Minutes of SVEC Council July 2000 Meeting

Minutes of SVEC Council July 2000 Meeting

The July meeting of the Silicon Valley Engineering Council was held Wednesday, July 26, 2000. The meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Dave Licata, President.

Attendees and Introductions

Larry Bethel, ASME, SVEC Secty.
Michael Wright, ISA, ECSCV
Rendee L. Dore, Workforce Silicon Valley
Ardshev Ahmed, IEEE
Edward Kaminski, ASM, SVEC Treas.
Felicita Saiez, SWE, SVEC Director
Sam Haddad, SVEC
Ron Kane, IEEE
Gil Walter, PSMA
Edwin Vivian El-Kaveh, ISA, et. al.
Mary Clare Sprott, Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Invention and Ideas
Richard Osburn, NCCAVS
Sue Smith, IEEE
Neil Menzies, Merrill Lynch
Daniel Zimbaldi, Merrill Lynch
Metin Ozen, ASME

President's Report

Dave outlined the overall goal of the SVEC; serving our member societies and individuals. This will be accomplished through

• an effective infrastructure,
• meetings that are interesting and relevent,
• collaboration between industry and education,
• web based communications,
• support of education and curriculum
• seminars
• the annual banquet.

Special Presentations

Metin Ozen presented an overview of Finite Element Analysis technology and it's relation to many of the newly developing businesses in the valley. Involvement in ASME recent Bay Area Technical Conference on Miniaturization Technolgies and MEMS club were highlighted.

Mary Clare Sprott described the Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Invention and Ideas. This center for patents and trademarks is a unique local resource for protecting intellectual property. This library has existed in Sunnyvale for 25 years but is now threatened by funding cutbacks. Their range of services include education, patent and trademark searches, video conferencing with the PTO, and other services. See http://www.sci3.com for more information.

The 1999-2000 summary SVEC Treasurers Report was submitted.

Other Items

Rendee Dore described WSV's July 12 event which included guests-of-honor Colin Powell and Dana Carvey.
The previous Secretary's report was identified as posted on the SVEC website.
Ardshev Ahmed reported that IEEE has a newly elected slate of officers
Larry Bethel, ASME, also reported that they have a new slate of officers, with Elise Englehardt, Chair.
Felicita Saiez reports that SWE has newly elected officers, including Karen Lo, President. She also described the "Get Set" program for 9th-12th grade girls.
The American Vacuum Society also has newly elected officers, with Randall Mundt serving as Chair.
Sam Haddad recommended several activities to the directors and elected officers of SVEC, these include reminding member representatives of upcoming meetings in order to promote increased attendance and participation, accepting donations from presenters to underwrite the cost of meeting refreshments, and membership of SVEC in the American Electronics Association. SVEC agreed to take these suggestions under consideration at the next SVEC executive council meeting.
The Engineers Club of Santa Clara Valley (ECSCV) will have a Board Meeting Thursday, August 3, to prepare programs for the next few months. Meeting topic tentatively scheduled for August 24 is "Skydiving From 30,000 Feet." Joe Cassisi, club president, will ask the club board for SVEC membership dues.
Michael Wright, ISA, Santa Clara Valley Section reports that there are active plans for re-vitalizing the local section. There are monies available from a previous account and we willing people have been identified to participate as officers. ISA hopes to have a section meeting this year. Edwin V. El-Kareh has volunteered to serve as section president and Michael Wright has volunteered to serve as section treasurer. Michael will ask for $200 from section account to re-join SVEC.

SVEC Secretary/Director's Report

Provided by Michael Wright(not verbally given at Council meeting)
The July newsletter was mailed to about 350 people and is available to download from the SVEC webpage (www.svec.org) as a MS Word document.

A list of important dates for SVEC for 2000 - 2001 was distributed. The meeting and banquet dates are as follows.

SVEC Dates for 2000 - 2001
Date	Time	Location	Event
8/23/2000 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.
9/27/2000 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.
10/25/2000 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.
11/15/2000 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Open House
1/24/2001 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.
2/23/2001 Wed.	5:00 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Banquet
3/28/2001 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.
4/25/2001 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.
5/23/2001 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.
6/27/2001 Wed.	6:30 PM	LMMS Bldg.107	Council Mtg.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:24 PM.

Minutes of SVEC Executive Board Meeting

The Executive Board meeting was called to order following the close of the open meeting. The motion to join the American Electronics Association was tabled to allow further time to consider the possible benefits of membership and to consider the appropriateness of membership relative to the SVEC charter.

The schedule for future Executive Board meetings was discussed. It was agreed that a time roughly between the council meetings would be best to allow any needed actions to be completed between board and membership meetings. To ensure the greatest participation of all elected directors and officers, it was agreed that the board would be polled by e-mail as to the 'best' schedule.

Minutes submitted by Larry Bethel, July 31, 2000
bethell @ asme.org

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