Transcript 25. Twin Cities Section Region 4 Section Reports

Region 4 Section Reports
25. Twin Cities Section
Twin Cities Section Report
IEEE Region 4 Meeting
October 16 & 17, 2004
Demographics
• Active Members
2004*
2003
– Total (AC)
3614
3166
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2376
2228
Regular (M)
Student
(S)
Senior (LS, SM)
Life (LS, LM, LF)
Associate (A, AF, LA)
354
173
177
552
311
115
129
*SAMIeee 10-13-04
Section Boundaries
Activities
• Technical/Education Meetings
– Chapters held 34 in 2003
– 17 in 2004 YTD*
• Professional
– Annual PACE MPAC conference
• 67 attendees in 2003
• October 23, 2004
www.tc-ieee.org/mpac
• Social
– Section held 2 events, each 100+ attendees
• Administrative
– Annual section officer training and goals
workshop
IEEE Twin Cities Section
Orchestrating Your Career
October 23, 2004
The theme for this year’s conference is: “Orchestrating
Your Career”. Attaining a successful engineering career
requires leading an ensemble of skills, knowledge,
passion, foresight, and the courage and security to learn
from your mistakes.
Activities
• Meetings with Neighboring Sections:
– NONE
Leadership
• Officers
– Chair
• Greg Burk
– Vice Chair
• Jon Moon
– Treasurer
• Dan Lowry
– Secretary
• Chris Greene
• Committees
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Professional Activities
Student Activities
Educational Activities
Chapter Development
Membership
Nominations
Awards
Radiator (newsletter)
Web
Organizations
• Society Chapters
– 10
• Affinity Groups
– Consultants Network of the Twin Cities
(ICNTC)
– Study Groups 8
• Student Chapters
– 3
Society Chapters
• Power Engineering
• Computers
• Engineering in
Medicine and
Biology
• Engineering
Management Society
• Magnetics
• Electromagnetic
Compatibility
• Instrumentation &
Measurement
• Microwave Theory
and Techniques
• Reliability & Fault
Tolerance
• Signal Processing &
Communications
Study Groups
• Study Groups
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www.tc-ieee.org/webpages/education.html
Phoenix
Managing Change
Robust Design
Electromagnetic Compatibility
Systems Study Group
Digital Signal Processing
Advanced Digital Design
Green Design
Phoenix Study Group
www.phoenix.tc-ieee.org
The Phoenix Project is a study group of
the Twin Cities IEEE to develop an
ambulatory blood pressure monitor for
the Halberg Chronobiology Center at
the University of Minnesota.
Our goal is to make a monitor that is
inexpensive, unobtrusive, easy to use
and collects a week of blood pressure
measurements.
The Halberg Chronobiology Center wants
to use the monitor for long term use
on massive scale to obtain measures
in health, and to encourage the
development of diagnostic, prevention
and treatment techniques.
This information is a public service and
any novel and useful inventions
disclosed herein are placed into the
public domain.
Student Chapters
• St Cloud State University
• University of St Thomas
• University of Minnesota TC
campus
St Cloud State University
– Members: 37
– Student paper competition 2004:
• Section 1st and 2nd place
• Region 1st
– Revenue: vending machine, BBQ
– Location: about 50 min NE of Minneapolis
– Need: More activities, especially educational
University of St Thomas
– Members: 21
– Just 2 years old
– Faculty support
University of Minnesota
• TC campus
– Members: 171
– Revenue: Job fair, seminars
– Activities: Job fair, company
tours, seminar, high school
education
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Awards
• Section
– Officers 4
– Committees 9
• Chapter chairs 12
• Student Chapters
– Student chair 3
– Advisors 3
• Student Papers 3
(with $)
• Outstanding Awards
– Student 3
– Corporate Engineer
1
– Engineer 1
– Member 1
– Speaker 2
Initiatives
• Create GOLD chapter
• Cooperation with other societies
– Rejoined MFESTS
– Coordinating with ASME, SWE, ASQ
• Secondary education
– Multi-society program with the Science
Museum of Minnesota
• Improve communications
Region Could Help My Section By…
• Assisting Chapters and Affinity
Groups to cross administrative
(Section) boundaries
– Communications
– Information
– Administrative / financial
Region Could Help My Section with…
• Improving communications with
members
– Refinements to e-mail
• Push officer aliases
– Web site services
• What can entity hosting do, SSH?
• Available to Chapters?
– Data (e.g., SAMIeee too raw)
– Localize print and e-mail
communication originating from region,
national and international
Region Could Help My Section with…
• Increasing volunteer involvement
– Only 43* of 3614 members (1%), most
hold at least 2 position, up to 6
– Disseminate best practices
• Do incentives work?
• Best forms of communication
• Solicit interest in communications
– Set goals
*SAMIeee report 10-13-04
Region Could Help My Section By…
• Improving Fundraising
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Something new
Disseminate best practices
Help set fundraising expectations
Direct support
• Training / seminar speaker
• Hands-on training
• Help with corporate contacts
Region Could Help My Section By…
• Defining meeting types in L31
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Technical
Educational
Professional
Social
• Can we report all meetings, including Excom in
one place?
• How do we show a co-sponsor?
• How do we correct L31?
• Can we sort, filter and download L31 queries?
• Can we make easier to find on IEEE web site?