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.