IEEE Region 2, Central AreaJim Beck

Central Area Chair

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IEEE Region 2, Central AreaSusquehanna: Robert Lesniewski

Central PA: Sawyer CampbellErie: Yong-Kyu Jung

Johnstown: M. Edward BrandauWest Virginia: Kenan Hatipoglu

Pittsburgh: Navid Binesh

IEEE Region 2 Meeting

February 25, 2018, Bethlehem, PA

Susquehanna SectionOfficers

▸ Chair: Robert Lesniewski▸ Vice Chair: Arnold Offner▸ Secretary: Dr. Javad Khazaei▸ Treasurer: Jeff Watson▸ Consumer Elect. Chair: Dr. Aldo Morales▸ Nanotechnology Chair: Dr. Wolfram Bettermann▸ Penn State Harrisburg Student Branch▸ Elizabethtown College Student Branch▸ 5 other members of EXCOM▸ Membership: 710 up 80 this time last year

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2018 Events

• 2 EXCOM meetings

• 4 Chapter meetings

• 8 Section meetings

• 4 Joint Section meetings

• 7 PACE Projects

• 2017 Reported L31 Meetings

• 2 Admin (EXCOM)

• 4 Chapter

• 8 Section

• 4 Section (Joint)

• 6 2017 PACE Projects

• Congressional Visit Day

• SI Symposium

• Capitol Area Science & Engineering Fair

• Senior Membership Drive

• Harrisburg Area High School Robotics Competition

• Engineering Movie Project

• Launched new Section web site: sites.ieee.org/susquehanna

Goals for 2018-Continue to provide members with quality technical briefings to enhance their knowledge in various technologies that will benefit their work place skills.-Continue joint meetings with our local universities to encourage students to continue their IEEE membership and participate in the Section meetings upon graduation.-Conduct senior membership drives and encourage life

member participation in the Affinity Group projects.-Target Section membership to 700 by Dec. 2018-Broaden EXCOM membership to enhance succession planning-Enhance membership development activities

Susquehanna Section

ISSUES AND CONCERNS

▸Off shoring engineering jobs continues to impact IEEE membership retention

▸Membership cost has a big impact on IEEE retention

▸IEEE should consider lower membership cost for first 5 years of membership to improve membership retention

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Central Pennsylvania Section

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OFFICERS

• Chair: Prof. Julio V. Urbina

• Vice Chair: Dr. Sawyer D. Campbell

• Secretary: Vacant

• Treasurer: Dr. Sawyer D. Campbell

• Active Membership: 493 (as of 2/8/2018)

GOALS FOR 2018

• New Section website for 2018. Will be up to

date with upcoming events and have useful

resources (e.g., IEEE/PSU/Bucknell websites,

social media, etc…)

• Invite speakers from IEEE Distinguished

Lecturers program to give unique talks to

Central PA Section.

• Work with PSU student chapter to engage with

undergraduate students and increase Section

participation/interest.

• Increase communications and connections with

student branches at PSU and Bucknell.

• Increase senior membership count by

encouraging faculty to apply for advancement.

• Plan “off campus” trip to external industrial sites.

Successful past examples include an extended

tour at Three Mile Island (Harrisburg area), and

the Locust Ridge Wind Farm (Schuylkill County

PA).

OUTSTANDING MEETINGS (>30

ATTENDEES)

• End of year celebration and section kickoff

meeting at Penn State University,

Department of Electrical Engineering.

Central Pennsylvania Section

ISSUES AND CONCERNS

• Connecting with industry and non-academic members in our section.

• Faculty are well served by societies, but many have little time/interest to participate in Section volunteer roles/activities.

• Why should graduates maintain IEEE membership? They want to know how being an IEEE member helps them in their career.

