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IEEE Switzerland Section Minutes of the IEEE AGA, March 31st, 2015

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Event: IEEE Switzerland Section Annual General Assembly (AGA)

Date: March 31st, 2015 14:00 – 20:00

Place: BC 420, EPF Lausanne

(directions: http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=en&room=BC+420)

Meeting

Chair:

Prof. Volker Koch

Minutes: Dr. Maria-Alexandra Paun

Participants

• Appr. 55 Attendees

• 4 Excused

Agenda

1. Welcome .......................................................................................................................... 1

2. Approval of the Agenda .................................................................................................. 1

3. Approval of the Minutes of the last AGA ....................................................................... 2

4. Last year's report ............................................................................................................. 2

5. Chapter foundation: IEEE Education Society ................................................................. 2

6. Chapter foundation: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society ............................................... 3

7. Chapter foundation: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society .......................... 3

8. Reports from other chapters and Affinity Groups ........................................................... 3

9. Financial report for 2014 ................................................................................................. 4

10. Approval of the financial report ...................................................................................... 4

11. Discharge of the ExCom ................................................................................................. 4

12. ExCom Election .............................................................................................................. 4

13. Statement of the new chair, including budget for 2015 ................................................... 4

14. Miscellaneous .................................................................................................................. 5

15. Chairman’s Foils ............................................................................................................. 5

1. Welcome

The IEEE Switzerland Section's Chairman Prof. Volker Koch opens the General

Assembly by welcoming the participants.

2. Approval of the Agenda

Prof. Volker Koch begins his talk and presents the Agenda for the Day, as follows.


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Between 15:00-17:00, there will be Talks, demonstrations, and tours (organized by

EPFL STI-IEL Nanolab), namely NanoTera Scientific Project Overview (Prof.

Giovanni De Micheli, EPFL SIT/IEL Director), FET GA Smart Autonomous Systems

(Prof. Adrian Ionescu, EPFL Nanolab), and Tour/demo: EPFL CMI Cleanroom.

The Agenda for the present AGA is accepted with unanimous decision.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the last AGA

Volker Koch mentions that the Minutes of the last Annual General Assembly are

available at ieee.ch. The minutes are unanimously approved.

He also points out that two new fellows were made in 2015, namely Christian Cachin

and Paul Lecoq. We congratulate them on their achievements.

4. Last year's report

Firstly, Volker Koch briefly mentions the IEEE Switzerland Section membership

statistics, in years 2000 and 2007-2014, with a total numbers of members of 3028 at the

end of 2014.

The last year’s report is focused on presenting the main events which the IEEE Swiss

Section held. Volker Koch also highlights three events from the last year, namely the

English Writing Technical Workshop, Electronic Packaging for Active Implantable

Medical Devices and “Die Roboter kommen” Seminar (in German).

Additionally, Volker Koch mentions some future events, such as Joint Urban Remote

Sensing Event, Swiss Medtech Event, etc. Also, he encourages the people to visit our

website www.ieee.ch.

At this point, Volker Koch thanks the Chapters and Affinity Groups Chairs for their

great work and leaves the floor to the three new founded chapters and a selection of

Chapters to present their activities in 2014.

5. Chapter foundation: IEEE Education Society

Urs Röthlisberger says that the Chapter was successfully founded. The petition to form

a Swiss Education Society Chapter was officially approved by MGA in 2014, with

November 28th 2014 (rebirth), the actual date of this chapter formation.

Regarding the Chapter Activities in 2014, Urs Röthlisberger mentioned the “Technical

Writing Workshop” on May 23rd at FHNW in Brugg-Windisch and the “Joint IEEE-

Siemens Lecturer Event” on October 31st.

• 14:00 – 15:00 General Assembly

• 15:00 – 17:00 Talks, demonstrations, and tour

(organized by EPFL STI/IEL Nanolab)

• 17:00 – 20:00 Standing dinner at EPFL


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As future activities in 2015, the Technical Writing Workshop will be held on June 18th

at HSLU T&A in Luzern (Horw).

6. Chapter foundation: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Andreas Koschak says that the Chapter was successfully founded, in May 2014. Two

events were held in 2014, namely “Lunch Talk at ETHZ: “Local Intelligence and Smart

Cameras” on October 6, 2014 and “ASIC Seminar with GlobalFoundries and DELTA

Semiconductor at EPFL” on November 3, 2014.

He also mentions the Officers of this chapter, namely Dr. Wolfram Teppan (LEM

Intellectual Property SA) is the Chapter Chair, and Dr. Luca Dalessandro (Schaffner

AG) is the Secretary/Treasurer.

7. Chapter foundation: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society

Heinz Wipf (skyguide Swiss Air Navigation Services ltd) is the Chair of this Chapter

and Luca Quiriconi (Swiss Air Force) is Vice Chair. The Chapter has at the moment 35

members.

The Chapter creation was accepted by the AESS on 28th of March 2014, while the

Chapter inaugural event was on 09th of June 2014 at Zurich Airport (an article was

published in the R8 News journal). Also, emphasis was put on exchange between chairs

with the newly founded German AES Chapter.

