Region 4 Section Reports

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Region 4 Section Reports

• 25. Twin Cities Section

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Twin Cities Section Report

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting
• October 16 17, 2004

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Demographics

• Active Members
• 2004 2003
• Total (AC) 3614 3166
• Regular (M) 2376 2228
• Student (S) 354 311
• Senior (LS, SM) 173 115
• Life (LS, LM, LF) 177 129
• Associate (A, AF, LA) 552

SAMIeee 10-13-04
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Section Boundaries
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Activities

• Technical/Education Meetings
• Chapters held 34 in 2003
• 17 in 2004 YTD
• Professional
• Annual PACE MPAC conference
• 67 attendees in 2003
• October 23, 2004 www.tc-ieee.org/mpac
• Social
• Section held 2 events, each 100 attendees
• Administrative
• Annual section officer training and goals
  workshop

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IEEE Twin Cities Section
Orchestrating Your Career October 23, 2004
The theme for this years conference is
Orchestrating Your Career. Attaining a
successful engineering career requires leading an
ensemble of skills, knowledge, passion,
foresight, and the courage and security to learn
from your mistakes.
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Activities

• Meetings with Neighboring Sections
• NONE

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Leadership

• Officers
• Chair
• Greg Burk
• Vice Chair
• Jon Moon
• Treasurer
• Dan Lowry
• Secretary
• Chris Greene

• Committees
• Professional Activities
• Student Activities
• Educational Activities
• Chapter Development
• Membership
• Nominations
• Awards
• Radiator (newsletter)
• Web

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Organizations

• Society Chapters
• 10
• Affinity Groups
• Consultants Network of the Twin Cities (ICNTC)
• Study Groups 8
• Student Chapters
• 3

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Society Chapters

• Power Engineering
• Computers
• Engineering in Medicine and Biology
• Engineering Management Society
• Magnetics
• Electromagnetic Compatibility

• Instrumentation Measurement
• Microwave Theory and Techniques
• Reliability Fault Tolerance
• Signal Processing Communications

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Study Groups

• Study Groups
• Phoenix
• Managing Change
• Robust Design
• Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Systems Study Group
• Digital Signal Processing
• Advanced Digital Design
• Green Design

www.tc-ieee.org/webpages/education.html
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Phoenix Study Group

• The Phoenix Project is a study group of the Twin
  Cities IEEE to develop an ambulatory blood
  pressure monitor for the Halberg Chronobiology
  Center at the University of Minnesota.
• Our goal is to make a monitor that is
  inexpensive, unobtrusive, easy to use and
  collects a week of blood pressure measurements.
• The Halberg Chronobiology Center wants to use the
  monitor for long term use on massive scale to
  obtain measures in health, and to encourage the
  development of diagnostic, prevention and
  treatment techniques.
• This information is a public service and any
  novel and useful inventions disclosed herein are
  placed into the public domain.

www.phoenix.tc-ieee.org
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Student Chapters

• St Cloud State University
• University of St Thomas
• University of Minnesota TC campus

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St Cloud State University

• Members 37
• Student paper competition 2004
• Section 1st and 2nd place
• Region 1st
• Revenue vending machine, BBQ
• Location about 50 min NE of Minneapolis
• Need More activities, especially educational

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University of St Thomas

• Members 21
• Just 2 years old
• Faculty support

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University of Minnesota

• TC campus
• Members 171
• Revenue Job fair, seminars
• Activities Job fair, company tours, seminar,
  high school education

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Awards

• Section
• Officers 4
• Committees 9
• Chapter chairs 12
• Student Chapters
• Student chair 3
• Advisors 3

• Student Papers 3 (with )
• Outstanding Awards
• Student 3
• Corporate Engineer 1
• Engineer 1
• Member 1
• Speaker 2

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Initiatives

• Create GOLD chapter
• Cooperation with other societies
• Rejoined MFESTS
• Coordinating with ASME, SWE, ASQ
• Secondary education
• Multi-society program with the Science Museum of
  Minnesota
• Improve communications

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Region Could Help My Section By

• Assisting Chapters and Affinity Groups to cross
  administrative (Section) boundaries
• Communications
• Information
• Administrative / financial

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Region Could Help My Section with

• Improving communications with members
• Refinements to e-mail
• Push officer aliases
• Web site services
• What can entity hosting do, SSH?
• Available to Chapters?
• Data (e.g., SAMIeee too raw)
• Localize print and e-mail communication
  originating from region, national and
  international

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Region Could Help My Section with

• Increasing volunteer involvement
• Only 43 of 3614 members (1), most hold at
  least 2 position, up to 6
• Disseminate best practices
• Do incentives work?
• Best forms of communication
• Solicit interest in communications
• Set goals

SAMIeee report 10-13-04
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Region Could Help My Section By

• Improving Fundraising
• Something new
• Disseminate best practices
• Help set fundraising expectations
• Direct support
• Training / seminar speaker
• Hands-on training
• Help with corporate contacts

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Region Could Help My Section By

• Defining meeting types in L31
• Technical
• Educational
• Professional
• Social
• Can we report all meetings, including Excom in
  one place?
• How do we show a co-sponsor?
• How do we correct L31?
• Can we sort, filter and download L31 queries?
• Can we make easier to find on IEEE web site?