Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010 Refreshments: 5:30 to 6:00 pm
Meeting: 6:00 to 7:00 pm Earn one CPD Hour
Location: AEP Office, Conference Room 2C, 700 Morrison Rd., Gahanna, Ohio 43230

Presenter: Dr. J. Kuffel, P.Eng, F.IEEE, Chief Engineer Kinectrics Inc.
Dr. Kuffel is a professional electrical engineer who obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from the University of Waterloo in high voltage engineering. He joined Ontario Hydro’s Research Division in 1979. He remained with Ontario Hydro’s Research Division through its privatization and evolution into Kinectrics where he was the General Manager of Transmission and Distribution Technologies. From July of 2006 until August of 2007 he served as a Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Manitoba. In August of 2007 he returned to Kinectrics to the position of Chief Engineer.

Register by sending email to hrjones@aep.com by 4:00 PM, 1/6/2010

IEEE Columbus Section ExCom Meeting
January 20, 2010
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM.

DeVry University
1350 Alum Creek Drive
Columbus, OH

1. Welcome by the Vice Chair

2. Treasurer's Report and progress on the L50 report for 2009

Treasurer to comment on shared expenses with the Dayton Section to have Grayson Randall to travel from North Carolina and give successive presentations to the Dayton and Columbus IEEE Computer Societies on the DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge.

Treasurer to advise if we need to enlist the services of an Auditor/CPA to review the L50 report prior to submitting to IEEE. The L50 is typically due to IEEE by the third Friday of February, which is Friday, February 19th. All L31 entries for calendar year 2009 must be typically entered by January 31 (and may be January 29 since January 31 is on a Sunday)

3. Secretary's Report and approval of minutes for the December 17, 2009 Holiday Meeting. Chair and Sol Black to assist Secretary with these minutes prior to Wednesday's meeting. Minutes to include motion, second, and approval to fund Ohio University's robotics project.

4. Membership Chair's report

5. Region 2 Representative's Report

6. PACE (IEEE USA) Report, Section attendance at the 2010 PACE Conference.

7. GOLD & Society Reports (Howard to explain annual CPD hours awarded for being an IEEE volunteer officer)

8. Student Branch Reports including progress on re-establishing a student branch at CSCC (Lead member on this effort is Joshua Herald, jher...@aep.com.)

9. Section By-laws to be submitted for review by the Chair before the next ExCom meeting.

10. Chair requests Vice Chair serve as Chair for the 2010 Spring Banquet. Chair will provide assistance, particularly with arrangements to return to the Confluence Restaurant once a date and the speaker have been pinned down. Vice Chair to request additional volunteers for the Banquet Committee.

11. Selection of date and location of next ExCom meeting followed by adjournment.

Dear IEEE Members,

Due to popular demand, IEEE GOLD is very excited to offer a second opportunity for "A Survival Guide for Scientific Writing in the Academic and Professional Environments", presented by Dr. Matthias Reumann, IEEE GOLD member and employee of IBM. This Professional Development webinar for IEEE GOLD and Graduate Student members will cover the writing process in Academic and Professional environments.

New Session Added - Register Now by clicking on the link below!
https://icm3.ieee.org/eventmanager/onlineregistration.asp?eventcode=ch9

Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Cost: FREE to all IEEE members

This session is limited to 200 participants. This webinar will be recorded and posted to the GOLD website for on-demand viewing.

Join IEEE GOLD for the highly anticipated webinar "A Survival Guide for Scientific Writing in the Academic and Professional Environments" and learn about the backbones of an article, overcoming writer's block and other methods to improve your writing, and preparing your manuscript for editor review.

For a session abstract and speaker bio, visit the GOLD webinar website or click the link below:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/gold/events/jan_2010_webinar.html

The IEEE GOLD Committee is looking for members interested in contributing to the 2010 GOLD Webinar Program. If you have ideas on topics or would like to help organize these activities, please contact Megha Joshi, 2009 GOLD Webinar Coordinator, at megha_joshi@ieee.org.
All feedback or questions can be directed to IEEE GOLD staff at gold@ieee.org.

If you are interested in joining Columbus IEEE GOLD, please contact javvad@ieee.org.