Region 4 Section Reports

21. Siouxland Section

Siouxland Section Report

IEEE Region 4 Meeting - Oct 16/17, 2004

Siouxland Section Demographics• Total Members: 235

– Members 122– Student members 51– Senior members 13– Life members 10– Associates 19– Affiliates 30

• Meetings– Section meetings per year 8– Format (lunch, dinner, talk only) dinner, workshop– Type (tour, PACE, technical) 1, 1, 3– Section vs Chapter Section Meetings– Excom meetings per year 3– % quorum Excom meetings 100%

Siouxland Section Demographics• Section Leadership for Siouxland Section

– Term: Calendar Year 2004– Chair – Jeff White, jeffwhite@ieee.org, 712-722-1663x182 (office)– Vice Chair – Steve Wolterstorff, stevew@mrenergy.com – Secretary/Treasurer – Robert Fourney, robert.fourney@SDState.edu – Member At Large/GOLD – Brian Matherly, brian.matherly@sencore.com – Member At Large – Josh Rich, Josh.Rich@premiereng.com – Electronic Comm. Coordinator – John Weber, jweber@mrenergy.com – Past Chair / Dordt Student Advisor – Doug DeBoer, ddeboer@dordt.edu – SDSU Student Advisor – Michael Ropp, michael.ropp@sdststate.edu

• Neighboring Sections– North: Red River Valley, Missouri Slope– South: Nebraska– East: Southern Minnesota, Central Iowa– West: Region 6

Siouxland Section Demographics• Section Organization

– Subsections - None– Society Chapters

• Power Engineering

– Affinity Groups• Graduates Of Last Decade (GOLD)

– Student Branches/Joint Activity• Dordt College (about 10 student members)

• South Dakota State University (about 40 student members)

Siouxland Section VitalityMeetings during 2004

January — Trends in Electricity Grid Operations and Regulation • Dinner / Presentation• 31 attendees including 8 IEEE members

March — Executive Committee Meeting• Goals and Planning 2004• 6 of 7 officers attended

April — Managing Negotiations Workshop (PACE)• Full Day Workshop• 25 participants including 12 IEEE members

April — IEEE Awards Ceremony – Student Chapters• Dinner / Awards Banquet held jointly with Eta Kappa Nu Society• 30 IEEE attendees

Oct — Executive Committee Meeting• Budget for 2005, Planning of future meetings, and Officer Nominations

Oct — Wind Power in the Midwest: Progress and Challenges • Dinner / Banquet-Presentation held jointly with “Center for Power Systems Studies” (CPSS) • Expect about 50 participants with 25 from IEEE

Oct — GOLD Kick-off Meeting Nov — Ethanol Plant Tour

• Dinner and Tour local Ethanol Plant• Expect about 15 IEEE participants

Dec — Executive Committee Meeting• Officer Election Results, Pre-Planning for 2005, Preparing new officers

Other Section Activities

• PACE – April - Managing Negotiations Workshop

• S-PAC – None

• GOLD - October – Kick Off Meeting

• Affinity Groups– Consultants Network - None– Women in Engineering – None

• Pre-college Education – None

Successes/Best Practices• The soft skills workshops (Leadership and Managing Negotiations) have

allowed us to reach out to non-IEEE members and industry in general. – Helped establish the value of the section to industry. – Gained membership (4) through this years workshop (fee structure we setup

for this workshop helped promote this)– Two of the new members gained through this workshop are officer candidates

for election– Identified areas of interest for future activities via evaluation/feedback surveys

• Region 4 meeting and IEEE-USA Workshops have helped with officer training and education.

– These events keep us updated on services available for our officers and other section member benefits

• Developed a relationship with Baker Communications. Will build on this relationship for future soft skills workshops.

Lessons Learned

• IEEE Region meetings and IEEE-USA Leadership workshops are great events to prepare and train officers.

• Take advantage of the funding opportunities the Region provides for activities such as Region Meetings, GOLD activities, IEEE-USA Leadership workshops. Through these activities our section can learn how to better promote IEEE to our section members.

Goals for Next Year

• Revitalize our Power Engineering Chapter

• Set schedule for the year early and hold officers accountable for making events happen.

• Effectively prepare and educate section officers to allow them to conduct section activities.

• Build from our success on soft skills workshops. Use this opportunity to grow the section.

• Provide necessary support for our GOLD affinity group. This is a great opportunity to gain interest from younger engineers and to revitalize the interest in our section for the future.

• Increase interaction with student branches and pre-college students by actively participating in National Engineer’s Week, Faraday Lecture, etc. and assisting student branch to interact with SAC.

Region 4 Could Most Help My Section By…

• Continue section support with funding for PACE workshops, training of officers via region meetings and IEEE-USA workshops.

• Provide an effective means for communication between sections (sharing of meetings, success stories, etc.)

• Provide and/or assist with developing an effective means for section to hold net meetings.

• Provide access to training materials on Region website.