Foothill Section

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Foothill Section Annual Meeting UpdateBill
Grist, Foothill Member Attendee AICNCC Panel
Member

• IEEE-USA Annual Meeting
• and Technical Conference
• Thursday-Sunday, 15-18 May 2014          
• Crowne Plaza, Warwick RI

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An Overview plus Details in Areas of Foothill
Member Interest

• A walk through of what happens for those who
  havent attended
• Key Messages to all IEEE Members
• Highlights from selected talks
• Elections VOTE and comments
• QA - members topic choices (due to 3-4 tracks,
  info not available on all)
• What can We Do to help?

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IEEE-USA Annual Meeting and Technical
ConferenceThursday-Sunday, 15-18 May
2014           Crowne Plaza, Warwick RI

• Thursday 15 May 2014
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• Posting of the Colors  - The Rhode Island
  Military Organization
• Welcome and Introduction  Garden Pavilion
• Charles Rubenstein, Vince Socci, Martin Cohen,
  David Casper
• Opening Remarks Gary Blank, 2014
  IEEE-USA President
• Dinner 
• 2015 Candidate Presentations  Garden Pavilion
•         IEEE President-Elect Candidates F.
  Mintzer, B. Shoop
•    IEEE-USA President-Elect Candidates P.
  Eckstein, K. Grzelak
• Friday 16 May 2014  Please See InnoTek2014
  Conference Program

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Saturday 17 May PROGRAMs

• Annual Meeting Introduction -
• 2014 IEEE-USA President Gary Blank
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• Plenary Session  
• Introduction to Professional Activities Ed
  Perkins
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• Plenary Session  
• Introduction to Communications Public Awareness
  Chris Brantley
•  Track 1 ChairEd Perkins
• Bristol
• Track 2 ChairWill Kassebaum
• Salon I
• Track 3 Chair
• Keith Grzelak

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Saturday 17 May PROGRAMs

• Professional Activities Engaging Members Locally
• The Professional Career and Member Services
• The Profession Government Relations
• IEEE Insurance Solutions Protecting Your
  Greatest Asset You!
• Graham Fuller
• Professional Activities for Engaging Your Members
• Ed Kirchner, Tarek Lahdhiri
• K-12 STEM Outreach Services, Opportunities,
  TISP, TSA, Public Awareness
• Neeraj Bhatia
• Panel How can Members get Involved in IEEE-USA
  Policy Committees
• Keith Grzelak, Russ Harrison ltlt
• Tools for Member Engagement ltlt
• John Prohodsky

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Saturday 17 May PROGRAMs

• Career Services Services to Enhance Your Career
• Holly M. Cyrus, Tarek Ladhiri
• Intellectual Property Policy Update ltlt
• Keith Grzelak
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• PACE Projects Workshop
• Bob Pellegrino, Larry Nelson, Sr., Emilio
  Salgueiro
• Entrepreneurship The Entrepreneurs Village ltlt
• Mark Wingate
• IEEE-USA Government Fellows and WISE
• Kenneth Lutz (Govt Fellow), Turner Cotterman
  (WISE Fellow)

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Saturday 17 May PROGRAMs

• Introducing
• SPA-X Explore, Engage, Experience
• Guru Madhavan, Ed Perkins
• Consulting Networks, Services Available to
  Support the Professional Consultant ltlt
• Larry Nelson, Sr.
• Dont Talk Nerdy to Me! A Technologists Guide to
  Communicating with Policymakers
• Chris Brantley, Russ Harrison
• Panel Using Consultant Networks, Employment
  Networks and Entrepreneurs to Engage Members in
  your Section ltltltlt
• Will Kassebaum moderator Herman Amaya, Bill
  Grist, Larry Nelson Sr., Gary Blank
• Professional Licensure Advancement of Careers
  and the Profession
• Steve Barrett
• Immigration Policy Update Russ Harrison
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Saturday 17 May PROGRAMs

• Panel Making IEEE Activities Relevant for Your
  Members
• Ed Kirchner moderator
• Charles Lord, Ali Abedi, Carole Carey
• The Importance of Membership
• Lee Stogner
• Communications Policy Cybersecurity and Freedom
  of the Internet ltlt
• Eric Burger
• Exhibits
• IEEE-USA Awards Banquet, Speeches, Recognition  
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Sunday 18 May PROGRAMs

• Regional PACE Breakout Sessions RECAP
• Regional Professional Activities Overview  Ed
  Perkins
• The Going Home Challenge and Commitment  Ron
  Jensen
• Invitation to the 2015 Technical Conference in
  Milwaukee, WI
• Recap, and Outgoing Message - Gary Blank, 2014
  IEEE-USA President
• Looking Forward to 2015, and Incoming Message
  POSTPONED
• Jim Jefferies, 2015 IEEE-USA
  President - in Hospital
• The IEEE-USA 2014 Annual Meeting Closes
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INNOTEK2014 PROGRAMs

