To: Region 3 Excom
CC: Palm Beach Section ExCom, Florida Council ExCom
Date: March 20, 04
Subject: Palm Beach Report
Section Executive Committee
Chair:
Richard Seibel r.seibel@ieee.org
Secretary/Treasurer: Richard
Seibel
Co Vice Chairs: Carl
L. Hussey c.hussey@ieee.org
Norm
Bleshman nbleshman@ieee.org
PACE Chair: Carl
L. Hussey
Educational Chair: Norm
Bleshman
Membership Development: Richard
Wu richard.wu@icm.siemens.com
Industrial Relations Co Chairs: Tony
Jamroz ajamroz@adelphia.net
Miguel
Gutierrez mgutie@att.net
Foundation Chair: Carl
L. Hussey
Newsletter Editor: Richard
Seibel
Awards and Recognitions Chair: Richard
Seibel
Chapter Chairs
Communications Society Co Chairs Cyril
Iskander iskander@fau.edu
Hari
Kalva
hari@cse.fau.edu
Computer Society Chair Mohammad
Ilyas ilyas@ieee.org
Power Engineering Society Chair Carl
L. Hussey
Signal Processing Society Chair Nurgun
Erdol erdol@fau.edu
Life Member Chapter
Chair: Ed
Wolff ewolf@ieee.org
Vice Chair: Tony
Jamroz
Secretary/Treasurer Krishna
Praba krishnapraba@adelphia.net
CENSUS
Membership is approximately 1000.
ACTIVITIES
*Section by-laws updated and approved.
*Section reports submitted by February 20 for 10% rebate.
*Established Life Members chapter as result of Chair attending Sections Congress
2002.
*Established Foundations Chair (VIP) and filled position.
*Increased number of section and chapter meetings, seventeen total. Most number
in several years.
*Recruited and trained three new officers.
*Increased communications to membership. Sent eBulletin one per month, continually
enhanced section
web site, and mailed one paper newsletter.
*Section chair attended Communications Society conference (Globecom 2003) and
received training as
chapter chair. Returned with training materials and for new chapter co-chairs.
GOALS
*Continue to rejuvenate section societies by more communications, recruiting
volunteers, and
access society resources.
*Increase industrial relations activities. Access ETI database and contact companies
located in section
to introduce Palm Beach Section.
*Send eBallot in 2004. Paper ballot had low results, 10 out of 1000 mailed.
*Increase educational activities in pre-college and community college areas.
*Facilitate senior member applicants by establishing a pool of members acting
as references.
*Increase awards and recognitions nominations.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA, has broken ground for a new campus
located in Palm Beach County.
Scripps Florida will be engaged in biological and drug research and will one
of the bio-technology
clusters located in the state of Florida. It is predicted that 5000 people will
be eventually employed.
This is a ground floor opportunity for IEEE and the technology community.
Richard Seibel
Palm Beach Section Chair