North East Area
March 2009
Elisa Barney Smith
North-East Area
• 6 Sections
– Boise g
– Eastern Idaho g
– Utah g
– Western Montana g
– Montana g
– Eastern Montana g
• 10 Student Branches
North-East Area
• 6 Sections
– Boise g 557
– Eastern Idaho g 206
– Utah g 1,421
– Western Montana g 162
– Montana g 209
– Eastern Montana g 124
10 Student Branches
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Boise g
– Boise State University, Boise, ID
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Eastern Idaho g
– Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
– BYU-Idaho, Rexburg ID
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Montana g
– MSU-Bozeman, MT
– MSU-Havre, MT
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Eastern Montana g
– None
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Western Montana g
– Montana Tech, Butte, MT
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Utah g
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BYU, Provo, UT
Utah State University, Logan UT
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Weber State University
North-East Area
• Area Officers
– Chair – Elisa Barney Smith (Boise)
– Micro Mouse coordinator – Scott Smith (Boise)
– Student activities - Richard Wolff (Montana)
– Area PACE Chair – Doug Galarus (Montana) –
seeking replacement
– Awards Chair – Elisa Barney Smith (Boise) –
acting/seeking replacement
Section Chairs
• Boise g
– Mark Bussert
• Eastern Idaho g
– Steve Chiu
• Montana: g
– Mitchell K. Hobish
• Eastern Montana g
– Mychal Hoffman
• Western Montana g
– Rikin Shah
• Utah g
– Randall G. Redondo
Section 2009 Goals
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Boise
– Improve communications to IEEE members through improved development of
website and newsletter.
– Increase membership numbers and member activities
– Revitalize GOLD activities
Montana
– Increase representation of non-academic members on executive committee;
– Continue and increase Section participation in general community activities;
– Maintain and increase overall membership levels.
Eastern Montana
– Improve member involvement with Montana Joint Engineers Conference
– Increase the number of member volunteers for the BEC Outreach Program
– Increase member involvement with MSE Math Counts program
Utah
– Create an EMC Society Chapter
– Create a WIE Affinity Group
– Recruit new Section volunteers
– Increase number of higher member grades
– Begin work to implement TISP
– Recruit additional conferences to our Section
Boise - Events
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Boise Section:
– 02/18/08
– 09/05/08
– 10/07/08
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Computer Society:
– 04/30/08
– 10/22/08
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Technical – “Principles of Hardware/Firmware Design”
Technical – “Internet Forensics for Fun and Profit”
PE/IA Society:
– 11/03/08
– 12/22/08
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Spring Banquet
Fall picnic
PACE – “The Ball is in Your Court”
Technical – “Bootstrap Method, application to
feeder Reliability Thresholds”
Technical – “Integrating Wind resources into the
Idaho Power generation system”
Electron Device Society:
– 3/03/08
– 4/18/08
– 5/15/08
WMED Paper Selection Review
Technical - 6th Annual workshop on Microelectronics
and Electron Devices
WMED conference debriefing meeting
Eastern Idaho - Events
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September 19:
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September 11:
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July 31:
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February 21:
February 15:
January 25:
All Engineers Christmas Social (sponsored)
Region 6 Teacher In-Service Workshop (sponsored)
Seminar at ISU: Effective Technical Presentations (L31)
Seminar at ISU: The Electrical Supply System (L31)
Seminar at ISU: Reliability Enhancement by Suppression of
Nano-Dentric Defects in Metal-Insulator-Metal
Capacitors in Integrated Circuits (L31)
Seminar at ISU: College to Career
Seminar at ISU: Digital Image Processing (L31)
Seminar at ISU: Intellectual Property, Technology
Transfer and Related Issues (L31)
Idaho Falls Lunch Meeting: Building a Data Center
in a War Zone (L31)
Seminar at University Place: System-Level Algorithmic
Concurrent Error Detection for Improved Resilience
in Complex Control Systems (L31)
Seminar at University Place: Mechatronics Research and
Rule Based Control Algorithms (L31)
2008 National Engineers Week Banquet (Sponsored)
AMIS Facilities Tour (Sponsored)
Idaho Falls Luncheon Mtg -- Uniform Feedstock Supply System
Design for Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production (L31)
Montana - Events
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December 2008:
Dr. Hashem Nehrir, Montana State University, “Power Generation
and Transport: Past, Present, and Future”.
Brian Smithgall, Image Labs International, “A Multi-Camera
Inspection System for LCD Display Manufacturing.”
Dr. Ilse-Mari Lee, Professor of Music, Montana State University,
“New Directions in Music Technology.” (Annual Banquet)
Mike McFeters, Vice President Hardware Engineering,
Microstar Laboratories, Inc, “High Speed A/D Conversion.”
Don Thelen, On Semiconductor, “Noise, Bits and Chips;
Resolving ppm’s Under a Big Sky.”
