6:15 Secretary Goodrich starts meeting and notes attendees

Attendees:  John Prohodsky, Ed Epp, Richard Dorrance, David Silver, Rick Smith, David Silver, Lee Oien, Farhana Sheikh, Ed Epp, Daniel Goodrich, Jinsub Kim, Ugonna Chikezie, Daniel Engel, Diwakar

6:30 Chair calls the meeting to order

6:35 Approval of Past Minutes and status of previous action items  Approved

Adoption of Agenda  Adopted

 6:40 Chair’s Report  Eve Klopf is taking a job in North Carolina, so we need to find a new WIE chair.  *Action John will send out an e-mail seeking a replacement.  Perhaps Heidi D.?  *Action John will contact the leadership that hasn’t been attending to try and find out why.

The Region 4/6 OPComm meeting will be virtual, February 25-27.

6:45 Vice-Chair’s Report Not Present

6:50 Treasurer’s Report  Lee:  Finances haven’t changed much since last meeting.  $133K in the account.

Chapter Chairs/Treasurers, watch for an e-mail from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and be sure to file the appropriate information and close out vTools.

6:55 Secretary’s Report 

7:00 Chapter Reports (5 minutes Each)

          Ed Epp RAS: Ed sent out a link to a tutorial he developed.

          Rick Smith, PACE:  Continuing support for Sustech 2022 and 23

          David Silver, PES:  Good attendance, we have speakers planned through April.

          Sohrab, Computer Society:  Not present

Richard Dorrance, Solid State Circuits, he is taking over the Solid State Circuits Chair.  They also have a Secretary.  Farhana will be in an advisory role.

Ed Perkins, Nanotechnology: 

Sustech:  Portland plans to host April 2023

Jinsub Kim, Signal Processing:  Distinguished professor gave a presentation in November.  They are seeking more speakers.

Diwakar:  Senior Membership  *Action:  All Senior Members contact Diwakar so that there is a pool of folks who can make recommendations for people submitting applications for Senior Membership.

            Regarding Monthly e-mail distributions.  *Action:  If you are having an event, please put it on vTools so that Diwakar can e-mail them out.  “Action: Update the contact info on the Section web site.

Ugonna, Student Chapters: Rising Star conference just ended.

Daniel Engel, web site:  Hosting service changes—file path changes on server, so many attachments on chapter pages might be moved.  *Action:  Chapter Chairs check for your information.  GoDaddy copied the web site in November; Daniel patched in what he could for the ExCom minutes.  *Action please check for any data that might be missing.

 

7:35 Focus Presentation. 

7:50 New Business. 

7:55 Reading of Action Items

7:58 Next Meeting February 8th.

Adjourn  Adjourned at 7:57PM.