IEEE Section Meeting
12 August 2002
Attendees [Presence indicated by check mark (Ö
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Vil Arafiles Chair
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Jeff Friedhoffer Vice Chair
Ö Hoosam Bandukwala Treasurer
Heath Bebout - Chair AES
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Robert Berkovits- Chair EMC
Dave Boyd – Annapolis Subsection
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Carole Carey – ESB and Publications
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Joe Carl- Newsletter Chair
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John Dentler Area Chair Maryland
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Bill Dixon – PACE
Boris Gramatikov – Chair EMB
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Neville Jacobs – Student Activities
Tina Kohler – WIE
Garth MacKenzie – Chair Computer chapter
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Tom Patton - Awards
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Kirk Rae – Chair PES
Walt Willing - Chair Reliability
Visitors for COMSOC Presentation
- Miro Kraetzl - South Australia Section Vice Chair
- Bill Semancik
- Curt Boylls
- Jack Brennan
- Gary Tartanian
- Frances Hayes
- Ron Osborn
- Stephan Frempong
- The meeting started at 6:30 PM with a presentation by Dr. Miro Kraetzl,
South Australia Section Vice Chair, on "Detection
and Forecasting of Anomalous Events in Dynamic Telecommunications Networks"
This was a joint meeting with the Baltimore COMSOC chapter.
- New Business
- This was a short meeting to discuss section congress actions
- Motion passed - To send four members to the Sections congress on
complimentary registration supplied by the IEEE. The four members a Vil
Arafiles, Hoosam Bandukwala, Joe Carl and Neville Jacobs.
- Motion passed - To have the section fund one representative from each
chapter that has completed at least two technical meetings by 15 October 2002.
- Motion passed - The section will pay for four hotel rooms for the section
congress attendees in 2b.
- John Dentler requested help for partners of members to take visitors on
tours in Washington. Partners who participate for at least four
hours will get complementary tickets to all events.
- Neville Jacobs requested help in manning the robot project demo booth
- Neville Jacobs reported that one part for the robot kit is no longer being
manufactured by the company that we had purchased it from. He is getting
quotes form a company in China to supply the part.
- Brian Sequeira will be assuming the position of secretary in Sept 2002.
8. Action items
- Jeff Friedhoffer will check the chapters that have had meetings to see which
are eligible to have funding from the section for the sections congress meeting,
- The meeting adjourned at 8:00 PM
Jeff Friedhoffer
Vice Chair, Baltimore Section