IEEE Gainesville Section 2013-2014 Section Report 2013 Section Officers: Chair: Nima Maghari Co-Chair: Greg Stitt Treasurer: Eric Schwartz Secretary: John Shea Member-at-large (Membership & Awards): Andy Li Elections were held in January 2014. Our 2013 Co-Chair became chair in 2014 and we have a new officer as a Co-Chair this year. From January 2013 until today the Section held several meetings and sponsored a handful of technical presentations. Our primary goal for this year is to offer many technical meetings, presentations, and perhaps a few social meetings to encourage more participation. We also intend to continue to support student projects. We continue to have strong ties with the UF Student Branch. Eric Schwartz, advisor for our student branch, has been working closely with the students throughout the past several years. The UF Student Branch has meetings at least once a month, usually with a guest speaker. Eric is often in attendance at these meetings as both the section representative and to see how the section can aid the UF Student Branch. This year we have funded the students and their entry into this year’s SouthEastCon student competitions at a low amount; they obtain most of their funding elsewhere. We did help to fund two other student project this year; an autonomous boat team (PropaGator) and an autonomous submarine team (SubjuGator, www.SugjuGator.org). PropaGator (www.mil.ufl.edu/PropaGator/) won in their first year in the International RoboBoat Competition. SubjuGator earned second place for the second straight year in the International RoboSub Competition. The student branch is very active, as it has been for the past 13 years. At least 13 students from our student branch will attend the 2014 SoutheastCon. They have a strong entry in the hardware competition and will also compete in several of the other competitions. Respectfully submitted, Eric Schwartz Gainesville Section Treasurer Gainesville Section Student Branch Faculty Advisor Gainesville Section Representative at SouthEastCon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Eric M. Schwartz University of Florida Associate Director, Machine Intel Lab (MIL) Phone: (352) 392-2541 Master Lecturer, Elec. & Comp. Engineering e-mail: ems@mil.ufl.edu Director, SubjuGator AUV Project https://mil.ufl.edu/~ems/ Director, PropaGator ASV Project 633 Gale Lemerand Drive Director, CongreGators Swarm Project 321 MAEB, Building 720 Treasurer, IEEE Gainesville Section Gainesville, FL 32611-6300 Faculty Advisor, IEEE Robot Team MIL Location: 325 MAEB -----------------------------------------------------------------------