IEEE Huntsville Section 
2004 Section Report

Section Officers:

	Chair			Sonya Hutchinson
	Vice Chair		Keith Jadus
	Treasurer		Willie Fitzpatrick
	Secretary		Wayne Wolf
	Member at Large	Buddy Bishop, Scott Trites
	Past Chairs		Eric Grigorian, James Anderson

Active Society Chapters or Affinity Group Chairs

	AES			                            Kaveh Heidary
	Joint Communications/APS/MTT (JCAMS)	Mark Barnes
	Computer                                Skip Grierson
	Controls                                Charles Bishop
	Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)     Paul Stover
	GOLD                                    Keith Jadus

We just wrapped up our exciting 50th Anniversary and Engineer's Week
Banquet. The Huntsville Section was formed in November 1953 by Stephen
Johnston who was in attendance at the banquet. We had great region
support from Region 3 with Secretary David Green presenting our 50th
Anniversary banner to our current chair and fist chair. The past
chairs, who were able to attend, were presented plaques at the
banquet. The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) IEEE student
branch and other local university societies hosted a 5k run as part of
Engineer's Week.

The Huntsville Section meets monthly to conduct section business along
with society chapter and student branch updates. The chapters have
several beneficial presentations throughout the year. The Huntsville
Section welcomes our newly formed Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
Chapter, which has a strong following. The JCAMS and GOLD societies
are about to hold elections for new leadership. The AES Society helped
host the 2003 IEEE Radar Conference in Huntsville this year.

The Huntsville Section saw great reward from its involvement in
conferences this year. The section hosted the 2003 IEEE Radar
Conference with support from Region 3 and the AESS Society. The
conference was a success benefiting the local membership. The section,
Region 3, and AESS will see a surplus from the Radar Conference this
year since it was a financial success. We received a large surplus
this year from AUTOTESTCON 2002, which was hosted by the Huntsville
Section. The Huntsville Section formed a conference committee to help
plan for upcoming conferences.
	
The section also sponsors the UAH Student Branch Team, which competes
in the robot competition at SouthEastCon. We present Special Awards to
students in math, science, computer science, and engineering at the
regional and state Science Fairs with a US Savings Bond. We also
support local K-12 science and engineering projects.