1. R2 East Area Chair Spring 2010 – Submitted for the Region 2 Meeting Baltimore, Maryland - February 20, 2010 Prepared by Holly M. Cyrus

2. East Area of Region 2 Philadelphia Delaware Bay Lehigh Valley Southern New Jersey

3. Philadelphia Section Activities Officers: Check Chair:Robert Lawson Vice-Chair: Emilio M. Salgueiro Treasurer:Ram Achuthanandam Secretary:Margaret Goodman PACE:Tasos Malapetsas

4. Philadelphia Section Activities Membership 5,000+ IEEE Dinner Meeting Series Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Transition Towns (January 19 th ) Electrical Awareness: Hidden Dangers in the Workplace (January 19 th ) The 20 Most Important Engineering Accomplishments of the Last Century (February 16th)

5. Philadelphia Section Activities Very active Section with many active IEEE Societies Active Societies: Circuits and Systems, Communications, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Electron Devices, Engineering in Medicine and Biology ect. Pre-college Education: Established teacher in service program two years ago Other: Helped IEEE education board to manage an outreach program for increasing woman in engineering

6. Philadelphia Section Activities Best Practices: Monthly section dinner meetings for gathering and learning new technology Education courses Concerns: Increasing senior memberships and member participations Website: www.ieeephiladelphia.org

7. Delaware Bay Section Activities Officers: Check Chair:Dr. Doug Tipton Vice-Chair: (Open) Treasurer:Mike McCann Secretary:(Open) PACE:(Open)

8. Delaware Bay Section Activities Membership ~800 500 emailed for events About 50 locally active members Use email meeting notices and web page for newsletters and meeting information IEEE Dinner Meeting Series Solar Power Technology (January 26th) UD Seminar (February) “Information Theory Today” Engineers Without Borders (March)

9. Delaware Bay Section Activities Two active Society Chapters; Computer and Industrial Applications/Power Engineering Have Gold Coordinator – Bo Wang Working to connect GOLD members with UD graduating class to help GOLD affinity group become more active

10. Delaware Bay Section Activities Working on a pre-university program Looking at working with Junior Achievement to introduce engineering and scientific careers Working on ways to make UD Student Branch more active Best Practices: Monthly Section meetings where they rotate venue to different colleges and Universities

11. Delaware Bay Section Activities Concerns: None at this time Website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/delaware_bay

12. Lehigh Valley Section Activities Officers: Check Chair: Leo Mayoral Vice-Chair: Stephen Csaszar Treasurer: George E. Beam Secretary: David Thompson PACE:(Open)

13. Lehigh Valley Section Activities Membership ~450 IEEE Dinner Meeting Series Sustainable Energy in the USA and NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto (January 27th) Engineering Week Banquet (February 19 th ) IEEE 2010 Fellows Recognition Night and Dinner Dance (March 27th) Active Student Chapter at Lehigh University

14. Lehigh Valley Section Activities Active Societies: Circuits and Systems, Power and Energy, Electronic Devices, and Signal Processing Best Practices: Monthly section dinner meetings Concerns: Membership due to job loss Website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/lehigh_valley

15. Southern New Jersey Section Activities Officers: Chair:Holly Cyrus Vice-Chair: Steven Carr Treasurer:Theresa Basquez Secretary:David Brown PACE:Theresa Basquez

16. Southern New Jersey Section Activities Membership ~250 IEEE Dinner Meeting Series High Performance Computing for Modeling and Simulation in the Aviation Industry and Beyond (January 20th) Aberdeen Proving Ground (February 17th) Have started a Gold Affinity Group and restarted Computer Society

17. Southern New Jersey Section Activities Although a small Section it is a very active Section with one Society WIE Affinity Group Robot Challenge in April 24, 2010 at Cape May Museum Community support with Atlantic County Women’s Center Spring Fling Adopted a family for Christmas

18. Southern New Jersey Section Activities Best Practices: Monthly section dinner meeting Awards Banquet Concerns: Want to bring in youth and new leadership People are very busy with work Website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/southern_nj

19. Contact Information East Area Chair Holly M. Cyrus FAA WJHTC AJP-6311, Bldg. 296 Atlantic City Int’l Airport Atlantic City, NJ 08405 Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov W (609) 485-4887 C (609) 226-5337