Silicon Valley Engineering Council

10/27/99    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 7:03 PM, ended at 8:48 PM.

Attendees

Cliff Monroe                      CA Engineering / Technology Project
Manesh Shah                   AIChE
Dave Licata                      IEEE
Rufino Olay                       IEEE
Larry Rinek                       SAE
Steve Sherman                ASCE
Jim Ritchie                       Workforce Silicon Valley
Ron Kane                         Secretary, IEEE
Michael Wright                 ISA / SVEC Newsletter
Bahman Narzbani           Visitor
David Levinson               Discover "E"
Paul Hof                          Guest Speaker - THAAD
Mike Crouch                    Visitor
Richard Osburn               Visitor
Hiep Khuc                        Visitor
Felicita Saiez                  SWE & Banquet Chair
Bob Goslow                     CSPE & OE (Link #130)
Scott Butcher                   "Keeper of the HOF stuff"

Meeting Discussions

No Treasurer's report.

Update of HOF Presentation Materials
 

Poster presentation panels for the Hall of Fame members were on display for comments.  These posters are intended for display at The Tech.

Nearly last minute discussions regarding the Open House activities took place.   Tour methodology and paying for catered food were discussed as well.  A $1000 was approved for last minute catering expenses.

The San Francisco Engineering Council expressed interest in presenting their scholarships at the SVEC banquet, the possibility of supporting this in the future will be necessary.

A Speaker is still being sought.

Moira Gunn is the MC.

"Food tasting" at the Marriot was scheduled for the coming Friday, Dave Licata will perform the tasting task in preparation for menu selection.

David Levinson announced that he was preparing the mailers for the teachers.

Jim Ritchie described the Ground Hog Day shadowing program, brochures were available and there are about 260 students that need placement.

SAE - Larry Rinek announced that "The Pratt-Whitney Story" was the program topic is the SJSU Aviation Dept for 11/18

AiChE - Manesh Shaw summarized the process control presentation held at the Clorox facility in Pleasanton.  A venture capital for Chemical Engineering by Hambreck and Quist was scheduled for 11/9, the next AiChE meeting was planned for 11/16 at the Berkeley Spaghetti Factory.

CSPE - No November meeting, next meeting 12/5 as a Joint Chapter meeting.  The Fundamentals of Engineering Review is scheduled to start in January at Cogswell College (Sunnyvale), Tuesday evenings, the test sessions are scheduled in in April.

Presentation Summary

Paul Hoff, Missile Systems Director for the THAAD flight test program discussed the status of the missile development effort and showed two variations of flight video of the THAAD during a successful intercept.  [Only the general aspects of the THAAD program were presented because due to the classified nature of this development.]
 

Submitted and posted R. Kane 01/25/00

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