IEEE Seattle Section

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2000

Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Place: Seattle University, Bannan 215

900 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

Attendees: John Nierenberg, Leann Kostek, Rich Christie, Curtis Lu, Steve Brown, Michael Case, Joe Decuir, Tom Raschko, Al Moser, Rob Tiplin, Duane Carlson, John Thompson, Chetan Sharma, Scott Wolf

Chair’s Report - John Nierenberg:

· John is still trying to contact Sheri Rees for financial data. We may lose ~$18,000 if our report isn’t in by Nov. 30. Leann will try to protect us from that.

· The Northwest Area meeting was on October 21, 2000.There was lots of student activities, John gave a report on the behalf of Seattle Section and there was much discussion of financial issues among the sections.

· Evelyn Hirt won the Region 6 director position.

Vice Chair’s Report - Sheri Rees

· Not Present

Secretary’s Report - Al Moser

· Last month’s minutes were discussed and approved.

· The calendar was passed around.

· We discussed the need for attending to Pizza Feed plans and Duane Carlson will interface with the UW branch on that.

Treasurer’s Report - Rich Christie

· Rich reviewed the treasurer’s report

· Leann said we might see ~$4500 in surplus from Northcon.

· We should be seeing some surplus from last year’s Machines conference in Seattle..

DataLink Editor – John Thompson

• John led a discussion of the merits of different ways of distributing an e-newsletter.
• Leann expressed a preference for using the subject header with web-links format.
• A big issue is coordinating the effort of building the subscriber list and simultaneously paring down the paper copy mailing list.
• ExComm will serve as a beta site.

PACE Report - Steve Brown

· Steve interacted with other PACE people at the NW Area meeting. He found several who were involved with the Future Cities competition as we are.

· Puget Sound Energy will sponsor a couple tables at the UW S-PAC.

Northcon -

· Rob Tiplin thanked Leann for her arrangements for Milwaukee Night. It was judged to be quite successful.

· Northcon had 159 booths and about 4000 attendees. This was below the break even point. However, the conference side was successful.

· As Northcon breaks up in its present configuration, there will be some disbursement of reserve funds. We need to decide how to handle this.

· The convention manager, ECI, wants to continue Northcon in a new form and a draft agreement was passed around for consideration.

Standing Chair Report - Duane Carlson, Leonard Carlsen, Karen Pavletich, Chetan Sharma

· No formal report.

Student Chapters -

· UW - Curtis Lu reported on his participation in the NW Area meeting. He has the S-PAC speakers and panels lined up, but still needs a financial sponsor. A seminar by Sun Microsystems attracted 85 students and National Semiconductor attracted 60. Their web-site is 85% functional. Their T-shirt contest produced a winner. With SWE and the ChemE clubs they are sponsoring a mock-interview/resume-writing workshop.

· S.U. - Scott Wolf reported on their meetings and committees formed.

Chapter Reports

· Communications – Joe Decuir reported that they will again team up with Microwave for a November 30 meeting on TDMA evolution. January 18 will be a talk on OFDM, cosponsored with MTT, see below. On February 22, Range Star Wireless will be talking about Embedded Antenna Design Flow.

· Industrial Applications – Michael Case reported that they will hold a joint meeting with Electric League on December 4 at the Experience Music Project for a social time.

· Microwave Theory and Techniques – Tom Raschko reported on January 18, 2001 a speaker from AnSoft will do a presentation on Orthogonal Frequency Domain.

Old Business - none

New Business - none

Meeting Adjourned at 7:53 p.m.

Submitted by

Al Moser