Computer Society – SA IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting January 24, 2015 San Marcos, TX

IEEE Central Texas Section Chapter Leadership Team PositionNameAffiliation Has gone through online training ChairTom Vice ChairWenbin LuoSt. Mary's University Yes Volunteers: (serve the chapter but prefer not to be recognized as officers) St. Mary’s University Logistics Djaffer Ibaroudene St. Mary’s University WebmasterDale WilkenDLW

IEEE Central Texas Section Chapter Updates Generally meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. This year we have adopted a year-round calendar. Meetings are held at St. Mary’s University, usually in University Center Conference Room B, or in a lecture room in the Richter Engineering Building. The room is available at no cost to the Chapter. Typical Meeting time schedule: 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm dinner 7:15 pm – 7:30 pm networking 7:30 pm program We meet for dinner before each meeting in the St. Mary’s Cafeteria downstairs in the University Center. They have an all-you-can-eat buffet for $8.50 plus tax. Each person pays for his or her own meal, with the Chapter usually paying for the guest speaker's meal. We have an area for our group marked with small IEEE Computer Society signs so we can sit together. Dinner is optional. With this meeting plan we no longer have a budget problem since there is no catering and thus no problems related to catering minimums.

IEEE Central Texas Section 2014 Chapter Meetings DateTechnical or Admin TopicSpeakerL31? 1/21/14TechnicalGameification: Keeping Learning FunCarol Luckhardt Redfield, PhD Yes 2/18/14TechnicalThe Changing Face of Learning to Program Jeremy PriceYes 3/18/14TechnicalSolving Engineering's Grand ChallengesTodd Venable NI in Austin Yes 4/29/14TechnicalAnnual Student NightEngineering Students from Local Universities Yes 10/21/14TechnicalOpenStackBen Rodrigue - OpenStack Yes 11/18/14TechnicalEarly Bell System Patents: Background and Context. Tom O'BrienNo 12/17/14 Admin Selection of officers and planning for 2015 Chapter volunteersNo

IEEE Central Texas Section 2015 Chapter Meetings DateTechnical or Admin TopicSpeakerL31? Jan 2015 Cancelled due to scheduling problems No Feb 2015 TechnicalResearch topicsDr. Albert Jiang Trinity University Mar 2015 TechnicalSpeech synthesisDr. Richard Wiggins TI Retired Apr 2015 TechnicalStudent NightLocal Students May 2015 Jun 2015 Jul 2015 Aug 2015 Sep 2015 Oct 2015 Nov 2015 Dec 2015

IEEE Central Texas Section SWOT Analysis ● Strengths: The community has a significant number of businesses and universities where potential speakers can be found. ● Weaknesses: Low attendance at meetings from outside the St. Mary’s University community. Officers and volunteers sometimes have conflicting schedules. ● Opportunities: Good programs should attract better attendance ● Threats: Low IEEE Member Attendance gives us a very small pool to search for new leadership. This continues to be an existential threat to the CS chapter in San Antonio.

IEEE Central Texas Section Chapter Plans / Issues ●Monthly Technical meetings in 2015 ●Quarterly Admin meetings in 2015 ●Survey of IEEE CS members within our area, to discover interests (program content) and preferences (meeting time, date, location) – using vTools ●Encourage students and IEEE CS members to use vTools for registration. ●Work with other chapters in SA to have joint meetings ●Work with student chapters/advisors to build participation by local students.

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