First and foremost, I hope that all our members were able to enjoy the Holidays with their friends and families.

We had a successful General meeting in December at the Fogcutter Restaurant. I would like to thank Sonya Hutchinson for organizing it. Thanks to Jim Kennedy, we were also able to gather for a group picture. As part of the general meeting, we held the election of the officers for 2002. The election results were as follows:

I would like to thank Leigh Anne McMahon and Jim Kennedy for their support last year and hope to depend on their knowledge and guidance in future activities.

As we are getting ready for the activities in 2002, Computer, Control, AES, and Joint Communication, ATS, and MTT Societies are gearing up for nomination and election of officers. If you are interested in participating in these local technical society activities, please contact Sonya Hutchinson (sonya.hutchinson@ieee.org) or myself (egrigorian@ieee.org).

Section Activities

We are moving forward with all the preparations for our biggest planned activity in 2002. AUTOTESTCON 2002 is scheduled to take place during October of this year. If you are interested in helping with the AUTOTESTCON planning, please contact Pat Griffin by e-mail at pat.griffin@teradyne.com. Additional information regarding the conference is available at http://www.autotestcon.com/2002/introduction.htm.

The UAH ECE and Huntsville Section are also sponsoring the first Advances of Signal Processing for Military Applications conference also in October. To find out more about the conference please visit http://home.att.net/~albanes/AdvSigProcMilApp.html.