Social meeting following election during end-of-year holiday season. It is important to bring in our spouses and friends to our professional community. Other possibilities include a summer IEEE picnic.

Awards banquet where local volunteers are recognized for their contributions. This banquet would recognize contributions from local industry, government, and education (K-12 as well as university). Sections may wish to hold special awards banquets where new IEEE Fellows are elected.

Engineering Week Banquet to commemorate National Engineers Week. This type of meeting is normally held as a joint meeting with other professional engineering organizations.

Educational meeting and open house at local EE Department. The focus of this meeting would be to encourage practicing engineers to pursue graduate studies or to take continuing education courses. The program would include a panel discussion on programs and resources available. A tour of facilities would follow the presentation. Local industry human relations personnel and technical management staff would be invited as partners in this important process.