Attendees: Roger Grubic, Tracy Wichmann, Al
Jusko, Charlie Husbands, Ron Gedney, Dr. Jianhua Liu, Dr.
Thomas Yang and Dr. Ilteris Demirkian.
Not in
attendance: Dr. Hugh Ward, Dr.
Tim Wilson and Dr. Jane Owen.
Financial
Status and Budget
Tracy Wichmann
handed out the financial report showing the balance for the
Section and the SRT project. As
of May 1, 2009 the Section balance was $4716.13, the balance
for the SRT project was $2150.34. Questions were raised about
how the IEEE rebate was calculated; e.g. how much for section
meetings, affiliate meetings.
Student
Involvement and Support
The student grant
for the student robotics competition was also discussed. It
was agreed that the 2010 budget would reflect a grant similar
to this year.
Action: Dr. Liu
to provide the needed budget amount.
Dr. Liu suggested
the student presentation to the section be moved to October or
November meeting. Existing April
date is too close to finals and March may be too close to the
robotic competition date. It was
also agreed that the section would pay for up to four meals
for the student speakers. Also
brought up was to have more student friendly section
presentations. It was suggested
to include the officers of the student chapter in the officers
list in
After much
discussion on how to improve student attendance at section
meetings,
Action: Tracy
Wichmann.
It was suggested
that perhaps student meetings at ERAU could draw upon local
firms such as Harris or Motorola to discuss employment needs
and hints for interviewing, etc.
Meetings
It was suggested
that a section meeting honoring Engineering Week in February
be done in coordination with other local professional science
and engineering groups.