Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- Summer Social ideas discussion
- Officer and Chapter Reports
- Student Branch Report
Highlights:
PSU branch to hold a three day hands on gadget fest for high school students and requested $500 and a motion to support was proposed and approved. Solid state circuits society requested $500 for a social event to be held 18 June and a motion to support was proposed and approved. Finances are in good shape for the Section.
Action Items Captured:
- ExCom will decide on Fall meeting in person at PSU
Minutes:
6:30pm Dinner and socializing
7:00pm meeting called to order
Agenda approved, previous minutes approved
New Business:
- There are a lot of IEEE training that is being offered. Collabratec or a Google drive to share Section information. PSU has something similar for the chapter memory. Sohrab: Can chapters make workspaces? Sure. Who is the admin?
- IEEE Step program - YP chapter should use these resources.
- IEEE alias for chapters.
- Host for fall meeting at PSU? Maybe have a more accessible room?
- When is IEEE day? 147 days from now. Although we may not be ready for it. Maybe we shouldn’t look for non IEEE folks, and instead try to get the existing members to be more active. Many do not pay for their membership so they see it as a freebie but that does not translate into being active unless it is relevant to their own interests.
Summer Social:
- Next Level games which is a Pinball and video game museum in Hillsboro. Tentatively scheduled for 9 August.
- Could do another idea such as tour of Bonneville dam, baseball game or river cruise.
Officer and Chapter Reports
Officer Reports
Vice Chair: Working on updating the LinkedIn page for the section. Wanting to make it into a public page.
Treasurer: Finances in good shape. Unsure what a recent deposit was. High performing chapters get extra money. $500 for STEM week. Milestone at Intel was paid for and the extent is scheduled for 30 July. Intel will be paying for the ceremony. 1st high voltage transmission line in North America was from Willamette Falls and Portland and will also get a Milestone recognition. NWSE on 11 April was held at PSU IEEE gave two awards.
Secretary: Work with Diwakar to re-set up a regular newsletter of information to the entire Section.
PSU Student Branch Report:
- Planning a gadget fest three day hands on for high school students. PSU Summer of STEM. Several different 3 day sessions. July 15-17 and July 29-31. Looking for $500. Motion to support was proposed and passed. Have enough student volunteers. Already have 30 signups.
- Had two workshops this term and both were successful. Working on a good transition to the newly elected officers.
Chapter Reports:
RAS - First tech challenge is finished but still working with a team. Rose city robotics collaborative to make Oregon a hub for robotics activities and are using a Nvidia curriculum. How can we be a part of this initiative.
Solid state circuits society - lecture last week at RA1, by society chair, had about 35 attendees. Upcoming lecture on photonics next Friday. 18 June will have a social event for the society. Looking for $500. Motion approved.
Computer society - not sure how to get more interested in the topics. Need to connect with the student officers directly to get the word out. Emails no one reads as there are too many of them. Maybe send to the student branch officers to redistribute?
PACE - Sustech annual conference was held last month over 3 days. 180 attendees, which was a record. Met the CalState Long Beach student branch. They use Instagram for their chapter to get information out to their student members.
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