• Job placement, salary negotiation

• Congressional lobbying

• Collective bargaining, unionization

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2018 Calendar of Events

• March: GU Student Paper Competition

PSU Student Paper Competition

• April: Professional Development: Invited Talk

• May: Member Picnic

• October: Member Tour: EATON Power Systems

Experience Center (PSEC)

• November: New Members' Dinner & Invited Talk 2

• Monthly ExComm. Meeting (Jan. ~ May & Sep. ~ Dec.)

OFFICERS

• Chair: Sreela Sasi

• Vice Chair: Yong-Kyu Jung

• Secretary: Jonathan Liaw

• Treasurer: Brian Bogacki

• Membership Development: Mohammad Rasouli

• Educational Activities: Joshua Nwokeji

• Webmaster: Richard Zhao

Membership: ~132

ISSUES & CONCERNS

• Recruit New ExComm Members

• Our solution: Encourage young professionals

including tech-based entrepreneurs and

graduate students

• Nurture Young Generation in Engineering

• Our Idea: Provide engineering and science

experiment opportunities to local high school

students

• Our solution: Offer a summer camp for high

school students based on the IEEE Summer

Camp Materials

GOALS FOR 2018

• Support Women in Engineering Event

• Increase 10% of New Membership

• Invite the IEEE Student Branch Leaders at GU

and PSU to one or two of the Erie Section

Meetings for interactions and advices

• Co-host Invited Talks or Lectures with other

Professional Organizations in Local

• Participate Local Volunteer and Service

Opportunities (e.g., advertise service

opportunities to section members.

Johnstown Section

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UPCOMING EVENTS

• February: Presentation on Engineering Ethics to UPJ

engineering students – about 200 students attended!

• March: UPJ engineering seniors substation tour

• April: UPJ senior engineering project awards

• May: Two hour CPD seminar on Power Quality Case

Studies

• June: Tour of new rolling mill

• August: PSPE picnic

• September: UPJ student welcome pizza party

OFFICERS

• Chair: M. Ed Brandau

• Vice Chair: John Civec

• Secretary: William Wieserman

• Treasurer: Michael ream

• Membership: ~110

GOALS FOR 2018

• Increase retention and new members through several

efforts...

• Promote student membership during student events.

• Offer several Continuing Professional Development

seminars to provide value and interest in the Section.

• Get back into more events. In the past, our members

wanted lighter tours rather than a “meeting”. Efforts

requesting ideas have been unsuccessful, so we will set

some things up and hope they come!

• Continue supporting joint events with UPJ, the

University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Johnstown Chair

is on the Advisory Board.

OUTSTANDING MEETINGS (>30 ATTENDEES)

• None as of late. Formerly, PSPE hosted an

Engineer’s Week banquet with Mathcounts,

ASHRAE, and IEEE. We always had about 100

attendees and perhaps 20 IEEE members. This

event was not held last year or this year due to

organizational issues at PSPE.

West Virginia SectionOFFICERS

Chair: Kenan Hatipoglu, Ph.D. Vice Chair: Sanish Rai, Ph.D. Secretary: Michel Ouendeno, PhD. Treasurer: Mingyu Lu, Ph.D. Membership: Russ Safreed, PE

Membership: 130 (Current Active members – 02/12/2018)

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2018 ACTIVITIES • 2/22 - Technical Presentation: “Wireless Power

Transmission based on Retro-reflective Beamforming” by

Dr. Mingyu Lu

UPCOMING EVENTS

• 3/1 Technical Tour: - Eagle Research, Hurricane, WV

• April/2018: 2018 Student projects contest

• September/2018 - Technical presentation / tour: TBD

• October/2018 - Technical presentation / tour: TBD

• November/2018 - Technical presentation: TBD

2017 ACTIVITIES • 2/14 - Technical presentation: “ Understanding and

Reducing Arc-Flash Hazards in Power Distribution

Systems” by Russ Safreed, PE

• 2/28 - Technical Presentation: “Big Data Analytics for

Smart Cities: A Data Mining Approach to Public

Transportation” by Yongxin Liu , Ph.D candidate.

