IEEE Columbia, South Carolina
	Section Report 2007

2007 Section Officers

Chair:	    James R. Allford
Vice-Chair:	Hassan A. Shazly – (maintains our website, also)
Secretary:	Rodger Culbreath
Treasurer:	Chad C. Moore
SoutheastCon representative: Mr. Steve Carroll

2007 Professional Activities: (see our website at, “www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/columbia/)
Jan.	Meeting: An AJAX Programming Overview, by Mark Gunnels, Software Consultant for Astraworks.
Feb.	Meeting: 10,000 HP Generators, PLCs & 10 seconds to “lights ON”, by Larry Morgan, PE, Blanchard Machinery.
Mar.	Plant Tour: Bose Plant on Blythwood Road, in conjunction with Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
Apr.	Meeting: RFID Technology and Example Implementation, by Dr. Clinton Hartmann, Pres. Of RF SAW, Inc.
Sep.	Meeting: Forgotten Roots, by Mr. Jack Casazza, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Nov.	Plant Tour: Flextronics, by Mr. Marty Wilson (Nov. 06)
Nov.	Meeting: From Great Engineers to Great Leaders”, by Dr. David Schweiger, USC School of Business (Nov. 13).
Dec.	Meeting: Christmas/social/TBD.

Goals:
• Continue finding a variety of relevant technical topics, social and fun events to enhance
  the professional lives of our members.
•	Work more with the University of South Carolina student branch.
• Reach out into the community in a greater fashion. One recent suggestion was to invite local
  news reporters to our technical sessions so they can publish us.

Obstacles:
•	Lagging volunteerism amongst membership.
•	Retention of members
•	Low attendance at meetings, there has been some improvement more recently.

Respectfully Submitted by:
James R. Allford, P.E.
Engineering Resources Corporation
jallford @ ercorp.net; jallford @ ieee.org
1-8803-536-6808