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
December 8, 2003
Attendees
X Jeff Friedhoffer – Chair
Hoosam Bandukwalla – Vice Chair
X Brian Sequeira – Secretary
X Boris Gramatikov – Treasurer
X Vil Arafiles – Membership development
Heath Bebout – Chair AES
X Robert Berkovits – Chair EMC
Thad Welch – Annapolis subsection
Carole Carey – ESB and Publications
Roberto Cuellar –
X John Dentler – Area Chair Maryland
Bill Dixon – PACE
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
Jim Ryan – PES Chair
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
X Lee Cochrane (SM candidate)
Jeff Friedhoffer chaired the meeting, which was called to order at 6:35 pm.
Lee Cochrane presented his petition for senior member.
Executive Reports
Section Chair (Jeffrey Friedhoffer)
Priority in getting a budget together for 2004 (action for Brian, Boris, and John Dentler). John indicated that he and Boris would work on the 2003 budget first and then get Brian involved in preparation of the 2004 budget.
Section Vice-Chair (Hoosam Bandukwalla)
None
Treasurer (Boris Gramatikov)
Spent $2,219.84 to mail ballots out to members. Altogether paid about $3246 to L&T for election-related expenses.
Received AES checks at meeting
Have $36,000.45 in concentration banking and $13,759.17 in other account.
Boris to send notice to chapters and affiliates about submitting their budgets for 2003.
Secretary (Brian Sequeira)
Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)
Awards & Recognition (Tom Patton)
None
Membership Development (Vil Arafiles)
Position |
Candidate |
Total votes |
Chair |
Jeffrey Friedhoffer |
136 |
Vice Chair |
Brian Sequeira |
133 |
Vice Chair (write-in) |
Douglas J. Strand |
1 |
Secretary |
Boris Gramatikov |
134 |
Treasurer |
Roberto Cuellar |
133 |
Continuing Education |
John Dentler |
132 |
Programs |
Chris Nemarich |
133 |
Awards |
Tom Patton |
132 |
Student Activities |
Neville Jacobs |
133 |
Audits & Bylaws |
Joseph Pollitt |
134 |
Professional Activities 1 |
Carole Carey |
132 |
Professional Activities 2 |
Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla |
122 |
Membership Development |
Vil Arafiles |
130 |
Summary of Ballots received as of December 3, 2003 |
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By mail |
46 |
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By Fax |
23 |
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By e-mail |
73 |
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Total Ballots received |
142 |
Student Activities (Neville Jacobs)
School |
Teacher |
Kits |
Cost ($) |
Comment |
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2-leg |
4-leg |
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Atholton |
Jeff Swab |
1 |
N/C |
Del. 11/6. Owe manual |
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Beth Tfiloh |
Neville Jacobs |
2 |
2 |
906 |
All automat-ion, del. 10/24 |
C. Milton Wright |
Gary Rabe |
1 |
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 |
Hannah More* |
Bob Lester |
1 |
N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Kenwood |
Tom Michicki |
1 |
88 |
Not del. |
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Kenwood* |
Jeremy Haack |
2 |
49 |
Not del. |
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Maryvale Prep.* |
Cathy Stankovic |
5 |
196 |
Del. 11/6 one at no charge (needs invoice for four) |
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McDonogh* |
Jennifer Singer |
6 |
245 |
Del 1 kit at no charge. 5 to be del. In January |
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Montgomery Blair* |
Dr. James Distler |
2 |
N/C |
Won as door prize. Del. 10/17 |
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New Town* |
Robin Kessler |
1 |
N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Owings Mills* |
Mark Wolf |
2 |
1 |
137 |
Owe 1 kit del. 2 11/6 |
Park School* |
Melissa Schneider |
1 |
N/C |
Del. 11/8 |
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Pikesville |
Robert Newman |
2 |
49 |
Del. 11/6 |
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Southwestern |
Joshua Grabrielse |
1 |
N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Sparrows Point* |
Tom Welzenbach |
1 |
N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
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Western School of T&E |
Laura Stumpfoll |
1 |
$39 |
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Worcester* |
Colleen McGuire |
1 |
N/C |
Del. 10/17 |
*First time entrant this year
TOTAL: 17 schools, 38 teams, 44 kits required
We are now almost totally out of kits, but we are expecting a new shipment of 70 kits by the end of this week. With a significant number of teams in hand we are ready to assign team numbers and these should be sent out by the end of this week.
Location |
Number of kits |
Month and year |
Lehigh Valley PA |
None but interested |
January 2003 |
Kansas City, KS |
4 |
February 2003 |
Montana |
1 |
November 2003 |
New Mexico |
9 (5 kits + 4 automation) |
April 2003 |
North Carolina |
30 (25 kits + 5 automation) |
November 2003 |
San Diego |
None but interested |
January 2003 |
Schenectady, NY |
1 |
March 2003 |
Seattle, WA |
None but interested |
Kits sent internationally are as below
Location |
Number of kits |
Month/year |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1 |
November/2002 |
Istambul, Turkey |
17 (10 kits + 5 automation) |
Dec/2002 & March/2003 |
School |
Amount ($) |
Owings Mills High School |
137.00 |
Beth Tfiloh High School |
906.00 |
North Carolina |
765.93 |
Montana |
65.00 |
WIE (Tina Kohler)
None
Region (John Dentler)
At the executive council meeting for this region the decision was to place greater emphasis on membership, membership development, industry relations and employment assistance. Hatch bill got pigeon holed in part due to efforts by PACE. Action: Give PACE information to Vil and Carole.
