The Annual Region 5 Delegates Business Meeting and University Competitions Event will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma Saturday, April 21, 2012. To register for the meeting and the hotel or the University Competitions and hotel, follow this URL to the Region 5 April meeting website: www.r5conferences.org . Click the registration tab on the left panel and then follow the instructions for registering.

The Metropolitan Area Workshop was a success beyond all of our predictions with over 150 paid participants and over 35 new IEEE members recruited, one of which was just at the hotel for something else and came by to see what was going on. He ended up joining IEEE right then! 25% of the attendees came from outside of the Central Texas Section and many of those flew in from outside of Texas. There were 13 Student members who traveled from El Paso to attend. The sessions sponsored and presented by the Computer, Communications, and Power and Energy Societies, as well as the IEEE-USA Careers Committee were well attended. At the last minute DeAnne Pearson added a series of mini career consultations to the program. The workshop was held in the Central Texas Section in October 2011.

Our director-elect is good friends with John Hendricks the founder of the Discovery Channel. They both think it would be great if we could get some outstanding Region 5 engineers to enter the Discovery Channel Top Engineer Challenge. The details are posted on their website The engineering challenges will be undertaken at the design studios of WET. WET has designs all over the world and you know it is all over the world as there is one of their designs in operation at the Branson Landing in Branson Missouri. Help get the word out to engineers who might like to take on the challenge of being named the Discovery Channel Top Engineer.

IEEE Region 5 is accepting nominations for Outstanding Large Section, Small Section, Member, Educator, Large Student Branch, Small Student Branch, Student, Branch Counselor, Large Company, Small Company, GOLD Member, and Individual Achievement. A short description of each and nomination forms, as well as the Call for Nominations, and the awards manual can be obtained from the Region 5 Online Community. Note that you will need a login and password to access the Online Community but the individual documents are not password protected. Deadline for nominations is 23 February 2012. Send nominations to the Region 5 Awards Committee Chair, Mehrube "Ruby" Mehrubeoglu, ruby.mehrubeoglu@ieee.org.

The IEEE Fourth Annual Green Technologies Conference will be held April 19-22, 2012 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Abstract and paper submissions will be accepted beginning September 15, 2011 with a deadline for submission of November 15, 2011. Check the Green Technologies Conference website (www.ieeegreentech.org) for the latest information.