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2010 BudgetGreetings! Attached is the 2010 IEEE Columbus Section budget. A couple of notes: 1. Amounts underutilized for student chapters was rolled over into the current year's budget. This includes money for the OSU chapter that they raised for their own use. 2. Our practice of "earmarking" funds for certain societies that received specially allocated funds from Society HQs has been changed. Instead, these monies are included in the budgeted amounts for that society for that year. Any unused funds will be rolled over. Please feel free to share any questions or concerns you may have about our budget with me. Best regards, Jack Freund
December 2009 Financials + Year EndGreetings! Below please find the following Treasurer reports for December 2009 plus the year-end reports: 1. December 2009 Banking Summary - Overall expenses by category Please let me know if you have any questions. Jack Freund
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Introducing Power Line Carrier Communication Systems11 Feb 2010 - 5:30pm 11 Feb 2010 - 7:00pm Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010 Refreshments: 5:30 to 6:00 pm 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.
January 2010 Section Meeting20 Jan 2010 - 5:30pm 20 Jan 2010 - 7:30pm IEEE Columbus Section ExCom Meeting DeVry University 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.
IEEE-USA: Science, Engineering, and Technology in SchoolsIEEE has an unique opportunity to change the way science, engineering and technology are taught in the United States - if we act quickly. A bill will soon be introduced into Congress that would help states add engineering to their basic science curriculums at the K-12 level. If passed, the bill would be a significant reform to our STEM education system. The bill will introduce all students to engineering and technology much earlier in their academic careers than we do currently. It will also encourage students to continue their science educations through high-school, a time when many American students abandon the hard sciences. While the bill has support in Congress, it needs more. We need to explain to our elected officials exactly what the bill is and what it does. Most importantly, we need to convince Congress that this issue is important enough for them to focus on it. To do this, IEEE-USA is inviting all IEEE members to come to Washington on February 8 and 9 to discuss the bill with your elected leaders. Full details are here: http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/careerflyin/default.asp If you are interested in education reform, concerned about how America is educating our future engineers and technologists, or worried about the declining number of American students who are majoring in STEM fields, this is your opportunity to make a difference. Please join IEEE-USA on February 8 and 9 to explain this problem, and this solution, with Congress. Register today! Russell T. Harrison
Commissioning Testing of HV Underground XLPE Cables7 Jan 2010 - 5:30pm 7 Jan 2010 - 7:15pm Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010 Refreshments: 5:30 to 6:00 pm Presenter: Dr. J. Kuffel, P.Eng, F.IEEE, Chief Engineer Kinectrics Inc. Register by sending email to hrjones@aep.com by 4:00 PM, 1/6/2010
November 2009 FinancialsGreetings! Below please find the following Treasurer reports for November 2009: 1. November 2009 Banking Summary - Overall expenses by category Please let me know if you have any questions. Jack Freund
The Past, Present, and Future of Supercomputing17 Dec 2009 - 7:00pm 17 Dec 2009 - 8:30pm Please join us for this interesting presentation by our partner organization the Columbus Chapter of the ACM: The Past, Present, and Future of Supercomputing Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Abstract: The principal application has been technical computing. That is, computation in the interest of science and engineering. Large computing systems have been used in finance for a few years and we have seen where that led. Early supercomputers were just the fastest systems around. However, from early on parallelism has played a major role. From vectors to clusters, parallelism at some level has been involved. Currently, supercomputers consist of thousands of PC's or game computers. Future supercomputers may consist of millions of elements designed for cell phones or other hand-held devices. Dr. Buerger has been involved with computational science and scientific computing for over forty years. For much of that time he was supporting scientific researchers in his roles in technical support at Ohio Supercomputer Center. He has served COCACM in several roles. Reservations Requested To make a reservation send e-mail to cocacm@acm.org by Wednesday, December 16. 
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