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Region 4 Reports
22. Southeastern Michigan
South East Mich Section Report
IEEE Region 4 Meeting - Oct 16/17, 2004
S E Mich Section Demographics• Total Members (May 2004):3958
– Members 2289– Student members 879– Senior members 186– Life members 275– Affiliates 354
• Meetings– Section meetings per year 38– Format (lunch, dinner, talk only)
Talks/dinner/showcases/demos– Type (tour, PACE, technical) 80/20 Techn/PACE– Section vs Chapter Section &
Chapter– Excom meetings per year 11– Quorum for Excom meetings 12 members
S E Mich Section Demographics• Section Leadership for S E Mich Section
– Term: Calendar Year 2004
– Chair Sam Barada
– Vice Chair Hassan Hassan
– Treasurer Chuck Albrecht
– Secretary Mark Ciechanowski
– Director of Membership Mohamad Berri
– Director of Tech. Act Subra Ganesan
– Director of Professional Act. Adel Marzougui
– Director of Educational Act. Chris Mi
– Advisor Don Bramlett
– Past Chair Maurice Snyder
– Communications Jim Woodyards
S E Mich Section Demographics
• Neighboring Sections– North: North East Michigan– South: Toledo– East: Region 7– West: West Michigan
• Joint Meetings Held with Neighboring Sections– New invitations sent to attend SEM Section Fall
Conference
S E Mich Section Demographics• Section Organization– Subsections– Society Chapters
• Circuits & Systems, Signal Processing, Information• Vehicular Technology• Communications & Aerospace Electronics• Antennas, Wave propagation• Computers • Geo-science & remote sensing• Power Engineering and Industrial Applications• Electro-Magnetic Compatibility• Power Electronics• Engineering management• Engineering in Medicine and Biology• Control Systems
S E Mich Section Demographics• Section Organization (continued)– Affinity Groups
• GOLD (in the making)• Women in Engineering (in the making)• Minorities in Engineering (formed)
– Student Branches/Joint Activity• Section has 10 Student branches.• One branch is selected to act as an assistant branch
for each of the two bi-annual section conferences. • A Student Track session is organized as part of the
bi-annual section conferences.
S E Mich Section Vitality• Meetings/Attendance during the Last Year
– 10 out of 12 chapters are in good standing this year– 2 Section meetings/conferences: Spring and Fall– An average of 3 Chapter meetings per year. Min of 2, Max
of 10 per chapter per year– An average of 15 attendees per meeting
Malooley addresses Chapter X on intellectual property.
S E Mich Section Vitality• Samples of Spring 2004 Section Conference Topics
– Engineering Education in the 21st Century, Priorities and Challenges
– Re-Interpreting the MOS transistor for the 21st Century: Generalized Methods and Their Extension to Nanotechnology
– Total System Engineering: Challenges and Prospects, With Examples
– Mechatronics Epistemology Using Educational Robotics: A Primer on Ciruits to Mehanical Interface Rapid Prototyping techniques
– Software Engineering in .NET Today– Hybrid Vehicles
S E Mich Section Vitality• Samples of Spring 2004 Section Conference Topics (cont)
– Electromagnetic Simulation in Power Devices– Signal Processing for a Capacitive BioMEMS– Designing a Controller for a Brushless DC Motor Using
Matlab-Simulink-Stateflow: A Comparative Simulation of Several Controllers
– Creative Leadership
S E Mich Section Vitality
• A Sample of Spring 2004 Section Conference
Don Bramlett recognizes the University of Windsor as the section's outstanding student branch.
Other Section Activities• PACE
– IEEE-USA Professional Awareness Workshop (March, 2004, Atlanta). Three delegates.
– New Officers Leadership Training Conference• S-PAC
– Co-sponsorship of S-PAC at Univ. of Windsor, Canada, Nov 2003. Presentation at conference.
• Affinity Groups– Minorities in Engineering – Held a kick-off event
in June 2004 at FORD.– Women in Engineering – Will hold a seminar on
Nov 11th, Oakland university, Rochester, Mich.– GOLD - is planning a kick-off event soon .
Other Section Activities
• Pre-college Education
– 10th annual Michigan regional Future Society Competition, January 2004.
– Science and Engineering fair of Metropolitan Detroit, March 2004.
– ROBOFEST 2004 Competition, April 2004, LTU.
Other Section Activities
• Technical/Professional Collaboration– Participation with the Engineering
Society of Detroit (ESD) Affiliate Council. Monthly meetings. Attendance at special occasions.
– Co-Sponsorship of 7th and 8th IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation, 2003 and 2004
– Co-Sponsorship of R4 EIT 2004 Conference
Successes/Best Practices
• Comprehensive Format of Fall and Spring Section Conferences
• Wide Variety of Activities• Attraction of Student Involvement in Section
Activities• New Initiatives for forming Affinity groups and
Standing Committees• Some chapters are outstanding and act as
Models
Lessons Learned
• Planning is Critical• Cooperation is Key• Desire to serve the collective Interest is
more important than Personal glory• Recognition and Awards are very helpful.
Challanges
• Saving chapters 3 and 6• Raising level of attendance at Spring and
Fall Section Conferences • Improving Educational Acts• Providing effective support for the
unemployed and for employee members at their jobs
Goals for Next Year
• Finalize formation of new Affinity groups (GOLD, EIE, MIE)
• Improve Spring and Fall Section Conferences
• EIT 2005• WPET 2004 and 2005• SPAC 2005• Improving web site and Newsletter
Region 4 Could Most Help My Section By…
• Providing financial Support to specific projects
• Sending delegates and presenters to our Spring and Fall conferences
• Strengthening Communication: electronic, etc.
• Improving democratic procedures by enacting elections of all members of R4 EXCOM