Regarding past events, Heinz Wipf mentions the Joint AES Lecture with Swiss Crows

“New Generation Jammer Architecture for Shared Apertures”, on 9th of July 2014 and

secondly the Joint Lecture with ION-CH and svfw on "GPS and SBAS Modernized

Signals Applicable to Aviation", on 14th of November 2014. Thirdly, on 19th March

2015 there was the Joint Lecture with svfw "Optische Lande- und Rollhilfen".

An upcoming event will be on 25th of June 2015, 17:15 – 18:15 at the ETH in Zurich

Joint Lecture with ION-CH “Automatic Design of Navigation Systems - A Dream or

Near-term Future”.

8. Reports from other chapters and Affinity Groups

At this point, a highlight on some of the most active chapters and affinity groups is

presented.

Heinz Mathis (Chair, Industrial Relations) presents the Chapter’s activities in 2014.

National Society Agreements with Electrosuisse and Swiss Engineering (reduced fees

for joint members) have been renewed. The Chapter was Co-Organizer to acquisition

event for apprenticeship “electronics technician” (Rapperswil, June 11, 2014), and to

event on Robotics (Zurich, November 26, 2014). Looking into the future planned events

for the Industrial Relations Chapter in 2015, Heinz Mathis pointed out that they would

be Co-Organizer to the acquisition event for apprenticeship “electronics technician”

(Rapperswil, June 3, 2015) and to the event on Microelectronics (Zurich, November 11,

2015).


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Klaus-Peter Brand (Chair, Power and Energy Chapter) presents the most important

events he organized with his chapter, such as the “From power producers to energy service

providers” event, CH IEEE PES Workshop, on March 25th 2015.

Hugo Wyss (Chair, Life Members Group) talks about the Life Members Tour. He says

that the Life Members Affinity Group (168 members in Switzerland) will participate on

May 11-12 in the IEEE European TechTour.

9. Financial report for 2014

Andreas Koschak points out that IEEE Switzerland Section received highest possible

Rebate in 2014 and that many events were sponsored in 2014.

Andreas Koschak presents the last year’s budget. The Financial Report is done using

Netsuite tool. Special financial support was offered to planned Student Branch and

Young Professionals Events (for example IPT2014 (ipt.epfl.ch)). The Reserve

Allocation Expense is added to the balance (liability: the reserve is not transferred to

IEEE HQ, but cannot be spent).

Andreas Koschak also presents the Budget for 2015 (more details on the slides at the

end of these Minutes).

10. Approval of the financial report

Volker Koch asks the audience to vote for the approval of the financial report for 2014.

There was unanimous vote to approve it.

11. Discharge of the ExCom

At this point, we move to the vote on the discharge of the ExCom for the last two years.

There is unanimous decision for the discharge of ExCom.

12. ExCom Election

Now we proceeed to the new ExCom election. Volker Koch presents the slide with the new

ExCom and then asks the audience to vote on this. There is unanimous decision for the

election of the proposed ExCom for the next two years (2015-2016).

13. Statement of the new chair, including budget for 2015

Andreas Koschak, the new elected Chair of the IEEE Switzerland Section for 2015-

2016 begins his statement as Chair. His talk commences with presenting the results of a

small informal poll that has been made in industry environment, about „What is

IEEE?“. A WiFi Standard, a magazine publishing house, conferences for PhDs were

some of the answers received on this occasion.

His mission statement points out that, at it is known, the IEEE is the world's largest

technical professional society, and an association dedicated to advancing innovation and

technological excellence for the benefit of humanity.

Then Andreas Koschak points a few key topics for 2015/16, namely regarding

awareness and visibility as an international organization (including making the IEEE


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visible to the industry), establishing a clear legal status, communication within IEEE

(for the latter topic, in his opinion there is too much top-down broadcast communication,

too many e-mails, etc.). More details on this subject can be found on the slides at the

end of these Minutes.

Andreas Koschak then asks the audience if they have some questions. To the question

of the Student Branch visibility increase, Andreas Koschak advises that the

communication/advertisments shoud be made by the branch itself. Andreas Koschak

warmly thanks the audience for their presence at the IEEE Switzerland AGA 2015.

14. Miscellaneous

Volker Koch warmly thanks the audience for their presence at the IEEE Switzerland

Annual General Assembly 2015. Volker Koch also thanks again the whole ExCom

(Vice-Chair & Treasurer: Andreas Koschak, Secretary: Maria-Alexandra Paun) plus all

the Chapters and Affinity Groups Chairs, for their great work in the past two years.

Finally, Volker Koch thanks Wladek Grabinski for his involvement in the organization

of the Annual General Assembly 2015 at EPFL.

The floor is now open for the Talks, demonstrations, and tour (organized by EPFL

STI/IEL Nanolab) until 17:00 and later (after 17:00) for the Standing dinner at EPFL.

***The meeting/official part adjourns around 15:15 ***

15. Chairman’s Foils


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