Region 4 Reports 22. Southeastern Michigan

South East Mich Section Report IEEE Region 4 Meeting - Oct 16/17, 2004

S E Mich Section Demographics Total Members (May 2004):3958 –Members2289 –Student members879 –Senior members186 –Life members275 –Affiliates 354 Meetings –Section meetings per year38 –Format (lunch, dinner, talk only) Talks/dinner/showcases/demos –Type (tour, PACE, technical)80/20 Techn/PACE –Section vs ChapterSection & Chapter –Excom meetings per year11 –Quorum for Excom meetings12 members

S E Mich Section Demographics Section Leadership for S E Mich Section –Term: Calendar Year 2004 –ChairSam Barada –Vice ChairHassan Hassan –TreasurerChuck Albrecht –Secretary Mark Ciechanowski –Director of MembershipMohamad Berri –Director of Tech. ActSubra Ganesan –Director of Professional Act.Adel Marzougui –Director of Educational Act.Chris Mi –AdvisorDon Bramlett –Past ChairMaurice Snyder –CommunicationsJim Woodyards

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

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

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.

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.

S E Mich Section Vitality Samples of Spring 2004 Section Conference Topics –Engineering Education in the 21 st Century, Priorities and Challenges –Re-Interpreting the MOS transistor for the 21 st 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

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

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.

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 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 11 th, Oakland university, Rochester, Mich. –GOLD - is planning a kick-off event soon.

Other Section Activities Pre-college Education –10 th annual Michigan regional Future Society Competition, January –Science and Engineering fair of Metropolitan Detroit, March –ROBOFEST 2004 Competition, April 2004, LTU.

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 8 th IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation, 2003 and 2004 –Co-Sponsorship of R4 EIT 2004 Conference

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

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.

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

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

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