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

– Members 2289– Student members 879– Senior members 186– Life members 275– Affiliates 354

• Meetings– Section meetings per year 38– Format (lunch, dinner, talk only)

Talks/dinner/showcases/demos– Type (tour, PACE, technical) 80/20 Techn/PACE– Section vs Chapter Section &

Chapter– Excom meetings per year 11– Quorum for Excom meetings 12 members

S E Mich Section Demographics• Section Leadership for S E Mich Section

– Term: Calendar Year 2004

– Chair Sam Barada

– Vice Chair Hassan Hassan

– Treasurer Chuck Albrecht

– Secretary Mark Ciechanowski

– Director of Membership Mohamad Berri

– Director of Tech. Act Subra Ganesan

– Director of Professional Act. Adel Marzougui

– Director of Educational Act. Chris Mi

– Advisor Don Bramlett

– Past Chair Maurice Snyder

– Communications Jim 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 21st Century, Priorities and Challenges

– Re-Interpreting the MOS transistor for the 21st 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 2003. 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 11th, Oakland university, Rochester, Mich.– GOLD - is planning a kick-off event soon .

Other Section Activities

• Pre-college Education

– 10th annual Michigan regional Future Society Competition, January 2004.

– Science and Engineering fair of Metropolitan Detroit, March 2004.

– 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 8th 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