IEEE Orlando Section
Executive Committee Meeting
4 January 2005
100 Minutes (18:50-20:10)
Location: Louie & Maria Restaurant - 9728 E. Colonial Dr.
Time: 1840 EST
In attendance:
Justin Key
George McClure
Ravi Todi
Joe Juisai
Yi Guo
Dave Flinchbaugh
Chair’s Report (Joe Jusai)
Chair welcomed everybody to the meeting of IEEE Orlando section. Everybody in
attendance introduced himself/herself around the table. Chair reminded that Meeting
Reports and Officers reports are due. Links for submitting reports are available from the
web site of IEEE Orlando Section. We hope to meet active chapter requirement, that is,
minimum two technical meetings from each Chapter each year. We hope to maintain
minimum meetings in 2005 to get enough funding for 2006.
Chair proposed the following items:
Item #1: Meeting Space.
Although Louie and Maria's has been really good to us over the last two years, our
meeting space has been getting less private over the last two months. Mid-year, the side
room converted to a bar, and for the last two months, we have been displaced from the
back room because of a larger event. As part of Chair’s 2005 goals, which is to involve
our membership more in the Section's activities, Chair offered the idea of having
meetings in various locations throughout Orlando: Altamonte (North Orlando),
Downtown (Central Orlando), Central Park (South Orlando), and UCF-area (East
Orlando). Our next meeting is scheduled for 8 February 2005 for South Orlando. We've
Panera Bread at the Florida Mall is penciled as the location. Chair asked Yi Guo to
confirm the availability of the location by 21 January 2005.
Item #2: Awards Banquet.
Normally, the Awards Banquet is held in February and normally coincides with
Engineer's Week (http://www.eweek.org). However, the Florida Engineering Society
annual banquet is the closing weekend of E Week. We floated the idea of having the
banquet on 23 February 2005, which is Wednesday of E Week. This should give Tom
Wu enough time to prepare the award candidates packages (nominations due 31 January
2005) for voting on the 8 February meeting and have awards prepared for the 23 February
banquet. Chair asked if Tom Wu have run into any issues with the awards. Chair also
asked Tom Wandeloski, the programs chair, to coordinate the banquet. The idea is
floated for the following locations: Lee's Lakeside, Downtown Marriott, Airport
Renaissance/Airport Marriott and UCF. The Westin Grand Bohemian was also suggested.
It is also pointed out that at the Downtown Marriott (across from Bob Carr) parking may
be difficult if an arena function is scheduled the same night. The Crown Plaza hotel off
of SR436 near the airport was another choice mentioned.
Chair proposed an Action Item for having the banquet on 23 February 2005. Chair asked
All to vote his/her approval by email by 1700 EDT 14 January 2005.
Chair also asked Tom Wandeloski to price out a banquet for the number of heads that
showed up last year at the locations above. Chair said some of our working criteria is that
it should be relatively centrally located, reasonably priced (~$20-$25/head and low room
rental rate) and with good parking. Also, we will need one vegetarian selection for those
who are vegetarian. Once we receive an OK for the 23 February meeting, Chair proposed
to have pricing available for vote on by 21 January so that we can quickly book a room.
John Young from NASA was proposed as the banquet speaker. Dave will check his
availability. Backup names will be proposed by next meeting.
Item #3: E Week Activities
Chair would like to have the IEEE Section members participate in E Week activities.
Specifically, Chair is going to call the Seminole and Orange County public schools to see
if they would entertain speakers at their science magnet schools during E Week.
Undergraduate enrollment in Engineering has been declining and we owe it to our
profession to encourage kids to study engineering. Chair is also going to contact our peer
society chapters (ASME/AIAA/ASCE) to see if they are sponsoring any activities for E
Week as well. Dave will assist Chair in contacting other society chapters and space coast
to find out their activities for E Week. Dave also volunteered to assume the role of liaison
from the Orlando section to the FES (Florida Engineering Societies) for purposes of
avoiding conflict on the February program date with the FES banquet, also during
Engineering Week.
Also, Chair would like to have a special program for women in engineering. The E Week
Website has information for programs to recruit women into the engineering profession.
Chair asked if anyone like to assist with any of the E Week programs.
Vice Chair’s Report (T. Wandeloski) –No report/Not present
Treasurer’s Report (Debra Prince) –No report/Not present
Secretary’s Report (Yi Guo) –No report
Chapter Chair’s Report –Position vacant.
Chair will send George McClure member list of AES, C, UFFC to identify an appropriate
candidate for the vacant position.
Chapter Chair Reports
AES – (Aerospace and Electronics Systems) (David Flinchbaugh) --
George and Dave requested the SAMIEEE list of section members of this chapter to
contact in an effort to revitalize it. Chair offered to provide the list by email.
AP/MTT – (Antennas and Propagation / Microwave Theory and Techniques) (Thomas Wu) – No
report/Not present
COM/SP/VT – (Communications / Signal Processing / Vehicular Technology) (Thomas M.
Wandeloski) – No report/Not present
CS/RA/SMC – (Control Systems / Robotics and Automation / Systems, Man, and Cybernetics)
(Yi Guo) –No report
ED/CPMT – (Electron Devices / Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology) (Ravi
Todi) – No report
LEOS (Shin-Tson Wu) – No report/Not present
PE/IA/PEL (Debra L. Prince) – No report/Not present
UFFC (Vacant) – No report/Not present
Committee Chair Reports
Awards (Tomas Wu) –No report/Not present
By-laws (Jorge Medina) – No report/Not present
Conference (Steve Karlovic) – No report/Not present
Education (Kalpathy Sundaram) – No report/Not present
Finance (Thomas M. Wandeloski) – No report/Not present.
Historian (K. B. Sundaram) –No report
Membership (Parveen Wahid) – No report/Not present.
PACE (Jorge Medina) –
George reported that a bill on immigration reform would be introduced in Congress early
in this session - perhaps this month - also affecting H-1B and L-1 visas for guest workers,
and that when this happens section members can find legislative alert information at
www.ieeeusa.org to use in expressing their views to their congresspeople.
Programs (Thomas M. Wandeloski) – No report/Not present
Public Relations (Joe Juisai) – No report
Web Site (Jorge Medina) – No report/Not present
Strategic planning (George McClure) – George pointed out that:
1. We need to fill vacancies as soon as we can.
2. Florida Council meeting will be held Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Nova University Center on
Millenia Blvd.
3. On the Senior Member initiative, no funds were requested from Region 3 last year. A
new initiative will be required for this year and, if any SSVR funds are requested
(Section Support Via Region) the request should go forward soon. The Orlando
section has not been spending its budgeted funds for newsletters, and some of that
money could be reallocated for this initiative.
4. Chair (Joe) mentioned sending all section members a postcard before the February
banquet. It would announce the banquet, request a RSVP, contain the section
Website URL, and ask any members who prefer hard copies of section
announcements (instead of accessing them on the Web) to contact the listed phone
number. This would comply with the Regional Activities requirement that at least
one newsletter be mailed to members each year. The section has maintained a bulk
mail permit in the past, but it is not known whether it is still in effect.
UCF Student Branch (Justin Key) –No report.
Old Business
1. A banquet was held in December to install the year’s section officers.
2. Hard copy of newsletter was not handed out in the banquet.
New Business -No
Next meeting is on 8 February, 2004 at Panera Bread at the Florida Mall, upon email
confirmation by January 21.
Meeting adjourned @ 2010.