Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- New Business
- IEEE Tri-Section Students and YP conference (Oregon x Seattle x Vancouver) discussion
- Roundup of SWRSEF
- Occasional Social Hour instead of ExCom discussion
- Summer Social ideas discussion
- Officer and Chapter Reports
Highlights:
Power Electronics Society Chapter is looking to establish and requests everyone encourage folks to join as twelve are needed for a Chapter. David and Daniel were judges to the SW Washington Science and Engineering Fair. Award was presented to Richard Dorrance of the Solid State Circuits Society Chapter for best Distinguished Speaker Chapter. The Power and Energy Society Chapter had a group of students visiting to celebrate Engineers Week.
Action Items Captured:
- David will come up with a venue for April meeting and will get the VTools event up early so folks have sufficient time to plan.
Attendees:
David Silver, Tatyana Dhaliwal, Ed Epp, Eric Hall, Daniel Goodrich, Richard Dorrance, Kishan Joshi, Jose Garcia, Mohammad Alshaiji, Alex Higgins, Ed Perkins, Sohrab Aftabjahani, Naznin Akter, Diwakar, Rick Smith
Minutes:
6:35pm meeting called to order
Agenda approved, previous minutes approved
New Business:
- Richard: Solid State Circuits is planning to organize a spring social. Will use the award money received, but possible request for additional funds.
- Naznin: Photonics Society Day of Light event on 9 May at Oregon State University Corvallis - looking for budget of about $500-600, rest will covered by nominal registration fee and chapter funds. Approval of Section funds.
- Naznin: WIE International Leaders Conference 2025 in California. $2,500 for conference attendee and travel. Looking for full or partial funding from Section. David supports this. Dan: From a financial point of view we can support this. Motion approved.
- Naznin: Planning to attend the IEEE Mentoring Meet Working with Alberto as well.
- Naznin: WIE+YP OR AG in-person event. Looking for $500 budget. Motion approved.
- Kishan: Power Electronics Society Chapter establishment. Please network with folks to encourage to join. Need twelve folks for a chapter. Reach out to Oregon State?
- Ed: There used to be a monthly newsletter to the entire section as to what's up in the Section.
- Sohrab: Any updates to money that Intel has provided to the Section or Chapter?
- Mohammad: The local PSU chapter is planning to hold a soldering workshop in the Spring Term. We are requesting funding for 15 soldering kits for interested students. They are little radio kits. Final amount tbd, but no more than $500. Would like a few photos of the kits and of the event. Motion approved to purchase the kits.
IEEE Tri-Section Students and YP conference
- Also known previously as IEEE Tech Fest. David has a flyer for proposal.
- Requesting funding to make this happen. The request to the section is for $2,500 in funding.
- Our funding will be contingent on the MGA funding being approved then see how else we might be able to help out.
Roundup of SWRSEF
- David and Daniel were judges to the SW Washington Science and Engineering Fair.
- Gave an award to a student from Camus? High School. He'll advance to the statewide science fair as well.
Reminder that the NWSE Fair will be held at PSU on 11 April.
- A few folks will attend to present the IEEE award.
- Heidi will attend the to help award the WIE one.
Occasional Social Hour instead of ExCom discussion
- April 8 in person for a social/networking/light business.
- Section will cover appetizers and some beverages, but not full dinner.
- David will come up with a venue. Get the VTools event up early.
- Mohammad: Can students attend? Yes.
Summer Social ideas?
Hillsboro Hops
Video Game venue like Quarter World
Wedgehead pinball in NE PDX
Officer and Chapter Reports
Officer Reports
Vice Chair: Nothing at this time
Treasurer: Milestones: No progress on transmission lines, no progress on Intel one either. About 15 PSU students coming to BPA for visit on 21 March.
Secretary: Work with Diwakar to re-set up a regular newsletter of information to the entire Section.
Chapter Reports:
Young Professionals: (Amritesh) - There is TopGolf Networking Social on Monday March 31st from 7-9pm. Please post the YP social on vtools so that folks not on the email list can get information.
Robotics & Automation Society Chapter (Ed Epp) - Girls robotics team is continuing even though the competition is now done and Ed is continuing to mentor. Discussions with PSU student branch for robotics sessions with the students after spring break.
Nanotechnology Society Chapter (Ed Perkins) - Had a distinguished lecture on Spintronics Beyond Memory Operations in January.
Electronics Packaging Society Chapter (Ed Perkins) - Got compliance paperwork filed
WIE (Heidi) - STEM kits to be provided and the event will be in April or May. Rick is interested to help as well. Empowering Women Engineers: Effective Strategies for Finding the Right Mentor Panel discussion on 22 March. April, May, June events are still TBD. Planning an event with SWE as well.
Solid State Circuits Society Chapter (Richard Dorrance) - Award was presented to Richard for best Distinguished Speaker Chapter. Had lecture on Continuous-Time Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converters from SSCS Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Shanthi Pavan from IIT Madras on 25 February when he was visiting Portland. Next lecture will be in early April. Working on the upcoming speakers for the rest of the year.
PACE (Rick Smith) - Request funding to travel to SusTech to support the conference as Oregon Section representative. Motion approved. Gave an IEEE overview presentation to PSU Student Branch last month.
Computer Society Chapter (Sohrab) - https://eps.ieee.org/images/files/HIR_2023/ch10_power.pdf Speaker for using LLMs tentative for 27 March. Heterogeneous Integration and Roadmap
Signal Processing Society Chapter (Xiao Fu) -
Power & Energy Society Chapter (Tatyana) - Had a bunch of students visiting on 6 march to celebrate Engineers Week. Lecture on Army Microgrids for Energy Resilience was held 18 February.
Photonics Society Chapter (Naznin) - Planning some events. Will share details when everything is sorted.
PSU Student Branch (Mohammad) - Planning to reorganize of the IEEE chapter next term and will be bringing a greater focus on societies. Our initial plans involve the PES, RAS, Computer, Communication, and Solid State Circuits societies with the hope to expand to other societies after the trial run.
SusTech 2025 - Workshop upcoming on 20 April on Designing for the Circular Economy as a hybrid meeting. Student Poster Contest is ongoing. 21-22 April for 2 Days of Conference. 130 accepted papers. YP/WIE reception on Monday. Doing well on registrations.