Oregon Section ExCom

Agenda:

- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- New Business
- Science Fair signup
- Milestones update
- Rising Stars presentation
- Report out from R4/R6 meeting
- Officer and Chapter Reports

Highlights:
The two Milestones projects are moving along. Amritesh and Diwakar provided a conference review for the Rising Stars 2025 conference. David provided a report out on the combined Region 4 / Region 6 Meeting.

Attendees:

Eric Hall, Jose Garcia, David Silver, Ed Epp, Daniel Goodrich, Xiao Fu, Richard Dorrance, Rick Smith, Diwakar Agrawal, Ed Perkins, Heidi, Sohrab Aftabjahani, Amritesh, Michael Bates

Minutes:
Meeting was called to order at 6:30pm.

Agenda approved
Last months minutes small modification: "Intel is changing the matching funds that it will provide." and strike the amount.
Last month's meeting minutes approved

New Business
Science Fair - Three folks have signed up to support. Dan, David, Heidi. Sign up for "Special Award category". Let Dan know if you are volunteering. IEEE provided $500 to each Science Fair, both the Oregon one and the SW Washington one.

Milestones - Willamette Falls is moving along. USB one is approved as well, Richard has made the request for support to CTO of Intel but has not heard back. The Milestones program has a technology focus not a people focus.

Rising Stars 2025 Conference:
Amritesh and Diwakar attended the Rising Stars 2025 conference in Las Vegas Nevada and provided a report out.

They had a very wonderful experience. Had an enjoyable time talking with folks. The IEEE executives were very supportive.

A lot of amazing speakers that were part of the agenda through all three days. Sessions included the Young Professionals Workshop, a Job Search Workshop, a Financial Planning workshop, several sessions on managing your engineering career and several informative Panel sessions.

Amritesh: Long time attendee. Great meeting the different speakers, meet new folks, and reconnect with folks.

Potential Speakers for Oregon Section that were identified include:
- Michael Andrews / Carolyn Andrews who were the Conference Organizers and were very interested in a soft-skills session and help with with interpersonal skills.
- John McDonald who is an IEEE Fellow
- Ed Tiedemann who is a SVP at Qualcomm
- Kathleen A. Kramer who is the IEEE CEO
- Joy Dow who is a Wealth Management Advisor
- Industry folks such as YC Wang from Digikey, Joe Dossantos from Workday AI, and Falguni from Expedia.

The suggestion is to have webinars or Distinguished Speaker series with these folks. Perhaps have another social with guest speaker. We won't limit to just the Young Professionals group. Reach beyond Oregon Section as well. Let's try to make at least three of these.

Sohrab: Is conference meeting materials available? No. Was most interested in the cybersecurity talk.

Report out for Region 4 / Region 6 Meeting:
- David went through a slide show of photos. Slide show link
- Congrats to Ed Epp on his award!
- Lots of great training was provided.
- There were a lot of great networking opportunities with the other Section Chairs. Some other sections have a lot of activities. Let's try to get a few more going.

Officer Reports
Vice Chair: Nothing to report. Plans to talk with Ed when he is better.
Treasurer: $158k in account. Have spent about $1500 so far and know some travel items are coming in. Things are good.
Secretary: Nothing to report

Chapter Reports:
Ed Perkins: When are chapter reports due? 10 February was the due date.

Young Professionals: (Amritesh) - YP Social is being planned at Top Golf in March. Received $800 from the Global YP group. April have a virtual event lecture on Chips Act. Idea to have a half day workshop on Chips Act at Intel for students. Ask about Community College students, those that are part of the Microelectronics Technology program.

RAS Society Chapter (Ed Epp) - Regional competition was held on Saturday. Benson HS has two teams that participated. Ed focuses on underserved students and his team is interested in continuing even though they were knocked out of the competition. They are doing some autonomous work using Apple tags. Ed has reached out to the PSU RAS Student chapter to propose an event.

Nano Society Chapter (Ed Perkins) - Held an event at PSU at the Physics department. Had an attendance of about 20 folks.
EPS Chapter is floundering and does not have a lot of officers at this time.
Sustech - Planning is going well. Over 150 paper submitted. Reviews are on-going. Will be held in Santa Ana California in April.

WIE (Heidi) - Top Golf event. STEM curriculum and STEM kits will have an in-person event. New member has come to Oregon and has reached out and is interested in volunteering, will get her invited to future events, starting from March. David has the STEM kits and can deliver.

Solid State Circuits Society Chapter (Richard Dorrance) - Going to flagship conference next week and will be receiving the best distinguished lecture program with a certificate and $1000. Feb 25 - Next Distinguished Lecture, want folks to attend in person. Working to get more lectures throughout the year. Looking for volunteers for pre-college events as well.

PACE (Rick Smith) - Continue to provide support to Sustech. PSU Student chapter has reached out for an overview of the Section. AR: We should build out a deck for such talks. Contact area folks as well to see if they have material.

Computer Society Chapter (Sohrab) - Traveling to a conference. Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap Chairing Cybersecurity working group.

Signal Processing Society Chapter (Xiao Fu) - Nothing going on now. Monthly seminar to restart in March.