We met and watched the Portland Pickles baseball game.  It was great fun!

6:15 Secretary Goodrich starts meeting and notes attendees

Attendees:  Daniel Goodrich, Sohrab Aftabjahani, Lee Oien, John Prohodsky, Daniel Engel, Rick Smith

6:30 Chair calls the meeting to order

6:35 Approval of Past Minutes

6:45 Chair’s report:  John P. PICMET; Funding was approved without objection to provide $2,500 in funds.  ACTION:  John will work with MOU.   there a Section repository for files?   ACTION:  John will find out who Dan can contact to set up a data repository, Google drive or equivalent.

Gift for speakers at Chapter events:  ACTION:  John will organize a group to decide.  Gift cards must be reported and documented for tax purposes, and larger items have to be shipped.

EXCOMM Meeting September (13^th?) in person. ACTION:  John to make the arrangements and report back by August 1^st.

Elections:  ACTION:  John will send out an e-mail for nominations for officers within the next week.

 6:45 Vice-Chair’s Report: Not present.

6:50 Treasurer’s Report: Our rebate this year was $15k.  Lee showed the reimbursement for each Chapter.  Student branches need to submit a Plan or they get no funding.  Balance is $161,319.

6:55 Secretary’s Report—Summer Social August 6^th (Portland Pickles)  IEEE Oregon Section SUMMER SOCIAL ALL ARE WELCOME : vTools Events

7:00 Chapter Reports

          Ed Epp RAS:  Not present

          Rick Smith, PACE:  Still working with Ed P. for Sustech in April, 2023; he did visit PSU’s campus to see if they will host.  We got $1,500 in surplus for the 2022 event.

          David Silver, PES:  Will meet again in September.  Might do a social or tour this fall.

          Sohrab, Computer Society (C16 code):  Attended a security conference last month and judged the competition.  He was also in San Francisco as a panelist at DAC.  He is lining up a speaker for the Computer Society.  http://cad4security.org/index.php/speakers/

           Ed Perkins, Nanotechnology: Not present

Jinsub Kim, Signal Processing:  Not Present

Ugonna, Student Chapters: Not Present

Daniel Engel, Web site:  He will be paying the annual fee soon.

Richard Dorrance, Not present.

7:20 New Business. None noted.

7:55 Reading of Action Items

7:58 Next Meeting Summer Social  

Adjourn  Adjourned at 7:30pm.

6:15 Secretary Goodrich starts meeting and notes attendees

Attendees:  Ed Epp, Ed Perkins, Richard Dorrance, Rick Smith, Daniel Goodrich, Sohrab Aftabjahani, Daniel Engel, Jinsub Kim, and at 7:30 John Prohodsky

6:30 Chair calls the meeting to order

6:35 Approval of Past Minutes Approved and status of previous action items  John to provide Dan with the list of 2022 officers in the chapters.  John to figure out how to get an e-mail list that crosses Section boundaries (Mcloughlin?).

Adoption of Agenda   

6:45 Chair’s report:  John P. given at 7:30

 6:45 Vice-Chair’s Report: Not Present

6:50 Treasurer’s Report:  Not present.  We have >$150k in our account.

6:55 Secretary’s Report—Summer Social August 6^th (Portland Pickles)  Dan will update registration for food and will contact Diwakar.  Dan will also combine Rick Smith’s and Ed Perkin’s notes and upload the May minutes.

7:00 Chapter Reports

          Ed Epp RAS:  Presentation on How Humanoids can save the worlds’ labor crisis is on June 29^th, Ed will add it to vTools.

          Rick Smith, PACE:  No major activity for PACE. Rick is assisting with Planning for Sustech April, 2023.

          David Silver, PES:  Not present.  We met May 17^th, and will meet again in September.

          Sohrab, Computer Society: No events in June, probably will have an event in July or so.  He is attending a security conference in Washington DC.  Is serving as a judge for their hardware security competition and for posters.  Another conference in San Francisco.

On the subject of gifts, can they be given to a lecturer?  The answer is yes.  However, they don’t have a Treasurer for their chapter.  They can fill out an online expense through Concur, and Lee can reimburse.

