EXCOM Meeting Agenda

 Agenda for the April 2, 2012 EXCOM Meeting of the IEEE Hawaii Section

A. Awards.  Does anyone want to be our section awards chair?  April 30^th is the area awards nomination deadline.  There are six awards given:

      1.  Area of Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award

      2.  Area of Region 6 Outstanding Leadership and Professional Service Award

      3.  Area of Region 6 Outstanding Section Award

      4.  Area of Region 6 Outstanding Corporate Service to Engineering Community Award

      5.  Area of Region 6 Outstanding Student Branch Award

      6.  Area Chair’s Special Award in Region 6

Who should we nominate?  What about the UH-Manoa Student Branch for 5.  What about Oceanit or Archinoetics for 4. Information needed: (a) Company contributions to engineering, (b) Company support of IEEE activities, (c) Company contributions to the community (monetary and other relevant contributions) (d) Company profile: Type of Business, # of employees, etc

B. Science Fair.  The 55th Hawai‘i State Science and Engineering Fair (HSSEF) is being  held April 2-4, 2012, at the Hawai‘i Convention Center.  Chris Russell, our vice chair, has returned from a long tour in Afghanistan in time to help out with the judging at the Hawaii‘s State Science and Engineering Fair(HSSEF). Each year we help support the fair by providing IEEE awards to students in Senior and Junior Research and their teachers. We have been fortunate to have Tep  Dobry serve as the IEEE POC. If anyone else can help out, please let us know. It is not too soon to volunteer for next year.

C. Goals for 2012-2013. We are having an IEEE Hawaii Section Dinner Meeting on the new vision for our section, 9 April, 6:30pm, Maple Garden Restaurant in Moiliili.  Oscar, Marji and David have agreed to be on the panel. Can anyone else help out? Arrangements? Computer, projector, screen, etc?

D. Meeting Request. CS President John Walz's will attending the VTS Conf, Hawaii, 23-26 April 2012. Our 2012 CS President John Walz is making his visit to the VTS 2012 conference as President. He will attend the 30th VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) to be held at Hotel Hyatt Maui, Hawaii, 23-26 April, 2012 and is scheduled to meet several groups of stakeholders associated with the conference.  John would very much like to arrange a meeting with the leaders of the Hawaii CS chapter and the Section.

E. IEEE-USA. The deadline for making hotel reservations is April 9, 2012. The IEEE-USA Annual Meeting is May 3-6 in Cincinnati. The region encourages each Section to send a representative. Hotel room reservation deadline is April 9. Early bird registration ends April 13. We are told the hotel may sell out so make your reservations now. IEEE-USA has provided a pot of money to be used to subsidize the registration fee ($475 early rate) which we divide among the Sections who send someone. Note that in addition the travel expense is borne by the Section, although we can also use some of the PACE funds (up to 25%) to help. Sections can send more than one person if desired (although only one can be subsidized). Contact Doug Askegard with any questions (<dougaskegard@ieee.org>). Doug is also creating a listserv of Section PACE chairs and contacts (much like we have with the MD list). Let Doug know if you do not have a PACE contact who you would like from your Section on this list.

F. IEEE Global Humanitarian Conference.  The region has budgeted $10,000 again this year for the conference in Seattle. Several sections including Hawaii and San Francisco have asked to be put on the list as possible sites for the conference in 2013.

G. Joint CS/Section Meeting. What topic would draw out the most members or potential members?  What about a survey of computer topics not generally covered in the news, such as, Opel’s 100 GHz computer chip technology, Siemens RFID chips, IBM’s quantum computing chips, translators and CACI’s high level compiler, computer security issues like the STATFOR email disclosures, etc?

   

H. SQL Saturday.  The annual SQL Saturday event coming up on Friday, April 27, 2012 (I know, weird, it’s called SQL Saturday but the Hawaii .NET Users Group does it on a Friday).  They ask for volunteers. Should the IEEE be involved?

I. Stems. I see Maker Space supporting STEMS and all sorts of projects.  How can the IEEE be more relevant to this?

J. Arrears Recovery Outreach.  We will launch our arrears recovery outreach program this month.  What activities should we highlight to engage members to renew their membership?

K. Other Issues.  What other business should we be discussing?