IEEE to provide packaged technical tutorials for presentation at the 
section level.
These could be fee based.

James Erickson
Chair, IEEE Western North Carolina Section
Email:  james.erickson@ieee.org
Phone:  828-683-2048
Section web site    www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/wnc/