IEEE PELS Boston Chapter: ExComm meeting January 2024

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Boston PELS Chapter Excomm meeting 


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  • Date: 10 Jan 2024
  • Time: 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • United States
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Agenda

Agenda for ExComm Meeting

January 10, 2024

  • Emails

    • Brad – IEEE or neu? Is it okay to email all?

      • Just IEEE (sends to NEU as well)

    • Cory – email yahoo mail and eta wireless. Okay to email both?

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    • Arshiah – main email Shell, emails out to folks, IEEE email, fast response on holidays – UConn or IEEE. Safe option to email all.

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    • VTools & chapter logistics

      • Updated our names on VTools, looking for secretary and other posts

      • Will update meetings and minutes on VTools from now on.

      • Need to update our vacant position of secretary and send to Karen Safina – IEEE Boston chapter

      • February Chapter meeting notices: due by Monday, Jan 22 – meaning if we have any events in February – need to send to Karen by Jan 22, they put it in IEEE Boston Reflector – magazine exclusively to Boston members

      • Shall I put our meeting minutes and notes from December meeting on VTools with Dated in Jan?

      • Should we be thinking about a chapter bank account? Or IEEE bank account? Or just ask money from PELS for event-by-event basis until we stabilize?

        • To get started – short term – ask Brad

        • For long term – think about bank account

 

  • Linkedin

    • Should we have a group in addition to page?

      • Do you want to join chapter – click here ?

      • Add a pinned post – where to sign up

      • Membership joining – make it easy

      • Group We want a membership list

    • Other

      • E-board meeting for IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) on Jan 10 evening, I am planning to share that I am involved with IEEE PELS, I did a lot of work for them, so they should be able to help us promote IEEE PELS Boston chapter at their meetings or at least collaborate with us on events

    • Activities

      • Target atleast 1 technical talk/workshop per month – online or in-person

      • Members – find who our members are

      • Starting kick off

        • Simple on food – pizza

        • Students most likely would attend

        • What hoping to do,

        • Small presentation on chapter

        • Short presentation/ technical talk

        • Where: NEU + Hybrid

        • Room: 30-50 people

        • Food: Pizza

        • Time: Thu, 5:30-7:30pm  

        • Audience: NEU undergrad students, MIT grad students,

          • Brad – teaches Thu 3:30-430pm

        • Dates: Feb 22

        • Agenda:

        • Vision – of where power electronics is going –

        • Opening remarks by President of Power Electronics - Brad

          • Propose a few ideas, what would you like

          • Plexim to buy pizzas

        • To do :

          • Brad – venue, class,

            • Pizzas + drinks

            • Parking map

          • Arshiah

            • Flyer

            • Some ball park pizza quotes

            • Ask if Plexim is available Feb 22 at that time

            • Workshop on plexim

            • 5 in max. nothing else for kick off

 

  • WIE event

    • Budget from WIE group

  • Move this to end of year with big dinner

    • Beth Silverman – Plexim – sent an email – is open to providing speakers, sponsor meetings, other ideas

      • January – kick off – shall we ask Plexim to sponsor this event or shall we hold off and do a nice dinner inviting all industries with 50-60$ per table?

      • PES Boston organized dinner for 65-70$ a plate at a hotel on I-95 for <100 people last year, and the event neither got profit nor loss

      • Logistics discuss

    • February - Distinguished lecture

      • Ask Brad

      • Based out of Boston, or passing Boston

      • Doesn’t need to be DL program

    • March – Poster/round table discussion competition for all IEEE enrolled grad/undergrad students? Online/in-person?

      • 1 hour session - Round table discussion session with 10 listeners = 1 speaker, multiple tables, with 1 speaker per table, and audience rotates every 15 min, multiple speakers in one room, speaker delivers talk 3 times in an hour (saw at a public health conference, interesting idea, shall we try one, uses less resources than a poster competition with banners etc.)

      • If we say location as MIT, it pulls crowds grad students from NE region, preferably before or after spring break

      • Co-ordinate with IEEE PES Boston?

    • How to engage industries –

      • Maybe we do events at the company sites

 

  • April – Technical talk

  • May – Technical talk

  • June – Technical talk, PELS day event brainstorm  

  • July – Technical talk

  • August –

  • September

  • October – PCB design workshop on an opensource platform, UConn students

  • November

  • December

  • Make events reccurring on the same days of the month

    • Does 4rth Thursday

Follow up:

  • Arshiah –

    • LinkedIn page

    • Chelsea high school

  • Cory –

    • Invite people to LinkedIn page & google sheets

  • Brad – emails to

    • Emails to profs across New England region

      • UMass Lowell – emailed

      • PE not at Tufts

      • URI prof. – Secretary position

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