Huntsville Section Chair Report for April 2008 Region 3 Meeting Issues requiring action by the Region 3 Committee or ExCom: None. Opportunities for Engaging the member, volunteer, non member, public: The Section will host SoutheastCon 2008 at the Huntsville Embassy Suites and Von Braun Center during April 3-6, 2008 The EMC Chapter will host the Huntsville EMC 2008 on April 29, 2008. The guest speaker will be Dr. Bruce Archambeault, IBM Corporation, who will present "PCB Design Techniques for Real-World EMI Control." Notable section activities (positive and negative): The Section hosted monthly ExCom meetings. The Chapters have been quite active with regular meetings and in the planning stages for other 2008 technical meetings. The EMC Chapter hosted several technical presentations thus far, including a technical presentation by Mr. Michael Hopkins, Thermo Fisher Scientific, entitled, ÒUpdates on RTCA DO-160 Lightning TestingÕ on March 13, 2008. The Educational Activities Committee has been very active in 2008. The Section, in cooperation with The University of Alabama in Huntsville hosted the Alabama Regional Future City Competition in January 2008. We also provided judges and category sponsorship at the 2008 North Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair on March 13, 2008. We will supply judges for the Alabama Council for Technology in Education on March 25-26, 2008. We are also planning to supply judges and category sponsorship at the 2008 Alabama Science and Engineering Fair to be held on April 4, 2008. The Section began planning activities in support of the Tennessee Valley Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology (TV BEST) Steering Committee and Technical Team for the 2008 TV BEST Competition. The SoutheastCon 2008 Committee held monthly planning meetings in preparation for an exciting and highly successful SoutheastCon 2008. Interesting and relevant tutorials have been planned along with over 100 peer reviewed papers, and as always several student competitions. Submitted by Willie J. Fitzpatrick, PhD Chair, IEEE Huntsville Section wfitzpatrick @ ieee.org