Attendees: Diwakar, Dan Goodrich, Ed Perkins, Xiao Fu, John Prohodsky, Richard Dorrance, Pradeep Kumar, Naznin, David Silver, Jose Garcia, Sohrab

Rising stars conference – Michael + Amritesh. Rising stars is sponsoring Naznin.

Daniel to follow up with Michael/Kyle if any student wants to attend Rising stars.

Winter social (Dec 9, 6 – 8:30) – placeholder sent. Lake Oswego grill.

David to create vtools and send it out (unpublished).

Naznin to chair WIE group. Motion approved.

Heidi precollege/STEM chair – responsible for high school fairs and STEM events

NEDME (Oct 18) – Anyone able to attend? Section will pay $30 ($10 attendance, $20 for tech sessions). Lunch and breakfast is included with attendance. Diwakar to publicize.

Soft skill seminar committee formation approved. John, Rick, Diwakar, Ed, YP. Draft plan to be presented in Nov meeting by John.

Next month:

• Amritesh will follow up on $800 for sustech from YP.
• Heidi – STEM event – funding – get more details and present in next excom.

Chapter chair reports

• Comm (Pradeep) – Couple of upcoming events. Pradeep trying to revive 2 chapters.
• PES (Jose) – Next speaker is John Borland. Speakers lined up for Nov and Dec.
• Nano (Ed) – No traction
• Sustech (Ed) – future direction initiative renamed to Sustech Initiative. Diwakar to publicize call for papers.
• Solid State Circuits (Richard) –
• Computer (Sohrab) -
• Signal processing (Xiao) – Plan to resume normal activity. Planning sensor array workshop July 2024. Xiao will work with Ed Perkins for possible MoU with Oregon section for sponsorship.
• Photonics (Naznin) – Workshop on 13^th 14 participants and 3 speakers. Workshop will be recorded.