The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE Baltimore Section

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

IEEE ExCom Section Meeting

4/10/2006

 

Attendees

X  Boris Gramatikov – Chair

X  Roberto Cuellar – Vice Chair

X  Bill Semancik – Treasurer

    David Sherman – Secretary

X  Jeff Friedhoffer – Past Chair

X  Brian Sequeria – 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

X  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

     Dewayne Daley   Chair, PES

     David Sherman – EMB

     Mark Welsko – Chair, IAS

     Leonard Bathgate IAS Treasurer & Publications

    Walt Willing – Chair, Reliability

    John Anderson – Chair – EMC

X  Robert Berkovits – Vice 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

     Paul Matthews - LEOS Vice Chair

     Boniface Nwugwo – Computer Society

X  James Oliver – ED/SSC Chair

     Gary Tartanian – COMSOC Secretary

     Dick Schafer – Awards

     Steve Bayne – Power Electronics Chapter organizer

X   Fred Seelig  - GlobeCom 2007 Excom Chair

 

 


Meeting called to order at 18:40 

 

1. INTRODUCTIONS


2. EXECUTIVE REPORTS

·         Chair (Boris Gramatikov)

 

·         Globecom 2007 will present to the Excom at 1930. Section is being asked to sign a financial agreement to support the conference. Section has agreed to $5K. Any requirements beyond that will require separate ratification.

·         Section is being nominated for a section award. Need input by input by 20 April. Gathering information on the number of meetings, large conferences, awards, new chapters started.

·         Chair has received an invitation for 22 April award dinner from National Area Sections. Carole Carey will attend for the section.

·         Tom Patton will cover chapter chairs dinner.

·         Any donation below $5K has to be approved by Regional Activities Board. Chair is still awaiting approval of donation for use of the Historical Electronics Museum. Suggestion by Carole Carey to cc IEEE headquarters.

·         Received letter from Maryland Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement looking for support on statewide competition on 2 May with an advertisement. Neville made a motion for the section taking a $200 advertisement in the program. Motion carried.

 

·         Vice Chair (Bob Cuellar)

 

·         Not present.

 

·         Treasurer (Bill Semancik)

 

·         Presented status of Section accounts as of Sunday evening. Noted that minutes were posted on the web for March meeting and passed out hard copies.

 

·         Secretary (David Sherman)

 

·         Not present. Meeting minutes taken by Bill Semancik. Please send comments to Bill Semancik (wsemancik@ieee.org) for any corrections.

 

3. CHAPTER CHAIRS AND INDIVIDUAL REPORTS

 

Past Chair (Brian Sequeria)

·         Presented Jeff Friedhoffer with Section Chair pin and award

 

 

Tom Patton (Awards)

 

·         E-mailed out the dinner announcement. He wants to hear the response back. Rob Gold from APL will speak on space technology as the dinner speaker. Requested $350 for the giveaways which was approved by the Section.

 

 

Student Activities (Neville Jacobs)

·         14 Teams from Eastern Tech dropping out. Currently have ½ the number of judges required for running the competion. More judges will be required. The Robot Challenge generated a lot of interest at the ITEA conference. Fifty people attended the presentation.

·         We need to increase the amount of laydown space for the challenge with the increased number of participants.

·         In the process of upgrading the registration photos from Polaroid to digital. Neville has purchased a printer for use in the challenge and would like IEEE to pick up ½ the cost of the printer. Section approved buying a printer, not sharing the cost.

·         Received funds for 3 automation kits.

 

EMC (Bob Berkovitz). 

·         Brought up issue with inadequate notification of society meetings between chapters. There are many meeting topics that could be the subject for joint chapter sponsorship. Section Chair acknowledged the issue and that it was the responsibility of the Chapters to bring up relevant meetings to the other societies. All chapter chairs should note that responsibility.

 

Newsletter (Ron Aloysius).

 

·         Newsletter is going smooth. Chair wanted to have a note in the newsletter on either finding interest in restarting the AES or Chapter will be shut down. SPS is having some scheduling issues. May talk on traffic engineering.

 

 

Carole Carey

·         Reported on PACE activities and IMPACT conference. Next IMPACT conference (fall 2006) will concentrate on WIE. There is a goal of more affinity groups in the region.

·         Started a discussion about EMBS status.

 

 

Fred Seelig (GlobeCom 2007 Excom Chair)

·         November 2007. Sunday through Thursday 2000 to 2500 people in attendance. 20% of attendance will be the diffused parts of economics, legal, regulatory. Media friendly conference. Target Congressmen and other lawmakers who target communications. 50th anniversary of the conference.

·         MOU is between Conference, Communications Society, and Section. Expect 20% profit. No money upfront is required from the section. Have about 1 month to decide. The MOU is designed to limit liability of Sections but also limits upside. Request from the section to have some measure of losses from dot-com bust.

 

EDS (James Oliver)

·         Feb speaker on MEMS. Upcoming talk on nanotechnology.

 

 

 

 

 

4. ADJOURN at 2040.

 

The minutes were prepared by Bill Semancik