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Orlando
Section Monthly
- SCOOP, March
2003
https://www.ieee.org/scoop
Published for IEEE Section
Chairs
Vicki Waldman, Editor; Tracy Hawkins, Manager
Section/Chapter Support
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 - * Important Deadline
Reminder
* Wanted,
Arrears Members, Bounty
Offered!
* IEEE
Pre-College
Activity
* 300 IEEE
Sections
* Brain Teaser
Column
- IMPORTANT DEADLINE REMINDER
-
- Rebates will not be available for required
annual reports received after 30
- June 2003. If your Section has not yet
submitted 2002 meeting and
- financial activity reports and a list of
officers for 2003, please do so as
- soon as possible. Forms and information can
be found at
- https://www.ieee.org/scsreports.
Questions can be directed to Peggy Kovacs
- at sec-rebate@ieee.org
or call +1 732 562 5513.
-
-
- WANTED, ARREARS MEMBERS! BOUNTY
OFFERED!
-
- All members in Regions 1 through 10 who did
not renew their IEEE membership
- for 2003 were placed into arrears as of 21
February 2003. We are asking
- all IEEE Sections to participate in an
effort to recover these members, and
- we're offering an incentive for you to do
so.
-
- Under this new program each Section will
receive $5.00 for each full dues
- paying arrears member they are able to
recover between now and 31 August
- 2003. Payment under the program is limited
to the recovery of full dues
- paying members (no incentive rebate will be
paid for recovered members
- renewing under a reduced dues program, such
as Students, Unemployed,
- Retired, Life Members, Minimum Income,
etc.). However, Sections are also
- encouraged to contact arrears members in
these other dues categories and
- solicit their renewal as well.
-
- Here are the program guidelines:
-
- * Section volunteers are encouraged to
contact members in arrears through
- email, regular mail, telephone and/or fax
and encourage them to renew their
- membership.
-
- * To receive credit under this program,
arrears members are required to
- renew their membership through the web at
the following URL:
- https://www.ieee.org/recovery.
-
- * Sections will receive $5 each for the
recovery of any full dues paying
- members during the period of 10 March
through 31 August 2003.
-
- * Arrears members who wish to pay their
dues by a method other than credit
- card may still use the online web
application form, but rather than
- entering a credit card number after
completing the form, they can print and
- mail the completed form with their
payment instead. (Those paying via
- credit card, of course, can simply submit
the renewal application
- electronically once they have completed
the online form.)
-
- * The results of the pilot program will
be distributed through the SCOOP
- newsletter and Membership Development
Progress report.
-
- * Payments for successful recoveries
under this program will be included in
- the 2004 Section rebate check.
-
- Interested Section volunteers can request
a listing of all their arrears
- members, sample telephone scripts and
sample outreach letters for use in
- conducting their outreach. For these
items, or more information regarding
- this project, please contact Felicia
Taylor at f.taylor@ieee.org.
-
-
- IEEE PRE-COLLEGE ACTIVITY
-
- Does your Section interact with your local
school system or get involved
- with community activities that serve to
introduce pre-college students to
- the fields of electrical engineering or
computing? If so, where do get
- your material? Do you have a PowerPoint or
other presentation? Towards
- what age group is it geared? Share your
material and/or your sources with
- others! You can answer these questions and
take part in discussions on the
- Section Chapter Volunteer Virtual Community
at
- https://www.ieeecommunities.org/section-chapter_vol
(select the menu item
- for "Discussions"). Included in the
pre-college discussion are links to
- related content: a career brochure for the
pre-college audience and list of
- resources for pre-college activity.
-
- For first time visitors to the site, you
will need to sign up by doing the
- following:
- 1. Click on "Join".
- 2. Choose "Option A: Create a new
account".
- 3. Complete all fields marked with a red
asterisk.
- 4. Read the Terms of Service and check
the box to indicate agreement.
- 5. Click the "Join Now" box.
- If you have questions about the IEEE
Section-Chapter Volunteer Forum,
- contact Denise Maestri at +1 732 562 5505 or
d.maestri@ieee.org.
-
-
- 300 IEEE SECTIONS
-
- With the approval of the formation of two
new Sections at the February
- Regional Activities Board meeting, IEEE now
has 300 Sections worldwide.
- The newest Sections are the Russia
(Northwest) Section and the Russia
- (Siberia) Section. A list of all IEEE
Sections, Subsections and Councils
- can be found on the web in downloadable PDF
format at
- https://www.ieee.org/scs,
select the link on the left hand menu for
- "Resources for Officers", then "Reference
Materials," or go straight to
- https://www.ieee.org/scs
- .
-
- Brain Teaser Challenge Solution -
February 2002 Butch Shadwell
-
- Last month we talked about a woodworking
problem that involved using a
- wedge, one example of a simple machine, to
force a dado joint to seat
- properly. The joint needed 200 pounds of
force to seat and we wanted the
- carpenter to have to apply only 25 pounds of
effort. In this case there
- was no friction between the wedge and either
surface. The first part of
- the question was "What is the angle at the
tip of the wedge to produce this
- effect?" Since we are talking about an 8 to
1 mechanical advantage, the
- tangent of this angle must be .125 (i.e.
1/8). When one looks up the
- arctangent of this value we see that this
angle is approximately 7.1
- degrees. The second part of the question was
to calculate how far the
- wedge had to be inserted to move the load 1
inch. As with all most simple
- machines we exchange and increase in force
applied to the load for a
- proportionally lower amount of displacement.
So, it would take eight
- inches of wedge movement to move the load
one inch. But I bet you already
- knew that.
-
-
- Brain Teaser Challenge - March 2003 Butch
Shadwell
-
- Humans consider themselves pretty highly
evolved. After all, we are the
- masters of this planet, even if it is really
only a spec of dust in the
- universe of matter. We get to run things
around here.
-
- Well I guess the laws of physics really get
the last word as far as
- physical reality is concerned. If I have a
bar magnet and I measure the
- lines of force 2cm from one end directly
along the axis of the magnet, and
- I get 80 gauss, what should I read at 4cm if
all other fields and
- influences are cancelled? For extra credit,
how many gauss make a tesla?
-
- Reply to Butch Shadwell by March 20 at
b.shadwell@ieee.org.
- (https://www.shadtechserv.com)
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