Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- New Business
- Naznin - present on WIE ILC 2025
- Keeping Chapters healthy, succession planning
- Milestones update
- Summer Social 
- Officer and Chapter Reports

Highlights:

Naznin was session chair for track 2 "Career Development" that included three talks and a workshop as well as a lot of networking and engagement opportunities throughout the IEEE WIE ILC 2025 conference. PES had a well received presentation on autonomous robots. SSCS had 90 folks in attendance for a hybrid presentation on Energy-Efficient Co-Packaged vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based High-Speed Optical Links.

Action Items Captured:

- Richard to send VTools information to post about the IEEE Milestones event at Intel to the entire Section.
- Daniel or David has to approve the MOU for 2026 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech).
- PACE needs help from the Section on publicizing promos for the NEDME conference in October.

New Business
- When to post a recording of a talk? What should be the best place to do so? Website? IEEE.tv is probably the best place. Get an account. However the videos need to get cleaned up before posting.
- Daniel or David has to approve the MOU for 2026 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) -

IEEE WIE ILC 2025 Conference
- The IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (WIE ILC) that aims to support and sustain women leaders and technologists, especially those in mid to senior career, was held in San Jose CA
- Many IEEE regions was represented
- Naznin was session chair for track 2 "Career Development". The session included three talks and a workshop.
- Naznin had a lot of networking and engagement opportunities as well throughout the conference

Officer and Chapter Reports
Chair - Not available

Vice Chair
- Been working on the LinkedIn page for the section. It is a private page that we are wanting to open it up, hopefully we do not have a recreate it. We would like to be more like the Hawaii section.
- Jeffrey Drummond is the owner of the site. From LinkedIn, only owner can change the type. Ed provided contact information for Jeffrey.

Treasurer
1. Solid State Circuits:  $500 for a Spring event was requested. Confirmed for HOP and transfer in Progress.
2. USB Milestone dedication:  The event is the afternoon of July 30th in Hillsboro.  Let’s get details from Richard Dorrance. Info has been sent to Intel on how to reimburse the Section for the milestone.  I’ve also requested status of the milestone plaque. - plaque on the way. Brian Burke and Richard are working the details. One wrinkle, IEEE Convene happens at the same time so likely some dignitaries will not be in attendance. USB inventors will be there. 
3. PSU Gadgetfest:  Sent an email getting details for this event that we pledged $500.  Hoping to just transfer the funds to their next gen HOP and have reached out to PSU but have not heard back.
4. Remind Amritesh to continue to pursue getting the $800 from the YP Society for the Top Golf event.
5. The Section received a $9k rebate to be passed on to high performing chapters.  The Treasurer of any high performing chapter needs to inform the Section Treasurer of the amount they are entitled.  Otherwise, they can request up to $250 for their chapter.  The Comm Society gave us $1,500 separately for being a high performing chapter, so those funds will be available to them as needed.
6. Did we pick a date for the Summer Social? Yes, Portland Pickles baseball 26 July at 7:05pm. Location: Walker stadium in Lents park.

Secretary - No update

Chapter Reports
PES - Had some great presentations recently including one on autonomous robots. Robot dogs into dangerous environments and for use by manufacturers. Upcoming presentation in June, although do not typically have a June session. Need some help with comms and Jose will help.

Solid state circuits society - Had hybrid/in person event on the 23rd of May on Energy-Efficient Co-Packaged VCSEL-based High-Speed Optical Links with two researchers from Intel Labs on Photonics from presentations originally done at VLSI 2024 and ISCC in Feb. Had 90 folks in attendance. Next week Wednesday 18 June at 3:30-5:30pm the chapter summer social will be held at Kingpin Beaverton. The event can host 40 folks and have about half that registered now.

PACE - NW Electronics Design & Manufacturing Expo (NEDME) in Washington County Fairgrounds on 22 October. Need promos to the Section to publicize. Diwaker will help to send out.

Nano - Meeting this Friday with folks that are nominally officers and will get together to talk about what the chapter should do moving forward.

