The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. |
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IEEE Baltimore Section
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/
IEEE ExCom Section Meeting
November 10, 2003
Attendees
X Jeff Friedhoffer – Chair
Hoosam Bandukwalla – Vice Chair
X Brian Sequeira – Secretary
X Boris Gramatikov – Treasurer
Vil Arafiles – Membership development
Heath Bebout – Chair AES
X Robert Berkovits – Chair EMC
Thad Welch – Annapolis subsection
Carole Carey – ESB and Publications
X Roberto Cuellar –
X John Dentler – Area Chair Maryland
Bill Dixon – PACE
X David Sherman – EMB
X Neville Jacobs – Student Activities
Tina Kohler – WIE
Christopher Nemarich – Program Director
X Garth McKenzie – Chair Computer Society
X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor
Tom Patton – Awards
X Jim Ryan – PES Chair
X Eric Henlon – PES
Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications
Mel Hotz – Chairman of the Maryland State of Licensed Professional Engineers
Walt Willing – Chair Reliability
Wole Akpose – GOLD
Jeff Friedhoffer chaired the meeting, which was called to order at 6:32 pm.
Executive Reports
Section Chair (Jeffrey Friedhoffer)
Leonard Bathgate sent out ballots by mail on Tuesday November 4. Section has about 4700 members.
Ballots also sent out by e-mail. However, about 2300 e-mail addresses are up to date.
Section Vice-Chair (Hoosam Bandukwalla)
None
Treasurer (Boris Gramatikov)
As of October 9, $35,967.64 in concentration banking and $13,759.14 in other accounts.
Need AES checks to close out accounts for the year. Action 11.1: Jeff Friedhoffer to contact Bill Dixon to find out status about checks.
Secretary (Brian Sequeira)
Minutes of the June meeting were posted on Section website on October 27. Copies distributed at meeting.
Action 10.2: Forward electronic copy of report to Tracy Hawkins. Done.
Action 10.4: Brian Sequeira to provide copy of proposal for edit and partial inclusion into Newsletter. Done
Presented results of updated audit of meetings held by Chapters, Affinity groups and Sections (Appendix A) as of October 30, 2003.
Action 10.5: Secretary to include student meeting of April 24 in Section tally. Done
Action 10.6: Neville to provide details of meeting held for the Robot Committee at his place. Deemed unnecessary. However in future significant Robot Challenge related meetings such as kitting parties, school report grading, and meetings on the days of the Challenge should be recorded.
Action 10.7: Secretary to include this meeting within the section tally. Same notation as for action 10.6 applies to this item.
Action 10.8: EMC to file August 7 meeting on-line. Open.
Action 10.9: Secretary to file other EMC meetings held to date. Done.
GOLD and WIE affinity groups need to file petitions to become affiliated with section.
Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)
Newsletter for November ready to go out. Need all inputs for Newsletter by November 21.
Need a paragraph on robots. Action 10.10: John Dentler to provide paragraph. Some value related material on robotics in a hobbyist magazine called Nuts & Bolts.
Newsletter should have the same sponsor over the quarter.
Brian’s article on History of Electronics in Flight will be printed in the upcoming issue.
Action 11.1: Jeff Friedhoffer to put Newsletter on section web-site.
Awards & Recognition (Tom Patton)
None
Membership Development (Vil Arafiles)
None
Student Activities (Neville Jacobs)
There were 3 major opportunities that we availed to talk to teachers and distribute Robot Challenge kits this past month: TEAM Expo on 10/17, AIMS Conference on 10/27, and Teacher’s workshop on 11/06. The following schools made commitments as listed in the Table below.
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School |
Teacher |
Kits |
Cost ($) |
Comment |
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2-leg |
4-leg |
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Atholton |
Jeff Swab |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 11/6. Owe manual |
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Beth Tfiloh |
Neville Jacobs |
2 |
2 |
906 |
All automat-ion, del. 10/24 |
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C. Milton Wright |
Gary Rabe |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 10/10 |
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Dulaney* |
Carl Truxel |
2 (1 with automation) |
1 |
157 |
Del. 2-leg automation 11/6. Owe 2 kits and disk |
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Hannah More* |
Bob Lester |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Kenwood |
Tom Michicki |
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1 |
88 |
Not del. |
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Kenwood* |
Jeremy Haack |
2 |
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49 |
Not del. |
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Maryvale Prep.* |
Cathy Stankovic |
5 |
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196 |
Del. 11/6 one at no charge (needs invoice for four) |
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McDonogh* |
Jennifer Singer |
6 |
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245 |
Del 1 kit at no charge. 5 to be del. In January |
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Montgomery Blair* |
Dr. James Distler |
2 |
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N/C |
Won as door prize. Del. 10/17 |
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New Town* |
Robin Kessler |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Owings Mills* |
Mark Wolf |
2 |
1 |
137 |
Owe 1 kit del. 2 11/6 |
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Park School* |
Melissa Schneider |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 11/8 |
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Pikesville |
Robert Newman |
2 |
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49 |
Del. 11/6 |
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Southwestern |
Joshua Grabrielse |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Sparrows Point* |
Tom Welzenbach |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Worcester* |
Colleen McGuire |
1 |
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N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
*First time entrant this year
TOTAL: 16 schools, 36 teams, 41 kits and an expected income of $1837 (73% of cost).
