IEEE Tallahassee Area Section Report

March 2004

Officers:

Chair: Bruce Harvey
Vice-Chair: Thomas Baldwin
Treasurer: Mark Weatherspoon
Secretary: Helen Li

Summary of Goals and Activities:

This year the Tallahassee Section is focusing on greater interaction
between the section and the two student chapters (Florida A&M
University, and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering), and improving
industry interaction.  We are providing support for the senior design
students to enter the SoutheastCon 2004 Hardware Competition.  This
will be the first time for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering to
enter the hardware competition.  The section is providing seed money
for the project and providing a preliminary design competition.  We
involved local industry engineers as judges in the local competition.

Recent Meetings:

11/18/2003: Student Robotic Design Competition and Meeting.  This was
a joint meeting with the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Student
Branch.  Preliminary designs for the SoutheastCon Hardware Competition
were judged by local industry representatives.  Also, the current
slate of officers were nominated to continue in their current
positions for 2004.  Attendance at the meeting included 37 members and
student members, and 11 non-members.

12/18/2003: Holiday Social.  Attendance: 3 members and 1 guest.
Attendance lower than usual due to the delayed meeting date (after the
local universities were on break).

1/24/2003: Speaker: Butch Shadwell.  Topic: Machine Vision.  Business:
FL Council report, annual section reports, member communication,
SoutheastCon Hardware Competition update, and future meetings.  The
technical presentation was held jointly with the Dept. of ECE,
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Graduate Seminar.  The business
meeting was held at a local restaurant following the technical
meeting.  Attendance: 18 members and student members, and 32 non-
members.

2/27/2004: E-Week Banquet.  IEEE joined the Florida Engineering
Society for the annual E-Week banquet.  The Section subsidized the
tickets to IEEE members.  The IEEE officers were presented as well as
the student officers from both the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Student Branch and the FAMU Student Branch.  Attendance: 18 members
and student members and 1 guest.

Bruce A. Harvey, Ph.D.