Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Ed Epp, Richard, David, Ed Perkins, Naznin, Sean Murphy, Jose, Heidi, Rick, Sohrab

Minutes for Sept ’24 approved

Highlights

• Ed Perkins: Follow up on the cost of bringing a move truck
• Ed Perkins: look for mechanism to offer NEDME general admission to the section
• All: David will send out the budget by email. Please review and provide feedback before Nov Excom
• Election: progressing well. Final slate being reviewed. Dan will follow up with a couple of applicants
• Approved $900 on behalf of computer society for Sohrab to travel for open source conference.

Chapter report

• Area meeting
• Global humanitarian Technology conference (GHTC) – Ed Perkins will be attending and reporting back (23-25^th Oct - Philadelphia)
• Rising Stars – 3 people [Naznin, Amritesh?, Diwakar]
  • Michael is not going
• Ed Epp nominated for R6 education support award
• Winter social finalized, gifts finalized - Dec 7
• Move trucks – IEEE has move trucks for disaster relief – possibly display at some schools [Ed Perkins will follow up on the cost]
• https://wie.ieee.org/grants-scholarships/frances-b-hugle/ - If anyone know a candidate female student, pass on the information about the scholarship.

Vice Chair report

• NEDME – Diwakar to include in section email (Hillsboro)
  • Ed Perkins (free), Rick Smith, Sohrab are interested in going. Ed/David will figure out a mechanism to reimburse general admission ($40)
  • Ed will looking the mechanism to offer to the section
• Sustech – marching ahead
• Region awards nominations are open (Ed will send info to Diwakar to add in section email)

Treasurer report

• Working on the budget
• With 2 months left we are over $4k (instead of 17k), higher than earlier interest.
• David will send the budget by email. Request to all is to review before Nov Excom and provide feedback to David if any item is missing.
• Winter social annual awards dinner – Lake Oswego grill. Dec 7 at 7pm. – Mark the calendar. David will send out the vtools link for headcount.

Secretary report

• Diwakar is out for vacation for Nov Excom. Dan will run the meeting.

Sohrab requested money for travel to a “open source conference”. Computer society has the money to cover the expense but no officers. Hence requesting approval from Excom. Motion is to cover up to $900 for travel expenses to open compute conference with computer society funds. Sohrab will dispense his learnings to the section via setting a webinar after the conference. Motion approved.

WIE international conference update - Naznin

Heidi

• Nov 8 National Stem day – Setup daily challenges in schools. Money ($500) has already been allocated.
• IEEE stem summit 23-25^th – Diwakar to add to the section mailing list.

Election update (Michael)

• Committee: Michael (Chair), John Prohodsky
• Election for chair, vice chair, secretary, treasurer.
• Current nominees (motion to approve the slate – approved)
  • David – chair
  • Jose - vice chair
  • Dan – treasurer
  • Naznin – secretary
  • Joseph hall – secretary
  • 3 other people – contingent

Attendees: Dan, Ed Epp, Richard D, Xiao, David Silver, Dave Durocher, Ed Perkins, Naznin, Sean Murphy, Jose, Michael Bates, Rick S, Sohrab

Minutes for Oct ’24 approved

Highlights

• 2025 Budget approved
• Elections process is on schedule
• Rick Smith and Ed Perkins attended NEDME; we should continue to help sponsor the event in 2025
• Get information to Daniel Goodrich to update Chapter officer names, or do it yourself.  Note:   As of 12/3/2024, Nine Chapters' officer terms have been updated.  Dan is keeping a spreadsheet to update progress.
• Next meeting is Winter Awards Ceremony December 7th, be sure to register when it becomes available on vTools.

Chapter report

• SSC Richard has plans for 3 distinguished lecturers
• Nano:  Ed reported a distinguished lecturer spoke on the CHIPS act today, nine attendees.

Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Ed Epp, Rick, Richard, David, Michael, Ed Perkins

Elections

Election committee: Michael (Chair), John Prohodsky.

Action Dan: Ask region for the resource for Michael for election help.