EPS/CAS - Had a meeting Friday 6 June to discuss future plans for the Chapter. There are few folks stepping into officers roles and will have a survey of members to see what they would like to pursue as a chapter.

WIE - Have had several events recently. Next event on 23rd June with panel discussion on Thriving in an AI and Emerging Tech World - Ed will help to publicize to Region level. Will have collaborative event on AI with Santa Clara on 29 August.

SusTech - Did very well this year. Had a record number of authors and most did not travel. Had a few sponsors that paid for booths as well. There are a few expenses to wrap-up within the conference. SusTech talk coming up 17 June at 6:00pm on Why we need Bright Ice.

Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- New Business
- Naznin - present on WIE ILC 2025
- Keeping Chapters healthy, succession planning
- Milestones update
- Summer Social 
- Officer and Chapter Reports

Highlights:

Naznin was session chair for track 2 "Career Development" that included three talks and a workshop as well as a lot of networking and engagement opportunities throughout the IEEE WIE ILC 2025 conference. PES had a well received presentation on autonomous robots. SSCS had 90 folks in attendance for a hybrid presentation on Energy-Efficient Co-Packaged vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based High-Speed Optical Links.

Action Items Captured:

- Richard to send VTools information to post about the IEEE Milestones event at Intel to the entire Section.
- Daniel or David has to approve the MOU for 2026 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech).
- PACE needs help from the Section on publicizing promos for the NEDME conference in October.

New Business
- When to post a recording of a talk? What should be the best place to do so? Website? IEEE.tv is probably the best place. Get an account. However the videos need to get cleaned up before posting.
- Daniel or David has to approve the MOU for 2026 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) -

IEEE WIE ILC 2025 Conference
- The IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (WIE ILC) that aims to support and sustain women leaders and technologists, especially those in mid to senior career, was held in San Jose CA
- Many IEEE regions was represented
- Naznin was session chair for track 2 "Career Development". The session included three talks and a workshop.
- Naznin had a lot of networking and engagement opportunities as well throughout the conference

Officer and Chapter Reports
Chair - Not available

Vice Chair
- Been working on the LinkedIn page for the section. It is a private page that we are wanting to open it up, hopefully we do not have a recreate it. We would like to be more like the Hawaii section.
- Jeffrey Drummond is the owner of the site. From LinkedIn, only owner can change the type. Ed provided contact information for Jeffrey.

Treasurer
1. Solid State Circuits:  $500 for a Spring event was requested. Confirmed for HOP and transfer in Progress.
2. USB Milestone dedication:  The event is the afternoon of July 30th in Hillsboro.  Let’s get details from Richard Dorrance. Info has been sent to Intel on how to reimburse the Section for the milestone.  I’ve also requested status of the milestone plaque. - plaque on the way. Brian Burke and Richard are working the details. One wrinkle, IEEE Convene happens at the same time so likely some dignitaries will not be in attendance. USB inventors will be there. 
3. PSU Gadgetfest:  Sent an email getting details for this event that we pledged $500.  Hoping to just transfer the funds to their next gen HOP and have reached out to PSU but have not heard back.
4. Remind Amritesh to continue to pursue getting the $800 from the YP Society for the Top Golf event.
5. The Section received a $9k rebate to be passed on to high performing chapters.  The Treasurer of any high performing chapter needs to inform the Section Treasurer of the amount they are entitled.  Otherwise, they can request up to $250 for their chapter.  The Comm Society gave us $1,500 separately for being a high performing chapter, so those funds will be available to them as needed.
6. Did we pick a date for the Summer Social? Yes, Portland Pickles baseball 26 July at 7:05pm. Location: Walker stadium in Lents park.

Secretary - No update

Chapter Reports
PES - Had some great presentations recently including one on autonomous robots. Robot dogs into dangerous environments and for use by manufacturers. Upcoming presentation in June, although do not typically have a June session. Need some help with comms and Jose will help.

