Agenda: 

1. 6:00 – PIZZA and Social

   • Five pizzas are enough for attendees, PSU SB brought soda.

2. 6:30 – Secretary's Report (Paulo Vasconcelos)

   • Stressed need for reporting meeting attendance; IEEE uses attendance information to calculate rebates. There are a few chapter meetings who don’t fill out L31’s.  He is working with the IEEE staff to develop a solution. A temporary solution is to delete meetings with no attendance reported after one month of its occurance.

3. 6:40 – Treasurer's Report (Russ Mickiewicz)

   • The section has $83,000 in the bank. Annual reports have been filed. Rebates are expected. 

4. 6:50 – Elections' Report (John Prohodsky)

   • Justin Wagner (a past section chair) showed interest in either section chair or vice chair. Yao Feng Chang showed interest in being an officer. Follow up is needed by John. Ed Perkins mentioned extending the nomination process. Ed said Don Badley expressed interest in becoming active in Section activities.

5. 7:00 – YoPro (Jay Guo) / SAC Report (Matt Harrison) / WIE (Eve Klopf)

   • YoPro - No events in the pipeline. Dr. Tim Anderson will be the presenter for the next workshop on Saturday, March 16th. The topic is Innovation Tools.

   • SAC - Steven Johnson of PSU has volunteered to be Section Student Representative (SSR). Steven was at the ExCom meeting and spoke about his qualifications. He was elected unanimously.

   • Women in Engineering - Heidi DeGarmo represented WIE as Eve Klopf was not available. Heidi talked about the Maker fair at World of Speed held on February 23, 2019.

6. 7:30 – Tonight's Focus

   • Computer Society - is in the process of reorganizing. Sohrab asked for advice on organizing a chapter. John emailed information on the process of organizing a chapter and petition information. Paulo will help Sohrab contact CS members.
   • OITW SB - Tom Bridges gave a brief presentation on OIT Wilsonville’s activities. OIT has two events each term, typically a presentation and plant tour. Presentations last term included History of USB and Vector Analysis. The third event was Building a Retro Gaming Console based upon Raspberry Pi. See the presentation attached.

7. 8:00 Section Updates (Max 5 minutes per section)

   • Russ Mickiewicz - Communications joint chapter has had minimal activity.

   • Dan Goodrich - Summer Social venue to be the Portland Spirit as suggested.

   • Ed Perkins - Science Fair judges are needed.

8. Future Focus

   Apr: PSU and SSCS

   May: RAS

   Jun: TBD

Attendees:  Paulo Vasconcelos (Secretary), Russ Mickiewicz (Treasurer), John Prohodsky (Past Chair), Daniel Goodrich (Awards Coordinator), Ed Epp (RAS Chair), Heidi DeGarmo, Kirk Jungles (PSU SB Chair), Stephen Johnston (PSU SB Treasurer), Thomas Bridges (OIT SB Chair), Daniel Engel (Webmaster), Jinsub Kim (SPS Chair), Justin Wagner, Icek Warnecke, Michael Bates.

WebEx: Tugrul Daim (Vice Chair), Souma Badonbena (YP ViceChair), Sid Dasari (YP Treasurer), Matt Harrison (SAC Chair), Richard Dorrance (SSCS Vice Chair), Sohrab Aftabjahani, Ed Perkins, Carolyn Peterson.

Discussions

Important Dates 

Action Items

Attachments:

2019_03 - Sign-in Sheet

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