Region 6 Area Meeting

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Region 6 Area Meeting North East
Area 10/13/07 Loretta Arellano Region 6 Director
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Region 6 Membership (As of 31 July 2007)
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Region 6 Membership

• Region 6 is currently the third largest IEEE
  region and the largest U.S. Region. At the end
  of July 2007 the Region had 55,911 total members
• Region 6 represents 16.0 of IEEEs total
  membership.
• The Region has 50,408 Higher Grade Members and
  5,503 Student Members.
• Membership in Region 6 is down 0.7 from July
  2006, representing a loss of 384 members.
• Membership packets have been mailed to Section MD
  chairs or Section chairs (where no MD Chair
  exists).

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Region 6 Membership (by Section) (as of 31 July
2007)
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Inactive Subunit ReportTechnical Meetings
Subunit will be dissolved in November
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Teacher in Service Program (TISP) in Region 6

• Initial planning telecon Sept 19 with staff
• Suresh Vadhva will be key R6 contact
• Two workshops planned for 2008
• Mar/Apr Los Angeles Area
• Aug/Sept San Francisco Area
• Will be looking for volunteers to attend one of
  the workshops.
• For more info on TISP, see http//ieee.org/web/edu
  cation/preuniversity/tispt/index.html

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Whats Coming up in 2008

• IEEE-USA Annual meeting
• Annual Lite
• Tentatively mid April, Airport hub, 1.5 days
• IEEE Sections Congress 08
• Quebec City, Canada19 22 September 2008
• Will need a passport

Include in 2008 Budgeting Process
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Region 6 meetings in 2008

• Region 6 OpCom
• Late Jan / early Feb
• Select Direct Elect candidate
• Spring area meetings
• Region 6 Opcom at SC08
• Morning of Sept 19
• Region 6 Excom TBD (end of summer)
• Student Paper Contest
• Fall Area meetings
• Region6 awards

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• Questions?