Solid state circuits society - Had hybrid/in person event on the 23rd of May on Energy-Efficient Co-Packaged VCSEL-based High-Speed Optical Links with two researchers from Intel Labs on Photonics from presentations originally done at VLSI 2024 and ISCC in Feb. Had 90 folks in attendance. Next week Wednesday 18 June at 3:30-5:30pm the chapter summer social will be held at Kingpin Beaverton. The event can host 40 folks and have about half that registered now.

PACE - NW Electronics Design & Manufacturing Expo (NEDME) in Washington County Fairgrounds on 22 October. Need promos to the Section to publicize. Diwaker will help to send out.

Nano - Meeting this Friday with folks that are nominally officers and will get together to talk about what the chapter should do moving forward.

EPS/CAS - Had a meeting Friday 6 June to discuss future plans for the Chapter. There are few folks stepping into officers roles and will have a survey of members to see what they would like to pursue as a chapter.

WIE - Have had several events recently. Next event on 23rd June with panel discussion on Thriving in an AI and Emerging Tech World - Ed will help to publicize to Region level. Will have collaborative event on AI with Santa Clara on 29 August.

SusTech - Did very well this year. Had a record number of authors and most did not travel. Had a few sponsors that paid for booths as well. There are a few expenses to wrap-up within the conference. SusTech talk coming up 17 June at 6:00pm on Why we need Bright Ice.

Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- Summer Social ideas discussion
- Officer and Chapter Reports
- Student Branch Report

Highlights:
PSU branch to hold a three day hands on gadget fest for high school students and requested $500 and a motion to support was proposed and approved. Solid state circuits society requested $500 for a social event to be held 18 June and a motion to support was proposed and approved. Finances are in good shape for the Section.

Action Items Captured:
- ExCom will decide on Fall meeting in person at PSU

Minutes:
6:30pm Dinner and socializing
7:00pm meeting called to order

Agenda approved, previous minutes approved

New Business:
- There are a lot of IEEE training that is being offered. Collabratec or a Google drive to share Section information. PSU has something similar for the chapter memory. Sohrab: Can chapters make workspaces? Sure. Who is the admin? 
- IEEE Step program - YP chapter should use these resources. 
- IEEE alias for chapters. 
- Host for fall meeting at PSU? Maybe have a more accessible room?
- When is IEEE day? 147 days from now. Although we may not be ready for it. Maybe we shouldn’t look for non IEEE folks, and instead try to get the existing members to be more active. Many do not pay for their membership so they see it as a freebie but that does not translate into being active unless it is relevant to their own interests. 

Summer Social:
- Next Level games which is a Pinball and video game museum in Hillsboro. Tentatively scheduled for 9 August.
- Could do another idea such as tour of Bonneville dam, baseball game or river cruise. 

Officer and Chapter Reports
Officer Reports
Vice Chair: Working on updating the LinkedIn page for the section. Wanting to make it into a public page. 
Treasurer: Finances in good shape. Unsure what a recent deposit was. High performing chapters get extra money. $500 for STEM week. Milestone at Intel was paid for and the extent is scheduled for 30 July. Intel will be paying for the ceremony. 1st high voltage transmission line in North America was from Willamette Falls and Portland and will also get a Milestone recognition. NWSE on 11 April was held at PSU IEEE gave two awards. 
Secretary: Work with Diwakar to re-set up a regular newsletter of information to the entire Section.

PSU Student Branch Report:
- Planning a gadget fest three day hands on for high school students. PSU Summer of STEM. Several different 3 day sessions. July 15-17 and July 29-31. Looking for $500. Motion to support was proposed and passed. Have enough student volunteers. Already have 30 signups. 
- Had two workshops this term and both were successful. Working on a good transition to the newly elected officers. 

Chapter Reports:
RAS - First tech challenge is finished but still working with a team. Rose city robotics collaborative to make Oregon a hub for robotics activities and are using a Nvidia curriculum. How can we be a part of this initiative. 

