Northwest Subsection of Chicago Section

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Northwest Subsectionof Chicago Section

• Jack Sherman Chair
• Region 4 Meeting
• January 27-28, 2007
• Marriott Hotel, Chicago

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Highlights of 2006 Activities

• Highlights of 2006 activities
• Inaugurated hey recent Senior Member,
  sponsor-a-senior-member program. We upgraded 26,
  we got 4 volunteers for committee activities.
• Accepted proposal from a member desiring an IEEE
  Distinguished Lecturer to speak at his company.
• 105 attended, signed up 16 new members.

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• Name two most successful activities that your
  section had in 2006 and reason for their success.

• Name two most successful activities that your
  section had in 2006 and reason for their success.
• - Volunteer wanted to promote IEEE meetings in
  his local area rather than miles away. Result,
  Engineering Management Chapter renewal and Power
  Engineering Chapter planned. The company involved
  is Walgreens Corporate.
• - Developed Steering Committees for the NWss and
  several chapters that were dormant. Nobody wants
  the responsibility to be chair, so Member
  Development took over.

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Plan for 2007

• Report the activities you are planning for 2007
• - Continue the Senior Member upgrade
  initiative. Use periodic doubling as the goal.
• - Arrange for meetings at Zip-coded
  locations.
• - Assure that members without e-mail
  addresses get meeting announcements and RAB, TAB
  and Stds e-mailings send postcard requesting
  they respond by e-mail, assure spam virus free
  distribution, and keep their address private.

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How Can R4 Help in Meeting Your Sections Goals?

• Name 2-3 items that Region 4 can do to help your
  section achieve its goals
• - Find a way for students at non-Branch
  colleges to have a group Branch without requiring
  them to join with a present Branch.
• .

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- Find a way for Standards Associates to achieve
recognition as an Affinity Group - Request that
IEEE create a member Grade Code of US and GS (or
SU and SG) so that we can identify Graduate
students for volunteer chapter officers using
SAMIEEE