Region 4 Section Reports

1. Region 4 Section Reports 25. Twin Cities Section

2. Twin Cities Section Report IEEE Region 4 Meeting October 16 & 17, 2004

4. Demographics • Active Members 2004* 2003 • Total (AC) 3614 3166 • Regular (M) 2376 2228 • Student (S) 354 311 • Senior (LS, SM) 173 115 • Life (LS, LM, LF) 177 129 • Associate (A, AF, LA) 552 *SAMIeee 10-13-04

5. Section Boundaries

6. Activities • Technical/Education Meetings • Chapters held 34 in 2003 • 17 in 2004 YTD* • Professional • Annual PACE MPAC conference • 67 attendees in 2003 • October 23, 2004 www.tc-ieee.org/mpac • Social • Section held 2 events, each 100+ attendees • Administrative • Annual section officer training and goals workshop

7. IEEE Twin Cities Section Orchestrating Your Career October 23, 2004 The theme for this year’s conference is: “Orchestrating Your Career”. Attaining a successful engineering career requires leading an ensemble of skills, knowledge, passion, foresight, and the courage and security to learn from your mistakes.

8. Activities • Meetings with Neighboring Sections: • NONE

9. Officers Chair Greg Burk Vice Chair Jon Moon Treasurer Dan Lowry Secretary Chris Greene Committees Professional Activities Student Activities Educational Activities Chapter Development Membership Nominations Awards Radiator (newsletter) Web Leadership

10. Organizations • Society Chapters • 10 • Affinity Groups • Consultants Network of the Twin Cities (ICNTC) • Study Groups 8 • Student Chapters • 3

11. Power Engineering Computers Engineering in Medicine and Biology Engineering Management Society Magnetics Electromagnetic Compatibility Instrumentation & Measurement Microwave Theory and Techniques Reliability & Fault Tolerance Signal Processing & Communications Society Chapters

12. Study Groups • Study Groups • Phoenix • Managing Change • Robust Design • Electromagnetic Compatibility • Systems Study Group • Digital Signal Processing • Advanced Digital Design • Green Design www.tc-ieee.org/webpages/education.html

13. Phoenix Study Group The Phoenix Project is a study group of the Twin Cities IEEE to develop an ambulatory blood pressure monitor for the Halberg Chronobiology Center at the University of Minnesota. Our goal is to make a monitor that is inexpensive, unobtrusive, easy to use and collects a week of blood pressure measurements. The Halberg Chronobiology Center wants to use the monitor for long term use on massive scale to obtain measures in health, and to encourage the development of diagnostic, prevention and treatment techniques. This information is a public service and any novel and useful inventions disclosed herein are placed into the public domain. www.phoenix.tc-ieee.org

14. Student Chapters • St Cloud State University • University of St Thomas • University of Minnesota TC campus

15. St Cloud State University • Members: 37 • Student paper competition 2004: • Section 1st and 2nd place • Region 1st • Revenue: vending machine, BBQ • Location: about 50 min NE of Minneapolis • Need: More activities, especially educational

16. University of St Thomas • Members: 21 • Just 2 years old • Faculty support

17. University of Minnesota • TC campus • Members: 171 • Revenue: Job fair, seminars • Activities: Job fair, company tours, seminar, high school education

18. Section Officers 4 Committees 9 Chapter chairs 12 Student Chapters Student chair 3 Advisors 3 Student Papers 3 (with $) Outstanding Awards Student 3 Corporate Engineer 1 Engineer 1 Member 1 Speaker 2 Awards

19. Initiatives • Create GOLD chapter • Cooperation with other societies • Rejoined MFESTS • Coordinating with ASME, SWE, ASQ • Secondary education • Multi-society program with the Science Museum of Minnesota • Improve communications

20. Region Could Help My Section By… • Assisting Chapters and Affinity Groups to cross administrative (Section) boundaries • Communications • Information • Administrative / financial

21. Region Could Help My Section with… • Improving communications with members • Refinements to e-mail • Push officer aliases • Web site services • What can entity hosting do, SSH? • Available to Chapters? • Data (e.g., SAMIeee too raw) • Localize print and e-mail communication originating from region, national and international

22. Region Could Help My Section with… • Increasing volunteer involvement • Only 43* of 3614 members (1%), most hold at least 2 position, up to 6 • Disseminate best practices • Do incentives work? • Best forms of communication • Solicit interest in communications • Set goals *SAMIeee report 10-13-04

23. Region Could Help My Section By… • Improving Fundraising • Something new • Disseminate best practices • Help set fundraising expectations • Direct support • Training / seminar speaker • Hands-on training • Help with corporate contacts

24. Region Could Help My Section By… • Defining meeting types in L31 • Technical • Educational • Professional • Social • Can we report all meetings, including Excom in one place? • How do we show a co-sponsor? • How do we correct L31? • Can we sort, filter and download L31 queries? • Can we make easier to find on IEEE web site?