Agenda: 

• 6:00 – Refreshments and Social (Virtual during COVID-19)

• 6:30 – Adoption of Agenda

  • Meeting started at 6:40
  • Round of introductions of name and title of attendees 

• 6:35 – Approval of previous minutes

  • Motion made to approve March and April minutes

• 6:40 – Reports:

  • Chair's Report (Paulo Vasconcelos)
    • Upcoming Conferences: Reach out and offer support, PES Chapter has already reached out to Transactive Energy Conference to be held in Portland December, 2020
    • Best practice for events in vTools
    • Summer Social - Canceled, IEEE supporting the local economy by keeping deposit in place for 2021 Summer Social
    • Explore the idea of a Virtual Summer Social, ExCom asking for input on ideas, limit to 100 in attendance for sake of time but Webex can support up to 1000 for live streaming
    • 2020 Section Support Disbursement- $250 for Chapters and $500 for Joint Chapters
    • 2019 Intel Volunteer Hours - Total 891 Hours = $8910
  • Treasurer's Report (Lee Oien)
    • Balance is currently $86,000 in the account
    • No outstanding bills or pending checks
    • Approves keeping $850 deposit in place for Summer Social 2021
  • Secretary Report (Heidi DeGarmo)
    • No missing attendance reports 
  • YoPro (Jay Guo) / SAC Report (Matt Harrison) / WIE (Eve Klopf)
    • YP PNW Leadership Summit July 17th in Portland Pending (May be canceled)
    • YP Events postponed until after stay at home order lifted

• 7:25 – Action Items: Submit Timely Requests to Treasurer

  • Submit expense reimbursements with receipts, not waiting until the end of year

• 7:35 – Tonight's Focus (Information Items)

  • Daniel Goodrich - PES Chapter creates 43% of all IEEE standards, official mission leading provider of scientific and engineering information on electric power and energy for the betterment of society, and the preferred professional development source for members. Represents the three major utility companies, PAC, PGE and BPA. Nine guest speakers a year. Meetings are every third Tuesday of the month. Recent field trip to Merwin Dam. PES summer meeting canceled. 

  • Joshua Cosby -  Klamath Student Branch has increased membership three times what it was previous year. The new project is a brain machine interface, student version of Elon Musk's neural link. Students are interested in doing projects, one they do outreach taking robots out to the high school sparking an interest in engineering and IEEE. Joshua is graduating, Matt Volpe continuing on in the Fall. This year started off strong with Rising Stars Conference. Student study group for engineering exam going strong with professor support. 

• 7:50 – Old Business: 

  • Ed Perkins - Sustech Conference April 24-25, 2020, virtual on zoom, free student poster contest - 9 presented with 60 attendees on Thursday, 24 papers presented with 85 attendees on Friday, 68 attendees on Saturday. Awaiting refund from the hotel to reimburse seed money. 2021 will be held in Los Angeles and 2022 to be held in Portland. 
• 8:00 – New Business: 
  • Jim Morris - Education Chapter to hold 2 events this year to stay active. Nanotechnology Council currently holding elections.  NTC Distinguished Lecture officially moved to online event. EPS/CASS Chapter have 4 events for the year currently on hold bc they all involve travel. 
• 8:10 Discussion Item: Webex Tips - Training Topic (presentation attached)

• 8:20 – Future Focus:

  June: TBD Jul: No meeting Aug: No Meeting
• 8:30 – Adjournment

Attendees (WebEx):  Paulo Vasconcelos (Chair), Justin Wagner (Vice-Chair), Lee Oien (Treasurer), Heidi DeGarmo (Secretary), Rick Smith (PACE Chair), Daniel Engel (Webmaster), Daniel Goodrich (Awards and Events Coordinator), Ed Epp (RAS Chair), Ed Perkins (Nanotechnology Council), Pradeep Kumar (Comm Society Chair), Sohrab Aftabjahani (CS Chair), Eve Klopf (WIE Chair), Terry Lang (OrCNet Chair), Richard Dorrance (SSCS Vice Chair), Alex Higgins (PSU SB Chair), Rachel McAfee (OSU SB Chair), Joshua Cosby (OIT SB Chair), Dhawal Moghe, Jim Morris, Ken Hillen, Loren Lang, Matt Volpe, Partho Chakraborti, Souma Badombena.

Attachments:

Webex Tips - Training Topic	15421 kB
Attendance	55 kB
Focus Presentation - PES	2277 kB
IEEE WebEx Meeting Instructions	523 kB