Attendees: Dan, Ed Epp, Richard D, Xiao, David Silver, Dave Durocher, Ed Perkins, Naznin, Sean Murphy, Jose, Michael Bates, Rick S, Sohrab

Minutes for Oct ’24 approved

Highlights

• 2025 Budget approved
• Elections process is on schedule
• Rick Smith and Ed Perkins attended NEDME; we should continue to help sponsor the event in 2025
• Get information to Daniel Goodrich to update Chapter officer names, or do it yourself.  Note:   As of 12/3/2024, Nine Chapters' officer terms have been updated.  Dan is keeping a spreadsheet to update progress.
• Next meeting is Winter Awards Ceremony December 7th, be sure to register when it becomes available on vTools.

Chapter report

• SSC Richard has plans for 3 distinguished lecturers
• Nano:  Ed reported a distinguished lecturer spoke on the CHIPS act today, nine attendees.

Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Ed Epp, Rick, Richard, David, Michael, Ed Perkins

Elections

Election committee: Michael (Chair), John Prohodsky.

Action Dan: Ask region for the resource for Michael for election help.

Election for chair, vice chair, secretary, treasurer.

Current nominees

David - chair

Jose - vice chair

Dan - treasurer

Naznin - secretary

Chair report

• Summer social was a great success
• Winter awards formal: Lake Oswego grill in Lake Oswego
• Area meeting – Sat 21.
• Funded PICMET ice cream social. Voting by email.
• Naznin attended WIE meeting in Tri city area – presentation next meeting
• Milestone – Making progress. Will be in Oregon city

Vice Chair report

• Sustech in LA next year

Treasurer report

• Start preparing the budget for next year. Draft for November meeting.
• Seed money for section congress $3000 for 2026
• $750 for PICMET

New Business – No new business

Solid state circuit (Richard) – In person talk, georgia tech, a social. Coming up in Oct – 2 distinguished lectures.

Nano (ED) – speaker for Nov 12

PACE (Rick) – Will help with Social events, senior member activities.

RAS (Ed Epp) -

Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Amritesh, Ed Epp, Pradeep, Rick, Richard, Jose, Avra, John, Michael, Naznin, Sohrab

June minutes approved

Financial items

• None this time

Chair report

• Drove down to Corvallis. Attended conference reception
• Need to assemble election team by Aug 3rd
  • Chair – John Prohodsky
  • Vtools lead – Diwakar
  • Member – Michael Bates
• Diwakar to reserve the room in RA for Sept Excom

Treasure’s report

• collaberatec for section is set

Chapter reports

• Computer Society (Sohrab) –
• PES (Jose) – Break for July/Aug. Will be attending PES meeting in Seattle.
• RAS (Ed Epp) –
• Solid State Circuits (Richard) – 2 distinguished lectures in June. Another distinguished lecture coming up.
• YP (Amritesh) – Planning webinars in Aug and Sept. Also planning chips act workshop in Oct.
• Comm Soc (Pradeep) – 3 speakers in last 3 months (fellows). Distinguished lecture (in-person) set for tomorrow.
• PACE (Rick) – Reach out to Rick for help with planning of professional activities
• WIE (Naznin) – Panel discussion on June 30
• Photonics (Naznin) – Planning Sept onwards

Attendees: Diwakar, Dan, Ed Perkins, Naznin, Ed Epp, Sohrab, David, Rick

May minutes approved

Financial items

• WIE leadership summit attendance at Richland for Naznin – Registration ($150) + 1 hotel night + mileage + meals [not to exceed $1000] – Approved
• Ed/Naznin to follow up on AI meeting in Seattle and make a proposal in July meeting
• RAS requests up to $2500 for rest of 2024 for spending on RAS projects - Approved
• AR David Silver – Confirm the rules about passing money to 3^rd party in relation with RAS

Chair report

• Dan/Ed will follow up on Webex issues

Vice chair report

• 2025 Sustech MoU approved

Summer Social

• Aug 10 – Pinball. Register now.

Area meeting update (Dan/David)

• Dan presented on parliamentary procedure

IEEE USA Congressional visit day report by Naznin

AR David to find the archival location to store presentation slides and propagate the knowledge to chapter chairs

Milestones – Plaque is Oregon department of transportation property. Good progress.

AR Ed Perkins - bring information about Life members

Chapter reports

• RAS - Ed Epp – Working on turtle box 3
• WIE - Naznin – Upcoming event on June 30
• Photonics – Naznin –
• PES – Jose - Meeting in June. Funding  from Oregon PES Chapter for Humanitarian Project in Molokai, Hawaii. Will be attending general PES meeting in Seattle.
• Computer - Sohrab – Technical webinar
• Rick Smith -
• Nano – Ed Perkins – working on setting up meetings
• Solid State Circuits – Richard -
• We currently have 3 DL talks scheduled:
• Dongsuk Jeon (Hybrid), Friday, June 21st from 11am-12pm (vTools)
• Mingoo Seok (Virtual), Tuesday, June 25th from 10-11am (vTools to be created shortly)
• Shreyas Sen (Hybrid), Friday, July 19th, time TBD

Attendees: Daniel, Ed Epp, David Silver, Dave Durocher, Richard, Jose, Diwakar, Heidi, Michael, Sohrab, Ed Perkins, Rick Smith

Minutes approved

Chair report:

• Succession plan – David Silver (chair), Jose Garcia (vice chair), Naznin (secretary), Daniel Goodrich (treasurer)
• Area meeting this Saturday (5/18) – anyone can attend
• Milestone – Good progress.
• Signal Processing conference:  $2k of the $7k to be used for welcome reception, the other $5k for the banquet.  Anyone want to attend?  Daniel is driving down Monday afternoon July 8^th.

Summer social

• Reserved for Aug 10 – Save the date. Pricing will be same as last year.

AR David: Disperse chapter funding for IAS

Ed Epp: Request for $425 for upgrading RAS robot for ROS workshops – Approved.

AR Ed Epp: Request for $3300. Ed will put together a list of how the money will be allocated and motion will be entertained in June’s meeting.

SUSTECH de-brief; any major issues? Next year?  Committee? – next year in LA area – Good update from Ed Perkins

Soft Skills seminar -> Diwakar/Ed Perkins to follow up with John

STEM Week report from Heidi -> Great report.

Speaker gifts have arrived; how to set up a UPS account, and which packaging to purchase. Make an account with postoffice.

AR Daniel Goodrich - Web site follow up:  Is the comment about Helen and unemployed engineers still applicable? – Ask Daniel Engle to clean up

Naznin to report on Congressional Visit – Pushed to next month.

Speaker Gifts (Dan/David) – Great job by Dan and David to get the speaker gifts and setup a pain-free process for chapters to send speaker gifts.

AR Daniel Engle – Update the officers for IAS on the website

Chapter reports

• RAS – Ed Epp –
• IAS – Dave – New Treasurer
• Computer – Sohrab
• Nano – Ed
• PES - Jose –
• Solid state circuits - Richard –
• WIE – Naznin/Heidi -