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.

Date: Thursday, February 11, 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

Abstract: Mark Majka, P.E. will discuss on Power Line Carrier Communication Systems often referred as PLC. He will provide an introduction to the basics of PLCs and provide a broad overview on their application, hardware, configurations and connections. In addition, he will discuss some of the operational aspects of PLCs.

Please RSVP to Vinod Simha by email to vsimha@aep.com or by phone at 614-552-1717 by 4:00 PM, February 10, 2010

Advise when you RSVP, if IEEE member and/or P.E.

Registration for next week's e-week luncheon is available here:

http://www.centralohioashe.org/100217_lunch.htm

Please see the attached flyer for more information.

Speaker:  Paul Bevilaqua 
When:   February  18, 2010 
Where:  Arlington Banquets  – 1973 Henderson Rd – (Next to Kroger) 
Schedule:  Social: 6:00 – 6:30 PM
Dinner: 6:30 ‐ 7:15 PM
Presentation:  7:15 ‐ 8:00 PM 

Cost:
Members and Guests:   $20
Students:  $10 

Abstract 
A team led by Lockheed Martin recently won the contract to develop the F‐35 Joint Strike Fighter, a single airplane that will be built in three different variants. The Air Force variant is a supersonic strike fighter designed to operate from conventional runways. The Navy variant will launch and recover from aircraft carriers, while the Marine Corps variant will make vertical takeoffs and landings. The key to developing this family of aircraft is a new dual cycle propulsion system, which can be switched from a turbofan cycle to a turbo shaft cycle to increase thrust for vertical takeoff and landing. This propulsion system enabled the X‐35 to become the first aircraft in history to fly at supersonic speeds, hover, and land vertically. The development team won the Collier Trophy, that recognizes "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America demonstrated during the preceding year," for this accomplishment. This presentation will describe the Joint Strike Fighter Competition and the development of this innovative engine, showing how a novel idea can grow into a new aircraft program.

Biography
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua has spent much of his career developing Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft. He joined Lockheed Martin as Chief Aeronautical Scientist of the Lockheed Advanced Aeronautics Company, and became Chief Engineer of Advanced Development Projects in the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. During this time, he played a leading role in creating the Joint Strike Fighter Program. He invented the Lift Fan Propulsion System that made it possible to build a stealthy, supersonic VTOL aircraft , and led the engineering team that demonstrated the feasibility of building variants of this aircraft for the Air Force, Marines, and Royal Navy. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was Manager of Advanced Programs at Rockwell International's Navy aircraft plant. He began his career as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force and Deputy Director of the Energy Conversion Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and MS and PhD degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and he is the recipient of a USAF Scientific Achievement Award, AIAA and SAE Aircraft Design Awards, AIAA and AHS VSTOL Awards, and Lockheed Martin AeroStar and Nova Awards.

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