1. IEEE WAD Dinner Meeting Agenda 10-21-2015
2015 Talks
Publicity Campaign
IMS2015
Finances and Subsidies
New Projects
2016 Officers
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2. IEEE WAD ExComm Meeting
2015 Seminars
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3. Speaker Sprint Cup
Tracking number of speakers secured by chapter leaders by year
Leader (other than chapter chair) wins a $50 gift card!
4 way tie … who will break the tie!
Speaker
Affiliation
WAD Rep
Mulugeta Berhe
Henkel
Fisher
Elizabeth Steenberger
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Johnson
Sudhakar Rao
Northrop Grumman
Elsherbini
Richard Gruenwald
Vectron
Rockwell
Felipe Cátedra
Univ. of Alcalá, Madrid,Spain
Jim Komiak
Britsh Aerospace
Richard Cameron
Consultant
Muhammad Mustafa Hussain
EDS DL
Joe Staudinger
Freescale
Miller
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4. IEEE WAD ExComm Meeting
Future Seminars
Lesley Polka – High Speed Packaging
Has agreed to talk in the Spring
Jennifer Kitchen – RF Transceivers
MTT DMLs – Paul Hale
Just contacted today by LA chapter about joint invitations to two DMLs possibly in the Spring
Caverly and Yao
AP DLs – Adel Elsherbini
Others?
Photonics DLs – Shane Johnson
ED DLs – Michael Goryll
A few other local names I plan to approach
Bob Hansen (synthesizer design)
Anyone from our chapter leadership?
Anyone from IMS committees?
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5. Seminar Publicity Campaign
vTools Posting
Valley Megaphone Newsletter
ASU Inner Circle
Linked In Phx Section Group
Custom ing: 7-10 days prior
E-Notice: 7-10 days prior
Reminder (both lists): 1 day prior
For talks at ASU try to enlist
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6. IEEE WAD ExComm Meeting
IMS2015 Roundup
Total participation of 8626 including 4633 conference and exhibit-only attendees from 56 countries.
Over 75 technical sessions, workshops, and panels sessions
54 MicroApps sessions
A record breaking exhibition with 620 exhibiting companies including 67 first-time participating companies
Engineering Students played a large part in the event through numerous presentations as well as the student design competition, student paper competition, PhD Initiative, and Project Connect
The STEM Program on Thursday had over 200 middle and high-school participants
The symposium's first ever Wearables + Wireless Pavilion, which showcased emerging wearable electronics that utilized RF and microwave technologies
The debut of the RF Bootcamp, a three-quarter day course for newcomers to the microwave world
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7. IEEE WAD ExComm Meeting
Chapter Finances
DATE
TRANSACTION TYPE
NUMBER
AMOUNT
NAME ON CHECK
COMMENTS
BALANCE
01/01/15
STARTING BALANCE
$16,803.49
01/21/15
Credit Card
($126.76)
Executive Meeting, Olive Garden
$16,676.73
01/27/15
Deposit
$375.00
EDS Chapter Subsidy
$17,051.73
02/25/15
Reimbursement
($1,000.00)
Phoenix Section Banquet (Adel)
$16,051.73
04/02/15
$1,000.00
MTT Subsidy
04/10/15
$500.00
APS Subsidy
$17,551.73
04/14/15
($492.59)
Reimbursement for seminar refreshments (Steve)
$17,059.14
05/09/15
Phoenix Section Subsidy
$17,559.14
Not up to date, but current balance has not changed much
A couple hundred dollars in expenses to Rockwell not submitted yet
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8. Chapter Subsidies Report
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9. IEEE WAD ExComm Meeting
New Projects
Redesign / Update Website
Form chapter Linked-In group
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10. 2015 Officers Position 2015 2016 Proposed Chair: Steve Rockwell
Vice-Chair:
Trevor Thornton
Curtis Scott
Treasurer:
Adel Elsherbini
Publicity/Secretary:
Webmaster:
 Craig Birtcher
Craig Birtcher
MTTS Rep: 
Paul Hale
Vikas Shilimkar
EDS Rep:
Michael Goryll
APS Rep:
Photonics Rep:
Shane Johnson
UFFCS Rep:
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