IEEE Annual Election: Region 6 Candidates (Western USA)

Michael R. Andrews

MICHAEL R. ANDREWS
(Nominated by IEEE Region 6)

President and Managing Partner
Andrews & Associates, LLC
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
www.michaelandrews-ieee.com

Mr. Andrews is Managing Partner of Andrews & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in business and management development, Emergency Planning, Continuity of Operations, Business Resumption Planning and Operational Readiness for business, schools and government entities. He is also President of Sound & Optics Systems, a technology corporation responsible for developing products that reduce criminal acts and support emergency response.

Mr. Andrews is a Senior Member of IEEE and is currently serving IEEE members as the MGA Chair/Representative on the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge, Phoenix Section PACE Chair and Phoenix Section Intersociety Liaison. He is also the Arizona Regional Coordinator for the National Engineers Week Future City Competition.

Mr. Andrews’ commitment to the community includes Future City Competition, Salvation Army and Arizona LeaderForce. He was awarded an IEEE Millennium Medal for outstanding achievements and contributions to IEEE and the IEEE-USA Robert S. Walleigh Award for Distinguished Contributions to Engineering Professionalism Award.

 

IEEE Accomplishments – Significant IEEE accomplishments include:

• Designed and developed a series of Job Search Workshops for members who are either out of work or in career transition. The workshop is designed to modify the strategy and job search process by creating new search options and using a competency based approach to resume development and interviewing.
• Created and delivered numerous presentations in my 25-year support of the SPAC program. Presentations are designed to influence choices and positively impact the professionalism of IEEE student members. Topics include ethical behavior, professional society involvement, personal success strategies, conducting an effective job search, time management and professional sustainability.
• Implemented and currently lead the largest middle school STEM initiative in the engineering community. The Future City Competition impacts students by introducing hands-on, real world challenges through a fun, learning experience that creates an interest in engineering. Using the Competition as an outreach conduit, he has successfully engaged volunteers from IEEE and many other engineering and technical disciplines, corporations and corporate leaders.
• Designed the IEEE-Humanitarian Technology Challenge Student Design Project. The interdisciplinary and cross-institutional teams develop a working prototype, scale model or detailed engineering design specifications for a project that satisfies a humanitarian need.

 

Statement – The members of Region 6 are faced with a diversity of challenges: professional vitality, adaptive planning, professional identity, opportunities to make a difference, strategic personal positioning and a dynamic market economy. As the Region 6 Director-Elect, I will provide the leadership to drive initiatives that will:

• Seek technical and professional involvement from members of all ages, leveraging their experience to promote the contributions that our members make to other members, industry partners and community collaborations.
• Actively promote the profession through member development and educational outreach initiatives for university and pre-university students
• Utilize members, private and public sector representatives to identify emerging technologies or programs that will provide members with professional growth opportunities.

My vision for the IEEE and Region 6 is to engage in increasingly dynamic and creative programs and initiatives that will raise member’s visibility within their company, the general population and in the technical community.

 

IEEE Activities – (S’69-A’70-M’73-SM’84) COMMITTEES/BOARDS: IEEE-USA: Student Professional Activities Conference (SPAC) Speaker, 1981-2010; IEEE-USA Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee Member, 2007; IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy Member, 2007-10; Nominations and Advancement Committee Member, 2002; Precollege Education Member, 1989-2002; IEEE-USA Board of Directors, 1995-99; Career Activities Committee Vice President, 1998-99; PACE Conference Planning Committee Member, 1995-98; IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer Advisory Board Member, 1997-98; USAB Magazine Concept Development Committee Member, 1996-97; New Business Development Committee Member, 1998; Member Services Council Chair, 1995-97; Precollege Education Committee, 1989-94; IEEE-USA Career and Member Services Member, 1991-92; IEEE-USA Workshop Committee Member, 1990. Educational Activities Board (EAB): Member-at-Large, 1996; Continuing Education Committee Vice Chair, 1994-96; EAB Board Member, 1993-94. IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge, MGA Chair, 2008-10. IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award Committee Member, 2005-08. IEEE Ethics Committee Member, 2004-06. REGION: Region 6: Humanitarian Technology Challenge Representative, 2009-10; Section & Chapter Support Chair, 2008-09; Precollege Education Member, 2000-01; Membership Development Committee Chair, 1994-96; Region Secretary, 1988-92; Precollege Education Chair, 1985-89; Southwest Area Chair, 1983-87; Southwest Area Student Activities Coordinator, 1980-83; Student Professional Awareness Conference Coordinator, 1981-84. SECTION: Phoenix Section: PACE Chair, 2004-10; PACE Member, 2002-04; Intersociety Activities Chair, 1997-2010; Audit Committee Chair, 1992-97; Awards Committee Vice Chair, 1996-97; Awards Committee Chair, 1998-2002; Conference Planning Committee Chair, 1995-99; Region Representative, 1980-95; Student Branch Advisor, 1974-80; Student Activities Coordinator, 1976-80. SOCIETIES: IEEE Industry Applications Society, Member, 1998-99. IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Member, 1995-99. CONFERENCES: Region 6 2011 Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, Committee Member, 2010. 1999 Industry Applications Conference, General Chair, 1999. Globecom ’97, Operating Committee, 1997. 1997 Vehicular Technology Conference, General Chair, 1997. 1994 International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Special Sessions Chair, 1994. Industry 2000 Conference, General Chair, 1996. Industry 2000 Conference, Conference Planning Committee Member, 1993-94. AWARDS: IEEE Phoenix Section, Special Chair Award for Section Support, 2010. IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000. IEEE-USA Robert S. Walleigh Award, 2000. IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award, 1993. IEEE-USA Regional Professional Activities Award, 1989.  

