Transcript Document 7474373

PACE Committee Report
Jim Riess
2005-06 PACE Chair
Steven James
Regional Pre-college Education Activities Coordinator
Hamid Vakilzadian
2007-08 PACE Chair
Region 4 Meeting
January 27-28, 2007
Marriott Hotel, Chicago
Responsibilities
• Help Sections to serve better their local membership
by promoting:
– The professional interests of their local members
– The professional activities within the R4 sections
and student branches.
– A mechanism for communication of members'
views on their professional needs.
– Employment and Career Services
– Professional Development Seminars
Responsibilities (Cont.)
• S-PAC (Student Professional Awareness Conference)
• S-Pave (Student Professional Awareness Ventures)
• Pre-college (K-12) Activities
– Education
• Promote the profession to students, engineering
community, and public
– Strengthen Pre-College activities
• Affinity Groups and WIE
Key PACE Activities in 2006
• Funding for 13 PACE projects in sections/subsections:
Cedar Rapids, Coulee,, Chicago, Southeastern Michigan, Milwaukee
Section, Missouri Slope Section, Rock River Valley, Toledo,
Siouxland
• Presentations in IEEE-USA Leadership
Development Workshop
• Presentation and Participation in M-PAC/S-PAC
for Orlando Section
2006 IEEE-USA Funding
Budget
Actual
Projects
$ 9000
$11,750
MPACs
$ 1,000
$1,000
Leadership
Workshop
$7,500
$8,045
2006 PACE Committee
PACE Coordinator – Jim Riess
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Student Professional Awareness – Kristi Brooks
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Government Activities – Burt Loupee
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Employment and Career Services – Tarek Lahdhiri
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Technical Policy Activities – Jim Fancher
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Pre-College Education – Steven James
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Milwaukee Section
Name of Project: “Introduce Engineering to
Young Students in Milwaukee County”
Project Leader: Edina Bajrektarevic
Project Budget:
Region Funding:
$1,000
$500
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Cedar Rapids Section
Name of Project: “IEEE Cedar Rapids
Section National Engineer’s Week
Activities”
Project Leader:
Dr. Leon Tabak
Project Budget:
$7,000
Region Funding:
$500
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Rock River Valley Section
Name of Project: “Math & Science
Applications (MASA) Workshop in a
Fuel Cell Car”
Project Leader:
Joe Etminan
Project Budget:
$6,900
Region Funding:
$1,000
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Cedar Rapids Section
Name of Project: “IEEE Cedar Rapids
Section FIRST Robotics Competition
Activities”
Project Leader:
Ken Lough
Project Budget:
$62,350
Region Funding:
$500
EMPLOYMENT PROJECT
Section: Chicago Section
Name of Project: “Finding Employment
by Design”
Project Leader:
John A. Zulaski
Project Budget:
$5,223
Region Funding:
$1,500
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Southeastern Michigan Section
Name of Project: “Robofest 2006”
Project Leader:
Anneberg
Dr. C.J. Chung & Dr. Lisa
Project Budget:
$44,779
Region Funding:
$2,000
MPAC PROJECT
Section: Siouxland Section
Name of Project: “Managerial Coaching Skills”
Project Leader: Jeff White
Project Budget:
Region Funding:
$5,200
$1,000
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Missouri Slope Section
Name of Project: “Presentation by Heidi B.
Hammell, Space Station Institute”
Project Leader:
Allan Jirges
Project Budget:
$4,950
Region Funding:
$1,000
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Rock River Valley Section
Name of Project: “Rockford Robotics Team
Participation in the US FIRST Robotics
Competition”
Project Leader: Bob Parro
Project Budget:
Region Funding:
$14,000
$1,000
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Rock River Valley Section
Name of Project: “Team #1625 Participation
in the US FIRST Robotics Competition”
Project Leader:
Bob Parro
Project Budget:
$14,000
Region Funding:
$1,000
PRE-COLLEGE PROJECT
Section: Coulee Subsection
Name of Project: “US FIRST Robotics
Competition”
Project Leader:
Paul Ulland
Project Budget:
$ 8,800
Region Funding:
$1,000
MPAC PROJECT
Section: Chicago Section
Name of Project: “New Officer Orientation”
Project Leader: John Zulaski
Project Budget:
Region Funding:
$1,167
$500
PROJECT
Section: Toledo Section
Name of Project: “Sponsorship of 2006
Math Counts Competition ”
Project Leader:
J. Christian Beins
Project Budget:
$500
Region Funding:
$250
Key 2006 Pre-college Education
Activities
• Twin Cities Section:
– Participation in Eng. Week Activities, funding STEP Program,
attending talk, sponsoring State Senator, Steve Kelley Lecture
• Coulee Subsection
– Holding a joint meeting with educators and engineering
societies, forming robotics interest group, funding and
staffing a week-long robotics program for middle school
students, Id’ed coordinators for FIRST FLL and Rushford
Institute
• Central Indiana Section
– Hosting a TISP, organizing a Judging panel for the Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair, help in selecting
Foundations President’s Award scholarship winner, Working
with Indianapolis Children’s Museum on displays and
activities
PACE Plan for 2007
• Organizing Quarterly Scheduled Telecons for R4 PACE
Chairs
• Promoting Sections’ Attendance in IEEE Annual Meeting
• Motivating Sections to Hold at Least One PACE Activity
• Motivating Sections to organize at Least one PDS
Meeting
• Promoting Student Branches to Hold an S-PAC Meeting
• Promoting IEEE-USA Annual Meeting Attendance
• Promoting Employment and Career Service Activities
Pre-college Education Activities
Plan for 2007
• Promoting for recognition of more good teacherengineer collaboration
• Securing seed funding for more PEC activities in R4
sections
• Increasing Teachers In Service Training/Program
activities in more schools in R4.
Mark Your Calendars!
IEEE-USA Annual Meeting
(formerly known as the IEEE-USA Leadership Workshop)
31 August - 3 September 2007
Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ
R4 will reimburse some of the expenses for
one participant for each section/subsection
• Sections are encouraged to send more
ExCom Members on Section Support
THANK YOU
for volunteering
your time to
IEEE
IEEE is a better
organization
because of your
individual &
team efforts