Cleveland IEEE: the year of 2025

New Executive Committee elected officers for 2026/2027:
Chair: Chris Weber
Vice Chair: Gavin White
Treasurer: Wenbing Zhao (returning)
Secretary: Bill Nelson
Many thanks to the 2024/2025 officers:
Chair: Steven Galecki
Vice Chair: Chris Weber
Treasurer: Wenbing Zhao
Secretary: Ryan Briggs

This past year Cleveland IEEE and its associated technical societies have hosted many technical events, some are listed below:

  • Amateur Radio: The National Parks of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Post-Quantum Computing Encryption
  • Data Centers 101
Datacenter 101
  • SEL Protective Relay Workshop
SEL Protective Relay Workshop w Travis Remlinger
  • Antenna & Cable Measurements with Vector Network Analyzers
  • Solar System Internet
Solar Internet attendees w Dr Dudukovich
  • How to Design PCB Transmission Lines with Controlled Impedance
  • Control Systems/ Career workshop
Soft “Gripper Research and Early Academic Career Journey”: volunteers, officers, presenters w swag

We have also co-hosted events with other organizations.
+ Safe and Effective AI in Medicine: Structural Challenges to Unlocking its Potential (cosponsored with FES Center)
+ Tour of Magnet facility and promoting their Smart Manufacturing Roadshow

MAGNET tour

The Cleveland IEEE Young Professionals has hosted several social events as well as a Career Development workshop.

YP at Top Golf
YP Amplified discussion

STEM Events include
+ Judges for a special NEOSEF award, and an award dinner for our winners.

NEOSEF judges group picture

+ Booth displaying electrical principles at Cavaliers and Guardian STEM awareness events. This equipment is available for demonstration use by schools and other organizations.

Guardian STEM day volunteers

+ Three newsletters distributed to members describing and supporting STEM activities by IEEE members. And a page dedicated to our STEM efforts at https://ieeecleveland.org/cleveland-ieee-stem-outreach

Our Life Members gathered together for a Top Golf outing and sponsored the Senior Member recruitment drive.

We have also made connections with other organizations:
+ Greater Cleveland Partnership presented the Cleveland IEEE an award for Best of Tech 2025

+ IEEE EPICs awarded CWRU Engineers Without Borders a grant to support their effort for “Sustainable Solar Panel Energy -Malawi”

Cleveland IEEE also had several social events where members could talk and enjoy the evening:

July ExComm and members open meeting at Fathead’s brewery

The technical societies associated with Cleveland IEEE with their chairs are listed below:
+ Joint Society Encompassing: Control Systems Society & Computers Society
Lilli Dong – Chair- [email protected] / Chris Weber – Vice-Chair [email protected]
+ Joint Society Encompassing: Power & Energy Society & Industrial Electronics & Reliability & Industrial Applications Allen Morinec – Chair; – [email protected]
+Joint Society Encompassing: Signal Processing & Nuclear and Plasma Sciences & Engineering in Medicine and Biology & Instrumentation and Measurements Steven Galecki, Chair – [email protected]
+ Joint Society Encompassing: Antennas and Propagation & Microwave Theory and Techniques & Electron Devices & Aeronautical Electronics & Communications Rachel Dudukovich – Chair; [email protected]
+ Sensors: Steve Majerus – Chair; [email protected]


Future events are always posted at IEEEcleveland.org