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Roy E. (Gene) Stuffle

ROY E. (GENE) STUFFLE
(Nominated by IEEE Region 6)

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho, USA
www.stuffle.net/ieee/ (inactive page)

Gene Stuffle has over 30 years of academic experience as part of his 43-year professional career. The last 20 have been with the College of Engineering at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where he served as Interim Chair of Electrical Engineering, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, and Interim Chair of Computer Science. He has 50+ publications in computer-aided education and circuits and systems.

His volunteer efforts include MATHCOUNTS and National Engineers Week Organizing Committees. He has authored several in-house texts, software manuals, and solution manuals for popular textbooks.

An IEEE Life Senior Member (member since 1963), he has served as the ISU Student Branch Counselor since its formation in 1996, chaired the Bruce Angwin (formerly WESCON) Scholarship Committee (2001-2007), and served in every Eastern Idaho Section elected position – some numerous times. While at Michigan Tech, he was nominated for HKN EE Professor of the Year in 1981, 1982 and 1983.

 

IEEE Accomplishments – My spouse and I were instrumental in establishing the IEEE Student Branch at Idaho State University in 1996. I have been the Branch Counselor since its inception.

We also successfully ran the Region 6 Wescon/Angwin scholarship competition for 6 years. Via this competition we were able to help many young students begin their EE-related college studies.

One of my proudest accomplishments has been to help in resurrecting the IEEE Idaho Section (now the Eastern Idaho Section) after a lengthy period of decline and inactivity. The section has since become a founding member of the Eastern Idaho Engineering Council (EIEC), an umbrella organization including 12 technical societies, and now participates in many area activities. I am the section representative on the EIEC Board of Directors.

 

Statement – Today’s economy has left many colleagues in the undesirable position of being unemployed or underemployed. IEEE should provide reasonably-priced and/or free short courses and tutorials to assist these members in retraining themselves for the future.

Professional licensing requirements are becoming more stringent, with continuing professional development hours required for renewal. IEEE should provide more convenient supportive resources.

Improvements in IEEE job assistance programs are desperately needed. I and many of my colleagues have personally experienced the frustrating dilemma of little useful assistance from IEEE when seeking new employment.

Life member requirements should revert back to the days when one was not required to be 65 years of age in order to qualify. Years of membership plus age totaling 100 is sufficient.

Student membership fees should be reduced. If we can do it for third world countries, why can’t we do it for our own?

 

IEEE Activities – (S’63-M’66-S’76-M’79-SM’84-LS’10) COMMITTEES/BOARDS: IEEE Potentials, Contributing Editor and Editorial Board Member, 1992-96. Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; IEEE Transactions on Education; IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Systems; Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. REGION: Region 6: Member of Operating Committee, 2001-07; Bruce Angwin Memorial (formerly WESCON) Scholarship Committee Chair, 2000-07. SECTION: Eastern Idaho Section: Section Webmaster, 2003-10; ISU Student Branch Organizer and Counselor, 1995-2010; Section Chairman, 1992-96; Section Treasurer, 1990-92; Section Newsletter Editor and Publisher, 1990-2010; Local Coordinator for IEEE Satellite Videoconferences, 1990-96; Section Student Activities Chair, 1989-92; Section Student Advisor, 1989-92; Section Educational Activities Chair, 1989-92; Section Representative to Eastern Idaho Engineering Council, 2009-10. SUBSECTIONS: Upper Peninsula Subsection, Treasurer, 1982-83. Fort Wayne Subsection, Membership Chair, 1974-75. CONFERENCES: Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS): Permanent Reviewing Panel, Member, 1989-2010; 34th MWSCAS (St. Louis, MO), General Chair, 1988; Conference Procedures Subcommittee, Chair, 1983-89; Database Subcommittee, Chair, 1983-85; 25th MWSCAS (Houghton, MI), Co-General Chair, 1982; MWSCAS, Technical Session Chair(s), 1981-96; Steering Committee, Member, 1981-2010. AWARDS: Eastern Idaho Section Individual Achievement Award, 2001. Eastern Idaho Section Individual Achievement Award, 1995.

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