Region 4 Section Reports

25. Twin Cities Section

Twin Cities Section Report

IEEE Region 4 Meeting

October 16 & 17, 2004

Demographics

• Active Members2004* 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

Section Boundaries

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

IEEE Twin Cities Section

Orchestrating Your CareerOctober 23, 2004

The theme for this year’s 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.

Activities

• Meetings with Neighboring Sections:

– NONE

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

Organizations

• Society Chapters– 10

• Affinity Groups– Consultants Network of the Twin Cities

(ICNTC)– Study Groups 8

• Student Chapters– 3

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

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

Phoenix Study Group

The Phoenix Project is a study group of The Phoenix Project is a study group of the Twin Cities IEEE to develop an the Twin Cities IEEE to develop an ambulatory blood pressure monitor for ambulatory blood pressure monitor for the Halberg Chronobiology Center at the Halberg Chronobiology Center at the University of Minnesota. the University of Minnesota.

Our goal is to make a monitor that is Our goal is to make a monitor that is inexpensive, unobtrusive, easy to use inexpensive, unobtrusive, easy to use and collects a week of blood pressure and collects a week of blood pressure measurements.measurements.

The Halberg Chronobiology Center wants The Halberg Chronobiology Center wants to use the monitor for long term use on to use the monitor for long term use on massive scale to obtain measures in massive scale to obtain measures in health, and to encourage the health, and to encourage the development of diagnostic, prevention development of diagnostic, prevention and treatment techniques.and treatment techniques.

This information is a public service and This information is a public service and any novel and useful inventions any novel and useful inventions disclosed herein are placed into the disclosed herein are placed into the public domain. public domain.

www.phoenix.tc-ieee.org

Student Chapters

• St Cloud State University

• University of St Thomas

• University of Minnesota TC campus

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

University of St Thomas

– Members: 21Members: 21

– Just 2 years oldJust 2 years old

– Faculty supportFaculty support

University of Minnesota

• TC campus– Members: 171Members: 171

– Revenue: Job fair, seminarsRevenue: Job fair, seminars

– Activities: Job fair, company Activities: Job fair, company tours, seminar, high school tours, seminar, high school educationeducation

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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

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

Region Could Help My Section By…

• Assisting Chapters and Affinity Groups to cross administrative (Section) boundaries– Communications

– Information

– Administrative / financial

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

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

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

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?