Solid state circuits society - lecture last week at RA1, by society chair, had about 35 attendees. Upcoming lecture on photonics next Friday. 18 June will have a social event for the society. Looking for $500. Motion approved. 

Computer society - not sure how to get more interested in the topics. Need to connect with the student officers directly to get the word out. Emails no one reads as there are too many of them. Maybe send to the student branch officers to redistribute?

PACE - Sustech annual conference was held last month over 3 days. 180 attendees, which was a record. Met the CalState Long Beach student branch. They use Instagram for their chapter to get information out to their student members.

Nano - No updates 

Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- New Business
- IEEE Tri-Section Students and YP conference (Oregon x Seattle x Vancouver) discussion
- Roundup of SWRSEF
- Occasional Social Hour instead of ExCom discussion
- Summer Social ideas discussion
- Officer and Chapter Reports

Highlights:
Power Electronics Society Chapter is looking to establish and requests everyone encourage folks to join as twelve are needed for a Chapter. David and Daniel were judges to the SW Washington Science and Engineering Fair. Award was presented to Richard Dorrance of the Solid State Circuits Society Chapter for best Distinguished Speaker Chapter. The Power and Energy Society Chapter had a group of students visiting to celebrate Engineers Week.

Action Items Captured:
- David will come up with a venue for April meeting and will get the VTools event up early so folks have sufficient time to plan.

Attendees:
David Silver, Tatyana Dhaliwal, Ed Epp, Eric Hall, Daniel Goodrich, Richard Dorrance, Kishan Joshi, Jose Garcia, Mohammad Alshaiji, Alex Higgins, Ed Perkins, Sohrab Aftabjahani, Naznin Akter, Diwakar, Rick Smith

Minutes:
6:35pm meeting called to order
Agenda approved, previous minutes approved

New Business:
- Richard: Solid State Circuits is planning to organize a spring social. Will use the award money received, but possible request for additional funds.
- Naznin: Photonics Society Day of Light event on 9 May at Oregon State University Corvallis - looking for budget of about $500-600, rest will covered by nominal registration fee and chapter funds. Approval of Section funds.
- Naznin: WIE International Leaders Conference 2025 in California. $2,500 for conference attendee and travel. Looking for full or partial funding from Section. David supports this. Dan: From a financial point of view we can support this. Motion approved.
- Naznin: Planning to attend the IEEE Mentoring Meet Working with Alberto as well.
- Naznin: WIE+YP OR AG in-person event. Looking for $500 budget. Motion approved.
- Kishan: Power Electronics Society Chapter establishment. Please network with folks to encourage to join. Need twelve folks for a chapter. Reach out to Oregon State?
- Ed: There used to be a monthly newsletter to the entire section as to what's up in the Section.
- Sohrab: Any updates to money that Intel has provided to the Section or Chapter?
- Mohammad: The local PSU chapter is planning to hold a soldering workshop in the Spring Term. We are requesting funding for 15 soldering kits for interested students. They are little radio kits. Final amount tbd, but no more than $500. Would like a few photos of the kits and of the event. Motion approved to purchase the kits.

IEEE Tri-Section Students and YP conference
- Also known previously as IEEE Tech Fest. David has a flyer for proposal.
- Requesting funding to make this happen. The request to the section is for $2,500 in funding.
- Our funding will be contingent on the MGA funding being approved then see how else we might be able to help out.

Roundup of SWRSEF
- David and Daniel were judges to the SW Washington Science and Engineering Fair.
- Gave an award to a student from Camus? High School. He'll advance to the statewide science fair as well.
Reminder that the NWSE Fair will be held at PSU on 11 April.
- A few folks will attend to present the IEEE award.
- Heidi will attend the to help award the WIE one.

Occasional Social Hour instead of ExCom discussion
- April 8 in person for a social/networking/light business.
- Section will cover appetizers and some beverages, but not full dinner.
- David will come up with a venue. Get the VTools event up early.
- Mohammad: Can students attend? Yes.

