1/17/17 Online Meeting IEEE Oregon Section
Attendees: John Prohodsky, Russell Mickiewicz, Tugrul Daim, Rick Smith, Ed Perkins, Eric Ruhl, Anna Revolinsky, Daniel Goodrich, Daniel Arnold, Gary Perman, John Vinson, Rachael Campbell, Daniel Engel, Anton, Hamid Sharifnia, Frazer Tee.
SusTech: http://sites.ieee.org/sustech/conference/
Ed Perkins discussed need for volunteers for SusTech from Oregon Section, and discussed the different tracks of the conference
Rick volunteered to help with conference
Maybe host SusTech in Portland in 2019, especially if Oregon Section participates and takes ownership (currently has 50% MLU in 2017 conference)
STEM Outreach:
John Vinson discussed need for someone to take over his coverage of science fairs/judging for PDX area
Tugrul volunteered to take over
Hamid to contact Diwakar to add notice about creating group interested in STEM development
John advises planning ahead for the meetings/agenda/vision for group so it doesn’t lose focus
Announcements:
Ed Perkins is NW Area Chair for Region 6
“Ask a Question” System
Hamid discussed wanting to open up and Q&A type channel of communication with people to answer technical questions, etc. Wants to add value to those in the section and to the public (and to bring traffic to our site)
Eric mentioned “Ask a Librarian” system, suggested mirroring that system-“Ask an Engineer” twitter account was an idea
Turgul suggested talking to IEEE about what we are allowed to do (legally) and what systems are already in place
Hamid to head sub-committee. Daniel to set up website, once the content is available.
Student Branches:
Eric Ruhl asked for funding for micro-satellite project
Section asked for formal proposal, and suggested live-streaming some of the launches
Group willing to come out to give their pitch
Ed suggested looking into IEEE Foundation for funding, as well
Budget:
Getting funds back from SusTech and GHTC sponsorship
Paulo has almost broken even with the seed money provided for the kits sold at OIT (from December meeting)
Updates:
NW/Central Area Meeting sometime in early spring in Portland
Young Professionals-Social tomorrow at Orenco Taphouse (Jan 18th).
Soft Skills Evening Lecture next week at Lucky Lab on NW Quimby. Register on vTools!
Next meeting:
February 14th 6:00pm dinner 6:30pm meeting at PSU Smith Memorial Union Room 258