IEEE Foothill Section EXCOM Meeting 11/11 tonight; at IHOP Upland
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Meeting Date/Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 / 6:30 pm
Location: International House of Pancakes, Group Meeting Room, 80 N. Euclid Ave., Upland, CA. Dinner (Free for Business Meeting Participants) starts at 6:30 and the business meeting starts at 7:00. IHOP phone number is 909-981-6944. All IEEE Foothill Section members are encouraged to attend and participate in planning and volunteer activities. We do need your viewpoints and your inputs, and your willingness to contribute to technical chapter meetings!
Please visit our website “foothill.ieee-bv.org” for the latest information on our IEEE Foothill Section
Agenda
I Administrative
Call to Order at 7:00 PM
Quorum review and Introductions of all Attendees
Review and Approval of last meeting October 2014 EXCOM minutes
II Section Business Meeting (Topics Listed In Suggested Order of Priority):
SOLICITATION of NOMINATIONS for New IEEE Foothill Section Officers for year 2015
Projection for Budget for 2014
III Section and Committee Reports and Chairman’s Report
Treasurer : Report & Status
Awards Chair / Status and Activity / IEEE Region 6 Awards announced— our IEEE Foothill Section was voted Best IEEE Section for 2014 / Presentation of IEEE Southern Area Award for Best Large School IEEE Student Branch to University of California Riverside
Membership Development/ Status and New Members this month
PACE report / Preliminary IEEE Foothill Entrepreneurship Forum #3 planning for Fall 2014/ Site – date – time for this planned event will be DeVry University Pomona, Saturday January 31, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM / Proposed Fee Structure / Separate sessions are Planned for these topics:
o (1) Mobile Communications with Social Media for Engineers,
o (2) Updated US Patent Law Issues for Engineering Entrepreneurs,
o (3) Ethical Issues that Confront the Practicing Engineer,
(4) “Start-up Engineer Entrepreneurs Tell Their Story”.
Summary of Foothill Employment Network (FENet) meetings October 2014
Activities in Consultants arena / most recent Consultants Network Meeting (Foothill / Los Angeles/ Orange County) was held on Saturday October 25, 2014 at DeVry University on topic “Problem Solving with Systems Engineering Management Process”/ “Kickstarter” presentation at San Diego CN, and follow-up activities/ BUT..BUT Is “Kickstarter” suitable for EE engineering efforts?
Student-Branch/Chapter reports on their current activities and Planning for Upcoming Semester / Quarter events:
o UC Riverside,
o CSU San Bernardino,
o Cal Poly Pomona,
o Cal Baptist University- Riverside, (To include report on IEEE 24 Hr Xtreme Programming challenge on October24 -25, 2014; to include CBU and UCR IEEE Students)
o Cal State University San Bernardino
o DeVry-Pomona,
o Harvey Mudd College
o Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
Young Professionals affinity group / status and activity/ Announcement of IEEE Region 6 First Rising Stars Conference in Las Vegas January 2-4, 2015 (just prior to Consumer Electronics Show 2015)
LAC Liaison Report : LAC Council meeting on November 8, 2014 postponed.
Chapter Reports
o COMSOC: Plan for future talks
o Computer Society: Looking at Cyber-Security presentations and potential speakers /Report on October 23 meeting set at CPP on topic: Aerospace to Hydrospace (or should it be called: Build your Own Submersible Vessel?)
o Power-Energy Society chapter / Plans for Future Talks
o MTT / APS-Planning/
Report on Coastal LA Section CLASTECH on October 24, 2014/ Two separate technical tracks on Microwave Theory & Techniques and Antenna & Propagation / Plus addition track for TeraHz Frequency Devices / For program information see www.clastech.org /
o Electron Devices / Circuits and Systems / Photonics
Successful Photonics presentation held on Saturday September 6, 2014 at CPP by Dr Hao Zhao( from Bandweaver, Shanghai) on topic of “Fiber Brag Gratings—Uses in Engineering Devices”
Summary of planning efforts for future IEEE Photonics talks to be presented by Bo Chen / Specific e-Mail Google Group has been formed for Electron Devices/ Photonics Society members within IEEE Foothill Section; to be part of our EDCAS+CAS Chapter activities/ Dr Bo Chen has left to take employment in Houston, TX / IEEE Foothill members now at IEEE Houston TX Section
Chairman’s Report :
Discussion of goals for Foothill Entrepreneur Forum #3
V. Old Business
Foothill Web site is ACTIVE and Up-to-Date
/ Please continue by submitting ALL technical meeting / presentation / post-meeting wrap-up reports to our WEBMASTER (at ieee.fhwb@gmail.com) or Technical Chapter Chairs for posting on our site ASAP/ WE want to keep out IEEE Foothill Website updated and full of current IEEE information for the Benefit of our IEEE Foothill Members (and not for any SEO purposes).
Please consult this IEEE Foothill website for pre-meeting announcements and post-meeting summaries and contact information; Please pass this request on to all IEEE members
V. New Business
What should be the organizational status for our Consultants Network within the IEEE Foothill Section?( Part of series of questions on Consultant networking posed by Mr Cash Sutton)
Do we need to restructure and or to reschedule our FENet meetings?
VI Administrative
Select next EXCOM meeting date (TBR Tuesday November 11, 2014)
Adjournment:
For further information, please contact Frank G Freyne at fgfreyne@ieee.org