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Chapter Committee Meeting
July 10, 2007
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Catfish Parlour

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Participants

Name

Organization

Title

Present

Mike Noth, P.E.

IEEE

Chairman

Yes

Stacy Smith, P.E.

IEEE

Vice Chairman

Yes

Rheuben Hair

IEEE

Secretary

No

Stan Friend IEEE

Treasurer

Yes

Don Drumtra

IEEE

Webmaster

Yes

Ron Brown, P.E. IEEE Past Chairman No
Steve L. Kanetzky, P.E. IEEE Past Chairman No

Roy Matthews, P.E.

IEEE

Past Chairman

Yes

Walter May, P.E. IEEE Past Chairman No
James Mercer, P.E. IEEE Past Chairman No
Bobby Spears IEEE Guest Yes

If this differs from your understanding, please notify Don Drumtra.

Description of Subject Matter/Action
Action By
1. Student involvement. Discussed ideas to encourage student attendance. Mike to start dialog with Dr. Grady. No response yet.
2. June PES meeting in Tampa. Stacy provided a summary of the meeting. Three award presentations provided good opportunities for the chapter: Outstanding Engineer, High Performance Chapter, Outstanding Chapter, and Website Contest. .
3. IEEE and PES Certificates. We may have to be more disciplined in our management of certification in the future .
4. 2007 calendar. All programs arranged. .
5. 2008 calendar. We will plan for two NEC 2008 classes, the third Friday and Saturday in February. Friday will be an eight hour class for engineers and Saturday a four hour class for electricians. Stacy called Grayboy to see if they are interested in teaching the class. They are. Stacy to call Grayboy to finalize class.

Mike to call Thad to finalize use of JATC facility.
6. Engineer of the year award. We should submit a nominee. All look for possibilities.
7. Officers rotation and other required actions in Bylaws Stan to look for copies of the Bylaws in the Chapter records.
8. CTS Planning Meeting is Aug 18 in San Marcos. All think of agenda items.
9. Recruiting for next year's Chapter Committee team. All consider possible candidates.

Future Meeting Ideas - Smart Grid.

Possible tours: Valmount Steel, UT new generator and SF6 Substation, JJ Pickle, Long or Bass Concert Center, DVR @ AE, LCRA dam, Power Lab @ UT, SMI Cement Plant, Sequine, AFD – City codes for wreck-out, etc.

Recorded by Don Drumtra


Updated 2007 July 29 by Don Drumtra


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