August Monthly Meeting - Announcements & Agenda

                                            Announcements 

We are holding our August meeting on Monday, August 6, 2012. Our dinner meeting will be at the usual place and time.  That is 5:30PM at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.

We are holding a joint meeting with the Computer Society Chapter at 6PM, Tuesday, August 14, 2012.

This is the 50th anniversary of the IEEE!


The Globecom 2012 Preview Webinar is on Thursday, Aug 9, 2012 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

                                          Meeting Agenda

We still need to form a team to work on conference bids.  Is anyone able to devote some time to work on this?

This is the 50th anniversary of the formation of the IEEE.  Shall we do anything special to special to celebrate this?

We need to schedule meetings to meet section and chapter requirements for the year. This is critical for chapters who failed to report the required number of meetings last year. Any suggestions?

We need members to serve as officers in the Computer Society Chapter.  Anyone interested can contact me or other members of the EXCOM for information.  I propose we form a committee on nominations consisting of the members of the EXCOM who are also members of the Computer Society.

Last year we had a presentation on the E-CAT, should we have a follow-up?


If there are additional items that anyone wants to discuss, please add a comment or notify me. Thanks.


The following was received from David Morse and is being added to the agenda:

I'd like to request we also discuss the following:

A.  The requirements for holding elections for CompuSoc.  I had no luck searching IEEE site re. how to conduct.  (a short briefing a list of resources would be very helpful).

B.  STEM K-12 outreach:
 - Castle Complex Redesign - "village school" Community/Business involvement **
 - E-Week "Introduce a Girl to Engineering" - let's get ahead on this:  http://www.eweek.org/engineersweek/Introduce.aspx ++
 - Hawaii STEM portal - evaluate and support/utilize:  
http://www.sip-hawaii.org/ ^^

** I'm meeting with STEM faculty at Castle HS next week to help do long-range planning for their curricular/extracurricular projects and events.  I'll be advising them on how business and community can support.  I'd appreciate any input from our group, especially as regards mentor/intern opportunities, competitions, bringing speakers to campus to support STEM, day-trips for students to visit STEM related sites/orgs, etc.
++ Let's co-support, eg. with Women in Eng, Women in Tech, AAUW, etc.
^^ How active is this community?  Is UH-Manoa utilizing it effectively?  Can IEEE benefit/contribute content, use for scheduling, etc?

 - I'd like to propose a meeting (eg. for CompuSoc/Section) for September where we host a panel or couple of speakers on the current state of STEM education in Hawaii/National.  I would suggest we invite K-12 STEM coordinators (eg. High School club leaders, key science teacher, DOE STEM coord, etc.) to participate/attend.  It should include discussion of the  impact/effect of the Hawaii DOE proposed "No Child" waiver on K-12 STEM in Hawaii.

"In exchange for the waivers, states had to agree to a plan that included parts of the Obama education agenda, which includes "college- and career-ready" standards and grading teachers, using, in part, students' standardized test scores."  
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/19/no-child-left-behind-waiver_n_1684504.html?view=print&comm_ref=false