Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Ed Perkins, Ed Epp, Rick Smith, Heidi, Deepak Dasalukunte, Michael Hayashi, Xiao Fu, Sean Murphy , Jose Garcia, Pradeep Kumar                     

March minutes – approved

Chair report

• Attended section OpComm in Seattle and reported on it.
• Speakers with IEEE engraving are available for distinguished speakers as gift

Spend upto $300 for summer social pins to be used during social and beyond – approved

Diwakar to send out section email for Sustech promotion

Chapter reports

• Industry application society: Sean Murphy: Talk coming up on Art flash
• RAS: Ed Epp: Report out at region 6 workshop. Trying to revive Robotics and Operating systems.
• PES: Jose Garcia: Talk scheduled next Tuesday.
• Solid state circuits: Deepak: 2 talks in the pipeline. Chapter added to honor roll due to regular events.
• EPS: Ed Perkins: figuring out the plans. Working on scheduling programs for Nano.
• Stem and student activities: Heidi: Oregon stem week will be May 4-12.
• Student group: Michael: Focus on Oregon state university. Dan will focus on WSU Vancouver.
• Comm Soc: Pradeep: had a speaker from Univ. of Hong kong. 60 attendees. Edge computing. Next event in 2 weeks, speaker from University in Belgium. Quantum computing talk in Fall.
• SPS: Xiao: Distinguished lecture from Purdue U this Thursday – open event, in person