R3-MEETING Lexington Section Chair Report for March 2007 Region 3 Meeting The Lexington Section (Kentucky) has about 426 members. The 2007 officers are: Jerry Goerz, Chair Stuart Talbert, Vice-Chair Ray Williams, Treasurer Don Hill, Treasurer, PACE Chair, and Membership Development Chair Elwood West, Awards Chair Jeremy Byrd, GOLD Affinity Group Chair Regina Hannemann, Past Chair We lack a newsletter editor. Our webmaster is way behind. Communication is by e-mail, so members without e-mail are no longer reached, until we find a newsletter editor. The Lexington Section held 7 technical meetings, 2 administrative meetings, and 1 social meeting in 2006. The technical meetings included: * "Lead-Free Electronics and the eRoHS Directive" by John Barnes, * A tour of the University of Kentucky Visualization Center, led by Senching Cheung, * "Residential Solar Energy" by Jerry Goerz, * "Pico Satellites" by Jerry Goerz, * A line-following robot competition by UK engineering students * A tour of Rupp Arena's physical plant, HVAC, lighting, sound, floor ice-making, and radio and television broadcast facilities, led by Merrill Richardson, and * A tour of Morehead State University's Radio Telescope, led by Jeff Kruth. The social meeting was our annual December joint meeting with the Louisville Section, and included a semi-technical presentation about inventing toys, by Dmitry Strakovsky. The Lexington Section also staffed a display at the University of Kentucky's Engineers' Day open house, and gave away about 100 demontration motor kits to pre-college students. So far in 2007, the Lexington Section has held one social meeting and one technical meeting. The social meeting in January featured recollections of the funniest, stupidest, and most outrageous engineering stories. The techical meeting in February was an engineering student paper contest: "Self-Referencing Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Sensor" by Prasanth Bathae Kumaresh, and "Embedded Control System for Microforming Experimentation" by Phillip Profitt. A tour of Lexmark's Electromagnetic Compatibility test facility is planned for March. Jerry Goerz, 2007 Chair