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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
1/10/2005
Attendees
X Brian Sequeira –
Chair
X Boris Gramatikov –
Vice Chair
Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer
X Bill Semancik – Secretary
X Jeff Friedhoffer –
Past Chair
X John Dentler – Region 2 Director Elect
Christopher Nemarich – Program Director
X Neville Jacobs –
Student Activities
Jay Gamerman - Robots
Tom Patton – Awards
Carole Carey – Professional
Activities 1 / ESB Rep
Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla – Professional
Activities 2
Joseph Pollitt – Audits & Bylaws
X Vil Arafiles
– R2 Treasurer; Membership Development – Baltimore Section
X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor
Thad Welch – Communication Society
Dave Boyd
– Annapolis
subsection
Eric Henlon
– PES Chair
David
Sherman – EMB
Mark
Welsko – Chair, IAS
Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer
& Publications
X Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability
X Robert Berkovits –
Chair, EMC
Doug Kremer – APS/MTT
Wole Akpose – GOLD
Domenic Georgantas – Chair,
GOLD
X Tina Kohler
– WIE
Tom
Clark – Chair, LEOS
Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES
Jerry
Gibbon - R2 Chair, South
Area
Amarjeet Basra - Chair, Northern Virginia Section
X Ken Umberger – Member
X Paul Matthews - LEOS
Vice Chair
X Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society
The Section Chair, Brian Sequeira,
chaired the meeting and called it to order at 6:30 pm.
Boris Gramatikov made minutes from
the November meeting available during his Vice Chair report.
Executive Reports
Section Chair (Brian Sequeira):
- Chair thanked
Jeff Friedhoffer as outgoing chair.
- Chair
read letter from Washington WIE stating they were going to disband. Chair
wants to offer support for reformation of a new WIE for the Washington
Section. It was noted that Baltimore WIE formed in a tumultuous
atmosphere. Chair notes that section needs to support Tina to help make
the affinity group viable. Of 1200 potential members, only 60 affiliates.
Suggestion is that No. Va
also be included until DC WIE can be reformed.
- Submission
of reports is an emphasis for meeting.
- Jeff Friedhoffer notes a deficit of $10000 existed for past
year as one time effort. Need to decrease deficit over the next year.
Suggestions: Decrease awards for student papers. Increase fees for Robot
Challenge. Send fewer people to section congress.
- Vil Arafiles: Makes
suggestion to write to national IEEE Student Activities to ask for an
allocation.
- A
motion is made by Jeff Friedhoffer and accepted
for student paper awards to be made $1000, $500, $250.
- A
suggestion is made to send 1 person to congress at expense of section and
send one person at expense of region.
- Suggestion
to send out ballots 3rd class rather than 1st class
mail. This would require getting nominations 3 weeks earlier.
- For
Section dinner, Tom Patton is to consider options on cash bar vs. open
bar.
- Neville
offers $800 savings by deferring middle school robot until next year and
returning money for unused automation cuts.
Section Vice-Chair (Boris Grammikov):
- Only 5
chapters updated the section with new Officers information. This
information needs to be submitted to IEEE Headquarters. A reminder will be
sent out tomorrow. Assumption will be made that others unchanged if there
is no response.
- Discussion
of possible nominations for the "Engineer of the Year" award of
the Baltimore Engineers Week Council. John Dentler
is taking an action for finding copy of past write-up for nomination to
use as a template award for Dave Sherman. Jeff Friedhoffer
to also re-submitting Meritorious Achievement Award Neville Jacobs. Jeff
suggests perhaps nominate Robert Runser for
Young Engineer of the year award.
- Notes
that Treasurer is not present at the meeting. Treasurer report is critical
to IEEE. Bob Cuellar to be contacted.
Secretary (Bill Semancik)
· Nothing to report
Old Business and Action items:
- No
actions from December.
- November
meeting actions:
·
Arrange for web page maintenance training upon
demand. Note that training has been given as required. Action to be considered
closed.
·
Action to organize section technical meeting for
April timeframe. Note that previous years there was not a separate section
meeting. Announcement is to be mailed to listserv with suggestion of topics.
·
For next meeting Boris will have a summary of
meetings. Note that most chapters well above minimum two meetings.
Report Highlights from Directors and Chapter Chairs
LEOS (Paul Matthews)
- Technical
meeting Feb 23 @ APL Dr. Brent Little, Little Optics “High index
photonics circuits for commercial applications”
- Graduate
Student Poster Combination Mar 23 joint w/ No Va
Chapter also at APL
- Last
technical meeting 50 attendees.
Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)
- IEEE USA trying
to get people active with issues like visa.
Reliability (Walt
Willing)
- Reliability
Last meeting on accelerated life testing.
EMC (Robert Berkovitz)
- No Va
EMC to have Jan 27 luncheon meeting at Naval Research Laboratory. Topic
was unknown at the time of the meeting.
Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):
- Present
tally is 63 teams from 24 schools -
13 4 leg teams, 50 2 leg teams
- Workshop
to be held 22 Jan at Museum
of Industry for the
schools.
- Still
seeking judges for the competition on 16, 17 April.
- Income
of $1420, Expenses of $56.92
Member Development (Vil Arafiles)
- Number of senior member applications have dwindled.
Need to encourage members.
John Dentler: Nothing to report
AP/MTT
- AES Pax River EMC chair trying to feel possibility for
mini symposium w/ Baltimore and Washington. 1st or 2nd
week of May. 2 possible speakers. 2 tracks.
- Also
suggested possible section meeting topic on telemedicine.
Subsection and Chapter Chair Reports
Annapolis subsection (Dave Boyd)
- Annapolis subsection
report submitted by e-mail and entered into record. Summary is as follows:
Held Spring admin meeting 6 Jan, 2005. Four meetings planned for spring
session. Issues that some lower Eastern Shore
members would like to get to IEEE region meeting but distance is an
obstacle.
Affinity Groups
Baltimore
WIE (Tina Lohler)
- Paperwork
is completed and ready to start.
New business
- President
of COMSOC contacted Friedhoffer for help in
sponsoring 1st International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum
Allocation Networks. This is an opportunity for the section to raise
revenue from the investment in the symposium. A suggestion was made that
we do some diligence to make sure that leaders are organized to realize
the financial success of the meeting.
- Globecom 2007 in Washington
DC. Potential for helping to
sponsor the conference.
- Asst.
Dean for engineering at UMBC. New systems engineering program. UMBC wants
to advertise through IEEE.
- UMBC
going through ABET accreditation. Process wants to have employer
evaluation of graduates. Consider using IEEE to help in accreditation
process.
- Saturday
Feb 5 Wash No Va annual
officer training session @ MitreTek 0830.
Minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik
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