Ritchie Boyd, Extended University, Montana State
University, “Web2.0 – When the network becomes the
platform, and the rise of the social web”
Dr. Waturu Nakagawa, Montana State University, “Introduction to
Nano Optics”
MSU IEEE Student Branch and Sheree Watson, Project
Director, Hewlett Designing Our Community Program,
Montana State University, “FIRST LEGO League Robotic
Project Update”
Dr. David M. Klumpar, Research Professor of Physics and
Director, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory,
Montana State University, “Montana’s Small Satellite Program
and the Space Science and Engineering Laboratory at MSU”
Montana - Events
Other 2008 Events:
– Continued focus on Student Involvement.
– Attended the Region 6 North East Area Meeting in April.
– Attended Sections Congress in Quebec City, Canada in September.
– Eleven MSU ECE students participated in the spring IEEE regional
meeting. Three student teams entered the Micromouse Competition
and one team entered the student paper competition. MSU Team
Zigbot won the Micromouse competition.
– Presented with award for growth in section. (for year 2007)
– PACE Activities: “Technical Outreach to Middle School Students 2008”
provides technical/career exposure for two target schools accomplished
through joint Science Teacher/ Life member activity/interface and
establishment of two First LEGO League robotic teams
Western Montana
• Small but effective section covering a relatively large geographic
area of Western Montana, headquarters and meetings in Butte about 162 members
• In 2008, held 9 regular meetings, 1 administrative meetings, and
sponsored the annual engineers banquet in late January.
• All reports submitted on time to national.
• Supported Mathcounts, Crystal Radio Project, and Wild Sheep
Monitoring Project through PACE; Area Engineer of the Year, etc.
• Financial balance on 12/31/08 was $3539.13
• Thank you National, Region 6 (Robert Baldwin), and NE Area Chair
(Michael Rice) for your support!
Western Montana - Events
Date
Speaker
Topic
01/24/08
Engineers Banquet
John Morrison of Montana Tech awarded the Engineer of the
year award
02/08/08
Steve Quick & Rich
Clark
MSE-Tetragenics – Automation, Control, and Monitoring
03/14/08
Bill Rhoads
Montana Regulating Resources
04/11/08
John Morrison &
Brian Smyth
Development of a Real Time Battery Impedance Measuring
System
05/09/08
Debbie Harvey
Real Power Modulation
06/20/08
Dr. Steve Lee
Mars Exploration Update – What’s New on the Red Planet
09/26/08
Dr. Steve Lee
Update on the Phoenix Mars Lander Mission
10/10/08
Kent Whiting
Engineers Without Borders
11/04/08
Bob Kearns
Cellulosic Ethanol Via Fermentation Technology
12/09/08
Shirley Johnson
The Future of the Nuclear Industry and Non-Proliferation
Eastern Montana - Events
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Feb 3rd:
BEC Outreach Program – Joliet Family Science Night (Sponsored)
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March 7th:
Billings Engineers Club (BEC) Awards Banquet (Co-sponsored)
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May 9th:
BEC Outreach Program – Elysian Elementary School (Sponsored)
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May 21st:
Presentation – Evan Barrett, Chief Business Development Officer at
the Governor's Office of Economic Development
– Updates to the Schweitzer Energy Policy (Sponsored)
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July 10th:
Presentation – Rich Hagge, Control Technologies
– GE Multilin Relays & System Protection (Sponsored)
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Sept 19:
Presentation – Debra Witner, Witner Distribution LLC
– Sealcon Cable & Wire (Sponsored)
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Nov 4th:
BEC Outreach Program – St Francis Intermediate
Elementary School (Sponsored)
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Nov 5 – 6th:
Joint Engineers Conference (JEC) – Helena, MT (Sponsored)
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Nov 11th:
Plant Tour – PPL Montana’s J.E. Corette Power Plant,
154 MW coal fired plant located along the Yellowstone River
in Billings. (Sponsored)
Utah - Events
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Four ExCom meetings were held to plan our activities.
At every Section ExCom we made it an effort to bring new volunteers resulting in the addition of
new GOLD chair and vice-chair, a three member nomination committee, and new ExCom
officers for 2009.
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Four Section and Student Branch activities including two S-PAC conferences (UofU and BYU),
a Steak Fry at USU, and a joint Student Branch activity sponsored by the Section and the
Sp/Com Chapter.
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Joint meetings with the EMC Society to begin the ground work to create a local EMC Society
Chapter.
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PACE meeting on employment career resources available from Utah State and the IEEE.
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The Section sponsored and supported the AUTOTESTCON 08 conference. The conference
was very successful and work was started to host a future AUTOTESTCON conference.
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Four Social events were sponsored by the Section allowing members and their families to
participate and contributed to the addition of new Section volunteers!
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a. Utah Engineers Council Banquet celebrating National Engineers Week.
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b. Awards Banquet to acknowledge our Section volunteers and our members who achieved Senior and
Fellow membership grade.
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c. Summer Picnic held at historic park where the fist 44,000 volt hydropower plant in America was
located.
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d. End of year holiday dinner
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The Section worked to form a new PES Chapter which received final approval in December.
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Two joint meetings with the SP/Com Chapter.
Thank You