In addition the following 10 high schools have expressed interest: Barrie*, Bullis*, Chesapeake*, Edison*, Paint Branch*, Parkville, Perry Hall, Quince Orchard, Towson*, and Watkins Mill*. All schools that are highlighted with an asterisk (*) are first-time participants (or potential first-time participants) and represent 20 out of the 26 schools responding thus far. We expect that there will be an additional number of repeat schools who will be calling for kits in the next few weeks. The deadline is still 15 weeks away.
The following table compares this years participation against the past two years.
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November 2003 |
December 2002 |
December 2001 |
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# Schools signed up |
16 |
11 |
13 |
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# Teams |
36 |
35 |
36 |
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# New teams |
27 |
18 |
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Based on the above we are a month ahead of where we were last year, have 5 more new schools and are well positioned to have a good turnout this year. This is largely due to having booths at TEAM Expo (N/C), where we contacted many of the Public School Tech Ed teachers, and the AIMS Conference ($200), where we contacted the Private school teachers. It is a lot of work, but it paid off!
We received an order for 25 manual kits and 5 automation kits from North Carolina Section. We are in the process of sending out 15 manual kits and 5 automation kits, and will send the remaining 10 manual kits in late December when the next shipment is due from Kelvin Electronics. Only 7 kits remain till then!
The following table presents a cost summary to date.
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Manual |
Automation |
Total |
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Kits ($) |
1465.26 |
341.38 |
1806.64 |
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Manuals ($) |
335.00 |
147.00 |
482.00 |
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Booth & mailing |
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225.00 |
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Totals |
1800.26 |
488.38 |
2513.64 |
Expenses for this period are $200 for the booth at the AIMS Conference (paid directly by treasurer, and $319.59 borne by Neville Jacobs and to be reimbursed to him by Section.
WIE (Tina Kohler)
None
Region (John Dentler)
Section approved Region 2 by-laws.
Move afoot to eliminate the requirement for Sections to have their own by-laws.
One of the items on the agenda of the meeting in Seattle is to make the L-50 form more user friendly
Section needs to bolster membership in IEEE. Worldwide participation rate in IEEE of all electrical engineers is 5%.
GOLD (Wole Akpose)
None
Professional Activities (Carole Carey)
None
Programs (presented by John Dentler)
As part of coordinating the centenary celebration with Region 2 meeting John Dentler asked that the Section hold the celebration on February 28, 2004. Motion to approve February 28, 2004 as date for centenary celebration moved by Brian Sequeira, seconded by Jim Ryan, and passed unanimously.
Celebration will be held at the Marriott next door to the Historical Electronics Museum, and the estimated charge per member is $40. Action 11.2: Ron Aloysius to put this item in Newsletter with details of place, date, time, charge, and contact e-mail address (Chris Nemarich).
Chapter Chair Reports
PES (Jim Ryan)
Closing out 2003 (Meetings submitted on-line are up to date).
Working on activities for 2004
Would like to explore activities co-sponsored by IA. Action 11.3: Jeff Friedhoffer will send out a feeler to IA for interest in IA’s participation in Engineer’s Week.
Action 11.4: Jim Ryan/PES to send Ron Aloysius a summary of the Book Scholarship program.
Eric Henlon added that the focus of PES next year was on getting new members, and seeking ways of accommodating changing needs of members such as holding presentations at different times and locations than has been in the past (12:00 noon at BG&E).
EMC (Robert Berkovits)
Joint meeting with AP/MTT to be held on November 24. Flyer distributed at meeting.
EMB (David Sherman)
Held a well attended meeting with Nora Zeets as speaker.
Joint meeting with COMSOC on November 20.
COMSOC (Jeffrey Friedhoffer)
Joint meeting with EMB on November 20.
Annapolis Subsection (David Boyd)
None
Student Chapters
None
CE (Garth McKenzie)
Next meeting scheduled for December 10 at HEM and Dan Ryan, an expert in Cyber law, will be the speaker.
Action 11.5: Send an announcement about this meeting to Ron Aloysius for inclusion in Newsletter.