Election for chair, vice chair, secretary, treasurer.

Current nominees

David - chair

Jose - vice chair

Dan - treasurer

Naznin - secretary

Chair report

• Summer social was a great success
• Winter awards formal: Lake Oswego grill in Lake Oswego
• Area meeting – Sat 21.
• Funded PICMET ice cream social. Voting by email.
• Naznin attended WIE meeting in Tri city area – presentation next meeting
• Milestone – Making progress. Will be in Oregon city

Vice Chair report

• Sustech in LA next year

Treasurer report

• Start preparing the budget for next year. Draft for November meeting.
• Seed money for section congress $3000 for 2026
• $750 for PICMET

New Business – No new business

Solid state circuit (Richard) – In person talk, georgia tech, a social. Coming up in Oct – 2 distinguished lectures.

Nano (ED) – speaker for Nov 12

PACE (Rick) – Will help with Social events, senior member activities.

RAS (Ed Epp) -

Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Amritesh, Ed Epp, Pradeep, Rick, Richard, Jose, Avra, John, Michael, Naznin, Sohrab

June minutes approved

Financial items

• None this time

Chair report

• Drove down to Corvallis. Attended conference reception
• Need to assemble election team by Aug 3rd
  • Chair – John Prohodsky
  • Vtools lead – Diwakar
  • Member – Michael Bates
• Diwakar to reserve the room in RA for Sept Excom

Treasure’s report

• collaberatec for section is set

Chapter reports

• Computer Society (Sohrab) –
• PES (Jose) – Break for July/Aug. Will be attending PES meeting in Seattle.
• RAS (Ed Epp) –
• Solid State Circuits (Richard) – 2 distinguished lectures in June. Another distinguished lecture coming up.
• YP (Amritesh) – Planning webinars in Aug and Sept. Also planning chips act workshop in Oct.
• Comm Soc (Pradeep) – 3 speakers in last 3 months (fellows). Distinguished lecture (in-person) set for tomorrow.
• PACE (Rick) – Reach out to Rick for help with planning of professional activities
• WIE (Naznin) – Panel discussion on June 30
• Photonics (Naznin) – Planning Sept onwards

Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Ed Perkins, Naznin, Ed Epp, Sohrab, David, Rick

May minutes approved

Financial items

• WIE leadership summit attendance at Richland for Naznin – Registration ($150) + 1 hotel night + mileage + meals [not to exceed $1000] – Approved
• Ed/Naznin to follow up on AI meeting in Seattle and make a proposal in July meeting
• RAS requests up to $2500 for rest of 2024 for spending on RAS projects - Approved
• AR David Silver – Confirm the rules about passing money to 3^rd party in relation with RAS

Chair report

• Dan/Ed will follow up on Webex issues

Vice chair report

• 2025 Sustech MoU approved

Summer Social

• Aug 10 – Pinball. Register now.

Area meeting update (Dan/David)

• Dan presented on parliamentary procedure

IEEE USA Congressional visit day report by Naznin

AR David to find the archival location to store presentation slides and propagate the knowledge to chapter chairs

Milestones – Plaque is Oregon department of transportation property. Good progress.

AR Ed Perkins - bring information about Life members

Chapter reports

• RAS - Ed Epp – Working on turtle box 3
• WIE - Naznin – Upcoming event on June 30
• Photonics – Naznin –
• PES – Jose - Meeting in June. Funding  from Oregon PES Chapter for Humanitarian Project in Molokai, Hawaii. Will be attending general PES meeting in Seattle.
• Computer - Sohrab – Technical webinar
• Rick Smith -
• Nano – Ed Perkins – working on setting up meetings
• Solid State Circuits – Richard -
• We currently have 3 DL talks scheduled:
• Dongsuk Jeon (Hybrid), Friday, June 21st from 11am-12pm (vTools)
• Mingoo Seok (Virtual), Tuesday, June 25th from 10-11am (vTools to be created shortly)
• Shreyas Sen (Hybrid), Friday, July 19th, time TBD