THE MIGHTY Southeastern Michigan Section Report

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(THE MIGHTY)Southeastern Michigan Section Report

• Mark Ciechanowski, P.E.
• Section Chair
• Region 4 Meeting
• January 27-28, 2007
• Marriott Hotel, Chicago

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Highlights of 2006 Activities

• The World's Largest Fully Steerable Single
  Aperture Radio Telescope Keynote by John Ford,
  Electronics Engineering Division Manager,
  National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO),
  Green Bank, WV
• "Career Survival for Engineers and Scientists in
  the 21st Century Provided by IEEE-USA Career
  Workforce Policy Committee (CWPC)
• Leadership Skills Workshop, Don Bramlett, P.E.
• "Evolution of Hybrid Vehicles, Architectures, and
  Energy Storage Systems, John Miller, Ph.D.,
  P.E., IEEE Fellow and PES Society DL
• EMC Fest 2006, Keynote Dr. Bruce Archambeault,
  IBM.
• Section IEEE Online Community
• Reduced the Section Conference registration price

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Plan for 2007

• Dr. Chris Mi Ms. Liang Downey 3/29/07 Section
  Conferences Ms. Teri Takai, CIO State of Michigan
• Mr. Dave Laurent Mr. Bruce Emaus 2 Vehicular
  Technology Society DLs other speakers
• Mr. Kevin Taylor 2 Society DLs other
  speakers
• Mr. Gupta Boda 1 GOLD speaker/event
• Dr. Angela Sodan 2 WIE speakers 2 Computer
  Society speakers
• Mr. Mark Ciechanowski 2 Engineering Management
  Society DLs (Robert Bishop on 3/29/07)
• Ms. Liang Downey Educational Activities speaker
• Ms. Liang Downey, Dr. Adel Marzugui, Mr. Virgil
  Nacuta, Mr. Gupta Boda Employment Services
  speaker or workshop
• Mr. Scott Lytle Mr. Kimball Williams - EMC
  Society DLs, EMCFest Workshop
• Dr. Richard Johnston 2 Education Society
  speakers
• Mr. Robert Sealy 2 Robotics Society speakers

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How Can R4 Help in Meeting Your Sections Goals?

• Membership retention I expect that membership
  will be down this year due to layoffs / economy /
  auto industry / unemployment situation.
• Volunteer recruitment we still have a few
  chapters whose officers are not actively
  providing programs.

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Section Online Community