Summer Social ideas?
Hillsboro Hops
Video Game venue like Quarter World
Wedgehead pinball in NE PDX

Officer and Chapter Reports
Officer Reports
Vice Chair: Nothing at this time
Treasurer: Milestones: No progress on transmission lines, no progress on Intel one either. About 15 PSU students coming to BPA for visit on 21 March.
Secretary: Work with Diwakar to re-set up a regular newsletter of information to the entire Section.

Chapter Reports:
Young Professionals: (Amritesh) - There is TopGolf Networking Social on Monday March 31st from 7-9pm. Please post the YP social on vtools so that folks not on the email list can get information.
Robotics & Automation Society Chapter (Ed Epp) - Girls robotics team is continuing even though the competition is now done and Ed is continuing to mentor. Discussions with PSU student branch for robotics sessions with the students after spring break.
Nanotechnology Society Chapter (Ed Perkins) - Had a distinguished lecture on Spintronics Beyond Memory Operations in January.
Electronics Packaging Society Chapter (Ed Perkins) - Got compliance paperwork filed
WIE (Heidi) - STEM kits to be provided and the event will be in April or May. Rick is interested to help as well. Empowering Women Engineers: Effective Strategies for Finding the Right Mentor Panel discussion on 22 March. April, May, June events are still TBD. Planning an event with SWE as well.
Solid State Circuits Society Chapter (Richard Dorrance) - Award was presented to Richard for best Distinguished Speaker Chapter. Had lecture on Continuous-Time Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converters from SSCS Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Shanthi Pavan from IIT Madras on 25 February when he was visiting Portland. Next lecture will be in early April. Working on the upcoming speakers for the rest of the year.
PACE (Rick Smith) - Request funding to travel to SusTech to support the conference as Oregon Section representative. Motion approved. Gave an IEEE overview presentation to PSU Student Branch last month.
Computer Society Chapter (Sohrab) - https://eps.ieee.org/images/files/HIR_2023/ch10_power.pdf Speaker for using LLMs tentative for 27 March. Heterogeneous Integration and Roadmap
Signal Processing Society Chapter (Xiao Fu) -
Power & Energy Society Chapter (Tatyana) - Had a bunch of students visiting on 6 march to celebrate Engineers Week. Lecture on Army Microgrids for Energy Resilience was held 18 February.
Photonics Society Chapter (Naznin) - Planning some events. Will share details when everything is sorted.
PSU Student Branch (Mohammad) - Planning to reorganize of the IEEE chapter next term and will be bringing a greater focus on societies. Our initial plans involve the PES, RAS, Computer, Communication, and Solid State Circuits societies with the hope to expand to other societies after the trial run.
SusTech 2025 - Workshop upcoming on 20 April on Designing for the Circular Economy as a hybrid meeting. Student Poster Contest is ongoing. 21-22 April for 2 Days of Conference. 130 accepted papers. YP/WIE reception on Monday. Doing well on registrations.

Oregon Section ExCom

Agenda:

- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- New Business
- Science Fair signup
- Milestones update
- Rising Stars presentation
- Report out from R4/R6 meeting
- Officer and Chapter Reports

Highlights:
The two Milestones projects are moving along. Amritesh and Diwakar provided a conference review for the Rising Stars 2025 conference. David provided a report out on the combined Region 4 / Region 6 Meeting.

Attendees:

Eric Hall, Jose Garcia, David Silver, Ed Epp, Daniel Goodrich, Xiao Fu, Richard Dorrance, Rick Smith, Diwakar Agrawal, Ed Perkins, Heidi, Sohrab Aftabjahani, Amritesh, Michael Bates

Minutes:
Meeting was called to order at 6:30pm.

Agenda approved
Last months minutes small modification: "Intel is changing the matching funds that it will provide." and strike the amount.
Last month's meeting minutes approved

New Business
Science Fair - Three folks have signed up to support. Dan, David, Heidi. Sign up for "Special Award category". Let Dan know if you are volunteering. IEEE provided $500 to each Science Fair, both the Oregon one and the SW Washington one.

