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Central Area Membership Needs and Section Activities

Explore the short-term trends and needs of IEEE Central Area sections, including increasing participation at events, providing value to members, and increasing industry support. Discover the exciting activities happening in each individual section and learn how sections can collaborate to enhance member engagement.

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Central Area Membership Needs and Section Activities

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  1. IEEE Region 2 - Central Area R Dennis Molly Email: dmolly@ieee.org February 21, 2010 Baltimore, MD

  2. Central Area Membership by Section – Spring 2009 • e – estimated number • * Spring 2009 – SAMIEEE Data on 04/16/2009, Active Members

  3. Central Area MembershipShort Term Trends

  4. Needs of the Sections in the Central Area • Goals: • Increasing participation at events • Increasing opportunities for using membership to make connections for tours and activities • Connecting remote & isolated Members to IEEE • Providing Value to the Members for their Membership • Increasing Member Engagement • Tours and activities • More frequent interaction / participation • Web, Internet • Retaining & Recruiting • Identifying what the Members perceive as Valuable • Value of Membership • Across Generations and Disciplines

  5. Needs of the Sections in the Central Area • Increasing Industry Support • Guidance in approaching businesses for sponsorship of Section/Chapter activities • Easier access to Speakers (?) • Increase awareness of Funding available for activities / projects (?) • Using IEEE-expert online presentations with Members and non-members, guidance in costing and non-IEEE member attendance • Guidance in addressing STEM Education issues

  6. Activities • Many great meetings, tours, presentations, and other activities happening in each individual section • Sections should look at what is working in other Sections, and use this to generate ideas for their own Section • Sections should team/partner with neighboring Sections to advertise activities, and increase Member Engagement • Identify and overcome hurdles to joint activities

  7. Central PAHighlighted Section Activities • Tours • Penn State nuclear reactor tour • Lectures • “ How to Integrate Optimal Scheduling in Wireless Networks with Optimal Routing and Flow Control?”, Dr. S. J. Golestani • “Everything an Engineer Should Know but…”, Dr. A. Ferraro. • “Greater than 10 Gbps Copper Ethernet Workshop”, CICTR Lab

  8. Central PAHighlighted Section Activities • Professional Development Workshop • Noise Radar and LIDARs • Student Competitions and Awards • High School Competitions • West Branch Engineering Robotics competition • Robotic Sumo Wrestling Competition

  9. ErieHighlighted Section Activities • Pre College Education • Math Options • Technical field career day for seventh- and eighth-grade girls • MATHCOUNTS • Gannon University Summer Camp 2009 • Lego League • *New Members’ Dinner • Student Competitions • Penn State/Behrend Paper Competition • Gannon University Paper Competition

  10. ErieHighlighted Section Activities • Tour GM History Museum • Wind Technology Panel • “Ethical Issues of Human-Robot Interactions”, Dr. Ludlow Brown • Support for TISP Workshop in Pittsburgh

  11. JohnstownHighlighted Section Activities • Senior Member Elevation Process • New Volunteer Recruits -*Officer Training Workshop – Very Helpful! • Working on setting up an internship assistance and corporate contact program to support undergraduate students • Pre-College Education • *MathCounts Support • Science Fair Judging • Boy Scout Engineering Merit Badge Day • Support for PA regional STEM training activities • Technical Meetings • Two cross-discipline technical presentations on composite ship-construction

  12. JohnstownHighlighted Section Activities • Tours • CheckPoint – Internet Café, Video Gaming Venue, ISP server installation • *Presentations • Financial seminars on long-term care, and retirement planning • Gold Chair did an outstanding job promoting GOLD to young local Engineering professionals • Joint meetings with PSPE (PA Society of Professional Engineers) and other technical/professional societies

  13. PittsburghHighlighted Section Activities • Saturday February 20, 2010 • 17th Annual IndEEE 500cm Robot Car Race at Carnegie Science Center • Tour • FBI Criminal Justice Information Systems office in Clarksburg, West Virginia • Presentations • Smart Grid – Distribution System • Innovation Institute; Energy X-Prize

  14. PittsburghHighlighted Section Activities • Engineer’s Week • Carnegie Science Center Booth • Chapters • Robotics • Industry Applications/PES • 12+ meetings per year • Nanotechnology • SSIT • Affinity Group • Women in Engineering, Dr. Rin Burke • Meeting with IEEE Japan Council, Dr. BasabiChakraborty • WIE Picnic, Holly Cyrus • Life Members, Bob Grimes – Vintage Computers • Member Accomplishment Planning Booklet

  15. SusquehannaHighlighted Section Activities • Successful Senior Membership Drive • IEEE display at Colonial Park Mall in Harrisburg ,PA for National Engineers Week • Pre-College Education • Engineering and Science Club formed at a Harrisburg High School • *Planning to create more high schools engineering clubs to promote engineering • Tutorials: Planning for the Fourth Signal Integrity Symposium • Presentations • “Case Histories of Recent SI and EMC Interconnect Problems” • “Challenges Ahead in Memory Development” • “Signal Integrity Characterization and Measurements”

  16. SusquehannaHighlighted Section Activities • Tours • Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority (GLRA) Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering Building • Meetings / Lectures • “The Future of Ethernet: 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet” John D'Ambrosia • “Synthetic Vision Technology“, Dr. Robert Gray • “Astronomy with HST after the Last Servicing Mission” Dr. John Wood • Cultural Event - Victorian Dance Ensemble • Student Activities - Penn State Harrisburg (PSH) IEEE Student Branch • 1st in the Project Showcase competition and 2nd in the Micro-Mouse competition • Plan to attend and compete in the 2010 SAC conference • Awards • Dr. SedigAgili, Penn State Harrisburg, Technical Achievement Award • Larry Brown, Engineer of the Year Award

  17. West VirginiaHighlighted Section Activities • Holding Regular Section Meetings • Elections for Section officers using Vtools • Web conferencing for lectures and Section meetings • Pre-College Education • Working with Section Members to devise a new program for high school students • Tours • National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV

  18. West VirginiaHighlighted Section Activities • Meetings • ”IEEE Membership Its Mission, Its Benefits, The Organization and IEEE Section Management Orientation”, Parviz Famouri • ”Fuel Cells as Future Distributed Generators”, Kourosh Sedghisigarchi • Consultants Network • Getting organized

  19. West VirginiaHighlighted Section Activities • Student Activities • WV Student Chapter and WVU Tech participated in the Student Activities Conference in Youngstown OH • First Annual Senior College Student Competition in Engineering • Joint Technical Meeting with the International Society of Automation (ISA). Bruce McClung IEEE Life Fellow Presented “An Electrical Safety Program for Employees”.

  20. Last SlideThank You! • backup slides follow

  21. Backup Slides • Region 2 • http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/ • Central Area • http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/R2G/Genl_org.html • Sections • http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/R2R/Roster_menu.html

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