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Cedar Rapids Section Report

Cedar Rapids Section Report. Leon Tabak Section Chair Region 4 Meeting January 27-28, 2007 Marriott Hotel, Chicago. Highlights of 2006 Activities. Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer Michael Pursley Plant Tour at Intermec ProCon Volunteers in education:

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Cedar Rapids Section Report

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  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

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