January Meeting Minutes for
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) National Capital Area Council (NCAC)


Date: Tuesday 4 January 2000
Location: Allie's American Grill, Pooks Hill Marriott, Bethesda, MD.
Time: Dinner 6:00 PM, Section & NCAC and meetings beginning at 6:30 PM

The meeting was called to order by Don Rickerson, the newly elected chairman, with a Welcome and request for the approval of the proposed agenda.

The previous meeting minutes were approved followed by the Treasurer's Report presented by outgoing Treasurer, Bill Kelly, with the support of incoming treasurer, Saj Durrani. The treasurer's report was approved unanimously
-- Section assessments have been sent early- no payments received
-- both Washington and NOVA Section Q1 assessments
-- payment of $3000 from Compass
-- Credit card merchant account for Scanner billings

Chairman/Vice-Chairman's Report - Don Rickerson/Satish Aggarawal
- Welcome new NCAC officers
- Section treasurer Meeting for Joint Chapters
Rebates for timely report submission:
- Sections-$1800- must have met at least five times in 1999
- Chapters-$180- must have held two technical meetings in 1999
- Affinity Groups-$150- must have met at least two times in 1999
- Membership- $3 - to each section per member as of 31 Dec 1999
- The NCAC is seeking nominations for the following positions:
· NCAC University Coordinator- maintain relations with student chapters.
· NCAC PACE Coordinator- maintain Profession Activities such as continuing education, PACE conferences, GOLD program. · Region 2 Chairman- Nominations for Region 2 Chairman are needed by 31 Jan. In theory, anyone who is a senior member is eligible, but in practice, they should have been a past Section Chairman.
- Officer Training will be held at the Oracle Facility in Reston on 5 Feb, please come at 8:30 to sign in and have coffee. Jerry Gibbon is the chair and new officers and directors are particularly encouraged to come and participate.
· Contract Status - Ron Aasen reported that the contract with Jackie Hunter for Admin Services has been signed, but the section on "letters for new members" has been deleted. The contract with brassring.com/Kaplan for job fairs has been signed by them and by me and is presently with Tom Suttle of IEEE USA for approval. The contract with Karen Winstedt for Scanner Editor is with her for signature, but she will wait for the outcome of the Scanner coordination meeting.
· Conferences - Jerry Gibbon
· The MD Technology Showcase had a great turnout, and there were many IEEE volunteers to help staff our booth
· COMNET in DC 25-27 Jan - registrations due
· Radar 2000 is coming up in May.
· Membership Development - Howard Needham would like to have a SM drive by inviting prospective Senior Members to NCAC meetings in April/May 2000.
· Professional Activities - PACE - Saj Durrani
· Duval High School-project mentors needed
· Student Branch support needed-Capitol College asking for support
· Saj Durrani has initiated correspondence with schools for mentoring programs and speakers. He is currently in contact with 8 high schools. In addition, the plans for a JAVA course are in the works. CEU approvals are being coordinated. Another course on Developing Web Sites is being coordinated at the University of MD. There was an offer to hold this course at Capitol College.
· Dave Booth plans to hold an organizational meeting for a new chapter of Life Members. The meeting will be held at Bentleys in Falls Church on Jan. 11th. He expects a dozen or more to attend this opening luncheon.
· Washington Section Liaison Report --Don Rickerson
- National Engineer Week events
- 23 Feb luncheon
-26 Feb dinner
· DC Council - Volunteers are needed to judge the Future Cities Competition. Rex Klopfenstein has been nominated as Engineer of the Year.
· Washington Academy of Sciences - Jerry Gibbon to continue to be our representative.
· Region 2 Director Nominations - Ron Aasen asked for nominations for Region 2 Director.

Meeting adjourned at 8:20 PM

Next Month's Meeting: NCAC and NOVA Section Joint Meeting- 9 Feb 00- Tyson's Corner

Respectfully submitted,
James Allen
Secretary, NCAC

Attendance List
Catherine Jordan, Wash. Sec. Chair, 240-453-3037, cmj@ieee.org
Daniel R. Benigni, Past VP RAB, 301-975-3279, d.benigni@ieee.org
Tracy Hawkins, IEEE Staff ,732-562-5512, t.hawkins@ieee.org
Don Rickerson, NCAC Chair, 703-330-9028, d.rickerson@ieee.org
John Margosian, MTT Vice. Chair ,301-365-1257, e80jwm@aol.com
Harvey Newman , MTT Chair, 202-767-3008, h.s.newman@ieee.org
Saj Durrani, NCAC Treasurer, 301-774-4607, s.durrani@ieee.org
Alicia Singer, Guest, 301-774-3614, aas2@duke.edu
Louise Singer, Guest, 301-774-3614, Louise_Singer@fc.mcps.kr.edu.us
Howard Neesham, NCAC Member Div, 301-214-1602, howardn@ieee.org
Gideon Kantor, Wash. Sec., 301-946-1043, gkantor@aol.com
Steven Weiss, Wash. Sec. Sec.,301- 394-1987, sweiss@arl.mil
Satish Aggarwal, Vice Chair, NCAC, 301-415-6005, sa@ieee.org
Doug Holly, Program Chair EMS, 301-353-1550 ex,2101, hollyd2@ttc.com
Marge Axler, MTT member, 202-333-5383, Fax # 202-333-5383
Shyam Bajpai, Wash Sec Vice Chair, 301-457-5125 ex125, sbajpai@ieee.org
Jim Allen, NCAC Secretary, 703-759-4884, j.d.allen@ieee.org
Ron Aasen, NCAC, 703-516-1928, r.aasen@ieee.org
Jerry Gibbon, Wash. Sec./NCAC, 202-482-3501, j.t.gibbon@ieee.org
Xianhua Yang, Wash. Sec. Treasurer, 202-223-8808, xyang@ieee.org
William Kelly, NCAC Past Treasurer, 703-243-3332, wjkelly@ieee.org
Theodore S. Gordon, IEEE/ Wash Rep to DCCEAS, 301-558-3757,tsgggordon@aol.com