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 Chair's Welcome Message
Let's Celebrate
Our 125th Anniversary
& Engineer the Future
Our IEEE members in the Washington Section represent an impressive community of talent, innovation, education, opportunity, achievement and fun among the 35 chapters, societies and affiliated organizations in our area. Given the opportunity to work with our members, chapters, and affiliated programs of the IEEE Washington Section, it is my honor and privilege to serve as the 2009 chair. On behalf of our officers, directors and IEEE Region 2 leadership, I would like to welcome you to our 2009 program.
Section Officers - We are fortunate to have the enthusiastic support of our 2009 Officers - Vice Chair Raj Madhavan, Treasurer Mary Tobin and Secretary Monica Taysing-Lara. We also enjoy the counsel of our Directors Gerard Christman (Past Chair), Roger Hardwicke, Kiki Ikossi, Fari Schlake and Tom Starai. Together this team represents an experienced group of engineers from government, industry and academia working together to 'Engineer the Future' for our 2009 IEEE program.
A Long Tradition of Section Activities - This Section has a fantastic history to build upon. A fast-forward through the first 100 years has been assembled on this website (see History. In 2009 we will link our story with the 125th anniversary of our IEEE parent organization whose official anniversary date is May 13, 2009.
2009 Goals
Our 2009 goals will focus on collaboration with Region 2's 125th year anniversary events, building our relationships with area colleges and universities through IEEE student branches, grant writing workshops for PACE and IEEE-USA proposals, and activities that have been successful in the past such as robotics, science fairs, the Future City competition and the Washington Academy of Sciences' Science and Technology Aptitude Recognition (STAR) program. I would also like to add to the visibility of our local technical writers, journal and book authors, by providing recognition with publicity from our Scanner and eScanner media.
Especially in these challenging times, the IEEE Washington Section is fortunate to serve an area where technology flourishes. Our Administrative Committee meets the first Tuesday of each month at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC. I encourage all members to participate with the technical society chapter of your choice and look forward to meeting you in the year ahead.
Tim Weil
Chair, IEEE Washington Section
trweil@ieee.org
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