Region Executive Committee 2019 |
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| Position | Name | Contact |
| Director | Keith Moore | keith.moore@ieee.org |
| DirectorElect | Timothy Lee | tt.lee@ieee.org |
| Immediate Past Director | Kathleen Kramer | k.kramer@ieee.org |
| Treasurer | Sarge Benson | sarge.benson@lvvwd.com |
| Secretary | Richard Morse | rmorse@ieee.org |
| Central (CE) Area Chair | John Borland | johnoborland@aol.com |
| Northeast (NE) Area Chair | Peijung Tsai | ptsai2002@yahoo.com |
| Northwest (NW) Area Chair | Ravender Lal | Ravendar.Bhojwani@ieee.org |
| Southern (SO) Area Chair | Charlie Jackson | c.jackson@ieee.org |
| Southwest (SW) Area Chair | Bruce Ladewig | bruceladewig@ieee.org |
| Professional Activities (PACE) Chair | Amber Orr | aorr@popud.org |
| Student Activities Chair | Elizabeth Johnston | lise.Johnston@ieee.org |
| Region Student Representative | Joe Sandoval | jgsandov@calpoly.edu |
Region Activity Chairs and Coordinators |
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| Position | Name | Contact |
| Admissions and Advancement - Senior Membership | Vasudeva Atluri | vpatluri@ieee.org |
| Awards and Recognition | Loretta Arellano | l.arellano@ieee.org |
| Conferences | Charlie Jackson | cornetto45@earthlink.net |
| Educational Activities | Mostafa Mortezaie | mostafamortezaie@yahoo.com |
| Electronic Communications Coordintor | Matt Smith | matthew.smith.r@ieee.org |
| Finance Treasurer | Sarge Benson | sarge.benson@lvvwd.com |
| Government Relations Chair | Skyler Nix | skylernix@email.arizona.edu |
| GR Past Chair | Sheree Wen | swen@ieee.org |
| History Chair & Milestones Coordinator | Brian Berg | brianberg@gmail.com |
| Humanitarian Activities | Niru Prakash Kumar | nirupamapk78@gmail.com |
| Industry Engagement | Chair: Joe Decuir | jdecuir@ieee.org |
| VC: Yilka Masada | kmyllka@yahoo.com | |
| Membership Development | Chair: Abdur Rehman | a.r.rehman@ieee.org |
| Committee: Ram Sivaraman | ramsivaraman@ieee.org | |
| Professional Activities (PACE) | Chair: Amber Orr | aorr@popud.org |
| VC: Alberto Tam Yong | alberto.tamyong.us@ieee.org | |
| Pre-College Activities (STEM/K-12) | Mostafa Mortezaie | mostafamortezaie@yahoo.com |
| Region Vitality Coordinator (Section and Chapter Support) | Chad Kidder | ckidder@ieee.org |
| OU Analytics | Chris Gunning | c.gunning@ieee.org |
| SAMIEEE Coordinator | Larry Hammerman | l.hamerman@ieee.org |
| Sections Congress Coordinator | Elizabeth Johnston | lise.johnston@ieee.org |
| Strategic Planning | Tim Lee | tt.lee@ieee.org |
| SPA-X Coordinator (PACE Students) | Alberto Tam Yong | alberto.tamyong.us@ieee.org |
| Training | Chad Kidder | ckidder@ieee.org |
| Webmaster | Ed Perkins | e.perkins@ieee.org |
| Affinity groups | ||
| Region Life Member Coordinator | John Kroon | johnkroon@earthlink.net |
| Women in Engineering Region Coordinator | Kathy Herring-Hayashi | kathyhh@gmail.com |
| Young Professionals (YP) Coordinator | Ramesh Nair | rameshnair@ieee.org |
| YP-Students Coordinator | Alberto Tam Yong | alberto.tamyong.us@ieee.org |
| Conferences | ||
| Conference Chair, 2020 IEEE Rising Stars Conference (RS19) | Anis Ben Arfi | anis.b.arfi@gmail.com |
| Conference Chair, 2019 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC2019) | Paul Cunningham | paul@iimg.com |
| Conference Chair, 2020 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech2020) | Charlie Jackson | cornetto45@earthlink.net |
Region 6 Committees |
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| Region 6 Awards Committee : R6 Awards Chair, Area Awards Chairs if appointed, others as appointed | ||
| Region 6 Membership Development Committee: R6 Membership Development (MD) Chair, MD Chairs of Sections) | ||
