March 2010 PES Corner

It is hard to believe March is here and important IEEE Conferences are just around the corner. Several things are going on for HR-PES Chapter. I am pleased to announce that our tour request of Surry Nuclear Power has been approved (April 7th at 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.). Further, the tour invitation is now open to Section members of IEEE. If you are interested to attend this daytime event please contact me via e-mail by March 15th. Please include the following information in your contact: Citizenship and IEEE member number. Non U.S. citizens do require advance approval by the Plant Director. My Delegate, Glenn Oder will be attending this tour, and there are three more seats reserved for State Delegates. Please contact your Representative and ask them to reserve the date, and join us.
Steve Walk is working on our upcoming meetings include ODU's Solar Decathlon Team to present March 25th, at ODU main campus. Watch the V- tools page for more details on that meeting. April hopes to bring us (in addition to the day tour of Surry) a plant tour of Aetna wire for a plant tour.
Dawn Ostenberg' persistence pays off to get a response from IEEE about Section and Chapters ability to affiliate and support various political action committees. Our specific interest of the moment is the Green Job Alliance and Green Economic Alliance. The Chapter has signed a letter of support for the upcoming Green Jobs Federal Legis

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lative Conference on March 2, 2010. I will attend the morning breakfast event and Dawn Ostenberg will attend the luncheon event on the Southside.
Notes from the PES corner ends with a reminder that our elections will be coming up in early April. While Dawn, Steve and myself plan to continue on for a second term, Tama Littley is unable to continue in the role of Treasurer for a second term. She has done a fantastic job at keeping the books and rather than give you the standard answer of 'Oh, it is only about an hour a week...' of your time. If you are willing or interested to help, or learn more about the Treasurer's position please contact me or Tama for more information. Having one person to handle the books and end of year financial report is important. Please consider taking on this job to keep our new chapter rolling!
HR-PES invites your feedback and suggestions to improve our organization.
Jennifer Ammentorp
jennifer.ammentorp@ieee.org