IEEE-CPMT Society TC-1 Committee on Electrical Contacts
Meeting Minutes
Tuesday September 11, 2001
4:45 PM
Hotel Wyndham Montreal, Montreal (Quebec) CANADA

Chair: G. Witter
Vice-Chair:
Secretary: C. Leung

Attendees:
Holm Conference Attendees

Opening: G. Witter

  • TC-1 of IEEE-CPMT meeting was called to order by Chairman G. Witter. This was a remarkable day in world history with the tragedy at the World Trade Center. The emotions and concerns of everyone made this an unusual TC-1 meeting with an abbreviated agenda. The minutes are recorded as follows.
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    1. Approval of minutes of previous meeting - G. Witter

  • 2000 meeting minute has been posted at www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/org web page. It was approved. Attendance list was circulated to capture new members.

    • 2. Preliminary Report on IEEE-Holm Conference - Chi Leung

  • Total registration to date is 91, which is at about 75% of past years. There were 47 from USA, 27 from Europe, 6 from Canada, 10 from Asia and 1 from Africa. Considering the poor US economy, this is a relatively good turn out. We have 42 technical papers in 10 sessions. The presentations were excellent. The migration to using LCD and overhead transparency has improved the visual quality. We even have some high quality multimedia presentations to explain difficult subjects.
  • We encourage nominations for the Ragnar Holm Scientific Achievement Award and the Ralph Armington Award, as well as suggestions for the newly formed Morton Antler Invited Lecturer.
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    3. Report on 2001 Intensive Course on Electrical Contact - Paul Slade

  • The 2001 course was held in Pittsburgh on June 10-13. 24 students attended. This lower than usual attendance is obviously impacted by the slow US economy. However, the feedbacks from the students were all positive and it still seems like a good activity for IEEE to maintain.
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    4. Report on CPMT Transaction – J. McBride (Associate Editor)

  • The review of 2000 is complete and 25% of the Holm papers will be published in the CPMT transactions in Sept 2001. Reviews still need to be more on time for the 2001 papers. Paper qualilties are good and better electronic tracking systems of the review status should be explored.
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    5. World Calendar

  • TC-1 Web page used to cross-link with other conferences. Please send information of related conferences to Chi Leung. It was also suggested that any web page updates be informed to TC-1 members with e-mail notice.
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    5. Defining TC1 and Holm Conference Technology Scope

  • Task Group 11 (Roland Timsit, Bob Malucci, Phil Wingert (Chair), Thomas Schoeph) has submitted the recommendations to TC-1 chair and further submitted to CPMT in a 2 page summary.
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    7. TG3 - establish links on web page with NARM, IICIT and ICEC. - complete

    8. New Business

  • TC-1 would like to have names of volunteers willing to make presentations to IEEE local chapter meetings. The idea is to have minimum travelling and still have a quality chapter meeting. Please submit name to Gerry Witter.
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    Respectfully submitted, Chi Leung, 1/28/2002

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