IEEE Orlando Section
Executive Committee Meeting
8 February 2005
150 Minutes (18:50-21:20)
Location: Panera Bread at Florida Mall
Time: 1850 EST
In Attendance:
Jack Alaska
Patrick Downs
John K. Erdelyan
Joe Juisai
Justin Key
George McClure
Jorge Medina
Jacob Mitchell
Debi Prince
Kalpathy Sundaram
Anthony R. Teresi
Ravi Todi
Arsel Vargas
Tom Wandeloski
Thomas X. Wu
Proxies:
Thomas X. Wu (Yi Guo)
Chair’s Report (Joe Jusai)
Chair welcomed everybody to the meeting. Everybody introduced himself/herself. Chair reported
the Florida Council meeting held last week. Chair also reminded the deadline of 25 February for
meeting reports.
Vice Chair’s Report (T. Wandeloski) – Tom reported that he was still selecting the banquet
place. The banquet is tentatively scheduled on Mar 4, 2005.
Treasurer’s Report (D. Prince/T. Wandeloski)
Tom handed out the treasurer’s reports for November, December and January. He also reported
the transfer from Mellon Bank to Wachovia Bank.
Secretary’s Report (Y. Guo) –No report/Not present
Chapter Chair’s Report (Vacant) –No report/Not present
Chapter Chair Reports
AES – (Aerospace and Electronics Systems) (David Flinchbaugh) –No report/Not present
AP/MTT – (Antennas and Propagation / Microwave Theory and Techniques) (Parveen Wahid) –
Tom Wu stepped down and Dr. Wahid is the new chair.
C – (Computer) (Vacant) –No report/Not present
COM/SP/VT – (Communications / Signal Processing / Vehicular Technology) (Thomas M.
Wandeloski) – Tom reported that a distinguished lecture is scheduled in mid March.
CS/RA/SMC – (Control Systems / Robotics and Automation / Systems, Man, and Cybernetics)
(Yi Guo) –No report/Not present
ED/CPMT – (Electron Devices / Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology) (Ravi
Todi) – Dr. Yuan will speak on Feb. 18 on " RF CMOS Devices and Circuits Reliability
subjected to electrical thermal stress" Also Dr. Adabanjo agreed to speak on March 13th. Ravi is
also inviting Dr. Cabral from IBM, to give a talk on "Metal gate Electrodes for Advanced CMOS
devices."
LEOS (Shin-Tson Wu) – No report/Not present
PE/IA/PEL (Aron Staley) – D. L Prince reported that the chapter has got a full year planned. The
chapter will have a technical meeting every month. Besides, the chapter will plan to provide PES
student scholarship.
UFFC (Vacant) – No report/Not present
Committee Chair Reports
Awards (Thomas X. Wu) – Tom Wu reported the awards nominations. ExCom members will
vote by E-mail. The nominations for the awards are: 1. Outstanding Service Award - Robert
Pirela; 2. Outstanding Engineering Award - Dr. Ben Abbott; 3. Outstanding Engineering Educator
Award - Prof. Arthur Weeks; 4. Outstanding Entrepreneur Award - Jay Vaidya; 5. Outstanding
Undergraduate Student Award - Shaohua Lin; and 6. Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
Ravi Todi and Sajid Khan.
By-laws (Jorge Medina) – No report
Conference (Steve Karlovic) – No report/Not present
Education (Kalpathy Sundaram) – Dr. Sundaram reported that there are some technical video
tapes available.
Finance (Tom Wandeloski) – No report
Historian (K. B. Sundaram) – No report
Membership (Parveen Wahid) – No report/Not present
PACE (Jorge Medina) – Pace meeting will be held is March, Tucson. Ravi Todi will represent
the section to go.
Programs (Tom Wandeloski) – No report
Public Relations (Joe Juisai) – No report
Web Site (Jorge Medina) – No report
Strategic planning (George McClure) – 3 volunteers from AES chapter have been contacted. 2
agreed to serve as new chapter officers.
UCF student chapter (Justin Key) – Justin reported student branch activities. The chapter is
preparing this year’s softwar, robotics and T-shirt competitions at IEEE Southeast Con.
Old Business
No report.
New Business
Next meeting is on 1 March, 2005 at Panera Bread - West Town Center, SR 434 (S of SR 436) Wal-Mart Shopping Center, Altamonte Springs. Meeting adjourned @ 2120.