GOLD (Wole Akpose)
None
Professional Activities (Carole Carey)
None
Programs (presented by John Dentler)
Centennial dinner on February 28, 2004. Classics is the caterer, and event will be either at HEM or Marriott.
Action: Finalize details and give info Ron Aloysius to post in Newsletter and Jeff to post on web site.
Chapter Chair Reports
PES (Jim Ryan)
None
EMC (Robert Berkovits)
Held joint meeting with AP/MTT on November 24. Flyer distributed at meeting.
EMB (David Sherman)
None
COMSOC (Jeffrey Friedhoffer)
None
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 Items
Number |
Action/Disposition |
10.1 |
Contact Bill Dixon to find out status about AES checks (Boris Gramatikov). Transferred action to Jeff Friedhoffer under action 11.1 /Closed |
10.8 |
EMC to file on-line L-31 for May 7 meeting (Bob Berkovits)/Closed |
10.10 |
Provide PR paragraph about robots for newsletter (John Dentler)/Open |
10.11 |
Confer and coordinate with John Dentler about Region meeting and generate a proposal for centenary celebration (Chris Nemarich) – In progress. |
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. Jim Burkhardt to be contacted by next week. |
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. /Closed |
10.14 |
Arrange for web training (Jeff Friedhoffer)/Open |
11.1 |
Post newsletter on section web site (Jeff Friedhoffer)/Closed |
11.2 |
Put details (Date, Place, Cost, and e-mail contact) of Section’s Centenary Celebration in Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)/Closed |
11.3 |
Feel out IA for interest in participation/sponsorship of Engineer’s Week (Jeff Friedhoffer)/Open |
11.4 |
Send Ron Aloysius a summary of PES’s Book Scholarship program. (Jim Ryan)/Open |
11.5 |
Send an announcement CE meeting to Ron Aloysius for inclusion in Newsletter. (Garth MaKenzie)/Moot and Closed |
11.6 |
Send John Dentler details provided to Vicki Waldman. (Neville Jacobs)/Closed |
11.7 |
Give John Dentler specification sheets (Neville Jacobs)/Closed |
12.1 |
Prepare budget for 2004 (John Dentler, Boris Gramatikov & Brian Sequeira) |
12.2 |
Send notices to chapters/affiliates about budgets for L-50 (Boris Gramatikov) |
12.3 |
Post election results in Newsletter (Ron Aloysius) |
12.4 |
Give PACE information to Vil and Carole (John Dentler) |
12.5 |
Finalize details for centennial celebration and give info to Ron Aloysius (Chris Nemarich) |
12.6 |
Post contact information of person to contact & e-mail for laundry list of volunteer opportunities (Ron Aloysius) |
12.7 |
Get estimate of expenses for trip and stay in NC (Neville Jacobs) |
12.8 |
Give Jeff the RAB e-link (John Dentler) |
New Business
Jeff Friedhoffer listed the following opportunities for volunteers:
See action item 12.6.
Jeff met with two individuals from UMBC. Section could have a pizza party and a presentation to acquaint students with workplace expectations of new employees.
Section could set up a consultant’s network.
Jeff talked to HEM about storage for section’s documents.
There was discussion to have section but a LCD projector and donate it to HEM to avoid ownership issues, but obtain understand with HEM about section’s use of property.
IEEE GlobeCOM meeting in Washington DC in 2007
GOLD is having a social event on December 12.
Neville Jacobs informed that North Carolina is holding a show in March and requested a Baltimore section representative to visit about 2 to 3 weeks prior to the event. Would the section fund such a trip? See action 12.7.
See action item 12.8.
Motion to adjourn proposed by John Dentler, seconded by Vil Arafiles, and unanimously carried. The meeting adjourned at 8:26 pm.
30 November 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
BALTIMORE SECTION 10-Nov-03 0 0 0 1 0 12 0
Subgroup Total 0 0 0 8 1 142 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 ? ?
AP03/MTT17 02004 24-Nov-03 1 0 0 0 0 ? ?
Subgroup Total 2/2 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
COM19 02009 04-Nov-03 1 0 0 0 0 16 1
COM19 02009 20-Nov-03 1 0 0 0 0 12 12
Subgroup Total 7 0 0 1 0 182 34
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
EMB18 02009 20-Nov-03 1 0 0 0 0 12 12
Subgroup Total 3 0 1 0 0 46 49
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
Subgroup Total 2 0 0 6 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
AP03MTT17 2 meetings
GOLD 9; 5 meetings
WIE 9; 3 meetings
Observations and actions