Section Chair’s Report for 2003, IEEE Central Texas Section
Prepared by: T. Scott Atkinson, 09399293, Senior Life Member
By many standards, the Central Texas Section accomplished lots of important activities during 2003. I will do my best to describe them below:
REGION ACTIVITY
- Joe Redfield served as R5 Membership Chair, and gave several membership and SAMIEEE presentations to the Section.
- Scott Atkinson attended R5 meeting in El Paso
SECTION ACTIVITIY
- Senior Upgrade Events
o Spring Austin Senior Member Upgrade Event
o Fall San Antonio Senior Member Upgrade Event
o Results: Number of upgrades highest for any section in the IEEE (2nd year in a row)
- Key Meetings
o Spring Planning Meeting, for CTS ExCom and guests
o Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Vijay Bhargava
o Fall Planning Meeting, for CTS ExCom and guests
o Held an ExCom Summer Leadership Workshop at Marriott Hotel San Antonio
o Co-Sponsored CTS-University of Texas Engineering Management Workshop
o First official Globalization & Technology Forum sponsored solely by CTS with Speaker support from IEEE-USA.
- Placed Emily Sopensky as IEEE-USA Fellow to work in Washington, D. C.
- Represented at Region 5 Conference by John Purvis, Vice Chair, and Paul Kaschube, Student Liaison Coordinator
- Held Past Chairs Luncheon: Three past chairs and some current officers met for presenting an award to the immediate Past Chair Joe Redfield and to discuss the future holding of past chair meetings.
- A sponsor of the San Antonio Council for the Cooperation of Engineering and Scientific Societies (SACCESS) bus tour of Technology Firsts of San Antonio (IEEE represented by Joe Redfield); also ongoing sponsor as well.
- Two participated in PACE Conference in Seattle, WA
- One participated in the Career Development Workshop, Seattle, WA
- Support of Student Branches at UT Austin, UT San Antonio, St. Mary’s, Trinity; rewrote the procedures for funding branches at $10,000 per year. New Student Liaison Coordinator, Paul Kaschube, visited all 4 student branches. He met student branch officers and their advisors to establish better liaison between the Section and the Students.
- Approved the new Women In Engineering Affinity Group
- Worked with new group to organize the Product Safety Society and establish a new Chapter (eff 1/1/2004)
- Developed new Section Web Pages
- Rewrote the Section Bylaws and coordinated their approval.
- Coordinated with Region on an upcoming Region 5 Conference to be held in San Antonio.
- Supported work of EM Chapter to bring IEMC 2007 to Austin, TX
- Garrett Polhamus represented Section for the upcoming 2004 E-Week activities in San Antonio; John Purvis represented Section at E-Week activities in Austin.
- 2004 Officers attended Bill Whipkey’s New Officers Workshop held at UT Austin Engineering Building and hosted by the UT Student Branch.
SUMMARY SECTION & CHAPTER MEETING ACTIVITIES (117 total, some joint)
- Section Meetings
o 11 Administrative
o 7 Professional
o 3 Educational
o 2 Technical
o 1 Social
- Joint Circuits & Systems/Solid State Circuits (NEW)
o 1 Technical
- Communications/Signal Processing Chapter
o 17 Technical
- Computer Society (Austin & San Antonio Activities)
o 17 Technical Meetings
o 1 Administrative
- Consultants Network
o 9 Technical
o 2 Educational
o 1 Professional
- Electromagnetic Compatibility
o 7 Technical
o 1 Educational
o 1 Social
- Engineering in Medicine and Biology
o 2 Technical
o 1 Social
- Engineering Management
o 2 Technical
o 1 Administrative
- Laser and Optical (Re-activated)
o 5 Technical
- Power Engineering
o 17 Technical
- Women In Engineering (NEW in 2003)
o 6 Professional
o 1 Educational
o 1 Technical