Region 4 Reports

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Region 4 Reports

• 22. Southeastern Michigan

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South East Mich Section Report

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting - Oct 16/17, 2004

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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/sho
  wcases/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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.
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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

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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

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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.
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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 .

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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