Region 4 Section Reports 25. Twin Cities Section

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

Demographics Active Members 2004*2003 –Total (AC) –Regular (M) –Student (S) –Senior (LS, SM) –Life (LS, LM, LF) –Associate (A, AF, LA) 552 *SAMIeee

Section Boundaries

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

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.

Activities Meetings with Neighboring Sections: – NONE

Leadership 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

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

Society Chapters 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

Study Groups – Phoenix – Managing Change – Robust Design – Electromagnetic Compatibility – Systems Study Group – Digital Signal Processing – Advanced Digital Design – Green Design

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. 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.

Student Chapters St Cloud State University University of St Thomas University of Minnesota TC campus

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

University of St Thomas – Members: 21 – Just 2 years old – Faculty support

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

Awards 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

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

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

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

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

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

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?