Northeastern Area Meeting 9 March 2012 Hartford Marriott

1. Northeastern Area Meeting9 March 2012Hartford Marriott Marriott A 4:15 - 5:00 Session 1D Tom Perkins R1 NE Area Chair tomperkins@ieee.org Cell (603) 345-5170

2. Introductions 2012 Section Chairs IEEE Region 1 Northeastern Area Sections Soon Wan Boston Ronald Brown Maine Jason Hui New Hampshire HarshaPrakash Providence Larry Nelson Worcester County

3. Meeting Goals Seek Consensus on Two iSTEP (Integrated Student Transition to Engineering/Technology Professional program) Venues for Year 2011 (Required by Past Director Rubenstein) Seek Comments and Interest on offer from Boston Section to provide all members in Northeastern Area with e-reflector Discuss any other topics on your mind

4. iSTEP VenuesBoston Section2012 Under Grad Total Boston University (C‐016, EMB‐018) 30 79 109 Franklin W Olin College Of Engineering 6 0 6 Harvard University Sb 7 48 55 Massachusetts Inst Of Technology (COMP,ED,SP) 59 235 294 Merrimack College Sb 11 0 11 Northeastern University (PE‐031) 49 74 123 Suffolk University Sb 10 1 11 Tufts University 32 24 56 University Of Massachusetts‐Lowell (C‐016) 36 23 59 Wentworth Institute Of Technology Sb 52 0 52

5. iSTEP Venues2012 Under Grad Total Maine Section Maine University Of Sb 43 9 52 Maine Section Southern Maine Univ Of 18 4 22 New Hampshire Section Dartmouth College (EMB‐018) 14 19 33 New Hampshire Section New Hampshire Community Technical College 4 2 6 New Hampshire Section New Hampshire Technical Inst Sb 11 1 12 New Hampshire Section New Hampshire Univ Of‐Manchester Sb 0 2 2 New Hampshire Section Univ of New Hampshire 23 10 33 Providence Section Brown Univ 6 20 26 Providence Section Univ Of Massachusetts Dartmouth Sb 20 17 37 Providence Section Univ Of Rhode Island (C‐016) 34 16 50 Worcester County Section Worcester Polytechnic Inst (EMB‐018) 58 35 93

6. iSTEP Venues2012 Boston University or MIT WPI? URI? U. Mass Dartmouth? Or ?????

7. e-reflector Offer The Boston Section is offering the e-reflector to the former CNEC Sections, (Maine, New Hampshire, Providence, Worcester County) to expand their outreach for the Boston Section activities. In exchange for this Boston Section would offer those sections to include their material in our e-reflector under the same terms and format as Boston currently produces the e-reflector. Boston will not offer paper Reflector space and/or website space. The value-added to the other 4 sections (all of NE Area) is they will get their activities in front Boston’s almost 10,000 members, greatly expanding their outreach.

8. e-reflector Offer Boston Section will: Include the activity of a former all NE Area Sections in the e-reflector under the prevailing policy, terms, conditions and format of the e-reflector. Distribute the e-reflector to the Boston Section membership (estimated at 9,500 on 3/1/12) that has elected to receive electronic communications of the e-reflector.

9. e-reflector Offer NE Area Sections would: Provide approval for the e-reflector to be distributed to their section membership from approval date going forward until further notice Value-added Expanded outreach for sections Increased local activities for members of all NE Area Sections Increase attractiveness for speakers to participate as outreach to a larger audience

10. Region 1 NE Area MembershipFebruary 2012

11. Region 1 NE Area Members RenewalFebruary 2012

12. Region 1 NE Area Members RecruitmentFebruary 2012

13. Other Business Questions??? Tom Perkins R1 NE Area Chair tomperkins@ieee.org Cell (603) 345-5170