1. Poll Results SSCS Chapter Chairs SSCS Chapters Lunch 10-Feb-09 Jan Van der Spiegel Anne ONeill, Bruce Hecht

2. How many years have you been a member of SSCS? 7-Mar-162

3. How many years have you have been involved in the leadership of the chapter? 7-Mar-163

4. How many people are active in your chapter leadership? 7-Mar-164

5. What has been a key successful habit of your chapter? 7-Mar-165 TOPICS/ SPEAKERS SPREADING Leadership/ Comraderie REGULARITY TOPICS/SPEAKERS e.g. Finding great speakers, Technical seminar, Biannual lecture meeting, Arranging DLs, workshops and colloquia, Organizing a distinguished lecture or a short course about every 4 months, Annual Summer School on IC Design and DSP, Seminars in August REGULARITY 9 meetings a year, Workshops twice a year, Regular bi-monthly meeting, Monthly technical meetings/lectures

6. Key successful habit of your chapter? Leadership/ Comraderie The chapter is industry oriented, run by a group of industrial experience engineers Several enthusiastic and senior members An amicable atmosphere of annual Chapter meeting Devoted volunteers SPREADING taking chapter activities to new places and seeding new groups Broadcasting meetings to facilitate participation On-site or on-line lectures Increasing number of members 7-Mar-166

7. What is satisfying to you about running a chapter? 7-Mar-167 NETWORKING PRIDE GETTING SMART GIVING BACK

8. Satisfactions in running a chapter? 7-Mar-168 Collaboration Getting to network with other people in Scotland's electronics industry Meeting with colleagues The great people you get to know, including the lecturers that visit you and the executives from other chapters that you meet at events such as our annul ISSCC luncheon Peer interaction Socializing Organizing events that bring people together to share experiences and get inspired. To make friends with many experts NETWORKINGNETWORKING

9. Satisfactions in running a chapter? 7-Mar-169 Opportunity to return to the community, stay up-to-date technically Seeing that my activity is appreciated by the participants Meeting with colleagues A possibility to be useful for scientific and engineering regional society Giving the opportunity to young professionals to learn more. Satisfied to have an opportunity to play an important role to help to grow the knowledge-based industrial workers, by organizing DL, talk and etc.. Dissemination of knowledge Spread SSCS awareness among various stakeholders and help its growth. GIVING BACK

10. Satisfactions in running a chapter? Getting SMART Learning about new techniques and methods Getting experience Opportunity to diversify my knowledge Stay up-to-date technically SENSE OF PRIDE Seeing that my activity is appreciated by the participants Lead in efforts to bringing professionals together Our programs have set a standard followed by many other Chapters! Spread SSCS awareness among various stakeholders 7-Mar-1610

11. Describe a challenge facing your chapter? 7-Mar-1611 ATTENDANCE Financial constraints Student Participation MAINTAINING LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES Geographical Challenges

12. Challenges facing your chapter? 7-Mar-1612 LEADERSHIPLEADERSHIP Insure that enough volunteers are here next year. Enrolling new volunteers Limited level of active members Constant member participation Recruiting active members, layoffs, and the economic mess To get more active members and to get more to join the IEEE membership MAINTAININGMAINTAINING

13. Challenges facing your chapter? 7-Mar-1613 Limited bandwidth to organize the events. Want to do more. Finding volunteers to develop speakers. Finding the right topic and speaker as well as the time Maintaining the rhythm (i.e., Organizing a distinguished lecture or a short course about every 4 months) Running a Chapter that represents 3700 IEEE members! Adding some members to editorial or paper reviews ORGANIZATIONALORGANIZATIONAL MANAAGEMENTMANAAGEMENT

14. Challenges facing your chapter? 7-Mar-1614 Engaging local companies to join chapter activities Attracting a large audience Lack of people from industry Growing attendance in meetings Getting more members' attendance To increase the number of chapter members Membership promotions ATTENDANCEATTENDANCE

15. Describe a challenge facing your chapter? Student Participation Very low activity of the universities students due to poor knowledge of English To attract more students to be involved in the IEEE activities and IC Design field Geographical Challenges Making meetings accessible to all members. Exploring coverage of many geographies in 28 states under the purview of chapter activities. Groups in the city and groups in the suburbs. They would like to meet up however no one likes traffic. Financial constraints financial support No budget funding for getting students to meetings 7-Mar-1615