Minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting of the Sensor Division of the ECS

Moon Palace Resort & Hotel at Cancun, Mexico, 10/29 – 11/3, 2006

Meeting called to order by Gary Hunter at 8:00pm

In attendance:

Gary Hunter (NASA GRC), Rangachary Mukundan (LANL), Jing Li (NASA, ARC), Christine Kranz (Georgia Tech), Peter Hesketh (Georgia Tech), Alex Simonian (Auburn University), Mike Carter (Eltron Research Inc.), Zoraida Aguilar (Vegrandis, LLC), Shekhar Bhansali (USF), Mike Sailor (UCSD),  Katalin Voros (D&T Chair, UC Berkeley).

• The minutes from the last meeting in Denver were approved.

• Treasurer’s Report:

Custodian account:
August 11, 2006,   Balance = $54,573.53

 Outstanding Achievement award account:
August 11, 2006,   Balance = $5231.17

• Cancun meeting activities:
• Sensor Division Outstanding Achievement Award, Monday, 10:00 AM
• Sensor Division Luncheon and Business Meeting, Tuesday, 12:15 PM,
• Agenda changes:

Tues 10:40
Number 2118 to the poster session

Wed 8:10
Number 2159 (Joe Stetter) from Thurs to Wed 1:25 PM

• ECS membership

Mukundan, Rangachary
Li, Jing
Aguilar, Zoraida
Kale, Girish
Carter, Mike
Akbar, Sheikh
Bhethanabotla, Venkat
Chang, Ying-Lan
Grate, Jay
Hillman, A.
Ishihara, Tatsumi
Josowicz, Mira
Kranz, Christine
Makel, Darby
Sailor, Michael
Tabib-Azar, Massood
Thundat, Thomas
Zellers, Edward
Lvovich, Vadim
Simonian, Aleksandr
Shekhar Bhansali

• Committee Reports

a. Interface magazine:
Physical and analytical division to publish on the topic of: “Oxide layers on silicon”.
b. Translation to Chinese of Interface to market in China.
Agreed and suggested to go with publisher with good reputation.

6. Funding request and approval for Chicago Meeting. Details below,

211th Chicago (Spring 2007)

• Sensor based on Nanotechnology III,  Sensor / OBE / Electronics & Photonics / High Temperature Materials / DST, ( J. Li,; M. J.  Deen, J.  Ruzyllo,; J.  Rusling, E. Traversa)

Motion: Approve Up 3 invited speakers, all approved.

• Sensors, Actuators And Microsystems - General Session (G. Hunter, R. Mukundan; S. Bhansali)
• Clinical and Diagnostic Sensors and Systems (L. M. Levine, J. R. Stetter, Z. Aguilar, Alex Simonian, D. VerLee, M. Tabib-Azar)
• Nanoporous Materials: Chemistry and Applications Systems Nanotechnology / High Temperature Materials / Sensor (M. D. Allendorf, T. Armstrong, S. Bhansali)

1 registration from sensor div., all approved.

7. Future Symposia Planning:

212th Washington (Fall 2007)

• Impedance and Capacitive Based Sensors

Sensors / Industrial Electrolysis & Electrochemical Engineering / Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry
V. Lvovich, P. Vanysek, and M. E. Orazem

• Sensor, Actuators and Microsystems General Session

Sensor / Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry / Dielectric Science and Technology
R. Mukundan, S. Bhansali, G. Hunter, and M. T. Carter

• Sensor Array and Multi-Dimensional Sensor Systems

Sensor
J. R. Stetter, P. J. Hesketh, and Z. Aguilar

213th Phoenix, Arizona (Spring 2008)
CFP due on Feb. 15

• Sensor actuators and Microsystems

(Sensor)
Organizers: G. Hunter, R. Mukundan, S. Bhansali, Michael Carter

• Acoustic Wave-Based Sensors & Sensor Systems
  (Sensor Division)
  Organizers: V. Bhethanabotla, R. Hillman, R. Cernosek, J. Grate, D.Malocha
• Electrochemical Nano/Biosensors

(Sensor, Organic and Biological Electrochemistry)
Organizers: A. Simonian, Z. Aguilar, P. Hesketh

214th Fall 2008 Hawaii:

• Tutorials in NanoTechnology/Nanosensors
• Microfabricated Systems and MEMS VIII (P. J. Hesketh, J. L. Davidson, J. Li, C. Roper, S. Shoji, Ingrid Fritsch)
• Chemical Sensors VIII. Platforms; technology behind success stories and recently commercialized systems; bioelectooptical:  (G. Hunter, A. Simonian, R. Mukundan, Mike Carter)

Spring 2009, San Francisco

• Sensor Actuators and Microsystems
  Including
• Honorary Session for Art Janata

35 Years of Chemical Sensors (J. Li, C. Bruckner-Lea)

• Sensor Application: Food Safety, Agricultural and Environmental sensors (Mukund, Hunter, Bhansali, Li, Simonian)
• Cantilever sensors (Thundat)
• Homeland Security/Program review

Fall 2009, Austria

• Robotic, wireless, remote (Jing Li, G. Hunter)
• Marine and Industrial
• InVivo Biomedical Sensors/Micro Total Analytical Systems (H.J. Cho, UCF)

General Session
Recurring
Cutting edge

Meeting adjourned 9:40 pm.