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R2 East Area Chair

R2 East Area Chair. Spring 2010 – Submitted for the Region 2 Meeting Baltimore, Maryland - February 20, 2010 Prepared by Holly M. Cyrus. East Area of Region 2. Philadelphia Delaware Bay Lehigh Valley Southern New Jersey. Officers: Check Chair: Robert Lawson

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R2 East Area Chair

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  1. R2 East Area Chair Spring 2010 – Submitted for the Region 2 Meeting Baltimore, Maryland - February 20, 2010 Prepared by Holly M. Cyrus

  2. East Area of Region 2 • Philadelphia • Delaware Bay • Lehigh Valley • Southern New Jersey

  3. Officers: Check Chair: Robert Lawson Vice-Chair: Emilio M. Salgueiro Treasurer: Ram Achuthanandam Secretary: Margaret Goodman PACE: Tasos Malapetsas Philadelphia Section Activities

  4. Membership 5,000+ • IEEE Dinner Meeting Series • Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Transition Towns (January 19th) • Electrical Awareness: Hidden Dangers in the • Workplace (January 19th) • The 20 Most Important Engineering Accomplishments of the Last Century • (February 16th) Philadelphia Section Activities

  5. Very active Section with many active • IEEE Societies • Active Societies: Circuits and Systems, Communications, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Electron Devices, Engineering in Medicine and Biology ect. • Pre-college Education: Established teacher in service program two years ago • Other: Helped IEEE education board to manage an outreach program for increasing woman in engineering Philadelphia Section Activities

  6. Best Practices: • Monthly section dinner meetings for gathering and learning new technology • Education courses • Concerns: • Increasing senior memberships and member participations • Website: • www.ieeephiladelphia.org Philadelphia Section Activities

  7. Officers: Check Chair: Dr. Doug Tipton Vice-Chair: (Open) Treasurer: Mike McCann Secretary: (Open) PACE: (Open) Delaware Bay Section Activities

  8. Membership ~800 • 500 emailed for events • About 50 locally active members • Use email meeting notices and web page for newsletters and meeting information • IEEE Dinner Meeting Series • Solar Power Technology (January 26th) • UD Seminar (February) • “Information Theory Today” • Engineers Without Borders (March) Delaware Bay Section Activities

  9. Two active Society Chapters; Computer and Industrial Applications/Power Engineering • Have Gold Coordinator – Bo Wang • Working to connect GOLD members with UD graduating class to help GOLD affinity group become more active Delaware Bay Section Activities

  10. Working on a pre-university program • Looking at working with Junior • Achievement to introduce engineering and scientific careers • Working on ways to make UD Student Branch more active • Best Practices: • Monthly Section meetings where they rotate venue to different colleges and Universities Delaware Bay Section Activities

  11. Concerns: None at this time Website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/delaware_bay Delaware Bay Section Activities

  12. Officers: Check Chair: Leo Mayoral Vice-Chair: Stephen Csaszar Treasurer: George E. Beam Secretary: David Thompson PACE: (Open) Lehigh Valley Section Activities

  13. Membership ~450 • IEEE Dinner Meeting Series • Sustainable Energy in the USA and NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto (January 27th) • Engineering Week Banquet (February 19th) • IEEE 2010 Fellows Recognition Night and Dinner Dance (March 27th) • Active Student Chapter at Lehigh University Lehigh Valley Section Activities

  14. Active Societies: Circuits and • Systems, Power and Energy, • Electronic Devices, and Signal Processing • Best Practices: • Monthly section dinner meetings • Concerns: • Membership due to job loss • Website: • http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/lehigh_valley Lehigh Valley Section Activities

  15. Officers: Chair: Holly Cyrus Vice-Chair: Steven Carr Treasurer: Theresa Basquez Secretary: David Brown PACE: Theresa Basquez Southern New Jersey Section Activities

  16. Membership ~250 • IEEE Dinner Meeting Series • High Performance Computing for Modeling and Simulation in the Aviation Industry and Beyond (January 20th) • Aberdeen Proving Ground (February 17th) • Have started a Gold Affinity Group and restarted Computer Society Southern New Jersey Section Activities

  17. Although a small Section it is a very active Section with one Society • WIE Affinity Group Robot Challenge in April 24, 2010 at Cape May Museum • Community support with Atlantic County Women’s Center • Spring Fling • Adopted a family for Christmas Southern New Jersey Section Activities

  18. Best Practices: • Monthly section dinner meeting • Awards Banquet • Concerns: • Want to bring in youth and new leadership • People are very busy with work • Website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/southern_nj Southern New Jersey Section Activities

  19. Holly M. Cyrus • FAA WJHTC • AJP-6311, Bldg. 296 • Atlantic City Int’l Airport • Atlantic City, NJ 08405 • Holly.Cyrus@faa.gov • W (609) 485-4887 • C (609) 226-5337 Contact InformationEast Area Chair

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