IEEE Baltimore section—meeting minutes—February 13, 2006—Historical Electronics Museum

 

X  Boris Gramatikov – Chair Chair

X  Roberto Cuellar – Vice Chair

X  Bill Semancik – Treasurer

     Brian Sequeira – Outgoing Chair

X    David Sherman – 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

X   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

     Dwayne Daley –Chair, PES

      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

    Yamaris Soto – WIE

     Tom Clark – Chair, LEOS

     Bill Dixon – Acting Chair, AES

    Jerry Gibbon - R2 Chair, South Area         

     Amarjeet Basra  - Chair, Northern Virginia Section

     Paul Matthews - LEOS Vice Chair

     Boniface Nwugwo – Member Computer Society

     James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair

     Gary Tartanian – COMSOC Secretary

     Dick Schafer – Awards

     Steve Bonk – IEEE USA

X   John Anderson- EMC Chair Elect

      Lamarr Brown  Guest-IEEE Senior Member

X   Bill Allen-applicant for senior member

X   Brian Jenkins—Baltimore IEEE LEOS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IAS/PES nominee for senior membership—Bill Allen—is introduced

 

Chair Boris Gramatikov convened the meeting at 6:45 PM; then introductions

 

Region 2 (R2) meeting on Feb. 4-5 in Baltimore, MD…

  • BG attended, Jeff, Vil, John Dentler etc. attended, 
  • R2 finalized their two main favorites for 2007-8 to be put on the ballot B. Wald and A. Basra

 

  • Jay Gibbon is no longer south area director—now moving to educational activities chair

 

  • Murthy will be new south area director chair for Northern Virginia, DC and Baltimore

 

  • $2 to be added to dues for region assessment

 

Pre-college students club affiliatied with IEEE interested in affiliating with us

 

Power Electronics chapter approved

 

Education society News

  • Massachusetts—founding a joint chapter—
  • Yet most members from Baltimore area though it is to be joint with Washington.—reasonable.
  • Open to pre-college and college teachers; David Berner is organizer; 
  • Rob Reilly sent paperwork to IEEE;   next step is getting approved
  • David Sherman thought could continuing education programs be put under their umbrella;
  • Jeff wants to wait for program to come from their leaders; will be invited to the next meeting

 

Tina (WIE) email—which are the most important meetings to attend?  Will suggest those in future.  Formal invitation to WIE next time;

 

Engineer Week Students dinner—sponsored by Dewayne &  PES—wish to have at least one token ExecComm engineer at dinner;  $25 fee for engineers; domation expected; Neville will go; so will Boris; Marriott; Feb. 21 6-9PM; William Semancik; Jay;  tour of the museum is added

 

ESB dinner—Fireball dinner;  who will go? set for Feb. 18

 

John Dentler sent a reminder about Mentoring Program initiative—want to facilitate connection between young engineers and seasoned engineers—what is the mechanism for this?  Enter data and get connected; how to apply for mentor https://www.ieee.org/mentoring--mentoring program coordinator Kathy Downer; Bob suggested that outside people will be interested in mentoring program; 

 

Professional Society Expo—Feb. 22 at APL;  Brian Sequiera – David will attend;  Neville will attend;

 

Treasurer-balance  $58294.41; rebate is $2617;  outstanding checks are still coming; L50 working on it—missing- EMB; Reliability, EMC; IAS; SP have outstanding reports—expenditures

 

Secretary—ex—Bill Semancik—several society have not reported officers contact

 

Ron Aloysius reports-- Einstein meeting is dead; SP society meeting canceled; newsletter is going out at the end of the on Feb. 24 Need topic that is enticing;

 

Neville—33 schools—106 teams which is greater than 26 schools and 72 teams; flip side is that more judges are necessary;  1/3 of teams will bow out so that 20 more judgeswill be necessary; 

With corporate sponsorship there may be more opportunity for individual trophies;  more prizes for different categories. 

Gift certificates could be given to students and teachers—more incentives—Neville proposal consists of  individual trophies—for each member of winning team; each of teachers gets a $100 gift certificates; $25 for mentors;  7 teams; 5 members per team—7 teachers; for a grand total of $1400; Boris proposed funding Neville’s proposal;  motion carried;

 

N. went to 1st competition at UMBC—HS and middle level school students ---lot of engineers and $12-15 K is sponsorship cost; liven our show a little with TV displays do we want to consider doing this?  Do we want to strive for this?;  Jeff mentioned that space is tight and too busy at Museum of Industry; N mentioned that only airplane and robot takes place on that day;   need to find someone to do this task of video recorder—Community college connection might be important—particularly UMBC and Dundalk Communityu College.

 

Probably get a team from Flowers HS for ITEA; chapter to reimburse—Brois moved to reimburse Jeff seconded; motion carried—up to $350;

 

EMC-June 6th all day workshop in Waldorf-two technical tracks—new and experienced people in EMC; 25th April afternoon—Janet O’neill and Mark Hatfield—topic EMI mode stirred chambers—Dahlgren aircraft testing facility; --Product Safety engineer society—talk volunteered—for product safety—joint meeting; inter-society meeting

 

Jay Gameran will attend ITEA—will man booth—will reimburse $125 admission—robot teams are moving along nicely.

 

Jeff Fried—R2 meeting—financial planning for our members—upstate NYS—members mention R2 get 50% discount; section wide topics—wanted at Lincoln Univ—Life member chapter—handle meetings like Einstein—it is an affinity group;  technical chapter—have meetings at different companies.  For better attenfance

 

Brian Jenkins—LEOS student poster competition—asking for money for student poster competiin -6 teams from 6 universiites—judges already gotten together—Boris wants recruitment material there; flyers applications; membership cards--$250 request for prize money; motion carries Boris moved

 

Adjournment at 8:30PM