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Join the IEEE Central Texas Section for the Spring Planning Meeting held on January 29, 2011, in San Marcos, TX. The meeting will feature updates from the Chapter Leadership Team, including chair Oliver Mehrwald and advisors Leslie Martinich, Tom Grim, and Vicki Almstrum. Topics will include co-sponsoring an E-Week talk by former NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy on March 3. We’ll address chapter strengths to engage members and identify opportunities in local engineering management while discussing volunteer commitment challenges.
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Technology Management Council – Austin Chapter and Women In EngineeringIEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning MeetingJanuary 29, 2011 San Marcos, TX
Chapter Leadership Team • TMC • Oliver Mehrwald, chair • Leslie Martinich, advisor • Tom Grim, advisor • WIE • Leslie Martinich, advisor • Vicki Almstrum, advisor
Chapter Updates • Co-sponsoring E-Week talk on March 3 by Jim Kennedy • Kennedy is the former Director of the NASA Kennedy Space Center • Excellent leadership ideas – bring young engineers
Chapter Plans / Issues • Strengths – enormous size, includes 14 different Societies • Weaknesses – enormous size—too unwieldy and people do not feel engaged • Opportunities – could provide valuable help to local engineering managers to help them as their organizations grow • Threats – inadequate volunteers committed to helping with this