Jacksonville Section Report - October R3 Meeting 2007 Chair - Butch Shadwell ViceChair - George Cooper Secretary - George Cooper Treasurer - Steve Doll PES/IAS Chair - Dave McCue Computer Soc Chair - Bob Hobbs March 28 - PES/IAS meeting on Static VARs April 26 - PES/IAS JEA Plant Tour May 22 - Section Meeting - Intellectual Property Attny speaker June 18 - 22 - IEEE Int'l Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation June 27 - Computer Soc. - Dr. Pat Welsh, Computational advances in weather modeling July 24 - Renewable Generation Resources in Florida - The Florida Energy Commission We have been holding our meeting at the local Piccadilly restaurant, with some good success. The section subsidizes the meal cost for members. The venue has worked our very well so far. Dave McCue (PES/IAS Chair) and Bob Schrage (PES/IAS Vice-Chair) have been doing a fantastic job of rejuvenating interest in our membership. Two outstanding engineers and IEEE volunteers. We hold excom meeting before each technical session, and we are having student branch meetings as least once a week. The current student branch chair Ramon Colon, has been a powerhouse and has started three new student chapters at UNF. Respectfully submitted, Butch Shadwell, Chair Tel. 904-223-4465 (USA)