PES UFSM Chapter Board meeting (29/06/2021)

#Meeting

In July 29th, at 7 pm, the IEEE PES executive committee, under the chairmanship of Pedro Eisenkraemer, organized a virtual meeting, to discuss about:

1- Vtools

The chair presented the IEEE Vtools platform and defined the necessary actions to update all the events, meetings and reports in the Vtools platform. It was defined that is necessary to update all the events done in 2020.

2- Future events

We discussed the realization of future events. The list presented below illustrates, in green, the events we have already organized, and, in red, the events we haven’t organized yet. The idea is to keep organizing the green events, and start to organize the red ones. For that, we discussed how to complete this goal. Some ideas are: Make a campaign for blood donation, organize a virtual technical visit, in an electrical substation or in a hydroelectric plant, watch a soccer game, or a movie together, with the objective to do some group recreation activity. 

1. Technical activities.

2. Tours and technical visits.
3. Membership growth.
4. Retention activities, meetings, happy hours.
5. Membership elevation.
6. Membership recognition activities.

7. IEEE STEP (Student transition and elevation partnership).

8. PES women in power activities.

9. PES humanitarian activities.

10. PES pre-university activities. Call for high-school students. Introduce renewable energy. Drawings for kids (RES for kids).

11. PES day.

12. Pes news articles.

13. Interaction with other IEEE chapter units.
14. Conference activities.

3- Chapter’s elections:

In the meeting, we discussed the election of a new directory. Some members volunteered to be the new chair, vice chair, secretary and treasurer, but we haven’t defined the new directory yet. With all being decided and having no further issues to discuss, the present report was written, read and approved by the secretary, Pedro Sebastiany and by the chair, Pedro Eisenkraemer.