• 3/28 -Technical Presentation: “Unmanned Aerial

Vehicle (UAV) Obstacle Detection” by Jian Wang

• 4/28 - Student Awards in Electrical and Electronic

Engineering• 10/2 - Technical Tour: Invenergy Beech Ridge 100.5 MW

Wind Farm Tour

• 10/10 - Technical Presentation: “Building occupancy

simulation and estimation”. by Sanish Rai, Ph.D

• 10/16 - IEEE Xplore tips - Publishing with IEEE -Rock your Career Fair by Ruth Wolfish - IEEE Client Services Manager

GOALS FOR 2018-Provide members with quality technical briefings to enhance their knowledge in various technologies that will benefit their work place skills.

-Conduct joint meetings with our local universities to encourage students to continue their IEEE membership and participate in the Section meetings upon graduation.

-Conduct senior membership drives and encourage life

member participation in the Affinity Group projects.

WEST VIRGINIA Section

ISSUES AND CONCERS

▸The high cost of membership dues keep potential members away considering the only benefit is a Spectrum magazine. To access periodical requires additional costs, to join societies requires additional costs as well.

▸Recruiting and developing members for leadership roles

▸Ways to improve participation to activities and elections.

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Pittsburgh Section

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UPCOMING EVENTS

• February: Engineers Week Robot Car Race

Engineers Week

• March: Becoming a Senior Member Event

• April: R2 Student Activities Conference

N3XT Frontier’s Summit

Consultants Network Workshop

Employment Network Job Fair

• May: Annual History and Awards Dinner

OFFICERS

• Chair: Daniel Wilson

• Vice Chair: Navid Binesh

• Secretary: Haifeng Wang

• Treasurer: Ted Zyra

• Asst. Treasurer: Evan Watson

• Membership: ~2300

GOALS FOR 2018

• Provide members with quality technical events to enhance

their knowledge and abilities.

• Increase the total membership, number of technical and

professional meetings, number of local societies, and

funding opportunities within the Section. Encourage renewal

for existing members

• Continue supporting joint events between industrial,

commercial, and academic units, to better integrate the

section members.

• Continue to conduct events to engage Women in

Engineering and Young Professional members

• Establish Entrepreneur Network and re-engage Consultant’s

Network and Employment Network

OUTSTANDING MEETINGS (>30 ATTENDEES)

• Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Images in Virtual Reality

• What I saw on my visit to Chernobyl

• Crowd Research: Labels, Workflows, and Crowd-Powered Systems

• Scalable Strategies for Image Analysis in Neuroscience

• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer: Xiaofeng Jin

• Autonomous Sample Return Robot

• National Science Foundation Spectrum Priorities and University Opportunities

• Engineering Role before and after the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

• Computational Science And Engineering Resources For WVU Researchers

• How to Get Published: An Inside View of the IEEE Peer-Review Process

• IEEE Mag Society Distinguished Lecturer

• Going Underground at the Tour-Ed Coal Mine

• Multi-Terminal VSC HVDC Effective Power Sharing

• Tour of the Pittsburgh WPXI Television Station

• Life As A Project Manager In The Tech Industry

• Solar City Discussion on Residential Solar Energy

• IEEE Seminar – Magnetics

• The Sustainability Industry Starts At Pittsburgh's Energy Innovation Center

• Taking A Tour With Uber - ATG

Pittsburgh Section

ISSUES AND CONCERNS

• Overall membership retention and elevation (e.g. Student/Graduate Student member to Member, and Member to Senior Member)

• “Becoming a Senior Member Events to help mitigate this.

• Membership, recruitment, and retention of Millennials.• Increasing engagement of Young Professionals affinity group to help mitigate this.

• Fundraising and funding for new membership development opportunities (e.g. International Distinguished Lecturers, Industrial Relations, Entrepreneurship)

• Pursuing funding opportunities for each of the chapters where grants are available.

• Recruiting and developing members for leadership roles (to have more than just a Chapter Chair) in local Chapters and Affinity Groups.

• We have had recent successes with finding new officers for our chapters and section.

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