IEEE Region 6Fall Central Area Meeting

Chair: Mostafa Mortezaiemmortezaie@devry.edu

Student Activities Chair: Kate Jenkins catherine.ann.jenkins@gmail.com

Santa Clara University, Kennedy MallApril 25, 2015

AgendaTime

 Activities

8:00 AM Registration/Breakfast8:30 AM Introduction/Region 6 News9:15 AM Section and Student Branch Report10:15 AM Break10:30 AM

Parallel Tracks Track I: Design ContestsTrack II: Micromouse teams preparationTrack III: Section Officer Breakout including YP/WIE

12:00 PM Lunch (Invited talk by Nick Vandewalle, on  Scalable Raspberry Pi architecture)

1:00 PM Campus Tour 1:30 PM Micromouse Competition4:30 PM Awards & Closing Remarks

IEEE World Map

Region 1(Northeastern U.S.)

Region 2(Eastern U.S.)

Region 3(Southern U.S.)

Region 4(Central U.S.)

Region 5(Southwestern U.S.)

Region 7(Canada)

Region 8(Africa, Europe, MiddleEast)

Region 9(Latin America)

Region 10(Asia and Pacific)

Region 6(Western U.S.)

• Geographic Units in IEEE

IEEE USA Map

Region 2(Eastern U.S.)

Region 3(Southern U.S.)

Region 4(Central U.S.)

Region 5(Southwestern U.S.)

Region 6(Western U.S.)

• Geographic Units in IEEE

Region 1(Northeastern U.S.)

Region 6(Western U.S.)

IEEE Region 6 Map• Geographic Units in IEEE

Hawaii

IEEE Central Area MapRegion 6• Geographic Units in IEEE Central Area

PNG Monterey

CSU Fresno

UC Santa Cruz

SanJose SUSanta Clara U

Standford Northwestern PolyDeVry Fremont

UC SF

Cogswell College

CSU Hayward

UC Berkeley

USU Sacramento

UC SDavis

University of Hawaii

USC Chico

UNReno

Uof Pacific

Central Area Websitehttp://ewh.ieee.org/r6/central_area/

Sections in the Central Area:

Hawaii, Oakland East-Bay, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Clara Valley and Northern Nevada

• IEEE Region 6 Central Area ExCom:

Chair Mostafa Mortezaie

Student Activities Chair Kate Jenkins

Awards and Advancement Chair Roxsana Hadjizadeh

PACE Chair Suresh Vadhva

Micromouse Contest coordinator Oscar Fallah

Webmaster Hong Lin

Academic Institutions

Volunteer Organization and Staff Organization

• IEEE Board of Directors

• Educational Activities

Board

• Publication Services and

Products Board

• Member and Geographic

Activities Board

• Standards Board

• Technical Activities

Board

• IEEE USA

MGA Student Activities CommitteeMISSIONTo provide undergraduate and graduate students who have an interest in the IEEE designated fields, with opportunities for educational, technicaland professional development emphasizing the benefits and value of continuing IEEE membership after graduation.

• SAC (Chair) – Pablo Herrero - pablo.herrero@ieee.org

2015 members of the MGA Student Activities Committee (SAC)

2015 Region 6 Student Activities Chair (RSAC)• RSAC (Chair) – Kate Jenkins –

catherine.ann.jenkins@gmail.com

2015 Region 6 - Regional Student Representative(RSR)

• RSR – Phoebe Henson – pghenson@asu.edu

http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/activities_committee.html

Who qualifies for IEEE student Membership?

• Undergraduate or graduate students taking at least 50% of a normal full-time course of study in IEEE designated (going to school at least part-time)• Listed below are the IEEE designated fields:

• Engineering• Computer Science and Information Technology• Physical Sciences• Biological and Medical Sciences• Mathematics • Technical Communications, Education, Management, Law and Policy

•These are important because it is from these areas that you can recruit new student members.

IEEE Student Membership Dues

• $32.00 US and Canada (Regions 1-7)includes Potentials magazine (6 issues per year) (online and print)

includes Spectrum and the Institute (online and print)

• $27.00 all other areas of the world (Regions 8, 9 & 10)with option to subscribe to Potentials magazine for $5.00 (online and print)

includes Spectrum and the Institute (online and print)

All IEEE members have electronic access to IEEE Potentials through IEEE Xplore

We would like to thank Santa Clara University Student Branch for hosting this event.

Officers:

• Chair: Beeta Modarressi • Vice-Chair: David Blake Tsuzaki• Treasurer: Nathaniel Tucker• Secretary: Samuel Billett  • Activities Coordinator: Tanner

Malkoff• Counselor: Dr. Shoba Krishnan 

Thank you!