Uploaded Dec 16, 2002 to ncac/minutes as ncac0903final.html
Tuesday Septmber 3, 2002
Location: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott.
Meeting following the Washington Section's AdCom Meeting and Dinner.
1. Call to Order, Welcome and Approval of Agenda
Call to order after the Washington Section's meeting at 8:30 PM.
2. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
Concerning the minutes of the NCAC meeting of August 6, 2002.
Motion to Approve: Jim Allen, second Greg Strutt.
The minutes were approved unanimously and are now on the NCAC web site as ncac0806final.html
3. Chairman's Remarks
3c. The NoVa proposed withdrawal from NCAC
The main thrust of the meeting was a lengthy discussion of the NoVA section's decicion to with draw. In general,
everybody present supported NCAC and felt that it would be difficult to coordinate joint acitvites without NCAC
and that the Washington Section would be worse off without NCAC.
3b. SCANNER.
The Noveber Scanner was discussed. The cost for the paper is about $1.500 for Postage, $1.600 for printing,
and $1,200 for Karen (total about $ 4,300).. The future of the Scanner was discuseed and John Margosian
and others emphasized the need of a hardcopy paper to recruit new members as well as a common source of information
about the IEEE activities in the Area.
4. Treasurer's Report.
Howard Needham presented the Treasurers report.. NCAC is basically solvent.
5. Continuing Education
Hajik Biglari will present a course in on Modelling and Simulation using Mathlab. The course is fetured on the
first page of the Scanner and will take place at the University of Maryland, September 21 and 28. As of the meeting,
8 persons had already signed up.
6. Next Month's Meeting
Next month's meeting of NCAC will take place at the Tyson's Marriott, Wednesday October 9, after the meeting
of the NoVA AdCom.
7. Adjournment
Motion to Adjourn by Howard, second by Greg.. Meeting adjourned at 8.40 PM.
Respectfully Submitted
Jan Aminoff
Secretary, NCAC
j.aminoff@computer.org
Saj Durrani, Chair, NCAC
Jim Allen, Vice Chair, NCAC
Howard Needham, Treasurer, NCAC
Jan Aminoff, Secretary, NCAC
Jerry Gibbon, Chair, NCAC Conferences Committee
Xianhua Yang, Chair, WS
Doug Holly, Treasurer, WS
Harvey Newman, Director WS
Greg Strutt, Director WS
Roger Kaul, Director WS
Haik Biglari, Chair, NCAC Continuing Education Committee
John Margosian, Chair, Life Members Chapter