Area B Chair nomination for Dr. Amruthur Narasimhan - Statement

            Dr. Amruthur Narasimhan has been volunteer for New Jersey Coast since 1995.  He was Computer Chapter Chair from 1995 through 1997.  During this period he brought fiscal stability to chapter by conducting a seminar on Multimedia Communications in which he was the speaker. 

            Dr Amruthur Narasimhan was chair of New Jersey Coast from Sept 1997 through December 2002.  During his tenure as a Chair he has brought in revenues to the section by conducing once a year seminar/conferences in high technology subjects for the members. 

     Some of the major accomplishments during his tenure as Chair of New Jersey coast are listed below:

·        Electronic Communication

The New Jersey Coast Section currently uses IEEE Entity Web Hosting (EWH) for providing information on Calendar of Events, Online Registration, Announcements, Executive Committee contact Information, Directions to Locations, and Banquet Photos.  The ewh website is looked as technical resource by keeping current and past events are kept on the ewh website.  We have been able to create a database of past talk attendees to better target mass e-mails.

·        Online Registration for talks, Banquet, PACE etc.

          The EWH environment is also used to host an online registration engine. The online registration uses forms to gather registration data for different activities, e.g. talks, annual banquet, PACE workshops, annual Seminars, and election nominations.

ADVANTAGES:

(i)                  Changes in the registration information, e.g. filled seats, date changes, etc. can be placed on the website, and emails can be generated for every registration.

(ii)                No telephone calls need to be made to the volunteers for event registrations e.g. talks, Banquet, Seminar, PACE workshop, etc.  Also, no need for volunteers to aggregate all the information after receiving phone calls.

(iii)               Registration count can be used to give the total number of people attending the talk to the restaurant.

(iv)              Registration information can be preprinted for easy registration at the talk.

·        Section Outstanding Speaker Award

The section has instituted an outstanding speaker award annually and it is awarded to the best speaker based on the recommendations received from the Chapter Chairs and the Awards Committee.

·        Pre-college education

The Section has initiated a program for conducting courses to teach C++ programming language to high school students. The instructor volunteers from the Section are compensated for their effort via honorarium of about $500 per person.

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