From: "Devon Gayle" <devon.gayle@cwjamaica.com>

Date: October 15, 2006 12:02:33 AM CDT

To: <r3-excom2006@IEEE.ORG>, <sec-r03@IEEE.ORG>

Subject: Area 9 Report to October ExCom  2006


To:      Region 3 ExCom

From:    Devon Gayle

Subject: Area 9 Report to October ExCom  2006

Date:    October 14, 2006

 

The Jamaica Section continues to provide leadership in the area of electrical, electronics and computer engineering.  

A schedule of technical meetings planned and held to October is shown in Table I. The ExCom meets monthly and update planned activities for the Section and each upcoming presentation. For more details, please visit the IEEE Jamaica Section Website at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/jamaica.

 

Technical Presentations:

The Jamaica Section made a deliberate effort to present a wide range of topics to satisfy objective 2, stated below.

The diversity of topics presented is outlined in Table 1.

 

TABLE I

Activities of the Jamaica Section (2006)

Month

Activities

Responsibility

Topic

Presenter

January

Retreat.

Coordination Meeting

with UTECH Student

Branch

Section, ComSoc 

Section, UTECH Student

Branch.

Goals and Objectives

Improve cooperation with

Engineering & Computing.

ExCom

ExCom & Dr. Paul A. Golding.

February

Administrative Meeting/

Fund Raising.

Technical Meeting.

Section, UTECH IEEE Student Branch.

 

Section, ComSoc

 

Meeting with Sponsor’s

Nat’l Commercial Bank for Student Activities.

Presentation & Tour of JNAP facilities.

ExCom, NCB & Student Branch

Members.

 

Mr. Brian Shaw, Business Development Manager, JNAP.

March

Technical Meeting.

 

Social Meeting

Section.

 

Section.

Motors & Variable Frequency Drives.

About IEEE.

Messrs Francisco Leal & Miguel

Reis, GE Electrical Engineers.

ExCom.

April

Technical Meeting

Section.

Presentation & Tour of FLOW Facilities.

Mr. Andrew Fazio, Marketing Manager, FLOW.

May

Technical Meeting

Section.

Active Geodetic GPS Net-

Work in the Caribbean.

Mr. Gregory Peake, Senior GPS

Specialist, Spatial Innovision Ltd.

June

Technical Meeting

Section, ComSoc

Emergency Telecommunications

Mr. Basil Davidson, Managing Director, D-Gen Engineering Ltd.

July

Technical Meeting

Section, Computer Society

Chapter.

Broadband over Power Lines.

Dr. Damith Wickramanayake, University of Technology Jamaica.

August

Technical Meeting

Section, Computer Society Chapter.

Using a secure SHA1 GPRS technology to provide mobile outpatient care in Jamaica.

Mr. Sean Thorpe,

Project Supervisor, University of Technology, Jamaica.

September

Technical Meeting  

Section, Computer Society

Chapter.

An investigation of Radio Frequency Identification technology: A Technical Overview.

Ms. Vanesa Tennant,

Graduate student at University of  

Technology, Jamaica.

October

Administrative Meeting     

 

* Technical Meeting

Section & University of the West Indies. (UWI)

UWI IEEE Student Branch                    Project Management Seminar

ExCom & Dr. Joseph Kobla,    

Head of the Physics Dept. UWI.

Tarek Lahdhiri, GM Electrical Development & Validation Division.  

November

* Technical Meeting

Section, Computer Society Chapter.

 

 

December

* Administrative   Meeting

Section

Annual General Meeting

ExCom

* Pending.

 

 

The goals of the section were as follows:

1.        Increasing membership attendance and participation in meetings.

2.        Presenting more diversified technical presentations. 

3.        Increasing student participation in SoutheastCon.

4.        Sending Delegates to Regional and PACE Activities.

 

 

Membership Attendance at Meetings.

This objective was not fully met since attendance at meetings was somewhat similar to previous years with an average of 11 members in attendance. The members that attended participated effectively in the activities. 

 

Communications Society Chapter

The Communications Society Chapter (ComSoc) of the IEEE Jamaica Section continues to make their contribution to the development of members in Area 9.

 

Student Branches:

The Student Branch of the University of Technology, Jamaica remains committed to the ideals of the IEEE. We have met with Dr. Joseph Kobla, Head of the Physics Department of the University of the West Indies (UWI), who has agreed to assist with the development of the UWI Student Branch.

 

 

Devon L. Gayle                                                                         Wilfred A. Roberts

Area 9 Chair                                                                              Chair, Jamaica Section

Phone (876) 511-5700                                                               (876) 928-6713

d.gayle@ieee.org                                                               waroberts@ieee.org