Prepared By: Carole C. Carey, Section Secretary

Report from Vice-Chair - Ralph Bruce

Report from Secretary, Carole Carey [Presented the National Council's invitation to have a joint newsletter i.e., the SCANNER. This idea was rejected.] IEEE Financial Report is still to be completed. Still needs some clarifications and updated information from some chapters.

Report from Treasurer , Vil Arafiles [Verbal and written Report. Reported financial status. Presented an analysis of the last 3 years expenditures in which the biggest chunk is the Watts New newsletter and Robot project.]

New Priority items requiring action [None.]

Programs - Chris Nemarich [Verbal and written report on the IMTC 2000 activities and financial situation. A proposal was put forth that the section can purchase 2 computers, rent to society and then later donate them --may generate some funds. No decision was made at this time. Still looking for a publicity chair. Include Call for Papers in the Fall newsletter. A custom banner is on order for $97.]

Student Activities - Neville Jacobs [Verbal and written Report] April 24 is the ROBOT competition date. We have more than enough judges due to Morgan State and JHU volunteers. However, there are no judges from other IEEE sections (despite announcement in the SCANNER). Need checks: (1) already appropriated is the meal allowance of $1000 (expect to spend $750, split into two checks, i.e. $500 and $250); (2) $100 for JHU to cover the cost of busing students to act as judges. (3) rent for 6 more tables costing about $44. All requests were approved. There was deliberation about rosette ribbons if we may also have to pay although the Museum of Industry may pick up the tab. Letters and the program have been sent to legislators as well as Fox 45. ]

Newsletter Editor - Dave Stevens [The next publication is Fall edition. Bill indicated that we need more graphics. There was discussion on using other desktop publishing programs such as Pagemaker and converting it to PDF files for web access. Dave will look into the Pagemaker program.]

Educational Activities (Vacant)

Membership - Jim Gillin [Absent]

Chapter/Awards - Tom Patton [Handed out forms for the Chapter Chairs dinner that is scheduled on May 5, 1999. The invites will also be mailed by L&T services. Representative from Region 2 should also be invited as well as student chapters.]

PACE - Kate Carus [absent]

Report from Annapolis Sub-Section - David Boyd [Wrap up meeting for spring, break in the summer. Meeting on 4/22/1999 was on the Navy's DD 21 Destroyer development program. Will have a postmortem meeting in May and a pre meeting in September.] Dave will talk to Noel and provide last year's treasurer clarifications on last year's financial report.

Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES-10) - Heath Bebout [Absent]

Anten. and Propag./Microwave Theory and Techniq. (AP-03/MTT-17) -Brian Sequeira [Absent] However, it was noted that the new chair is Howard Fudem. We have posted a meeting for AP/MTT to be held 4/13/99, " RF and Microwaves in Medicine."

Communications(COM-19) - Mark Todd [absent]; Jim Wright provided an oral report. Org meeting scheduled for 4/20/99, 6pm at HEM. Requested $1000 budget for the year to cover mailing and operational costs. They also have a checking account that must maintain a minimum amount to avoid charges. Budget approved.

Computer (C-16) - Vacant [Bill Dixon reported that there are two potential officers. A planning meeting will be held at the Historic Electronic Museum for our Computer Society April 20th (Tuesday) starting at 6:00pm. The IEEE will supply pizza and soda for the meeting. Need budget appropriated to operate.]

Electron Devices/Solid State Circuits (ED-15/SSC-37) - Paul Potyraj [Absent] E-mail report -- the next quarterly meeting will be in May/June. They also intend to host a mini-symposium immediately before the 1999 International Electron Devices Meeting to be held in DC this year. Vice chair Anna Roesch will be making initial inquiries.

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC-27) -Fred Kirby [reported on 4/6/99 meeting and tour of the Windermere Technical facility] There was some discussion on the reconciliation of the financial report for last year. Fred will send a report to last year treasurer via-email providing clarifications.

Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB-18) - Glenn Bell [Absent, submitted meeting report, meeting held 4/8/99 "Laser generated X-Rays in medicine and higher resolution, higher detection probability", 14 attendees]

Industry Applications (IA-34) - Wes Miller [Absent]

Power Engineering (PE-31) - Amy Hagemann [Absent]

Reliability (R-07) - Walt Willing [April 9 meeting report submitted, "Periodic Components in Engineering Data Analysis", 12 attendees]

Report from Engineers Council of Maryland - Kate Carus (absent). However, it was mentioned that Kate is looking for a replacement. Randy "accepted."

Report from Associate Society Council (ESB - ASC) Kate Carus (absent)

Report from Maryland Board of Registration - Mel Hotz (nothing new)

Report from Audits and Bylaws Committee - Mel Hotz -- The Section audit for 1998 has been completed. "Lost checks" are a concern and it becomes a burden on the treasurer as well as cost the treasury additional fees to cancel and reissue. A signature is required for authorizing the disbursement. The member receiving the check should also be required to sign.

Report from Nominating Committee - John Dentler (absent)

• Brief discussion on the formation of the Section Budget Committee (as already noted above). Randy is Committee Chair. Proposed timelines - submit budget in October and expect approval in November. Thus, we need input from Chapters by September meeting.
• Neville mentioned that there were about 25-30 students that attended the JHU "IEEE night." However, it was rather disappointing since only about 2 IEEE members showed up. [Apart from the inclement weather that night, this was probably due to the lack of publicity and proper invites. Neville said that he got an invitation in the mail. None of the others present in the room remembers getting one.]
• Neville also mentioned that he got a notice from IEEE Education "section" from Pistacaway about some event related to giving out a $10K scholarship from Intel. This is to be held in Philadelphia (5/2/99 - 5/6/99). They need judges (5/4-5/5 and will pay for one night stay) preferably with PhD , six years experience in university and business. [Contact Neville for details on this.]
• Neville also requested an allocation for the ROBOT project to continue. He needs a 3-month lead time and proceed in the summer, estimating 110 kits for ~$3300. A motion to allocate NTE $3000 was approved.

• American Engineer publication (newsletter) [Bill Dixon]
• Treasurer's Financial Report [Vil Arafiles]
• IMTC 2000 Update Report [Chris Nemarich]
• Robot Challenge Update Report [Neville Jacobs]

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