Milestones - Willamette Falls is moving along. USB one is approved as well, Richard has made the request for support to CTO of Intel but has not heard back. The Milestones program has a technology focus not a people focus.

Rising Stars 2025 Conference:
Amritesh and Diwakar attended the Rising Stars 2025 conference in Las Vegas Nevada and provided a report out.

They had a very wonderful experience. Had an enjoyable time talking with folks. The IEEE executives were very supportive.

A lot of amazing speakers that were part of the agenda through all three days. Sessions included the Young Professionals Workshop, a Job Search Workshop, a Financial Planning workshop, several sessions on managing your engineering career and several informative Panel sessions.

Amritesh: Long time attendee. Great meeting the different speakers, meet new folks, and reconnect with folks.

Potential Speakers for Oregon Section that were identified include:
- Michael Andrews / Carolyn Andrews who were the Conference Organizers and were very interested in a soft-skills session and help with with interpersonal skills.
- John McDonald who is an IEEE Fellow
- Ed Tiedemann who is a SVP at Qualcomm
- Kathleen A. Kramer who is the IEEE CEO
- Joy Dow who is a Wealth Management Advisor
- Industry folks such as YC Wang from Digikey, Joe Dossantos from Workday AI, and Falguni from Expedia.

The suggestion is to have webinars or Distinguished Speaker series with these folks. Perhaps have another social with guest speaker. We won't limit to just the Young Professionals group. Reach beyond Oregon Section as well. Let's try to make at least three of these.

Sohrab: Is conference meeting materials available? No. Was most interested in the cybersecurity talk.

Report out for Region 4 / Region 6 Meeting:
- David went through a slide show of photos. Slide show link
- Congrats to Ed Epp on his award!
- Lots of great training was provided.
- There were a lot of great networking opportunities with the other Section Chairs. Some other sections have a lot of activities. Let's try to get a few more going.

Officer Reports
Vice Chair: Nothing to report. Plans to talk with Ed when he is better.
Treasurer: $158k in account. Have spent about $1500 so far and know some travel items are coming in. Things are good.
Secretary: Nothing to report

Chapter Reports:
Ed Perkins: When are chapter reports due? 10 February was the due date.

Young Professionals: (Amritesh) - YP Social is being planned at Top Golf in March. Received $800 from the Global YP group. April have a virtual event lecture on Chips Act. Idea to have a half day workshop on Chips Act at Intel for students. Ask about Community College students, those that are part of the Microelectronics Technology program.

RAS Society Chapter (Ed Epp) - Regional competition was held on Saturday. Benson HS has two teams that participated. Ed focuses on underserved students and his team is interested in continuing even though they were knocked out of the competition. They are doing some autonomous work using Apple tags. Ed has reached out to the PSU RAS Student chapter to propose an event.

Nano Society Chapter (Ed Perkins) - Held an event at PSU at the Physics department. Had an attendance of about 20 folks.
EPS Chapter is floundering and does not have a lot of officers at this time.
Sustech - Planning is going well. Over 150 paper submitted. Reviews are on-going. Will be held in Santa Ana California in April.

WIE (Heidi) - Top Golf event. STEM curriculum and STEM kits will have an in-person event. New member has come to Oregon and has reached out and is interested in volunteering, will get her invited to future events, starting from March. David has the STEM kits and can deliver.

Solid State Circuits Society Chapter (Richard Dorrance) - Going to flagship conference next week and will be receiving the best distinguished lecture program with a certificate and $1000. Feb 25 - Next Distinguished Lecture, want folks to attend in person. Working to get more lectures throughout the year. Looking for volunteers for pre-college events as well.

PACE (Rick Smith) - Continue to provide support to Sustech. PSU Student chapter has reached out for an overview of the Section. AR: We should build out a deck for such talks. Contact area folks as well to see if they have material.

Computer Society Chapter (Sohrab) - Traveling to a conference. Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap Chairing Cybersecurity working group.

Signal Processing Society Chapter (Xiao Fu) - Nothing going on now. Monthly seminar to restart in March.