region 4 section reports 11. iowa illinois section
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Region 4 Section Reports
11. Iowa Illinois Section
Iowa Illinois Section Report
IEEE Region 4 Meeting
Oct 16/17, 2004
Agenda• Section Map• Section Demographics• Section Vitality• Section Newsletter Sample• Section Web Site Home Page• Other Section Activities• Successes/Best Practices• Section Strengths• Challenges• Lessons Learned• Goals for Next Year• Goals for Next 5 Years• Miscellaneous• Region 4 Could Most Help My Section By…• Summary
Iowa Illinois Section Map
Iowa Illinois Section Demographics
• Total Active Members: 263– Members 159– Student members 18– Senior members 12– Life members 29– Affiliates 30– Associate 15
• Meetings– # per year 9-10– Format (lunch, dinner, talk only) dinner– Type (tour, PACE, technical) 80/20 Tech/GOLD– Section vs Chapter Section
Iowa Illinois Section Demographics• Section Leadership for Iowa Illinois Section
– Term: Calendar Year 2004– Chair – Dr. Ali A. Chowdhury, [email protected] – Vice Chair – Jim Kulaga, [email protected]– Past Chair – Karen Pedersen, [email protected]– Treasurer – Bill Serre, [email protected]– Secretary – Peter Schuster, [email protected]– Member-at-Large – John D. Johnson,
– Member-at-Large - Jim White, iowa-
[email protected]– Member-at-Large - Muhammed B. Rahim,
Iowa Illinois Section Demographics
• Section Organization– Subsections
• None
– Society Chapters• None
– Affinity Groups• GOLD
– Student Branches• None, but trying to create one
Iowa Illinois Section Vitality• Meetings during the last year
– Jan => Tax Law Changes and Tips – Feb => National Engineer's Week: Joint meeting with QCESC– Mar => Mission to Mars & Recent Discoveries in Astronomy – Apr => Joint Meeting with Cedar Rapids Section on
National Advanced Driving Simulator in Iowa City– May (1) => Short Course on Reactive Power Compensation and
Voltage Stability Short Course – May 2) => Intelligent Mobile Equipment in the Outdoor Space – June => 50th Anniversary for Iowa-Illinois Section Celebration
and Historical Review of Section – Sept (1) => Tour of John Deere Manufacturing Facility– Sept (2)=> GOLD Meeting on Future Programs and Meetings– Oct => Energy Efficiency for Your Home– Nov (1) => Joint Meeting with ASM International &
QC Mallards hockey game– Nov (2) => GOLD Social Event– Dec => Holiday Event: Dinner Theatre and Election
National Advanced Driving Simulator
Meeting Notice Sample
Section Web Site Home Page
Other Section Activities
• PACE –
• GOLD – The only activities have been the
meetings
• Affinity Groups– None
Successes/Best Practices
• Success/best practice 1– The Reactive Power & Voltage Stability
Course.
• Success/best practice 2– Expanding our programs to the
computer areas.
Section Strengths
• Strength 1– Each member of the Executive
Committee plans a program
• Strength 2– Programs are focused on current issues
Challenges
• Challenge 1– Maintaining interest in a small section.
• Challenge 2– Reaching all members. We are a small
section in a large territory.
Lessons Learned
• Lesson learned 1– It is about the Topic at meetings and
workshops.
• Lesson learned 2– Keep the meetings affordable and
doable driving distance.
• Lesson learned 3– Members are busy and matching
everyone’s schedule is impossible.
Goals for Next Year
• Goal 1– Increase overall meeting attendance by 10%.
• Goal 2– Have at least one meeting in a new area. Dubuque.
• Goal 3– Another joint meeting with an adjacent section (Cedar
Rapids).
• Goal 4– Establish a Student Branch.
• Goal 5– Provide another opportunity such as a workshop for
members to get CEUs.
Goals for Next 5 Years
• Goal 1– Create one or two chapters in areas that
have significant number of members
• Goal 2– More diversity in topics
Misc
• Misc 1– Email SPAM to @IEEE Email Addresses
• IEEE Firewall/SPAM needs to be improved in order to block inappropriate emails, especially to the generic exec committee addresses (e.g. [email protected]).
Region 4 Could Most Help My Section By…
• Method 1– By continuing to communicate what is
expected of the sections.
• Method 2– By continuing to provide opportunities
at the meetings for us to share ideas that work.
Summary
• Take Away Point #1– It’s all about the program topic.
• Take Away Point #2– Keep the travel down as much as
possible