Action Items
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Action/Disposition |
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10.1 |
Contact Bill Dixon to find out status about AES checks (Boris Gramatikov). Transferred action to Jeff Friedhoffer under action 11.1 |
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10.2 |
Forward electronic copy of report on assistance provided to Ken Freelain to Tracy Hawkins (Brian Sequeira)/Closed |
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10.3 |
Present action taken on proposal on History of Electronics in Flight (Carole Carey) Action now moot and closed |
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10.4 |
Provide copy of proposal to Newsletter editor (Brian Sequeira)/Closed |
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10.5 |
Include student meeting of April 24 in Section’s L-31 tally (Brian Sequeira)/Closed |
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10.6 |
Provide details of picnic meeting held by Robot committee (Neville Jacobs). Action exempted as noted in Secretary’s report. |
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10.7 |
Include robot committee meeting in section’s L-31 tally when details provided (Brian Sequeira). Action exempted per 10.6 above. |
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10.8 |
EMC to file on-line L-31 for May 7 meeting (Bob Berkovits)/Open |
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10.9 |
File L-31s for all EMC meetings other than in 10.8 (Brian Sequeira)/Closed |
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10.10 |
Provide PR paragraph about robots for newsletter (John Dentler)/Open |
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10.11 |
Confer and coordinate with John Dentler about Region meeting and generate a proposal for centenary celebration (Chris Nemarich) – In progress. Meeting day, place, and cost arranged as recorded in minutes. Proposal in preparation. |
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10.12 |
Write up award citation for Neville Jacobs (Vil Arafiles) Vil contacted Neville. Neville to provide information to John Dentler as outlined in actions below. |
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10.13 |
Investigate licensing of web tools (Hoosam Bandukwalla) Hoosam sent e-mail to Jeff but content of message was not available to assess disposition. Jeff to provide details for this action. /Open |
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10.14 |
Arrange for web training (Jeff Friedhoffer)/Open |
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11.1 |
Post newsletter on section web site (Jeff Friedhoffer) |
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11.2 |
Put details (Date, Place, Cost, and e-mail contact) of Section’s Centenary Celebration in Newsletter (Ron Aloysius) |
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11.3 |
Feel out IA for interest in participation/sponsorship of Engineer’s Week (Jeff Friedhoffer) |
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11.4 |
Send Ron Aloysius a summary of PES’s Book Scholarship program. (Jim Ryan) |
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11.5 |
Send an announcement CE meeting to Ron Aloysius for inclusion in Newsletter. (Garth MaKenzie) |
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11.6 |
Send John Dentler details provided to Vicki Waldman. (Neville Jacobs) |
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11.7 |
Give John Dentler specification sheets (Neville Jacobs) |
New Business
Eric Henlon asked about posting positions wanted on Section web site. This service is provided to members at no charge. Members may send in their positions wanted postings to the section web master (Jeff Friedhoffer)
Motion to adjourn proposed by Brian Sequeira, seconded by John Dentler, and unanimously carried. The meeting adjourned at 8:06 pm.
30 October 2003
2003 IEEE SECTION MEETING SUMMARY REPORT
R20003
BALTIMOREMEETING TYPE:
Code Meeting Date Tech Educ Prof Admn Soc Members GuestsBALTIMORE SECTION 13-Jan-03 0 0 0 1 0 14 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 10-Feb-03 0 0 0 1 0 13 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 10-Mar-03 0 0 0 1 0 10 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 14-Apr-03 0 0 0 1 0 13 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 24-Apr-03 0 0 0 1 0 13 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 12-May-03 0 0 0 0 1 34 44
BALTIMORE SECTION 09-Jun-03 0 0 0 1 0 11 0
BALTIMORE SECTION 08-Sep-03 0 0 0 1 0 11 1
BALTIMORE SECTION 20-Oct-03 0 0 0 1 0 11 0
Subgroup Total 0 0 0 8 1 130 45
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 09-Jan-03 0 0 0 1 0 5 0
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 06-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 28 2
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 13-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 26 6
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 26-Feb-03 0 1 0 0 0 10
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 20-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 23 6
ANNAPOLIS SUBSECTION 10-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 34 7
Subgroup Total 4 1 0 1 0 126 21
AP03/MTT17 02004 10-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 32 8
AP03/MTT17 02004 15-May-03 1 0 0 0 0 10 5 AP03/MTT17 02004 02-Oct-03 1 0 0 0 0 ? ?