• Jeff Greer, Engineerings Role in Agile
  Manufacturing 
• Barry Shoop, Developing Critical Thinking,
  Creativity Innovation Skills
• Michelle Morey, InfraGard Partnership is Our
  Key Resource ltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltltlt
• Henry Constant and Frank Metayer,Real-time
  Digital Image Acquisition and Processing
• Paul Roberti, RI PUC Commissioner Energy
  Conversion  Distribution
• Sally Sutherland, Deputy Chief Technical Officer,
  Naval Undersea Warfare Center ltltltltltltltltltltltltltltlt
• Innovations in Technology for the Undersea Domain
• Technical Innovation Energy Systems, Policy
  Systems for New Technologies
• Technical Innovation In System Design - Small
  Business, Big Tech
• Characteristic analysis of small-scale BESS for
  HOTT generation system
• Application of a Dynamic Fuzzy Based Genetic
  Algorithm for Distribution Network
  Reconfiguration 
• PIEZOPORT
• Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Performance Prediction
  for Low Wind Speed Environment
• The Precarious State of Federal RDRussell
  Harrison, Sr. Legislative Representative,
  IEEE-USA ltltltltltltlt
• The Makings of the Materials Revolution
• Online Learning and Implications for Broadening
  Access and Participation in STEM Education and
  Workforce Warren Trey Lathe III,AAAS Science
  and Technology Policy Fellow, NSF
• Making Technology Broadening Access and
  Participation in Engineering Education Through
  Maker Culture, Dorothy Jones-Davis, AAAS
  Science and Technology Policy Fellow, NSF
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• Unleashing Innovation through Internal Hackathons
  Shiven Kumar, Bernard  Rosell, John
  Shepherd ATT
• Strong Ties despite Decentralized Network Design
  an Automotive Case 

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INNOTEK2014 PROGRAMs(cont.)

• Innovation In Education - Technologies for New
  Policy Systems
• Innovation In Business, Innovations in Medicine
• Personalized Intelligent Software Responses for
  Engineering Students  
• Low Cost Tablets as Disruptive Educational
  innovation Modeling its diffusion within Indian
  K12 system 
• Robot Education in the Liberal Arts Curriculum 
•  Tools, Funding, Policies for
  CyberInfrastructure
• David Proctor, AAAS Science and Technology Policy
  Fellow,  NSF
• Of Patent Trolls and Patent Troll Hunters What
  is the REAL Fairy Tale? A Lesson on Public
  Policy, Keith Grzelak, Co-Chair, IEEE-USA
  Intellectual Property Policy Committee and
  IEEE-USA IP Professionals ltltltltlt
• Support for Biomedical and Health Innovation at
  the Federal Level
• Decision Support Tools for Multi-Stakeholder
  Health Policy Issues
• Using Innovation Science to Minimize
  Entrepreneurial Risk 
• Mining the Cloud
• The Tame Tornado
• Portable Malignant Lesion Detection with Low Cost
  Mobile Infrared Thermography
• Web-Based Camera Navigation for Virtual
  Pancreatic Cancer Surgery  Whipple Surgery
  Simulator (VPenSS)
• MoMiReS  Mobile Mixed Reality System for
  Physical Occupational Therapies for Hand and
  Wrist Ailments 
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• The InnoTek2014 Technical Conference Closes

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Notes/Learnings 1

• Innotek Agile Mfg. West Point Innovation
  Course
• Innotek InfraGARD we each can join with the
  FBI to help Boston and LA CyberSquad contacts
• Innotek Low Cost Mfg UCONN EE Image Processing
  Embedded Systems Renewable Energy Integration
• Innotek Lobbyist assess USA RD funding
  policies
• Innotek Materials Applied Sciences Lab
• Innotek NSF MOOCs NSF Maker Movement Support
• Innotek Cyber Infrastructure for Innovation
• Innotek Patent Trolls, a fairy tale?
• Innotek NSF Health Innovation Biomed Policy
  issues

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Notes/Learnings 2

• Public Policy Committee Write your
  congressperson!
• vTools contact if we need help reports we can
  use
• Engaging Members grow new ones
• Entrepreneurship SBIR Help from Chair Mark
  Wingate of TX
• - Watch the Guy Kawaski video link on
  IEEE website
• Suggest you join IEEE USA Linked In official
  group
• Crowd Sourcing is a Game Changer!
• AICNCC Panel Discussion Question forms
  submitted Full!
• CyberSecurity Issue breakdown by Eric Burger
  Policy?

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Notes/Learnings 3

• PACE Region Plans/Issues review
• Membership Development declining in USA last
  few years
• - OCT 7 IEEE Day big splash suggested
• Challenges to IEEE USA Members
• Retention
• New Members live on their smartphones IEEE
  Adapt
• Sections take action
• Milwaukee Meeting next year
• Gary Blank Closing What if each of us called 1
  person?

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KEY Actions for Foothill Section?

• Help grow IEEE-USA Membership
• SBIR Help in figuring out how to be successful
• Keep up our contributions to STEM Education
• Keep up our strong relations with local
  universities
• Continue local Professional Education through
  PACE Society presentations
• Employment Issues in the IE continue helping
• Feedback to our IEEE Lobbyist in Washington DC on
  what is important to us locally

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Summary - Foothill Section

• Foothill is doing a lot of things right continue
  to focus on our strengths!
• Involved members get things done keep growing
  more of them.
• Get a new member Call a tech friend?
• Thank you for sending me!
• Questions?

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