Mississippi Section Report – March 2011

The Mississippi Section held ten monthly meetings in 2010 including tours of a
local Steam Electric Plant, an Automobile Manufacturing facility, a Steel
Plant, an International Airport and presentations on IEEE USA,
Telecommunication Services, and Financial Services. We also held one all day
professional development seminar including an ethics course required for
Professional Engineer license renewal in Mississippi.

This year we have toured MS Public Broadcasting facilities, participated in
the annual Engineering Week activities in our area with other engineering
societies, and hosted presentations on compression connectors and financial
planning. In April, we plan to present demonstrations by the robotic teams
from our area universities, which is usually one of our most highly attended
meetings. We are also planning an all day professional development seminar to
be held in May of this year. We are holding more frequent joint meetings with
other engineering societies in our area including an upcoming presentation of
the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy star Program with ASME, MS.

We held elections for officers during our January meeting, re-electing
Catherine Anderson as Chair, Joel Harris as Vice Chair, Samrat Datta as
Secretary, and Joe Savage as Treasurer for another year. We have submitted our
section reports as requested by IEEE and are emphasizing membership upgrades.
We have also created a new website and are using Facebook to improve contact
with Section Members. We are making an effort to improve communications with
the Student Branches in our area and we continue to provide annual financial
contributions to the student branches as well.

Respectfully submitted by Catherine R. Anderson, P.E. MS Section Chair