The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

4/18/2005

Attendees

X Brian Sequeira – Chair

X Boris Gramatikov – Vice Chair

X 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

X 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

Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

Eric Henlon – PES Chair

X Dewane Daley – Vice Chair, PES

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

Ken Umberger – Member

Paul Matthews - LEOS Vice Chair

X Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society

James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair

X Dick Schafer – Awards

X Jeff Hazen - Member

The Section Chair, Brian Sequeira, chaired the meeting and called it to order at 6:30 pm.

Executive Reports

Section Chair (Brian Sequeira):

Brian presented a check to the new director of the Historical Electronics Museum in thanks for his efforts
After the last Excom meeting WIE had its kickoff meeting at Copelands in Columbia.
R2 meeting focused on communications. Region has been using a bulletin board to post requests for information. The section was unaware of these requests. Region director presented his vision of the future. Caution given that IEEE membership in chapters is declining. Reinforced section drive toward composite chapters.
Had another contact for senior member status
Congratulated Neville on a very successful Robot Challenge and Jay Gamerman on his organizing the day.

Section Vice-Chair (Boris Gramatikov):

Also attended 2^nd day of R2 meeting. Much useful information on the R2 site. IEEE policy exists on how the sections should respond when approached by companies. A discussion ensued on the difficulty of using SAMIEEE database.

Treasurer (Bob Cuellar):

Provided account balances for the Section

Secretary (Bill Semancik)

Provided inputs to R2 meeting per the request at the March Meeting
Submitted minutes from March 2005 meeting
Meeting minutes were approved

Old Business and Action items:

· Section Dinner: 11 May is the date for the section dinner. Invitations have been sent out. Changes include cash bar and no give-aways. Tom of those to receive certificates.

· Question on E-mails regarding bills from section congress meeting. It is not clear if this was from the meeting in Washington, DC in 2002 or if this was for 2005.

Report Highlights from Directors and Chapter Chairs

Region 2 report (Jerry Gibbons)

Reliability (Walt Willing)

He is trying to get a speaker from U of MD CALCE for Reliability chapter meetingbut not finalized

PES (Dewane Daley)

Organization has been struggling since 2004 with both membership and number of active participants. Been trying to regain momentum. 3 active members – the current officers. 1 Executive meeting in March and hope to have another in May. Have filled secretary position. Outstanding commitments - $3500 in scholarships. Courses have been past source of funds. Future efforts – membership drive internal to BGE and external. Support from senior management at BGE to rebuild PES. Recently had a senior manager interested in senior membership. Section can pull the number of Baltimore PES members through SAMIEEE. Discussion was that Section needs to relieve the burden of the student Engineers Week Dinner

Newsletter (Ron Aloysius)

Nothing to report. No issues with latest putting together latest newsletter. Signal Processing Society standup progress – all required signatures obtained for petition.

EMC (Robert Berkovitz)

49 people at 13 April meeting with Dr. Bill Duff. No Va/DC section having w/ power group broadband over power lines on Thursday 21 April. RFID at Capitol College on Wednesday 20 April. Vil Arafiles will talk probably in August.

Student Activities (Neville Jacobs):

Challenge weekend of 16, 17 April see handout. Best performance was a single individual who completed the project in 3 weeks.
Web site was up at 2100 on 17 April. Digital photos have been posted from both runs. Video will be shown at the banquet. VCR is required for the banquet. Plan to make a CD as a marketing tool to future schools. Regular photos will be used for poster at banquet and for other marketing. Need to start now for participation in next year’s challenge
Some problems with parts identification since different generation kits have different parts. Trying to update manual to account for the difference.
37 teams on Saturday 8 teams on Sunday, 10 teams automated. One team com

From (Jay Gamerman)

Suggestion for next year that we move to digital cameras and small printer since we had problems with the Polaroid camera. Problem with automation software – DOS program does not run on newer operating systems.

Computer (Boniface Nwugwo)

Computer Society organizing meeting help 17 March. 34 people attended. All officer positions were filled. Vice Chair is Anil John. Treasurer is Frank Cole. Kenneth Lang is Secretary. Boniface to provide info for completing officer report. Survey says people want to meet every month. Boniface will conduct a survey of members for topics and areas of interest. 21 April meeting canceled because we could not line up a speaker. 19 May speaker has been lined up – Julie Ryan of GWU – at the HEM. Topic is “Application of Operations Research Techniques in InfoSec.” A preliminary chapter budget was submitted.

WIE (Tina Kohler)

Kickoff March 29, 18 people attended. Elected officials. Planning meeting 19 April. Discussion regarding funding with the section treasurer.

Chair Emeritus (Friedhoffer)

R2 web page – let Friedhoffer know if there are any needed changes to the web site.
Completed student paper contest. Two entries – one award made. Will try to do it later in the semester. Jeff to provide input to Ron for the newsletter.
Gave a talk at UMBC for computer engineering students on benefits of IEEE membership
For chairs, an ability to map where membership is located.

New business

· Boris suggests section level professional meeting for IEEE members. Issues include layoffs stagnant salaries, offshoring. How to help members include skills/knowledge. Chapter meetings tend to be highly focused but doesn’t help people outside that specialty. Focus on this should be helping engineers remain competitive. Topics of interest across societies. Emphasize basics that broaden scope. Question on 1 hour or half day seminars. Philadelphia had a full day on a Saturday with four two-hour talks. Suggests one or two meetings this year. Suggestion to use newsletter to survey for possible topics.

· Discussed letter from Bob Hawthorne for help in identifying sponsorship for activities at Long Reach High School. First looking for personal knowledge among members of companies that may be willing to sponsor schools.

· Request from PES for talk on benefits of IEEE membership for member base. Jeff Friedhoffer to send presentation for students as a basis of this presentation.

The meeting adjourned at 2005

The minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik.