IEEE -Utah Section January Business Meeting Jan 25 2022

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1. Monthly ExCom on the 4th Tuesday of every month

Join WebEx meeting:  NOTE WebEx will change each month under new MGA policy!

Utah Section ExCom (January 2022) Tuesday, January, 2022

6:30 PM  |  (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)  |  1.5 hrs.

1. Monthly ExCom on the 4th Tuesday of every month

Join WebEx meeting:  NOTE WebEx will change each month under new MGA policy!

Utah Section ExCom (January 2022) Tuesday, January, 2022

6:30 PM  |  (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)  |  1.5 hrs.

2. Our last meeting was a format meeting in December with a written agenda. This is our first meeting with newly elected executive members.
3. Accomplishments in 2021 despite current pandemic:

   1. Award submissions outlined in September minutes,

      1. MGA award (for Chad), one award successful to date
      2. Potential for future awards identified, but calendar windows have closed

   2. Additional (joint) Technical Societies formed (see below).

      1. The fact these are joint is a procedural detail. Full benefits nevertheless.
      2. We have 11 TS chapters.

   3. Required two YP events held in 2021.

      1. Dan gave a YP talk on December 2^nd. Note:

         1. Slides for discussion of membership and trends (below)
         2. Not well promoted, and there is an eEvents lesson learned.
         3. Another slide showed less than 10% of CS jobs are engineering-ish; CS jobs are dominantly ecommerce related.

1. Question: Was the other Chad’s student section speaking tour?

   1. I recall it was BYU, UoU, USU, and WSU.
   2. Numbers entered into IEEE records?

2. Membership maintained as indicated by MGA recognition.

   1. Discussed at each ExCom. More below.

3. Successfully bringing on officers for 2022:

   1. Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, YP Chair (appointed due to missing election cycle), WIE Chair.

4. Support of i-ETC at UVU in 2022
5. Support of SusTech 2022 in LA.

4. Pending opportunities:

   2022. Renewed in-person or hybrid ExCom meetings in mid-2022.
   2023. Formation of a Consultants Network https://ieeeusa.org/careers/consultants/about-aicncc/
   2024. Tyler Jaynes contacted me about forming a Nanotechnology Council Chapter on December 12.

         1. On December 15^th, he emailed about a proposed conference with a spreadsheet budget.

   2025. Formation of Life Members Affinity Group
   2026. Additional high-level award submissions
   2027. Better integration of student chapters
   2028. Better integration of technical societies chapters & student chapters

         1. In-person report to ExCom once per year
         2. Hold one ExCom per year at each university?

   2029. We have opportunity to host SusTech again in the future

5. Potential plan and project to meet IEEE objectives for 202: brain storming.
6. Vice Chair report
7. Eric (Secretary) has Minutes up-to-date and posted on Collaborate.

   1. Vote on open months.

8. Treasurer’s report.
9. Discussion of conference at UVU MOU and detailed planning.
10. Planning for IEEE Bees game this 2022 fall.
11. Membership updates

    1. Certificate recognizing section member retention received in November:
    2. Membership Tracking for the last several monthly agendas

Be aware that membership typically grows to a peak each year after the first of each year (in the January report) due to our renewal cycle. January 2021 R1-6 HGM was 140K. January 2020 R1-6 HGM was 147K.

Region 6 November 2021 dropped year over year in all membership levels with biggest loss in HGM.

12. Affinity Groups:

    1. YP report.

       22. I know Eric has a potential speaker set up for February ’22.
       23. How is Rising Stars progressing?

• Welcome our 2022 YP Chair, Zack Anderson!

1. WIE Report.
2. Life Member – open committee spot.

13. TS reports and chairs (from TS websites - please correct as necessary)

    1. Joint chapters are:

       1. APS-EMC
       2. MMT-AES

• ComSoc-SPS

1. Chairs (11 TS’s)

   1. AES - Rand Jost
   2. APS - Randy Jost

• CAS - none that I can find (Ross Walker BoG ending Dec.)

1. ComSoc - Mingue Ji at UoU
2. Computer - Robert Stewart
3. EMC- Randy

• MTTS - Chad Kidder
• PES – Masood Parvania & student chapter at UoU Kenneth Hatch

1. SPS - Ming Ji
2. SSCS - Wood at BYU
3. PELS – student chapter only, USU – Benny Varghese

14. Student Section Reports

    1. Officers reference Chad’s email with list dated September 1^st (without two TS student chapters listed above)

15. IEEE/Utah first Milestone update – over a year into the process

    1. “History Committee Chair Janina Mazierska requested the Milestones Subcommittee to propose revisions to the Milestones Program Guidelines to specify that names are strongly discouraged but permitted with proper justification, and to specify the conditions for those exceptions.” Vote in December.

       21. History Committee meeting Thursday 12/16/21.

           1. Dan sat in (as corresponding member) with our R6 advocate (voting member).
           2. New language (Lengthy, and I can read it aloud at our ExCom if requested) passed at 3:26 PM MST.
           3. Our advocate should be able move proposal forward.

       22. Our Milestone was discussed during the 12/14/21 IEEE/SCV Consultants Network talk “The Pixel, and The Great Digital Convergence” by Dr. Alvy Ray Smith co-founded Pixar and Altamira Software, the first Director of Computer Graphics at Lucasfilm, first Graphics Fellow at Microsoft;  Alvy received two technical Academy Awards.

    2. Finally, I want to thank all members for their valuable contribution towards IEEE Utah Section.

I ‘d like to express my sincere appreciation to past chair Dr. Dan Donahue for his leadership and great contribution.

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