New Members and Members New to Hawaii

We want to welcome Barry C. Curl, Qihui Fan, Chi Fong Kuan, and Courtney Kimie Won who have joined the IEEE this month. Also, we want to welcome members who just moved to Hawaii and encourage them to come out to our activities. Lester A. Iwamasa, Ernest G. Booch, James F. McGill, Thomas Nelson Eichorn, Matt Kelly, David Gordon Garmire and Wayne C. Kim have moved to the Hawaii Section in the last month.

January EXCOM Meeting

Date:  Jan. 7, 2013
Location:  Zippy's Restaurant, Honolulu, HI
Attendees:

1. John W. Camery, presiding
2. Chris Russell, Vice Chair
3. John Borland
4. Grant Torigoe
5. Alvin Toda
6. Colene Pekelo
7. Eran Agmon
8. Jalem Correia
9. Chris Nakamotz
10. John Atienza

Minutes of Section Meeting

The Hawaii Section has decided that we should have at least one table at the Engineer's Week Awards Banquet this year.  Half the seats will be reserved for student members.  Members desiring to attend can reserve a place at the IEEE members' table on a first come, first serve basis via the announcement, https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/16413,

The Hawaii Section has decided it will allocate $600 for  the Business Card Exchange again this year. Grant Torigoe and Colene Pekelo are working on the arrangements. The meeting will be scheduled 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm, on 11 March, 2013 at the same location as last year.  Our Pace Chair, David Morse, will look into the possibility of PACE funding for the event. We want to encourage people in industry to attend. Our Vice Chair suggested that Lynn Fujioka of  isisHawaii should be invited to attend.

Region 6 is paying for the Section Chair, John Camery, to attend the Region 6 OPCOM Meeting in Las Vegas, 1-3 Feb., 2013. He should be back in time for the next Section EXCOM Meeting on 4 Feb., 2013. RSVP for the next Section EXCOM at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/16411. We are now scheduling technical talks immediately after EXCOM meeting. Future talks may include talks by the Vice Chair, Chris Russel, on biotech and further talks on graphene by the Chair.  Chapter Chairs wishing to schedule chapter technical talks in conjunction with Section EXCOM Meetings should contact the Section Officers to schedule this.

Dave Morse is looking into scheduling a STEM Meeting. It was mentioned that Katie Klinger is interested in working with the IEEE on STEM.  Dave Morse is encouraged to get in contact with her to see if we can arrange to have her speak at a Section meeting.

This is an important election year for the Hawaii Section.  The IEEE has instituted new term limits.  This means we need new candidates as most of our officers will be affected by these limits.  The Section and Chapters officers should read the new rules in Section 9.4 and 9.6 of the MGA Operations Manual.

February Meeting Announcement

IEEE Hawaii Section-- Excom at Zippy's on Vineyard, Feb. 4, 2013, 5:30pm - It is the first Monday of the month as usual.

This meeting, which starts at 5:30 pm (4 FEB 2013) at Zippy's on Vineyard, is our monthly EXCOM meeting together with a technical talk.  It's an open meeting for IEEE members and guests. Come out and help plan activities for the upcoming year and join in the discussion. The address is 59 North Vineyard Boulevard, Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.  The meeting agenda will be posted on this blog. 

The Young Professional Project

Are you a technical professional under 35 years of age with a passion for advancing technology for humanity? Then, you you are invited to participate in the IEEE GHTC 2013 Young Professional Project Competition. Applications are open now until March 15, 2013. Check it out at http://www.ieeeghtc.org/young-professional-project-contest-2013/call-for-applicants/.

IEEE-USA Government Fellowships

Each year, IEEE-USA sponsors qualified IEEE members to serve as government fellows.  The fellows spend a year in Washington, serving as advisers to the U.S. Congress (Congressional Fellow) or key U.S.

Department of State (Engineering and Diplomacy Fellow) decision-makers.  IEEE-USA's Government Fellowships link engineers with government, providing a mechanism for IEEE-USA members to learn

firsthand about the public policy process through personal involvement. The Fellows serve one year terms from September 1st to August 31st.

Congressional Fellowship Program

The congressional fellowship consists of an appointment to the personal staff of a U.S. Senator or Congressman or to the professional staff of a Congressional Committee. For an application Kit for the 2013-14 Congressional Fellowship Program, visit: http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/govfel/cfapply.asp

Engineering & Diplomacy Program

The State Department fellowship offers an opportunity for an engineer to provide technical expertise to the State Department and help raise awareness of the value of engineering input while learning about and contributing to the foreign policy process. For an application Kit for the 2013-14 Engineering & Diplomacy (State Department) Fellowship Program, visit: http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/govfel/state.asp

Deadline

The postmark application deadline for 2013-14 Fellowships is 8 February 2013. For more information, visit:

http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/govfel/default.asp

MTT-S Hawaii Student Chapter

The newly formed student chapter of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society had their first meeting on November 7, 2012.  The chapter was formed on September, 7, 2012 by the IEEE Student branch of the University of Hawaii-Manoa, located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Student Branch should be commended for its initiative.

Chapter Officers

Chair: Andy Morishita, Vice-Chair: Kelson Lau, Secretary: Carolynn Kitamura, Treasurer: Nicholas Fisher, Historian: Chester Ramos, and Activities Director: Kainalu Matthews. 

A note on our Web Presence for our Officers

IEEE Web Hosting Link is the link you use to find our websites. We are in Region 6. So go to Region 6 and look under either Councils, Sections & Subsections or Chapters (technical activities in your local area) & Affinity Groups.

Link for Announcing Meetings is where you go to announce a meeting. The calendars of the websites are automatically updated with a link to meeting announcement. After the meeting, you go back to the announcement and enter the number of members and guests to automatically generate the required L31 report.

Training for Officers on Updating our Website Officers should put information on the website that needs to be conveyed to members and the general public. Information can be inserted manually or automatically fed from a blog.

Officers are encourage to use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, press releases, and websites of professional groups specific to Hawaii like Wilik and TechHui to publicize IEEE activities,as well as, communicating them to our Newsletter Editor, David Morse.

We do not have a Webmaster, if you know of someone who would like to volunteer for this position, notify your Chair. Thanks.