1. No issues requiring R3 attention.
2.

Elections:  Officers were elected at our December 2010 meeting.  No changes from 2009.
Chair:  Roger Grubic
Vice Chair: Dr. Thomas Yang
Secretary: Al Jusko
Treasurer:  Tracy Wichmann
 
Because our by-laws state that no officer can serve more than two consecutive
years in the same position, we had to obtain a waiver from Region 3 for
Messrs. Jusko and Wichmann. New committee chairs were appointed for PACE
(Jeanette and Dr. William Barrott) and Media (Dr. Hugh Ward). Existing chairs
continued for MD (Dr. Ilteris Demirkiran), Life (Ron Gedney), and Awards (Dr.
Thomas Yang). Dr. Jianhua Liu continues for Student Activities, and Charles
Husbands for Webmaster and Small Radio Telescope lead. Dr. Tim Wilson
continued as Computer Society Chair.
 
Section Activities:  Since our last council meeting, regular meetings with speakers were held:
September 2009: Mike Potash “Logistical and Physiological Challenges of a South Pole Research Mission”
October 2009:  Adrian Zvarych “Smart Grid Communications”
November/December 2009:  Tracy Wichmann “Computer Speech Recognition”
January 2010: Dr. Kent Davey “Magnetic Gear Drives”
February 2010:  Ron Gedney “ Road Mapping Automobile electronics)
 
Meeting subjects for upcoming meetings are:
March 2010: Charles Husbands “ Small Radio Telescope”
April 2010: Student Chapter “Southeast Con Robotics Competition”
 
An Executive Council meeting was held on January 23, 2010 to review the plans for 2010.
 
We also supported Engineers Week (February16-19) at ERAU by a financial
donation, judging posters (George Till and Ron Gedney), participating in a
panel discussion about the profession of engineering (Ron Gedney and Charlie
Husbands) and attending the banquet (Dr. Thomas Yang, Dr. Ilteris Demirikiran,
Tracy Wichmann, Roger Grubic, and Al Jusko). The keynote speaker on February
16 was Homer Hickam, author of “Rocket Boys” and the basis for the film
“October Skies” – a very inspirational event. The banquet speaker was Jason
Lovelace from Disney Orlando.
 
Computer Society Meetings: Two meetings were held November 19: Dr. Richard
Stansbury and Jonathon Maroff “IDEA- Intelligent Driving Efficiency Assistant
and EcoCar” March: Dr. David Gluch “Model based Software Engineering: AADL in
Action”
 
Life Members: A Company tour was held at Tel-Tron in Daytona Beach on November
10. The Small Radio Telescope (SRT) has made great progress overcoming the
impact of the flood damage to the Daytona Museum of Arts and Science (MOAS).
An internal WiFi link was installed allowing communication from the MOAS
auditorium and work is well underway to allow the SRT to be controlled
external to the museum. Lesson plans and revised display software are also
underway.

Recognition: We nominated Dr. Liu for Florida Council Educator of the Year and
Charles Husbands for the Service Award. Dr. Tim Wilson was appointed as the
new chair for The Electrical, Computer, Software and Systems Engineering
(ECSSE) Department at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He also
co-coordinated the 2010 Engineers Week at ERAU. Student Chapter Chair Jason
Davis was recognized as the Outstanding Student Bachelor of Science in
Engineering at ERAU during Engineers Week Jonathon Maroff was recognized as
Outstanding Student, Master of Software Engineering at ERAU during Engineers
Week. Randy Breingan was recognized for Outstanding Service to the ECSSE
Department at ERAU during Engineers Week.
 
Respectfully submitted,
 
Roger Grubic
roger_grubic-at-ieee.org