Area 8 Report to the IEEE Region 3 Executive Committee, March 9, 2007

The three section of Area 8 are busy with IEEE activities and in
contributing to their communities.  Reports from the individual sections
follow.

Evansville-Owensboro Section

Chair Paul Kuban reports that this section's major accomplishments for
2006 were: a successful tour of the AEP Rockport Generating Station;
continued support of the University of Southern Indiana (USI) and
University of Evansville (UE) engineering programs and students; an
excellent presentation by new arrival, Steve Lapidus, on the
electrification of Buffalo, NY; a new Vice-Chair (Steve Lapidus) elected
in November; a decision to honor two students from each of USI and UE
with a plaque and gift certificate for excellence in EE studies;
completion of all reports prior to the due date (perhaps a first for the
section!).

Lexington Section

Chair Jerry Goerz reports that the Lexington Section currently has about
426 members.

The section officers for 2007 are: Jerry Goerz, Chair; Stuart Talbert,
Vice-Chair; Ray Williams, Treasurer; Don Hill, Treasurer, PACE Chair,
and Membership Development Chair; Elwood West, Awards Chair; Jeremy
Byrd, GOLD Affinity Group Chair; and Regina Hannemann, Past Chair.

The Lexington Section held 7 technical meetings, 2 administrative
meetings, and 1 social meeting in 2006.  The technical meetings
included:"Lead-Free Electronics and the eRoHS Directive" by John Barnes;
a tour of the University of Kentucky Visualization Center, led by
Senching Cheung; "Residential Solar Energy" by Jerry Goerz; "Pico
Satellites" by Jerry Goerz; a line-following robot competition by UK
engineering students; a tour of Rupp Arena's physical plant, HVAC,
lighting, sound, floor ice-making, and radio and television broadcast
facilities, led by Merrill Richardson; and a tour of Morehead State
University's Radio Telescope, led by Jeff Kruth. The social meeting was
an annual December joint meeting with the Louisville Section, and
included a semi-technical presentation about inventing toys, by Dmitry
Strakovsky.

The Lexington Section also staffed a display at the University of
Kentucky's Engineers' Day open house, and gave away about 100
demonstration motor kits to pre-college students.

So far in 2007, the Lexington Section has held one social meeting and
one technical meeting. The social meeting in January featured
recollections of the funniest, stupidest, and most outrageous
engineering stories. The technical meeting in February was an
engineering student paper contest

Jeremy Byrd has volunteered to be the Lexington Section's first GOLD
(Graduates of the Last Decade) Affinity Group Chair.

Louisville Section

Chair Jeffrey A. Haeberlin reports that the section's accomplishments
include: gaining a new IEEE Fellow in the Louisville Section, Dr. Amir
Amini, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Louisville, with a research focus on bio-medical imaging;
forming a Life Affinity Group by members of the section last year;
getting a new IEEE-hosted Section web-site up and running last year
(http://www.ieee.org/louisville ).

The Section has taken several actions to support professional
engineering activity in the Louisville area: sponsorship of a Service
Award and a table at the Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers
banquet; sponsorship of a Special Award and providing a judge for the
Louisville Regional Science Fair; and support of the University of
Louisville Engineering School E-Expo.

The section plans a Senior Member Drive in 2007.


John M. Parr, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical Engineering
University of Evansville