June 2025 Minutes - IEEE Oregon Section

Agenda:
- Agenda approval
- Approval of last month's meeting minutes
- New Business
- Naznin - present on WIE ILC 2025
- Keeping Chapters healthy, succession planning
- Milestones update
- Summer Social
- Officer and Chapter Reports

Highlights:

Naznin was session chair for track 2 "Career Development" that included three talks and a workshop as well as a lot of networking and engagement opportunities throughout the IEEE WIE ILC 2025 conference. PES had a well received presentation on autonomous robots. SSCS had 90 folks in attendance for a hybrid presentation on Energy-Efficient Co-Packaged vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based High-Speed Optical Links.

Action Items Captured:

- Richard to send VTools information to post about the IEEE Milestones event at Intel to the entire Section.
- Daniel or David has to approve the MOU for 2026 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech).
- PACE needs help from the Section on publicizing promos for the NEDME conference in October.

New Business
- When to post a recording of a talk? What should be the best place to do so? Website? IEEE.tv is probably the best place. Get an account. However the videos need to get cleaned up before posting.
- Daniel or David has to approve the MOU for 2026 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) -

IEEE WIE ILC 2025 Conference
- The IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (WIE ILC) that aims to support and sustain women leaders and technologists, especially those in mid to senior career, was held in San Jose CA
- Many IEEE regions was represented
- Naznin was session chair for track 2 "Career Development". The session included three talks and a workshop.
- Naznin had a lot of networking and engagement opportunities as well throughout the conference

Officer and Chapter Reports
Chair - Not available

Vice Chair
- Been working on the LinkedIn page for the section. It is a private page that we are wanting to open it up, hopefully we do not have a recreate it. We would like to be more like the Hawaii section.
- Jeffrey Drummond is the owner of the site. From LinkedIn, only owner can change the type. Ed provided contact information for Jeffrey.

Treasurer
1. Solid State Circuits: $500 for a Spring event was requested. Confirmed for HOP and transfer in Progress.
2. USB Milestone dedication: The event is the afternoon of July 30th in Hillsboro. Let’s get details from Richard Dorrance. Info has been sent to Intel on how to reimburse the Section for the milestone. I’ve also requested status of the milestone plaque. - plaque on the way. Brian Burke and Richard are working the details. One wrinkle, IEEE Convene happens at the same time so likely some dignitaries will not be in attendance. USB inventors will be there.
3. PSU Gadgetfest: Sent an email getting details for this event that we pledged $500. Hoping to just transfer the funds to their next gen HOP and have reached out to PSU but have not heard back.
4. Remind Amritesh to continue to pursue getting the $800 from the YP Society for the Top Golf event.
5. The Section received a $9k rebate to be passed on to high performing chapters. The Treasurer of any high performing chapter needs to inform the Section Treasurer of the amount they are entitled. Otherwise, they can request up to $250 for their chapter. The Comm Society gave us $1,500 separately for being a high performing chapter, so those funds will be available to them as needed.
6. Did we pick a date for the Summer Social? Yes, Portland Pickles baseball 26 July at 7:05pm. Location: Walker stadium in Lents park.

Secretary - No update

Chapter Reports
PES - Had some great presentations recently including one on autonomous robots. Robot dogs into dangerous environments and for use by manufacturers. Upcoming presentation in June, although do not typically have a June session. Need some help with comms and Jose will help.

Solid state circuits society - Had hybrid/in person event on the 23rd of May on Energy-Efficient Co-Packaged VCSEL-based High-Speed Optical Links with two researchers from Intel Labs on Photonics from presentations originally done at VLSI 2024 and ISCC in Feb. Had 90 folks in attendance. Next week Wednesday 18 June at 3:30-5:30pm the chapter summer social will be held at Kingpin Beaverton. The event can host 40 folks and have about half that registered now.

PACE - NW Electronics Design & Manufacturing Expo (NEDME) in Washington County Fairgrounds on 22 October. Need promos to the Section to publicize. Diwaker will help to send out.

Nano - Meeting this Friday with folks that are nominally officers and will get together to talk about what the chapter should do moving forward.

EPS/CAS - Had a meeting Friday 6 June to discuss future plans for the Chapter. There are few folks stepping into officers roles and will have a survey of members to see what they would like to pursue as a chapter.

WIE - Have had several events recently. Next event on 23rd June with panel discussion on Thriving in an AI and Emerging Tech World - Ed will help to publicize to Region level. Will have collaborative event on AI with Santa Clara on 29 August.

SusTech - Did very well this year. Had a record number of authors and most did not travel. Had a few sponsors that paid for booths as well. There are a few expenses to wrap-up within the conference. SusTech talk coming up 17 June at 6:00pm on Why we need Bright Ice.