| Region 6 PACE Committee: R6 PACE Chair, R6 Pre-College Activities Chair, R6 SPA-X Coordinator, Section PACE Chairs) | ||
| Region 6 Student Activities Committee : R6 Student Activities Chair, R6 RSR, R6 SPA-X Coordinator, R6 Educational Activities Chair, R6 YP-Student Chair, 2016 Regional Student Activities Coordinator, 2017 Chair of Rising Stars Conference, 2018 Chair of Rising Stars Conference, additional appointees) | ||
| Region 6 Women in Engineering Committee: R6 WIE Chair, Section Affinity Group Chairs | ||
| Region 6 Young Professionals Committee: R6 YP Chair, R6 YP-Student Chair (=R1-6 Rep), others as appointed | ||
| Region 6 History: R6 History Chair, R6 IEEE Milestone Coordinator | ||
Region 6 Representative Positions on IEEE Related Committees |
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| IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Committees | Region 6 Representative | |
| Section Education Outreach Committee | R6 Educational Activities Chair | |
| IEEE Membership & Geographic Activities (MGA) Committees | Region 6 Representative | |
| Admissions & Advancement | R6 Admissions and Advancement Chair | |
| MGA Awards | R6 Awards Chair | |
| MGA Finance Committee | R6 Treasurer | |
| MGA Information Management Oversight Committee | R6 Electronic Communications Coordinator (ECC) | |
| Membership Recruitment & Recovery Committee | R6 Membership Development Chair | |
| Sections Vitality Committee | R6 Region Vitality Coordinator | |
| Student Activities Committee | R6 Student Activities Chair, R6 Regional Student Representative | |
| Life Members Committee | R6 Life Member Coordinator | |
| Women in Engineering | R6 Women in Engineering Coordinator | |
| IEEE Young Professionals | R6 Young Professionals Coordinator (and there is a R1-6 Representative, currently from Region 6) | |
Region 6 Representatives on IEEE-USA Committees |
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| PACE | R6 PACE Chair | |
| SPA-X Student Professional Awareness | R6 SPA-X Coordinator | |
| IEEE-USA R&D | R6 Government Relations Chair | |
| IEEE-USA CCP Committee | Sheree Wen | swen@ieee.org |
| IEEE-USA Awards & Recognition Committee | R6 Awards Chair | |
| IEEE-USA K-12 STEM Literacy Committee | R6 Pre-University Educational Activities Chair | |
| updated 15-Apr-19 | ||
2019 R6 Areas and Section Chairs
| Region 6 Areas: there are 5 geographical areas for the Western USA: Central, Northeast, Northwest, Southern, and Southwest. |
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| Central (CE) Area | Chair | John Borland | johnoborland@aol.com |
| Co-Chair | Dhaval Brahmbhatt | dhaval@phychip.net | |
| Area SAC | Ramesh Nair | rameshnair@ieee.org | |
| Hawaii Section | Chair | Kishore Erukulapati | ekishore@gmail.com |
| Northern Nevada Section | Chair | Mehmet Gunes | mgunes@unr.edu |
| Oakland-East Bay Section | Chair | Krishneel Kishor | krishneel@ieee.org |
| Sacramento Valley Section | Chair | Suresh K Vadhva | vadhva@csus.edu |
| San Francisco Section | Chair | Charles Mee | cqm@cpuc.ca.gov |
| Santa Clara Valley Section | Chair | Glenn Friedman | gxtec@aol.com |
| Monterey Bay Subsection of Santa Clara Valley | Chair | Weilian Su | weilian@nps.edu |
| San Francisco Bay Area Council (Oakland East Bay, San Francisco, Santa Clara Valley) | Chair | Ed Aoki | e.aoki@ieee.org |
| Northeast (NE) Area | Chair | Peijung Tsai | ptsai@ieee.org |
| Vice-Chair | Sean Collison | scollison@gmail.com | |
| Area SAC | Robert Stewart | rstewart@ieee.org | |
| Boise Section | Chair | Hao Chen | haochen@boisestate.edu |
| Central Montana Section (Bozeman) | Chair | Rob C Maher | rob.maher@montana.edu |
