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EXCOM Minutes for July 2003
The following minutes capture the
highlights of the Foothill Section Executive Committee (EXCOM) Meeting held at
the International House of Pancakes Restaurant (IHOP) in Upland, CA on July
10th, 2003.
I.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order by the
Chair, Lyle McCurdy at 7:10 pm.
a. Quorum review
Lyle McCurdy
A quorum was present.
The following officers and guests attended the meeting;
Lyle McCurdy, Steve Powell, Walt Whipple,
Jae Park, and Bill Holbrook.
b. Approval of minutes Lyle McCurdy for
Mike Sedlar
Mike Sedlar was on vacation so Lyle
presented Mike’s minutes for the June 12th minutes.
The minutes were approved subject to minor changes.
c. Approval of agenda - any new items or
changes? Lyle McCurdy
The agenda was approved with no additions.
II. Section
and committee Reports
a. General Discussion – Increasing
member participation: There was a
general discussion about increasing member interest and participation in
Foothill Section activities. Walter
Whipple indicated that other sections with the same problem generally solved it
by holding leading edge technology lectures as often as possible.
The primary purpose of this EXCOM meeting
was to consider Walter Whipple’s seminar proposal’s so most committee
reports were not presented.
b. Treasurer's report
Art Sutton
None.
c. Membership Committee report
Chuck Antoniak
None.
d. Education Committee report
Lyle McCurdy
None.
e. Student Activities report (CPP Stu Ch
and C&S/ED Stu Br Ch activities) Lyle
McCurdy
None.
f. Student-chapter officer reports or
requests, if any Student Rep(s)
None
g. PACE activities report
Bill Holbrook
Bill provided information about the recent
visit to David Dryer’s office in Glendora.
The visitation team included Eramita Miranda, Art Sutton, Mike Sedlar,
and Bill Holbrook. The topic of
discussion during the meeting was H1B visa concerns and foreign worker
displacement of American citizen engineering and high technology workers in
general. Our presentation was very
well received. We learned that
granting of work visas did not necessarily mean automatic approval to enter the
United States and there had been a significant reduction in entry approvals.
The primary reason though was post 9-11security and not necessarily
employment concerns.
h. GOLD activities report
anyone?
None
None
None
None
None
III. Old Business
There was nothing new to report.
b.
There was nothing new to report.
c. Boy
Scout Day at Cal Poly—Hayler, Sutton
There was nothing new to report.
IV. New Business
a. Section
Seminars presentation by Whipple
Lyle moved to have the section support the
Whipple seminars. Bill Holbrook
seconded the motion. There were 3
yes and 0 no votes. Lyle agreed that
we would also send him a written notice of approval.
The Harvey Mudd Green Room has been
selected by Walt as an acceptable location for the seminars and he has
tentatively reserved the site pending our acceptance of his proposal.
Walt will email us course and registration material that we can put on
our web pages as soon as it is available and will also send us advertising
information we can email to our members. He
will also send emails to Job Shop organizations.
We agreed the seminars will be open to anyone, not just IEEE members.
b. Update
on WTS 2004 (
Steve asked that we place a link to the
WTS 2004 web site on our home page. We
agreed to do that.
c. Create
a new chapter and student branch at CPP—Communications Society—Steve Powel
Steve announced that he had obtained the
necessary petition signatures to form a new Communications Chapter and had faxed
it today to IEEE headquarters.
d. Next Section EXCOM Meetings
Lyle
The next EXCOM meeting is scheduled for
September 11th followed by October 9, and November 13 at IHOP.
The primary agenda item will be to continue with support and planning for
Walt’s seminars.
V. Adjourn