IEEE Mississippi Section Report - February 2007

The Mississippi Section held nine section meetings in 2006. The January
meeting was dinner and a plant tour of Kuhlman Transformer in crystal
Springs Mississippi.

The E-Week luncheon held in February in Vicksburg, Mississippi and
involved other societies. The subject was the New Orleans Levees.

The March meeting was dinner section meeting and a plant tour of Calvert
Buss and Duct in Jackson.

In April we were honored to have Russell T. Harrison speak to us about
IEEE-USA and the Congress.

In May we had a dinner section meeting and a plant tour of Siemens Power
and Transmission in Jackson Mississippi.

In September Dr. Marshall Molen from MSU gave a presentation on the
Challenge X hybrid vehicle challenge program.

Our October meeting was a dinner section meeting and a tour of the
Freescale Semiconductor facility in Ridgeland Mississippi.

The November meeting was a presentation by Ron Ogan on Radio Frequency
Identification.

We finished 2006 with an Engineering Ethics training session that was
open to other societies.
  
 
The following are the current elected officers for 2007:
David Schoggen - Chair             Joe Savage - Treasurer
Gerald Brown - Vice Chair          Ron Ogan - Secretary
 
The Mississippi Section of IEEE has an active web site and all meetings
and attendance rosters are posted: http://ewh.ieee.org/r3/mississippi .
 
Respectfully Submitted by:

David C. Schoggen, P.E.  
IEEE Mississippi Section, Chair