OpComMeetingMinutes

Monday25 November2013,MandarinBuffet,ThousandOaks,CA

Attending

BridgeCarney,Chair

ChristianZiegler,MembershipDevelopment/Awards-Recognition

JohnWright,RAS

MominQuddus,AESS

Ross Kocen,EventPlanning

TomCampbell,MTTS

ZakCohen,Treasurer

Doug Askegard

Mike Nicholls, EMC

Jerry Knotts

David Pehlke

  • Albert Wolfkiel

Meetingstartedat6:45

Doug Askegard

National Engineer’s Week Banquet scheduled for February 20, 2014, recommendation that BV Section place an ad in the National Engineer’s Week Banquet brochure at a cost of $250

Motion made to place add by Doug

Second – Tom

Discussion

Vote- passed

Action Item - make a line item in BV budget for this Year-to-Year event.

Project of the Year and Engineer of the Year (POY/EOY) as selected by your society to be recognized at the annual National Engineer’s Week Banquet scheduled for February 20, 2014. Nominations are still being taken up to December 1, none received to date.

Action Item – Doug will follow up with another e-mail with nomination forms.

Bridge requested $500 from PACE for OPCom dinner.

Standing Items

Minutes(Mike Nicholls)

Minutesapprovedunanimouslywithoutchanges.

Treasurer’sReport(ZakCohen)

Treasurer’sreport discussed and approvedwithoutchanges.

Fall event final update

Loss of $51.46

$500 was approved for

Plaque presented to John Swartz for speaker at the Fall event.

Several others from Johns crew worked hard behind the scenes to make the event a success.

MembershipDevelopment(ChristianZiegler)

  1. September 2013.

+8 members added to section from September to October

–33 members from September 2012 to October 2013

Open Items for end of the year

Membership Development Section Manual

Monthly Report Process

Mail List Process

Senior Event Process

Section Award Process

Los AngelesCouncilUpdate(JohnWright)

LAC notified that BV Section would withdraw from the LAC at the end of 2013. No response from LAC to date. R6 also contacted. Process set in motion.

Discussion on Branding of IEEE BV sponsored events (Bridge Carney)

There is a need to establish guidelines of setting value to BV sponsored events.

  • Branding of IEEE-BV
  • Who we serve

Created on 12/6/2013 11:09 AM

  • Money in vs. money out
  • Profit vs. no profit

What do we expect out of an event?

  • IEEE Mission Statement
  • Priority (local)

Options for consideration and discussion

  • Branding IEEE-BV along with any funding
  • How does it benefit membership, member participation?
  • Sponsorship criteria, involvement, what is the core criterion?
  • Minimum conditions/information form for submission to OPCom

Action item - form Ad hoc committee to put together base sponsorship standard

Members – Jerry, John, Zak

Virtual meeting possible if face to face not viable

December OPCom meeting moved to Monday, 6 January 2014

ChapterUpdates(ChapterChairs)

AerospaceChapter(MominQuddus)

N/A

CommunicationsChapter (DavidPehlke)

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ComputerChapter (Craig Reinhart )

N/A

ElectronDevices/CircuitsandSystemsJointChapter(SunilPai)

N/A

EngineeringinMedicineand BiologyChapter(SteveJohnson)

N/A

MicrowaveTheoryand TechniquesChapter (TomCampbell)

N/A

Powerand EnergyChapter(ChristianZiegler)

N/A

RoboticsandAutomation/IndustrialApplicationsJointChapter

N/A

EMC(Mike Nichols)

EMC Chapter meeting held October 30 at TO library, Newbury Park branch

Old Business

Ross still working on date and venue for the OPCom end of the year Dinner

Possible mid January at Los Robles

NewBusiness

Meetingadjournedat8:10 P

Created on 12/6/2013 11:09 AM

Created on 12/6/2013 11:09 AM