IEEE Kansas City Section Meeting Minutes

EXCOM Meeting Minutes
Kansas City Section
12 Noon – 1:00 PM Teleconference
11 April 2006

The following EXCOM Voting Members attended by teleconference:
- Dr. Ken Vollmar – Section Chair
- Dick Hodgman – Section 1st V-Chair
- Bill Ritter – Section Past-Chair

The following Section Members attended by teleconference:
- Debby Dilks – UMKC Student Branch Counselor
- David Kasper – PACE Chair, JEC Representative
- Ghulam Chaudry - Member

Pre-conference discussion of MOU for 2008 R5 conference, regarding profit-sharing and responsibilities of UMKC.

May Banquet to be held at the Wyndham May 18th. Ken send program description and speaker bio to Mark Lamendola and Bill Ritter.

Debbie Dilks: report on UMKC experience at robotics competition at R5 Technical conference, Apr. 7-8. Discussion of student competition in robotics and circuit design.

Bill Ritter: report on R5 Technical conference, Apr. 7-8.
* opinion: poor technical conference
* moderators not well-organized
* decide on some “tracks” for the conference
* MOU issue for 2008 conference:
o Normally profit sharing is region 60%, section 40%
o Proposed: region 60%, section 20%, UMKC student section 20%
o Bill to put a draft of MOU on community web page
o EXCOM members should expect to vote on its approval
o Dr. Ghulam Chaudry to be added to EXCOM and informational mailing lists

EXCOMs on location – schedule and location 2 or 3 a year. Have not had any “location” EXCOMs yet this year.

Strategic plan and budget
* intent is to circulate draft, vote at May EXCOM
* 2004 documents are posted on community

Dave Kasper
Number of IEEE members for JEC membership assessment
Use of JEC calendar and publicity

Ghulam Chaudry: report on R5 Technical conference, Apr. 7-8. Lessons learned:
* Separation of student competition from main conference was unfortunate
* Technical part of the conference is the revenue generator and should be increased
* Title of conference: can it be changed? Use a different title for more attendance.
* Student paper contest: was not organized under technical session but perhaps should be

Dave Kasper solicited input for topic of PACE mtg. for Dec. 2006
* RFID, relationship to music

Kirk J. Duncan
Kansas City Section Secretary
IEEE Region 5
kirk.duncan @ ieee. org

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Minutes, April, 2006