1. Cedar Rapids Section Report Leon Tabak Section Chair Region 4 Meeting January 27-28, 2007 Marriott Hotel, Chicago

2. Highlights of 2006 Activities Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer Michael Pursley Plant Tour at Intermec ProCon Volunteers in education: –Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair –Future Cities –LEGO robotics

3. Plan for 2007 Share work of planning programs Train new treasurer Resume regular cycle of elections

4. Planning Programs Web site of university Notices of promotions, awards, and grants in region’s daily newspaper Identify local authors in journals and at conferences Recruit speakers from among own members, coworkers, clients

5. Cooperation with other Societies SWE, AIAA, INCOSE, AFCEA, etc. Publicize their events Ask them to publicize our events Schedule joint activities

6. Plans for 2007 Combine business and technical meetings Streamline budget, estimate expenses and revenues more accurately Balanced budget: halt drawdown of accumulated reserves

7. Better Communications Fewer broadcasts (abuses of e-mail) Clearly identify requests for action (distinguish from informational messages) Regular publication of notices in calendars of region’s daily newspaper Take advantage of IEEE Web hosting service