| Eastern Idaho Section | Chair | Hope Forsmann | hope.forsmann@inl.gov |
| Eastern Montana Section | Chair | Kristopher Kenney | kristopher.kenney@hdrinc.com |
| Utah Section | Chair | Chad Kidder | ckidder@ieee.org |
| Western Montana Section (Butte) | Chair | William Schubert | william.schubert@northwestern.com |
| Northwest (NW) Area | Chair | Ravendar Lal | ravendar.bhojwani@gmail.com |
| Vice Chair | |||
| Area SAC | Charles Mayer | cemayer@alaska.edu | |
| Alaska Section | Chair | John Gordon Owens | jgo@gci.net |
| V Chair | Nolan Willis | WillisNJ@CI.ANCHORAGE.AK.US | |
| Central Washington Section | Chair | Randall C Groves | r.groves@ieee.org |
| Fairbanks Subsection of Alaska Section | Chair | TBA | |
| Oregon Section | Chair | Paulo Vasconcelos | paulo.vasconcelos@ieee.org |
| Palouse Section | Chair | Brian Johnson | b.k.johnson@ieee.org |
| Richland Section | Chair | Warnick Kernan | warnick.kernan@pnnl.gov |
| Seattle Section | Chair | Alon Newton | anewton@ieee.org |
| Spokane Section | Chair | Amber Orr | aorr@popud.org |
| Southern (SO) Area | Chair | Charlie Jackson | c.jackson@ieee.org |
| Vice Chair | Sevada Isayan | isayan@ieee.org | |
| Area SAC | Walter Iu | walteriu@ieee.org | |
| Buenaventura Section | Chair | Nathalie Gosset | gosset@ieee.org |
| Central Coast Section | Chair | Ruth Franklin | rfranklin.ieee@gmail.com |
| China Lake-Bakersfield Section | Chair | Octavio Escobedo | Octavio.Escobedo.US@ieee.org |
| Coastal Los Angeles Section | Chair | Mike Briggs | briggs@ee.ucla.edu |
| Foothill Section | Chair | David Gonzalez | davidgonzalez@ieee.org |
| Metropolitan Los Angeles Section | Chair | Charles Cai | charles.cai@sbcglobal.net |
| Orange County Section | Chair | Raja Khabbaz | raja.khabbaz.us@ieee.org |
| San Fernando Valley Section | Chair | Sevada Isayan | isayan@ieee.org |
| Southern California Council | Chair | Brian Hagerty | brian.hagerty.us@ieee.org |
| Southwest (SW) Area | Chair | Bruce Ladewig | bruceladewig@ieee.org |
| Vice Chair | Richard Morse | rmorse@computer.org | |
| Area SAC | Xun Luo | xun.luo@ieee.org | |
| Area Excom | Sarge Benson | ||
| Alamogordo-Holloman Section | Chair | Cleon H Barker | cleon@tularosa.net |
| Albuquerque Section | Chair | Jason Neely | jneely@sandia.gov |
| Fort Huachuca Section | Chair | Jim Richmann | richmann@acm.org |
| Las Vegas Section | Chair | Mark Damron | mdamron@yahoo.com |
| Los Alamos/Northern New Mexico Section | Chair | Heather Quinn | hquinn@lanl.gov |
| Phoenix Section | Chair | Surinder Tuli | surinder.tuli@gmail.com |
| San Diego Section | Chair | Gabriel Alcala | galcala@atecorp.com |
| Tucson Section | Chair | Richard Morse | rmorse@computer.org |
| updated 15-Apr-19 | |||
2019 Region 6 Meetings
| Event | Date | Location | ||||
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| Conferences | ||||||
| IEEE Rising Stars | 4-Jan | Las Vegas | ||||
| WIE-ILC | 23-May | Austin | ||||
| YP in PNW | July 12 | Seattle | ||||
| SusTech | April 23-25, 2020 | Southern California | ||||
| GHTC | Oct. 17-20 | Seattle | ||||
| Region Meetings | ||||||
| Region Opcom | 25-Jan | Phoenix | ||||
| R6 Strategic Planning | 8-Jun | Richland | ||||
| R6 Excom | 2-Nov | Tucson | ||||
| Spring Area Meetings | ||||||
| SoArea | 23-Mar | Los Angeles | ||||
| NWArea | 30-Mar | Portland | ||||
| NEArea | 6-Apr | Idaho Falls | ||||
| CEArea | 13-Apr | CSU-Sacramento | ||||
| SWArea | 13-Apr | SDSU | ||||
| Fall Area Meetings | ||||||
| Southern Area | 26-Oct | Irvine | ||||
| SW Area | 5-Oct | Tucson | ||||
| Central Area | 12-Oct | San Francisco | ||||
| NEArea | 12-Oct | Boise | ||||
| NW Area | 18-Oct & 19-Oct | Seattle 18-Oct - tour 19-Oct - meeting | ||||