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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
6/13/2005
Attendees
Brian Sequeira – Chair
X Boris Gramatikov –
Vice Chair
X Roberto Cuellar – Treasurer
Bill Semancik – Secretary
Jeff Friedhoffer – Past Chair
X John Dentler – Region 2 Director Elect
Christopher Nemarich – Program Director
X Neville Jacobs –
Student Activities
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
X Eric Henlon – PES Chair
Dewane Daley – Vice Chair, PES
X 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
Domenic Georgantas – Chair, GOLD
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
Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer
Society
James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair
Dick Schafer – Awards
X Shunyou (Alan) Long – Member
X Lamarr Brown - Member
Motions Approved
1.
Dave Boyd approved purchase of robot kits ($5000); John
Dentler seconded this motion—Approved
2.
J Dentler put forward motion
to give $2500 to PES to cover book scholarships; D. Sherman seconded; motion
approved
Individual Reports
John Dentler-R2
Director-Elect—
- Education Society Chapter- has submitted petition for
charter and has been approved
- Wished to have board of directors meeting for region
2 about communication setup within region-wished to speak to Brian Sequiera about this matter
Dave Boyd—Annapolis Subsection—
- Administrative meeting in May (5-2) for planning
session in the fall
Alan Long—Visitor inquiring
about senior membership—Works in High-ThroughPut
Drug Screening Facility at JHU
Ronald Aloysius—Newsletter
Editor
- May Newsletter went out—Contains Signal
Processing society announcement
David Sherman—EMB Chair
- No EMB news to report
- Petition to approve Signal Processing Chapter has
been approved—will organize over the summer with Ronald
Aloysius—Kick-off meeting will feature Delores Etter,
Prof. at USNA
Rob Berkovits—EMC
Chair
- Wished to correct April minutes: 49 attended April 13
meeting: 32 IEEE members; 6 EMC members; 13 COMSOC members; 16 non-IEEE
members
- Possible future speakers: Vil
Parafiles;
Dr. Kenneth Foster of U-Penn (possible joint meeting with EMB)
- Mentioned new Product Safety Engineer society
chair—Dr. Sandy Weiniger of FDA—as
another possible speaker
6/13 Minutes continued
- Planning joint meeting with PES to recruit new
members
Boris Gramatikov-Vice-Chair,
Baltimore
Section
- Talked about Continuing Education Initiative
- Would target IEEE member 40+ yrs old—who
potentially sees job threatened; though appeals to GOLD members as well
- 1-2 hr. talks which would occur occasionally;
response was modes so far
- Described in Newsletter
- Wanted to have specialists teach courses
- Printed circuit board
- Tele-communications
- C++, C# programming
- Java programming
- Have talks that appeal to general audience
- This represents a networking opportunity
- These are potential money-makers
- Though certificate issue remains
- APL speakers available on simulation and printed
circuit board design
- Definite action item for the future
- Ron Aloysius and David Sherman mentioned that SP
society might sponsor lecturers
- Engage Newsletter as outlet for announcements
Neville Jacobs—Student
Activities
- Attached supplementary materials entered into record
dealing with June 13 robot challenge status report
- Additionally suggested ordering 100 robot kits at a
cost of $5000—breakdown $3500 for standard robot kits; $800 for
automated kits plus another $700 for documentation
- Dave Boyd
approved purchase of robot kits; John Dentler
seconded this motion--Approved
- Depend on judges for evaluations to go back to
schools as this is a critical way of maintaining robot competition alive
in these schools
- Need to get data to Carole Carey to get back
$2000-2500 rebate back from PACE
- Sustaining the robot challenge—need to continue
to contact schools—more teams are necessary to compete other high
school challenges
- Need to exhibit to recruit—But
what conference?
- AIMS—association of independent/private
middle schools—2 yrs ago successful but only $200 paid for the
booth—now they want to up it to $400
- ITEA conference coming to Baltimore (March 23-26)
looking to get them on board for 2006-2007 school year--$1200 for exhibit
space—except that lower rate might be desired for
non-profit—plus we will deliver paper at conference—aim now
is to get literature in hands of right people; distribute CD of robot
competition movies
- Dentler said that IEEE EAB
may be able to sponsor robots
6/13 meeting minutes
Eric Henlon—PES
- Changing of guard time at PES-revitalize—wants
new strategy
- Need more corporate sponsorship
- Made presentation to
- Constellation Energy
- BGE leadership
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Resources
- Book scholarships to students
- Courses to members—used to be one of the
respective ways of getting funds
- Engineer’s Week dinners as well (IEEE
section) paid for that
- $2000 check wished to cover book scholarships
- Hoped to get other commitments from corporate
sponsors
- J. Dentler wanted to tie
book scholarship to paper contest (section-wide)
- J Dentler put forward motion to give $2500 to PES to
cover book scholarships; D. Sherman
seconded; motion approved
Robert
Cuellar—Treasurer’s Report
- SunTrust-- acct at Suntrust
will be closed out; transferred to Wachovia
- Accounting of current account holdings reported.
- Rebate from IEEE National expected to be $20,000
- Real large section expenses are robots and chapter
chairs dinner
The minutes were prepared by David Sherman