6:15 Secretary starts meeting and notes attendees: Pradeep, Daniel Goodrich, Rick Smith, Ed Epp, Lee Oien, Ed Perkins, Sohrab Aftabjahani, Amritesh Rai, Diwakar Agarwal
6:30 Chair calls the meeting to order
6:35 Approval of Past Minutes and status of previous action items (John to provide Dropbox information) Minutes from September/October approved.
6:38 Adoption of Agenda
6:40 Chair’s Report: Elections: 2023 Elections: Chair (Daniel Goodrich), Vice-Chair (Ed Perkins), Secretary (Diwakar Agarwal), Treasurer (David Silver), Event/Social Coordinator (?). The officers were elected.
6:45 Vice-Chair’s Report: Not present
6:50 Treasurer’s Report: $158k in account. Need October meeting reimbursement.
Chapters need to provide the HOP# to receive annual Section Funds.
Budget for 2023: Draft 2 is complete, John asked Lee to develop a “balanced” budget, getting IEEE travelers on Concur and travel guidelines, training new Treasurer
6:55 Secretary’s Report: Winter Social/Awards Meeting December 10th at 4pm the Lucky Labrador, 915 SW Hawthorne, Portland, https://luckylab.com/hawthorne-2020/. Link to Register: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/327943
One award for Chapter with the highest number of meetings (Robotics and Automation with 17 as of Nov 5).
Region 6 meeting report: Two priorities: Declining enrollment and Getting back to in-person meetings
Conferences 2023: Rising Stars January 3-5 in Las Vegas https://ieee-risingstars.org/2023/ (register by Nov 13, suggest we send 1 person, Amritesh Rai)
Region 6 OpComm in early February in the San Francisco Area https://ieee-region6.org/ (Send Chair, Vice-Chair, all others join virtually)
SUSTECH Sustainable Technology April 19-22 in Portland https://ieee-region6.org/2022/sustech-2023/ (Ed P and Rick S are on the committee, should we register others?)
Antennas and Propagation International Symposium and USNC-URSI Radio Science July 23-28, 2023 in Portland https://2023.apsursi.org/ (which Chapter is that? Support?)
Sections Congress August 11-13 in Ottawa, Canada https://www.facebook.com/IEEESC/ (up to 4)
GHTC Global Humanitarian Technology Conference October 12-15 in Philadelphia https://ieeeusa.org/events/list/?tribe-bar-date=2023-10-01 (send 1 person)
In-Person Meeting ideas: January (to start the year off), May (wrap up the school year and prepare for Summer), August (summer social), September (post-vacation, back to school), December (social and awards).
Location options: Ideally where parking is free and we don’t have to order pizza. PSU, a restaurant in Portland, a restaurant in Tigard/Hillsboro/Beaverton
7:00 Chapter Reports (5 minutes Each)
WIE: Not present
Solid State Circuits: Richard Dorrance gave an e-mail report. They are planning a distinguished lecturer in early December
Signal Processing Society:
Nanotech: Ed Perkins: Meeting scheduled and is on vTools. Contact Ed if you are interested in helping.
Professional Activities: Rick Smith
Computer Society: Sohrab: Technical Webinar on Antivirus Hardware, 11 attendees. They had 7 presentations this year, two in collaboration with other chapters. Intel fund matching hours is mid-December.
PES: Not present.
RAS: Ed Epp: Working on tutorials with students.
Young Professionals: Amritesh will be the new leader for 2023.
SUSTECH 2023: Papers due November 15th. The budget was approved.
Comsoc: Pradeep: Five meetings and four joint meetings. He shared his youtube channel, and has gotten hundreds of views.
Student Activities: Ugonna: WSUV presentation on how to find employment. He is working on re-activating the non-functioning Chapters. WSUV is fully re-activated. Andrew Greenberg (?) is a good contact at PSU.
Webmaster: Daniel Engel: Not Present.
7:50 New Business:
- Elections: Officers approved for 2023-24.
- ExComm meeting in December? Try to get business done by e-mail. John will provide e-mails to Lee and Lee will send out the final draft of the budget.
- Purpose of the Section discussion.
7:55 Reading of Action Items
8:01 Next Meeting Winter Social/Awards December 10th Where should we meet in person January 10th? PSU?