IEEE Baltimore section—meeting minutes—June 12, 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

X Tom Patton – Awards’

X Carole Carey – Professional Activities 1 / ESB Rep

Hoosamuddin Bandukwalla –  Professional Activities 2

Joseph Pollitt  – Audits & Bylaws

X Vil Arafiles – R2 Treasurer; Membership Development – Baltimore Section

X Ron Aloysius – Newsletter Editor

Thad Welch – Communication Society

X Dave Boyd – Annapolis subsection

X Dewane Daley –Chair, PES

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

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

X Tina Kohler—WIE Affinity gorup

X 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

X Lamarr Brown Guest-IEEE Senior Member

X Bruce Schmickley—Guest

IEEE ExecComm Meeting 06-12-06

Chairman [Boris Gramatikov] called the meeting to order at 6:45P

· Boris--yielded chair to Tom Patton for a recap of Chapter Chair—65 people. Speaker was very good in presenting deep space missions; the dinner was kept way under budget. Move to request spread of time between robot challenge and chapter chair dinner…can’t get all of the responses—March 24-25 will be the new date to hold robot challenge—

Chair business—

· Jeff requested pictures from dinner from Bob Berkovits.

· Globecom 2007—asked to participate with liability up to 20K…we were asked to share 20% of the liability with DC/Northern Virginia –obscure how liability is calculated…cap suggested up to $5K. DC accepted their proposal, but not Baltimore…will live with $5K cap. Will sign MOU (memo of understanding)…profit possible…related to that we received similar proposal from Veh. Tech conference.

· Vehicular Technology Society Conference —in Baltimore also Fall 2007; No local chapter. Can’t organize a chapter so soon. Move conference to another city. Need desparate support from local chapter. Still want $20K liability. Isn’t the same size as Globecom; debate ensued about electronics/engineering involved in this society; wait and see attitude proposed until we see how things pan out. Tom Patton raised a motion to check on their plans and what are our common resources and to keep us informed and respond accordingly . Motion carried.;

· From Maryland Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) Jeff Friedhoffer received letter of thanks.)

· Boris got a letter inquiring about 3 local chapters…AES, PE-31 and AP-MTT inactive status. Re: PE Last one did not report on time—needs to report meetings right away; Suggested link to L31 page—immediately from web page; PE-31 is doing better; requested report from Dewane; they have a solid plan for resumption of activites—AES –truly defunct; no response seen from Bob C. no interest seen at this time; move to prune section completely; Ron suggested joint meetings with AES and SP.; Always joint meetings. Societies can be combined. When there is pre-existing; two L31s are send in.

· Graduate student member classification made. They can be made officers. Allows grad students to hold office;

· Letter of appreciation received from RAB Small/Large section for diligence in preparation of nominating materials regional activities

PACE and WIE reports- Carole Carey/Tina Kohler—schedule date for M-PAC conference is Oct. 14-15 weekend. Originally for Cherry Hill, NJ will send out survey to WIE; .10-13% want DC area; perhaps Capitol College venue; IEEE planning services maybe able to help sign up online and conference services—planning comm.. with Southern NJ, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and concentrate this week on agenda; one speaker is Dr. Ruth David, CEO Analytic Services; Another is Alene Hammond; Goal of conference is the Empowering of women in economic, political cultural and engineering milieus; panel discussions; no theme yet; students and engineers together in; transitioning to work place; out of the box technologies; SBA—how to start a business…networking activities. Dinner--banquet and coffee breaks—no lunch; Need to seek Commitment of section-for Women in Engineering M-PAC conference;

Treasurer Report—[Bill Semancik] Rebate received; small difference in balance current amount and before checks cleared.

Secretary--David reports that new EMB chair-possible joint meetings with Washington

Robot Challenge/Education--Neville reports—

· data from judges needed to be placed in students hands before they head off on vacation.

· Sponsors could provide better recognition without sponsors getting mentioned overtly as in advertising; Individual participation; $25 gift certificates mentioned. – as possible additional prizeds

· Immediate feedback requested for Live Updates during Challenge--via CCTV and score (tote) boards; Auditors looked at results; better display of results; CCBC might be involved with computer programmers;

· Additional trophies in automation requested —sponsorship money; need financial data to get information to PACE ASAP.

Ron Aloyius Reports--SP society—Newsletter went out all right; maybe July newsletter; Wednesday talk by Tulay Adali as well as pizza lunch for HEM staff;

EMC—Bob Berkovits and John Anderson Reports--EMC colloquium at Waldorf, MD on June 6, telecom; 6 exhibitors; joint meetings; fall Ken Foster—Prof. Up at Ken Foster;

Tom Patton—Annual Dinner--full bar or no bar as we had inactive bartender; Request to shuffle schedule of awards so that main speaker goes first

Pool party for Robot challenge from Neville--$100-reqeusted and motion passed

Computer—From Notes

Dewane PES formed exec comm.—tour of Constellation Energy abd inner harbor discussed; exec comm. Meetings planned; schedule for summer; member ship drive was scheduled for June 2

Walt Willing Reliability—No Report

Vil Parafiles—extending senior application hour—Sept./October—more senior members; more allocation; booth perhaps at M-PAC conference for Oct. 14-15