Agenda:
6:00 – Refreshments and Social
6:30 – Adoption of Agenda
- The meeting started at 6:45 PM.
6:35 – Approval of previous minutes
- Motion made to approve March and April minutes at the May meeting.
7:00 – Reports
- Chair's Report (Paulo Vasconcelos)
- Upcoming conferences to Portland - reach out to help with the advertisement. TLAs: from the slide: RESPECT, PLANS, ARITH.
- WIE Book Club - Soonish - 1st Thursday of the Month - just before bedtime.
- March 13th - GBSE & PPSSE Expos - (Judges needed) - Gresham High School
- YP PNW Leadership Summit - 2020, July 17th - 19th
- Summer Social - 2020 July 25th - Portland Pickles Game
- State Science Fair (Used to be ISEF) NW Science Expo - April 10th (NWSE).
- Updates for Section Communications
- On IEEE.org, under membership benefits, select:
- Local IEEE comms
- Member-related comms
- On IEEE.org, under membership benefits, select:
- New/Returning Section Volunteers
- Treasurer's Report (Lee Oien).
- Request for Reimbursement 2020 format
- IEEE Finance accepted our financial report for the section. Not sure about the chapters.
- Expense form submissions (OR Section Reimbursement request).
- YoPro (Jian Guo)
- Working with OIT
- Career day May 31st
- Interview coaches - for students
- Working with OIT
- Women in Engineering
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7:40 – Discussion Items:
- Social Media Collaborator - Anushka Naiknaware
- Weekly updates in LinkedIn, promoting events to our membership
- Senior Member - message to Intel folks?
- New website and slide for Chapters.
7:50 – Action Items
- None.
7:55 – Tonight's Focus (Information Items)
- Robotics & Automation Society (RAS)
- Seminars & Workshops
- ROS lives on top of Linux - Matt Hansen - Intel ROS Navigation project head. This has now moved to Samsung, and Matt has moved on to Amazon
- Tensorflow for locating FTC game pieces. First Tech Challenge (FTC).
- Seminars & Workshops
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PSU IEEE Students Branch - Alex Higgins
Instead of sharing a key, get a real-estate lockbox and provide the combo to the board members
Spring term - board mtg, workshop (TBD), Social events (active engineer)
- End-of-the-year picnic
- Website redesign
- Recruiting 1st/2nd year students
- Focus on new members - now it's only $18 for the remainder of the school year (thru mid-August)
Consider a survey that reaches out to recent grads, and ask them "what didn't you know that you needed to know?
- Using a Facebook page, or need help with social promos
8:00 – Old Business / New Business
Gift cards - need some $$ for these
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SusTech Conference -
- About 50 papers being reviewed
- April 23-25th
- Not yet decided about postponing or cancel??
8:20 – Future Focus
Apr: PES and OIT Klamath Falls. Justin to confirm.
May: TBD
Jun: TBD
8:30 – Adjournment
Attendees (WebEx): Paulo Vasconcelos (Chair), Justin Wagner (Vice-Chair), Heidi DeGarmo (Secretary), Lee Oien (Treasurer), Jian Guo (YP Chair), Rick Smith (PACE Chair), Ed Epp (RAS Chair), Ed Perkins (Nanotechnology Council), Michael Bates (CS Vice-Chair), Alex Higgins (PSU SB Chair), DDhawal Moghe, John Prohodsky, Russ Mickiewicz, Eve KlopfDaniel Engel, Richard Dorrance, Tugrul Daim.