Region 4 Section Reports

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Region 4 Section Reports

• 11. Iowa Illinois Section

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Iowa Illinois Section Report

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting
• Oct 16/17, 2004

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Agenda

• Section Map
• Section Demographics
• Section Vitality
• Section Newsletter Sample
• Section Web Site Home Page
• Other Section Activities
• Successes/Best Practices
• Section Strengths
• Challenges
• Lessons Learned
• Goals for Next Year
• Goals for Next 5 Years
• Miscellaneous
• Region 4 Could Most Help My Section By
• Summary

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Iowa Illinois Section Map
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Iowa Illinois Section Demographics

• Total Active Members 263
• Members 159
• Student members 18
• Senior members 12
• Life members 29
• Affiliates 30
• Associate 15
• Meetings
• per year 9-10
• Format (lunch, dinner, talk only) dinner
• Type (tour, PACE, technical) 80/20 Tech/GOLD
• Section vs Chapter Section

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Iowa Illinois Section Demographics

• Section Leadership for Iowa Illinois Section
• Term Calendar Year 2004
• Chair Dr. Ali A. Chowdhury,
  iowa-illinoischair_at_ieee.org
• Vice Chair Jim Kulaga, iowa-illinoisvicechair_at_i
  eee.org
• Past Chair Karen Pedersen, iowa-illinoispastcha
  ir_at_ieee.org
• Treasurer Bill Serre, iowa-illinoistreasurer_at_i
  eee.org
• Secretary Peter Schuster, iowa-illinoissecreta
  ry_at_ieee.org
• Member-at-Large John D. Johnson,
  
  iowa-illinoismemberatlarge1_at_ieee.org 
• Member-at-Large - Jim White,
  iowa-illinoismemberatlarge2_at_ieee.org
• Member-at-Large - Muhammed B. Rahim,
  iowa-illinoismemberatlarge3_at_ie
  ee.org

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Iowa Illinois Section Demographics

• Section Organization
• Subsections
• None
• Society Chapters
• None
• Affinity Groups
• GOLD
• Student Branches
• None, but trying to create one

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Iowa Illinois Section Vitality

•  Meetings during the last year
• Jan gt Tax Law Changes and Tips  
• Feb gt National Engineer's Week  Joint
  meeting with QCESC
• Mar gt  Mission to Mars Recent Discoveries
  in Astronomy
• Apr gt Joint Meeting with Cedar Rapids
  Section on
  National Advanced Driving Simulator
  in Iowa City
• May (1) gt Short Course on Reactive Power
  Compensation and
  Voltage Stability
  Short Course
• May 2) gt Intelligent Mobile Equipment in the
  Outdoor Space
• June gt 50th Anniversary for Iowa-Illinois
  Section Celebration and Historical Review of
  Section
• Sept (1) gt Tour of John Deere Manufacturing
  Facility
• Sept (2)gt GOLD Meeting on Future Programs and
  Meetings
• Oct gt Energy Efficiency for Your Home
• Nov (1) gt Joint Meeting with ASM International
  QC Mallards hockey game
• Nov (2) gt GOLD Social Event
• Dec gt Holiday Event Dinner Theatre and
  Election

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National Advanced Driving Simulator
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Meeting Notice Sample
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Section Web Site Home Page
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Other Section Activities

• PACE
• GOLD
• The only activities have been the meetings
• Affinity Groups
• None

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Successes/Best Practices

• Success/best practice 1
• The Reactive Power Voltage Stability Course.
• Success/best practice 2
• Expanding our programs to the computer areas.

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Section Strengths

• Strength 1
• Each member of the Executive Committee plans a
  program
• Strength 2
• Programs are focused on current issues

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Challenges

• Challenge 1
• Maintaining interest in a small section.
• Challenge 2
• Reaching all members. We are a small section in
  a large territory.

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Lessons Learned

• Lesson learned 1
• It is about the Topic at meetings and workshops.
• Lesson learned 2
• Keep the meetings affordable and doable driving
  distance.
• Lesson learned 3
• Members are busy and matching everyones schedule
  is impossible.

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Goals for Next Year

• Goal 1
• Increase overall meeting attendance by 10. 
• Goal 2
• Have at least one meeting in a new area.
  Dubuque.
• Goal 3
• Another joint meeting with an adjacent section
  (Cedar Rapids).
• Goal 4
• Establish a Student Branch.
• Goal 5
• Provide another opportunity such as a workshop
  for members to get CEUs. 

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Goals for Next 5 Years

• Goal 1
• Create one or two chapters in areas that have
  significant number of members
• Goal 2
• More diversity in topics

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Misc

• Misc 1
• Email SPAM to _at_IEEE Email Addresses
• IEEE Firewall/SPAM needs to be improved in order
  to block inappropriate emails, especially to the
  generic exec committee addresses (e.g.
  iowa-illinoischair_at_ieee.org).

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Region 4 Could Most Help My Section By

• Method 1
• By continuing to communicate what is expected of
  the sections.
• Method 2
• By continuing to provide opportunities at the
  meetings for us to share ideas that work.

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Summary

• Take Away Point 1
• Its all about the program topic.
• Take Away Point 2
• Keep the travel down as much as possible