           Ed Perkins, Nanotechnology:  Intend to have meetings within the next few months.

                        Sustech 2023 ( https://ieee-sustech.org  April 20^th or so):  They will do an MOU and the Section will provide the seed money. They are working on a program chair and other key roles like registration chair and publicity.  The Section will be the co-sponsor.  Ed will work with Lee Oien on the budget.

Packaging society is also working on scheduling meetings.

Jinsub Kim, Signal Processing:  They met June 14^th, a Technical seminar by an OSU professor.   They will have a distinguished lecturer on October 10^th, he’s from Harvard.  They submitted a proposal to host a workshop at either Skamania Lodge or at OSU.  Sensor Array Processing in 2024.  Contact Lee to get info on how to get a debit/credit card for the Chapter.

Ugonna, Student Chapters: Not present.

Daniel Engel, Web site:  Nothing major, all is well.   Web site renewal is coming up, Daniel will contact Lee.

Richard Dorrance, Solid State Circuits:  Had a distinguished lecturer from UW on June 10^th.  There is a plan to have a Georgia Tech professor speak in the future.  Sometime in July they want to have a social event.

7:20 New Business.  What about the Section purchasing gifts like a mug or equivalent to be distributed to speakers as appreciation?  John will schedule a brainstorming meeting, and then the group will make a recommendation for a speaker gift the July meeting.

Face to face meeting September 13^th.  Ideas for meeting.  John will find a location and notify us.

Officer Elections:  John will start that process at the end of June.  Nominations will take place around September, elections in October.

7:55 Reading of Action Items

7:58 Next Meeting July 12^th  

Adjourn  Adjourned at 7:58

Read more: May 2022 ExComm Minutes

6:15 Secretary Goodrich starts meeting and notes attendees

Attendees:  John Prohodsky, Ed Epp, Ed Perkins, Richard Dorrance, Rick Smith, Lee Oien, Daniel Goodrich, Ugonna Chikezie, Aaron Cohen, , Sohrab Aftabjahani, Jinsub Kim, David Silver

6:30 Chair calls the meeting to order

6:35 Approval of Past Minutes Approved and status of previous action items  John to provide Dan with the list of 2022 officers in the chapters.  John to figure out how to get an e-mail list that crosses Section boundaries (Mcloughlin?).

Adoption of Agenda   

6:45 Chair’s report:  John P.

 6:45 Vice-Chair’s Report: Not Present

6:50 Treasurer’s Report:  $145,968.67 in the account as of 4/12/2022. $13,080 “Volunteer Match” funds came in—is it from Intel?   Chapter support will go out later this month.  Ed Epp and Rick Smith to verify.  Lee to find out if interest groups can have a bank account.

6:55 Secretary’s Report—Summer Social August 6^th (Portland Pickles)  Dan to contact the Pickles and get an estimate.

7:00 Chapter Reports

          Ed Epp RAS:  Still working with Benson.  Weekly Friday tutorials.

          Rick Smith, PACE:  SUSTECH is next week. 

          David Silver, PES:  Next meeting April 19^th on Power system communications

          Sohrab, Computer Society: Technical webinar March 31^st, professor from UF, 30 people attended.  April meeting planned.  IEEE TV at https://www.youtube.com/user/IEEETV/videos

Ed Perkins, Nanotechnology:  No meetings scheduled.  We need new officers.

Sustech:  Early registration ends Friday.  The 2023 meeting will be in Portland.  Ed is working with PSU to get meeting space.

Jinsub Kim, Signal Processing:  Working on a distinguished lecturer.

Ugonna, Student Chapters: Rebecca Buritt, Chair at OIT.  Does IEEE give out graduation chords?  The Section does not, however, Ed Perkins has a connection.

Daniel Engel, Web site:  Everything is stable

Richard Dorrance, Solid State Circuits:  Distinguished lecturer from Georgia Tech April 29^th.

7:50 New Business. 

7:55 Reading of Action Items

7:58 Next Meeting May 10^th