The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

3/14/2005

 

Attendees

X  Brian Sequeira – Chair

X  Boris Gramatikov – Vice Chair

     Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer

X  Bill Semancik – Secretary

X  Jeff Friedhoffer – Past Chair

    John Dentler  –  Region 2 Director Elect

    Christopher Nemarich  – Program Director

X  Neville Jacobs  – Student Activities

X  Jay Gamerman – Student Activities

    Tom Patton – Awards

    Carole Carey – Professional Activities 1 / ESB Rep

    Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla –  Professional Activities 2

    Joseph Pollitt  – Audits & Bylaws

    Vil Arafiles – R2 Treasurer; Membership Development – Baltimore Section

X  Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor

    Thad Welch – Communication Society

X  Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

    Eric Henlon – PES Chair

    David Sherman – EMB

    Mark Welsko – Chair, IAS

    Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications

    Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability

X  Robert Berkovits – Chair, EMC

    Doug Kremer – APS/MTT

    Wole Akpose – GOLD

X  Domenic Georgantas – Chair, GOLD

    Tina Kohler – WIE

X  Tom Clark – Chair, LEOS

    Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES

X  Jerry Gibbon -  R2 Chair, South Area         

    Amarjeet Basra  - Chair, Northern Virginia Section

    Ken Umberger – Member

    Paul Matthews -  LEOS Vice Chair

X  Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society

    James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair

X  Eric Fiore - Member

 

 

The Section Chair, Brian Sequeira, chaired the meeting and called it to order at 6:34 pm.

 

Executive Reports

Section Chair (Brian Sequeira): 

  • Baltimore section received an invitation from Northern Virginia section to include pre-college activities in their section report. Neville Deed to follow up with providing information to NoVa Section on the Robot Challenge
  • Brian Sequeira attended the expo at Applied Physics Laboratory. Also represented the section were Robert Berkovitz, Dave Sherman and Boniface Nwugwo. 14 people took IEEE membership applications
  • 2 senior members applicants were asked to come to meeting to the evening’s meeting to receive help in submitting their applications

 

Section Vice-Chair (Boris Gramatikov): 

  • Boris Gramatikov had inputs for the Region meeting
  • PES did not list having a meeting last year. The chatpter officers did reply to officer request but provided no meeting response. Suggestion made by Jeff Friedhoffer that Chair or Vice-chair contact the past officers and find out the current state of the chapter.
  • Reported the Section treasurer was ill and would not be present at the this Excom meeting
  • A discussion started about closing SunTrust account and moving to Concentration Banking. When Concentration Banking was with Mellon, that company did not have a local branch making banking inconvenient. Now that Wachovia has the account and it is local there is not much a reason for consolidation. Suggestion made by Brian to table the discussion until John Dentler can attend.

 

Treasurer (Bob Cuellar):

  • Not present

 

Secretary (Bill Semancik)

  • Submitted minutes from Feb 2005 meeting
  • Presented preliminary info for R2 report

 

Old Business and Action items:

 

·         A discussion was held regarding the section dinner. The primary goal was to achieve a cost savings to reduce the deficit for the Section this year.

Options for reducing costs

1)      no giveaways

2)      $10 charge for attendance

3)      Cash bar

4)      Drink tickets

5)      Buffet vs sit down

 

Motion made and carried coming in favor of cash bar with sodas no drinks, no handouts, 1 glass of wine at table, sit down table. Semancik to summarize

 

 

 

 

Report Highlights from Directors and Chapter Chairs

 

Region 2 report (Jerry Gibbons)

 

  • Region 2 web page updated. Look for the updates
  • Region 2 meeting at 4 Points Sheraton at BWI, 9,10 April
  • Region 2 fall meeting in October in Tampa, FL. Date to be provided
  • Brought copy of the scanner

 

Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)

 

  • Published newsletter with no issues
  • Majority of effort spent trying to start SPS. The procedure was covered for getting the Chair signature on the petition. Still a few signatures short of necessary number required for submitting the petition.

 

 

EMC (Robert Berkovitz)

 

  • 13 April meeting at 6:00PM at HEM, Dr, William Duff on UWB Electromagnetic Interference
  • 17 March meeting at FCC
  • Local bid for 2010 EMC meeting to be in DC

 

Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):

 

  • 77 Teams registered. 15 teams look less likely to submit but that would still leave 62 teams. No response outside MD this year. The challenge has had a good response for judges but there was an appeal for additional judges. John Dentler has been organizer but will not be able to attend. Jay Gamerman will substitute.

 

Computer (Boniface Nwugwo)

 

  • An organizing meeting for the Computer Society was planned for Thursday, 17 March at the HEM. Boniface expected 30-40 people to attend. He was also updating the web site.

 

 

LEOS (Tom Clark)

 

  • At a recent meeting, Brent Little of Little Optics was speaker.
  • Held a graduate student paper presentation meeting
  • Next meeting planned in 27 April. The speaker will be from Infinera.

 

Chair Emeritus (Friedhoffer)

  • Training on 19 March 6 participants
  • At the time of the Excom meeting there was no response for the high school student paper contest

·         Jeff is following two conference activities:1st Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Networks and GLOBECOM 2007

  • Jeff also made the suggestion that another section had a senior member rodeo for getting senior members. Baltimore section could consider doing the same.

 

AES

  • Eric Fiore has volunteered to revive AES
  • Semancik to take action to put Fiore on the section officer list so that he can get access to the IEEE listserve for the section AES members.
  • There was also a discussion regarding the long response time for IEEE on Mr. Fiore’s senior membership application. Action as given to Semancik to follow up on Fiore senior membership application

 

 

Subsection Chair Report

 

Annapolis subsection (Dave Boyd) see notes

 

  •  3 March meeting, light turnout. Andy Vittia from the Association of  Old Crows talked on Electronic Warfare.  SIGINT. The National Engineers Week trip for Midshipmen to Northrop Grumman was finally executed after being rescheduled for 10 March because of an earlier snowstorm.

 

 

Affinity Groups

 

GOLD (Domenic Georgantas)

 

  • Meeting planned 15 March

 

 

New business

 

  • Discussion was held on information for the Baltimore Section input to the Region 2  report due 20 March. Actions given to sent Semancik information for completing needed information for the report.

 

  • L50 and L31 filed on time

 

 The meeting adjourned at 2005

 

The minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik.

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