2024 Summary
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays from the Cleveland IEEE officers.
2024 has been another busy year where 28 events were offered to our local members. A wide variety of events were offered, but lately our section has been leaning towards social/networking events. There is a table below that lists the different events.
The listing does not include our monthly Executive Committee meetings. The officers and other volunteers gather together at these ExComm meetings to plan events that are meaningful to our local members. These ExComm meetings, which are generally on the first Thursday of the month, are open to all local members with both in-person and remote attendance options.
Information about upcoming meetings and events can be found at ieeecleveland.org. And pictures of past events can be found there as well.
I want to thank all the officers and other volunteers of the Cleveland IEEE for their work in 2024. Being a volunteer for the IEEE is a time commitment but they have found a way to manage their IEEE duties along with work, family, and play (not necessarily in that order.) They have participated in various trainings, remote section meetings, and have travelled outside Cleveland to attend workshops related to their volunteer activities.
We also have three new volunteers this year that are part of our executive committee:
Gavin White is adding pictures and comments from our events into our Facebook and LinkedIn feeds. He also organized some equipment that can be used by primary school teachers to demonstrate electrical concepts to students.
Colin Russell will be organizing activities that are of interest to the younger members of our section.
Akshat Shah will be our student representative on ExComm. He is also the chair person for the CSU IEEE student branch and the Student Representative for the Cleveland State Board of Trustees.
I finally want to thank those members who stepped forward to help with individual events:
Ed Baznik helped us to secure a room for a dinner/presentation at the Independence Civic Center.
Four members volunteered as judges for the Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair: Mark Hoersten, Kenneth Lauer, Wanyun Zhong, and Dennis Althar.
Summary of the 2024’s activities
The event names in red are those events that were co-hosted with (and primarily organized by) other IEEE sections and offered locally by streaming. The event names in green are those events that were associated primarily with our student chapters at Cleveland State and Case Western Reserve.
| Title | Date |
| IEEE Cleveland Young Professionals End of Year Social | 12/21/2024 |
| Cleveland IEEE December Holiday Gathering | 12/6/2024 |
| IEEE Inter-Engineering Volleyball Tournament | 11/22/2024 |
| Perry Nuclear Power Plant Tour with IEEE-CSU | 11/16/2024 |
| Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for NASA Lunabotics | 10/19/2024 |
| Cleveland IEEE Senior Member recruitment night | 10/17/2024 |
| Nuclear Power: Reliable, Clean and Affordable | 10/14/2024 |
| Assured abstraction for hierarchical robotic planning | 9/27/2024 |
| An Introduction to Pulsed Power Systems | 9/17/2024 |
| CWRU IEEE FALL SEMINAR | 9/6/2024 |
| CSU IEEE Opening Social | 9/4/2024 |
| Gathering of the Cleveland chapter of the IEEE Computer Society | 9/4/2024 |
| IEEE Workshop on Optimizing Interplanetary Communication Through Network Autonomy | 8/26/2024 |
| IEEE Event at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant | 7/27/2024 |
| Cleveland IEEE July open meeting: West Side | 7/11/2024 |
| Cleveland IEEE July open meeting: East Side | 6/27/2024 |
| Dinner with IEEE Director of Government Relations | 4/25/2024 |
| Round-Table Discussion with IEEE Director of Government Relations | 4/25/2024 |
| IEEE WIE Career Development Seminar | 4/25/2024 |
| PCB Layout Design Virtual Workshop | 4/18/2024 |
| 2024 NEOSEF (NorthEast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair) Awards Dinner | 4/16/2024 |
| Generator Protective Relay Workshop at CSU: SEL 400G Hands-On relay settings and testing for large hydrogen cooled synchronous generator. | 4/12/2024 |
| Professor Shlomi Dolev: Post Quantum Internet | 4/10/2024 |
| Prof Yung-Hsiang Lu Distinguished Visitor Seminar (Virtual) – World-Wide Camera Networks | 3/29/2024 |
| Chiplet Design and Heterogeneous Integration Packaging | 3/26/2024 |
| Members social event at Topgolf | 3/26/2024 |
| Tektronix Tech Talk | 3/22/2024 |
| The Cleveland Open Source Modular Implant Innovators Community (COSMIIC) | 2/29/2024 |
Summary of Cleveland IEEE officers
| Executive Officers (elected) | Appointed positions | ||
| Chair | Steven Galecki | Student Representative | Akshat Shah |
| Secretary | Ryan Briggs | Young Professional Outreach Coordinator | Colin Russell |
| Treasurer | Wenbing Zhao | Social Media Coordinator | Gavin White |
| Vice Chair | Christopher Weber | Life Members | Chris Hrivnak |
The Cleveland IEEE also has four joint Technical Societies and a focused Technical Society. The different technical societies and the officers are listed below. The officers are also member of the Cleveland ExComm.
| Joint Technical Society Encompassing: Control Systems Society Computers Society Lilli Dong – Chair Chris Weber – Vice-Chair | Joint Technical Society Encompassing: Power & Energy Society Industrial Electronics Reliability Industrial Applications Allen Morinec – Chair |
| Joint Technical Society Encompassing: Signal Processing Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Engineering in Medicine and Biology Instrumentation and Measurements Steven Galecki – Chair | Joint Technical Society Encompassing: Antennas and Propagation Microwave Theory and Techniques Electron Devices Aeronautical Electronics Communications Rachel Dudukovich – Chair |
| Sensors Technical Society: Chris Zorman |