Subgroup Total 2/1 0 0 0 0 42 13
C16 02007 15-Oct-03 1 0 0 0 0 9 0
Subgroup Total 1 0 1 0 0 9 0
COM19 02009 07-Jan-03 1 0 0 0 0 30 4
COM19 02009 04-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 25 5
COM19 02009 04-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 20 3
COM19 02009 01-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 17 2
COM19 02009 09-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 12 5
COM19 02009 06-May-03 1 0 0 0 0 14 1
COM19 02009 10-Jun-03 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
COM19 02009 09-Sep-03 1 0 0 0 0 11 1
COM19 02009 07-Oct-03 1 0 0 0 0 25 1
Subgroup Total 7 0 0 1 0 158 21
ED15/SSC37 02138 27-Aug-03 0 0 0 1 0 5 0
ED15/SSC37 02138 25-Sep-03 1 0 0 0 0 27 25
ED15/SSC37 02138 29-Oct-03 1 0 0 0 0 15 11
Subgroup Total 2 0 0 1 0 47 36
EMB18 02008 20-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 7 8
EMB18 02008 13-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 20 12
EMB18 02008 25-Sep-03 0 0 1 0 0 2 12
EMB18 02008 16-Oct-03 1 0 0 0 0 7 17
Subgroup Total 3 0 1 0 0 34 37
EMC27 02012 20-Feb-03 1 0 0 0 0 7 8
EMC27 02012 07-May-03 1 0 0 0 0 ? ?
EMC27 02012 25-Sep-03 0 0 1 0 0 27 25
Subgroup Total 1/1 0 1 0 0 32 33
GOLD ? ?-???-03 0 0 0 0 0 ? ?
GOLD ? ?-???-03 0 0 0 0 0 ? ?
GOLD ? ?-???-03 0 0 0 0 0 ? ?
GOLD ? ?-???-03 0 0 0 0 0 ? ?
Subgroup Total 0 0 0 0 0 ? ?
MEETING TYPE:
Code Meeting Date Tech Educ Prof Admn Soc Members GuestsIA34 02014 07-Jan-03 0 0 0 1 0 10 0
IA34 02014 15-Jan-03 1 0 0 0 0 45 31
IA34 02014 11-Feb-03 0 0 0 1 0 13
IA34 02014 18-Mar-03 0 0 0 1 0 8
IA34 02014 19-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 52 35
IA34 02014 04-Apr-03 0 0 0 1 0 6 0
IA34 02014 16-Apr-03 1 0 0 0 0 45 30
IA34 02014 13-May-03 0 0 0 1 0 11
IA34 02014 21-May-03 0 0 0 0 1 40 29
IA34 02014 08-Jul-03 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
IA34 02014 12-Aug-03 0 0 0 1 0 12 0
IA34 02014 09-Sep-03 0 0 0 1 0 10
IA34 02014 17-Sep-03 1 0 0 0 0 35 20
IA34 02014 14-Oct-03 0 0 0 1 0 11
IA34 02014 15-Oct-03 1 0 0 0 0 40 20
Subgroup Total 5 0 0 9 1 346 165
PE31 02013 07-Jan-03 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
PE31 02013 28-Jan-03 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
PE31 02013 25-Feb-03 0 0 0 1 0 8
PE31 02013 18-Mar-03 1 0 0 0 0 11
PE31 02013 25-Mar-03 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
PE31 02013 09-Apr-03 0 0 0 0 1 15 65
PE31 02013 29-Apr-03 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
PE31 02013 14-May-03 1 0 0 0 0 16
PE31 02013 26-Aug-03 0 0 0 1 0 8 0
PE31 02013 16-Sep-03 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
PE31 02013 30-Sep-03 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
PE31 02013 14-Oct-03 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
PE31 02013 21-Oct-03 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
PE31 02013 26-Oct-03 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Subgroup Total 2 3 0 6/2 1 90 65
R07 02005 13-Jun-03 1 0 0 0 0 7 2
R07 02005 17-Sep-03 1 0 0 0 0 8 8
Subgroup Total 2 0 0 0 0 15 10
WIE ? 8-Jan-03 0 1 0 0 0 10 3
WIE ? 5-Feb-03 0 1 0 0 0 11 1
WIE ? 30-May-03 0 0 1 0 0 25 5
Subgroup Total 0 2 1 0 0 46 8
TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A REBATE:
- SECTIONS MUST HOLD 5 OR MORE MEETINGS. THIS CAN INCLUDE CHAPTER MEETINGS.
- CHAPTERS MUST HOLD 2 OR MORE MEETINGS.
NOTE: The following meetings are unreported via L-31:
EMC27 9; 1 meeting
PE31 9; 5 meetings
AP03MTT17 1 meeting
GOLD 9; 5 meetings
WIE 9; 3 meetings
Observations and actions
There are 7 meetings that have no L-31 filings either with you or me (see yellow highlighted text on previous page). I have knowledge that these meetings were held because of oral presentations made to that effect by chapter representatives at section meetings or because the meetings were listed on the web sites of the chapters. I am pursuing this with the appropriate chapter secretaries.
Meetings highlighted in
GOLD and WIE have not filed petitions to IEEE to become affinity groups of Baltimore Section. Their meetings cannot count until this formality is completed.