IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section History
IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section History | |
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Established date | 1965/11/03 |
IEEE Region | 3 |
IEEE Council | North Carolina |
Geographic region | Eastern North Carolina |
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Section History
While the IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section has a history that dates back to its establishment in 1965, IEEE has an even deeper history in the eastern North Carolina area. A student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was established at North Carolina State College (now North Carolina State University) in 1910. A student chapter of the Institute of Radio Engineers was established at the same school in 1947. When the AIEE and the IRE merged in 1963 to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the two student chapters, which had been meeting jointly since at least 1955, also merged to form a student branch of the IEEE. Today, the charters of all three organizations are proudly displayed in the IEEE Student Branch Office at NCSU.
Originally, the Eastern North Carolina Section was a subsection of the statewide North Carolina section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, which was organized in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 22, 1929. According to a press release sent out in November 1955, "the North Carolina Section is comprised of members of the electrical engineering industry throughout the state." The following year, the North Carolina Section of AIEE had 474 members. In 1963, the North Carolina Section of AIEE became part of the merged IEEE.
The Institute of Radio Engineers in North Carolina began as part of the Virginia-North Carolina Section of the IRE in 1955. Two years later, the North Carolina IRE Section was created as a separate entity. The North Carolina IRE Section met jointly with AIEE from about 1955 until the merger of AIEE and IRE in 1963.
With the development of the Research Triangle Park in the Raleigh-Durham area in the early 1960s and technological growth in other parts of the state, the individual subsections of the North Carolina Section were established as standalone sections. The Eastern North Carolina Section was established on November 9, 1965, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015.
Year | Chair | Vice chair | Secretary | Treasurer |
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2001 | C Siegl | John Gibson | Maya Yarbrough | David Ruden |
2002 | John Gibson | David Ruden | David Ruden | |
2003 | Abhinav Aggarwal | David Ruden | Jana Jenkins | David Ruden |
2004 | Mary Ellen Randall | David Ruden | Thomas Jepsen | Roger Lawrence |
2005 | David Ruden | Roger Lawrence | Jai Arun | Thomas Jepsen |
2006 | Roger Lawrence | Thomas Jepsen | William Palmer | Jai Arun |
2007 | Roger Lawrence | Thomas Jepsen | William Palmer | Jai Arun |
2008 | Thomas Jepsen | William Palmer | Paul Goodson | Jim Ray |
2009 | William Palmer | Jim Ray | Arti Roth | Paul Goodson |
2010 | Jim Ray | Paul Goodson | Laura Faulconer | Arti Roth |
2011 | Paul Goodson | John Baker | Russ Frazier | Roger Lawrence |
2012 | Thomas Jepsen | Steven Munie | Sarah Haney | John Kenneth Pigg |
2013 | John Kenneth Pigg | Bentley Olive | Barry Peddycord | Amit Bhatia |
2014 | John Kenneth Pigg | Liyun Yu | Barry Peddycord | Dinesh Divakaran |
2015 | Grayson Randall | Liyun Yu | Kristin Bedell | John Kenneth Pigg |
2016 | Grayson Randall | Hope Lynch | Gary Bulman | Frederic Dubois |
2017 | Douglas Hopkins | Iulian Nistor | Gary Bulman | Frederic Dubois |
2018 | Matt Horrer | C Siegl | Rodney Radford | John Kenneth Pigg |
2019 | Matt Horrer | Shruti Gandhi / Nagendra Kumar Nainar | Rostan Rodrigues | Amit Bhatia |
2020 | Paul Goodson | David Irons | Roger Lawrence | Ankita Gupta |
2021 | David Irons | Kristen Parrish | Zhi Gao | Joseph Pennisi |
Archival documents
- Section petition documents
- IEEE Geographic Unit Organizing Document - Eastern North Carolina Section
Further Reading
- Link to Section Homepage
- Celebrating 50 Years of ENCS Part 1
- Celebrating 50 Years of ENCS Part 2
- Celebrating 50 Years of ENCS Part 3
- Celebrating 50 Years of ENCS Part 4
- Celebrating 50 Years of ENCS Part 5
- Celebrating 50 Years of ENCS Part 6
- Celebrating 50 Years of ENCS Part 7
- Link to History of North Carolina AIEE Section and Charlotte NC IEEE Section