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Silicon Valley Engineering Council

5/24/2000 Meeting Minutes

This meeting was held in the conference room of B-107 at Lockheed-Martin, we want to thank them for their support and hospitality.

The meeting began at 7:00 PM

Attendees

Cliff Monroe                      CA Engineering / Technology Project
Dave Licata                      IEEE
Sam Haddad                   ASME
Felicita Saiez                   SWE
Edward Kaminski            ASMI
Larry Rinek                       SAE
Steve Sherman                ASCE

Michael Wright                ISA
Edwin El-Kareh               ASM, SME, ISA, LEOS
Richard Osburn               NCCAVS
Gilbert Walter                  ASM, SME
Ardsher Ahmed               IEEE
Ron Kane                         Secretary, IEEE

Introductions

Each of the attendees was invited to introduce themselves, a number of participants were new to the group.

2000-2001 Officer Nominations - Sam Haddad

Dr. Sam Haddad, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the slate of candidate officers for the 2000-2001 period. Summaries of the candidate "resumes" will be distributed at the election meeting (June) and will be posted to the website.

So far seven résumé's have been received:

2 for Chair: Steve Sherman and David Licata
Vice Chair: Cliff Monroe
Treasurer Ed Kaminski
Secretary: Larry Rinek
4 Directors: Felicita Saiez, others...

Sam also indicated that he has received information regarding position openings, in particular a Director of Sales and Marketing for Motorola in the San Jose area as well as Austin. See Sam for details.

Workforce Silicon Valley (WFSV) - Cliff Monroe

June 7 meeting planned to be held at Building 107, "Engineering / Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Advisory Committee", an announcement and agenda were distributed.

Treasurer's Report - Ed Kaminski

Bank account at $9468 overall, a detailed accounting was distributed. The final accounting for the banquet has been settled.

Hall of Fame Banquet - Next Year -- February, 2000 Thursday evening

A solicitation from Felicita - Worthwhile efforts to spend our "Surplus"

Felicita put forth the idea of pursuing a SVEC project to gain more recognition. A short brainstorming session took place during the meeting, the list of concepts is as follows:

Suggest an award based concept for teacher recognition as an incentive - Teacher awards
Big SVEC events Marketing / budget
Text book round up
Math / Science quiz-type competition
Student recognition dinner
Teacher reference library
Society participation enhancement
Symposium sponsorship

Steve made a motion to discuss these topics at the June meeting with the intent of the next council to proceed with pursuing one, seconded by David Licata. Generally agreed to by everyone.

Round Table Discussion

NCCAVS - Richard Osburn, June, 23 annual dinner
SWE - 6/3 Saturday, all day Career Strategies Management Workshop, check the SWE website
IEEE - annual banquet 6/14
WFSV - 6/7 advisory committee meeting
ASM - Ed Kaminski announced they have wound down for the summer
ASME - Larry - The Bay Area Technical Conference was held with 80-100 attendees. Close to or at maximum attendance. Very successful.
ASCE - Steve - Steve and his wife Becki spent their 15th wedding anniversary presenting $10k to 15 students at the ASCE / APWA Student Awards banquet.
SAE - Larry - Their May meeting was highlighted by a student member flying and displaying his own hand built aircraft. Also, there are serious organizational problems at the local chapter and may go inactive.
A short discussion about the state of the name / address database also took place. No significant activity.

Special Notice

Ed Kaminski received the Paragon Award, national recognition, for his support of swimming competitions. His efforts have been in aid of the synchronized swimming events.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Submitted and posted R. Kane 6/13/2000