IEEE Charlotte Section Report March 2011 Active Membership Grade Count Affiliate 36 Associate Member 27 Fellow 2 Graduate Student Member 60 Life Fellow 4 Life Member 41 Life Senior 26 Member 362 Senior Member 67 Student Member 89 TOTAL 714 Section Officers and Excom Charlotte Section utilized the vTools.Voting application for the officer 2011 officer election for the first time. The application was easy to use. Following is a report of officers for 2011. All positions have been reported to IEEE Headquarters. Charlotte Section: * Chair David Wallach * Vice Chair Nate Quirk * Secretary Rick Moser * Treasurer Fred Esenwein* Power & Energy Chapter: * Chair Paul Ekman * Vice Chair Sukumar Kamalasadan * Secretary Rick Moser * Treasurer vacant Communication Chapter: * Chair Yasin Raja * Vice Chair vacant * Secretary vacant * Treasurer vacant Computer Chapter: * Chair Simon Obeid * Vice Chair Ron Sass * Secretary vacant** * Treasurer vacant Education Chapter: * Chair James Conrad * Vice Chair vacant * Secretary vacant * Treasurer vacant The Charlotte Section Excom meets regular to obtain program updates from the Section Societies (meeting planning) Our meetings are a mix of face-to-face as well as conference calls between face-to-face meetings to maintain our focus on action items. The Excom has ensured that L50 report and L31 reports have been filed by the deadline. If R3 or HQ is not receiving these reports then the Charlotte Section needs to be notified. We can query and see the reports from our end and get positive responses from submittal of L50 report online using the IEEE provided instructions. Chapters The Power & Energy, Communications, Computer, and Education Chapters continue to be active within the Section. Their primary focus is program planning to offer activities for members. Activities Thursday, October 7, 2010 - UNCC,Woodward 106 The talk will include an overview of corporate engineering: "Engineer-Procure-Construct" versus consulting, design-engineering activities, projects and project management, and client relationships. Mr. Bisson will also provide suggestion on your next steps to prepare for a career as an engineer: marketability, skill sets, and education. Terry Bisson is currently employed with Shaw, a major engineer-procurement-construction firm in the power industry. Shaw employs approximately 23,000 people worldwide and presently working on nuclear and fossil power projects locally. Terry has 35 years of experience as an electrical design/engineer, and has been working domestic and international projects. Terry is serving as the Electrical Engineering Director in Shaw's Charlotte office. Thursday, October 28, 2010- UNCC, Woodward 106 Distinguished Lecture/ Special Seminar The last decade has seen many advances in next-generation networking technologies. For example, ubiquitous IP and Ethernet networks (Layers 2, 3) have evolved to multi-gigabit speeds with full quality of service (QoS) provisions, as enabled by gains in high-speed electronics technologies. Concurrently, developments in optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) sub-systems have revolutionized the fiber-optic layer (Layer 1), delivering flexible "wavelength" circuit connectivity with terabits/fiber yields. As these technologies have matured, scientific research organizations have actively deployed their own wireline networking infrastructures to support growing distributed computing needs, i.e., "e-science". Indeed, many scientific applications are already demanding massive dataset transfers, i.e., petabytes-exabytes range, placing huge burdens on network resource provisioning. Given these trends, it is very plausible that even the most scalable backbones may not be able to handle all user requests in an "on-demand" manner. Meeting Cosponsor: Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications Thursday, November 4, 2010- UNCC, Woodward 106 Brian Newberry - iRobot, "Underwater Robotic Vehicles" Monday, November 15, 2010 - Time Warner Arena Non-technical social networking meeting at the Charlotte Bobcats game. Provided an opportunity for members to meet, greet, and network in a non-technical venue. Friday, December 10, 2010 - UNCC The College of Engineering Industrial Senior Design Program Poster Exposition was held at UNC Charlotte, Student Activity Center- from 11:00AM to 3:00 PM on Friday, December 10, 2010. During the Expo you will observe how some of our students and local companies work together to solve design problems. Feel free to ask the student teams questions. There will also be select non-industrial project posters on display from the Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Engineering Technology Departments. This year there will have a variety of student projects on display; * Over 5 completed senior design program student projects * Several senior design program Fall start projects that will have posters of their intended design. The Expo will give you a great opportunity to observe how UNCC students and local companies work together to solve a variety of design problems. The Section Chapters have reported the following number of meetings in 2010 * Computer - 2 * Education -2 * Communications - 1 * PES - 1 Regards, David Wallach IEEE Charlotte Section, Chair From: Jim Corr [mailto:jimcorr@ieee.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 09:39 To: Paul Goodson; Brian Kowald; Bob Jackson; David Wallach; Hughes, Mike Subject: IEEE R3 Section Reports