Please join us on Webex Wednesday and note the time change this month to at 7:00 p.m.: - 2025 Elections - Co-hosted Distinguished Speaker Webinar Everyone is welcome to come help us to continue building a new leadership team. Updates and announcements from local Leaders welcome. IEEE EXCOM Committee, All section officers, and the chairs of the chapters, affinities, committees and subsection are expected to attend. Other interested members and guests are welcome. Advance registration is preferred. The September 11, 2024 ExCom Meeting is a VIRTUAL Webex meeting only. Therefore, the meeting will begin at 7 PM. Meeting Link for Wednesday, this time at 7:00 p.m.: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/meet/WX3ENCieee.org Meeting Schedule: 7:00 PM Agenda 8:30 PM Adjourn Please register so that your participation can count toward our Regional attendance. Your participation does make a difference. We need you to help us transition to new leadership, honor and recognize member achievements, help with SoutheastCon 2025 and communicate with members. Work DIRECTLY with today's leaders to create a new leadership role. Here is a useful link for the MGA operations manual: https://mga.ieee.org/images/files/CurrentMGA_Operations_Manual_2023_June_29_2023_CG_v1.1.pdf Agenda: IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section Executive Committee Remote Meeting Agenda for Wednesday, 09/11/2024 The Agenda will be updated with more detail prior to the meeting, so check back. 6:00 pm Convene Executive Committee (ExCom) (Magruder) Greetings, Introductions & Volunteer Interests (Magruder) Confirm Voting ExCom Member Attendance (Proudlove) Recognize Substitutes for Absent Voting Members (Proudlove) Review / Adjust / Approve Agenda (Magruder) Review / Approve Minutes of Past Meetings (Proudlove) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ubq8C3igaPkMuDMdBLdJDabg56Rs2aNCQIkYkHC5vXI/edit?usp=sharing) Financial Update if needed (Pennisi) Meetings, Events and Approvals (Magruder) - Update: Election Committee and Slate of Candidates - Report: August 17 Family Gathering at Pullen Community Center - Richmond Comp Society Chapter Co-Hosted Webinar (Nadella) - Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Adel Elmaghraby - Date: Friday, Noon, 10/18/2024 - “AI and Digital Transformation: Industry Driven Partnerships” Old or New Business (Magruder) - 2024 Awards and Recognition - SoutheastCon 2025 - Optional Updates from Leadership: - Awards and Recognitions: Abhinav Aggarwal - Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Chair: Tulika Jha - Computer Society: Geeta Nadella - Life Member Affinity Group: Clay Cranford - NCSU Chapter Chair: Mario Nava - Nominations & Appointments Chair: Joe Pennisi - Power Electronics Society: Jonathan DeMay - Student Activities Group: Sneha Narasimhan - Technology & Engineering Management Society (TEMS): Megha Ben - Women in Engineering Affinity Group: Eve Klopf - Young Professionals Affinity Group: Prakhar Lohiya < 7:30 pm Adjourn ExCom Meeting (Magruder) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/432894

The Careers in Technology Fall Series begins on 24 September at 8pm Eastern Time with: Professor Victor B Lawrence, PhD IEEE Fellow, National Inventors Hall of Fame. In the introduction, Dr Lawrence’s preparation for a career at Bell Labs in Advanced Communication Technologies will be discussed. Then Dr Lawrence will conduct a detailed deep dive discussion of modern communications and networks. Some of Dr Lawrence’s technical experience includes: Key innovations of Bell Labs, artificial intelligence and machine learning, communications technologies, telecommunications, networks, patents, standards of today. Technology for the future. HDTV, Modems, Bluetooth: The importance of Standards. Professor Victor B Lawrence, PhD will share his thoughts about the future influence of technology in society, and recommendations for navigating a technical career in this era. Lawrence has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including: - 1981: (https://ieee-cas.org/guillemin-cauer-award), (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Circuits_and_Systems_Society) - 1984: J. Harry Karp Best Paper Award at Interface '84 - 1986: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley), Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series - 1987: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers) - 1992: Fellow of (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Bell_Labs) - 1995: Black Engineer for Outstanding Technical Contributions - 1997: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Awards) for (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Alliance_(HDTV)) Standard - 2000: IEEE Millennium Medal - 2003: Member of (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering) - 2004: IEEE Award in International Communication - 2007: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Simon_Ramo_Medal) for leadership in world-wide data communications networks - 2012: Charter Fellow of (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Inventors) (NAI) - 2016: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Inventors_Hall_of_Fame_inductees) Speaker(s): Professor Victor B Lawrence, PhD IEEE Fellow Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/431105

[] On this celebratory IEEE Day, let us rejoice in the combined IEEE worldwide activities of 39 technical societies and 7 interdisciplinary councils on one side of the IEEE coin, balanced with local sections and student chapters, bringing a physical presence of IEEE to local communities. By the way, one could argue that IEEE also has a 3rd leg into humanitarian activities. These S/C span a great swathe from hardware to software, including electronic devices, solar/wind energy production, power transmission, control theory, image compression, signal processing, and computer architecture. One could say this moves from applied physics to applied math. However, this session drills down to predominantly 1 of these societies, the electron device society, where the field of semiconductor materials and devices thrives. So, with the USA's Chips and Science Act to onshore semiconductor chip manufacturing, what does this mean to you and your communities. First, the Chips portion supports semiconductor companies to build or expand domestic chip production. The Science portion aims to perform workforce development to populate those factories. Where will this new workforce come from and what do you need to do to prepare for your future? This talk aims to take a critical look at the opportunities before you in the semiconductor industry. With time permitting and audience interest, some discussion in humanitarian roles IEEE plays will also be discussed. Speaker(s): Paul Berger, PhD Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/434305