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 On
behalf of the Executive Committee I want to extend to all members of
the IEEE Houston Section a welcome to the new millennium. We are
also starting New Year during which I am looking forward to be
at the service of each one of you as your Chairman. I want to
express my appreciation to all the executive Committee volunteers who
have accepted to share the work and the leadership of the Houston
Section with me in the coming year. Their names are listed on the
back page of The Pocket Scope.
I attended the Sections Congress 99 this past October
an we were exposed to a lot of new ideas that could be implemented in
our Section. Some of
these ideas come from programs that are in execution in other
sections. We have plans
to initiate in our Section some of these new programs which have
proven successful and beneficial to members in other sections.
To mention a few examples: utilization of the electronic media
more effectively to keep the members better informed, expand our
students activities and get our student members more involved with the
Houston Section, find topics and speakers for our monthly meetings
that better appeal to the interest of our members.
However, if we do not have the active participation and
feedback from the Section members none of the activities and/or
programs that we intend to put in practice will be successful.
The speaker for our January meeting will be Dr.
Charles S. Lessard and his presentation will be on “Spatial
Disorientation” (SD). The
accident that cost the life to John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and
sister in law is attributed to SD. Dr. Lessard is a retired Lt.
Colonel of the US Air Force and presently a tenured Associate
Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A & M University.
He is also Past-Chairman of the IEE PACE Network.
This will be an exciting presentation.
Finally,
I would like to thank Past Chairman Kenneth Mercado for his hard work
and leadership during this past year and for his support in preparing
all of the necessary conditions to facilitate my work in the coming
year
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