Section Officers for 2004

• Carlos Whaley, Chair
• Larry Heine, Vice Chair, Communications coordinator
• Grace Giras, Secretary/Treasurer
• Eric Christenson, PACE

Section Meetings:

We do not hold meetings during the summer months (Jun-Jul-Aug). During the rest of the year, we hold monthly meetings, alternating the location between Lynchburg, VA and Charlottesville, VA. Meeting attendance is usually 25-35 members.

Recent or scheduled meetings include:

• "Wireless Sensor Networks", Lynchburg, Sept 20th
• "Use of Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors in High Power Motor Control Applications", Charlottesville, Oct 19th
• Plant tour of EDM, Inc., an electronics manufacturer, (www.edmva.com), Lynchburg, Nov 16th
• December Social, Stargazing and Elections, UVa's McCormick Observatory, Dec 7th
• Descriptions of the meetings and speaker info are available on our web site, https://www.cvaieee.org.

Other activities:

• We maintain a mirror web site at https://www.cvaieee.org.
• We're publishing approximately 6 newletters/year (hardcopy).
• We're increasing the use of electronic communications via e-mail and web with good success.
• We are soliciting volunteers to undertake k-12 educational activities.
• We are exploring participation in local technology council activities.
• We are organizing a Computer Society Chapter (petition now complete, awaiting approval from IEEE HQ).
• We are circulating a petition to form a Communications Society Chapter.

Submitted by:
Carlos Whaley
Chair, Central Virginia Section