September Newsletter

Welcome to the September issue of IEEE Hawaii Newsletter!

Our submission this month is brief, with some important announcements:

Welcome to our New Members:

Jerry M Adams, Christopher Brough, Bronson Riley Edralin, Edler Espiritu,

 Steven Ewers, Mark Lester Hernandez, Douglas Herring, Bosco Yubo Huang,

Matthew Kenji Inouye, Eric Jordan, Kayla Kawamata, Kyle A Levesque,

Deliang Liu, Deliang Liu, Ken Matsushige, Kainalu MH Matthews, Sean

Mizoguchi, Kaleo Kekuailiahi Norman, Kevin Shin, Mary L Smith, Richard G

Tabor, Kristina Miyuki Terao, Matthew Yee, and Justin Yoshimoto.

Student Chapter: Career Day, 10-10-12, 1-4pm @ Holmes Hall:

This event is hosted every semester to provide current CoE students the

opportunity to get to know local and mainland engineering companies, and

potentially be awarded internships and jobs. SWE supports this career

fair by volunteering to help facilitate the event.

UPDATE - Competition to design new Section Website EXTENDED:

Open to all Student members, our website development contest aims to

develop a better web presence for our Hawaii Section and chapters.

Registration and Submission dates have been extended!! David Morse is

organizing the contest. Contact him for details at David.Morse@ieee.org,

or visit our interim homepage at www.ieee-hawaii.org for more

information.

Our October Monthly Meeting - Technical Talk and EXCOM:

We are holding our October meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. This 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/.

Technical Talk - This meeting will include a short EXCOM meeting
followed by a Communication Chapter technical talk entitled "What's New
in Communications?" presented by Eran Agmon. Everyone please come and
join us for a great evening. This is the start of our IEEE Day
celebrations with many IEEE promotions.

EXCOM Meeting Agenda

1. Schedule technical and professional talks and activities. November
should include a talk by Edward Tavares of Verizon who will speak on
network security. November is also when our Business Card Exchange event
traditionally takes place. The Business Card Exchange is an annual
professional activity event held at UH-Manoa in conjunction with the
student branch. We also are looking into arranging STEM and Computer
Society Events. We are always looking for suggestions from our members
about the types of technical talks we should hold.

2. Make sure all attendees know about the pertinent promotions and
contests taking place on IEEE DAY 2012. We should enter the photo
contest again this year and make sure that potential new IEEE members
know about the promotion giving them $25.00 off on the registration fee.

3. Our Committee on Conference Bids needs to review the status of fund
raising, registrations, and papers for the IEEE GHTC 2012 compared to
2011 with a view toward preparing a bid hosting IEEE GHTC 2014.
Information on this topic will be presented. Montreal and Seattle are
also interested in putting in a bid. The San Francisco section is
hosting IEEE GHTC 2013, but has not settled on an exact location because
of cost considerations. Portland is hosting a new conference next year,
SUSTECH 2013, which they hope to make into an annual event which could
be hosted be various section like the GHTC.

4. We need to review the changes made by IEEE in June to the rules by
which we are governed. These include term limits and election
requirements.

If there are additional items that should be added to the EXCOM agenda,
please notify John Camery at john.camery@gmail.com

* section websites: -
https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/R60017 -
http://ieee-hawaii.org/ (new - in development)

* additional updates on John's blog: http://hawaii-ieee.blogspot.com

* please send questions and suggestions to david.morse@ieee.org