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- MGA Student Activities Committee members
- Regional Student Activities Chairs (RSACs)
- Regional Student Representatives (RSRs)
- SPAC/SPAA Student Professional Awareness Activities Representatives
- Industrial Representatives and other SAC Representatives
- SAC Standing Subcommittees
- SAC Ad-hoc Subcommittees
- Student Activities Committee (SAC) Resources
SAC is the IEEE committee responsible for student programs and benefits and making recommendations to the Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) board. These volunteer members provide important viewpoints, information and represent the voice of the over 100,000 IEEE student and graduate student members worldwide. The mission of IEEE SAC is "To deliver a common, high quality IEEE Student member experience globally, for lifelong, professional success through IEEE membership."
SAC and the MGA volunteer and staff teams oversee the IEEE student strategy. The goals of the strategy include:
- Strengthen partnership between student activities and all other IEEE entities
- Interactive training program and resource for repository for volunteer leadership development
- Create student friendly information management system
- Diversify the IEEE student membership to reflect IEEE's technical fields of interests and interdependent professions
- Operational excellence: provide SAC with training and measurable internal feedback
- Create activities that students are interested in
- Develop and deploy a strategy and plan for first-year student members
MGA Student Activities Committee members
Listed below are the members of the MGA Student Activities Committee (SAC).
- SAC Chair - Darrel Chong
- SAC Vice Chair - Jignasa Ray
- SAC Past Chair - Martin Bastiaans
Regional Student Activities Chairs (RSACs)
Listed below are the Regional Student Activities Chair (RSACs) in each of the ten Regions of IEEE. These volunteer members help organize student activities in these areas, including student paper contests, web site contests for Student Branches and other interesting activities so you as IEEE student members can more actively involved.
- Region 1 - Ravi Todi
- Region 2 - F. Eugenio Villaseca
- Region 3 - Regina Hannemann
- Region 4 - Steven D. James
- Region 5 - Anil Mehta
- Region 6 - Mohamed Osman
- Region 7 - Maike Luiken
- Region 8 - Elias Nassar
- Region 9 - Ruben Barrera-Michel
- Region 10 - Takao Onoye
Regional Student Representatives (RSRs)
Listed below are the Regional Student representatives (RSRs) in each of the ten Regions of IEEE. These volunteer members help organize student activities in these areas, including student paper contests, web site contests for Student Branches, region web sites and other interesting activities and programs, so you as IEEE student members get engaged and more actively involved.
- Region 1, William Dorney
- Region 2, Andrew W. Thompson
- Region 3, Joshua Shank
Region 4, Maxwell Steurer - Region 5, David Macke
- Region 6, Alexander Elizarraraz
- Region 7, Kanishka Jayawardene
- Region 8, Jorge Soares
- Region 9, Alejandra Camacho
- Region 10, Aby Kurian
SPAC/SPAA Student Professional Awareness Activities Representatives
- MGA/SAC/SPAA Chair, John Paserba
- IEEE USA SPAC Chair, Vishnu Pandey
Industrial Representatives and other SAC Representatives
- R. Barnett Adler, PECO Energy Company
- Peter T. Mauzey, Lucent Technologies (retired)
- John Paserba, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc.
- Prijoe Philips Komattu, Tata Consultants
- Ravi Todi, IBM
- Elizabeth Johnston, Potentials Magazine Editor in Chief
- Sachin Seth, Potentials Magazine Student editor
- Om Perkash Batra, GOLD Representative to SAC
- Lliljana Trajkovic, TAB Representative to SAC
- Jan Verveckken, Branch Chapter Student Representative to SAC
- Yasuharu Ohgoe, Branch Chapter Representative to SAC
- Natalia Raposo, SAC Member at large and SPAA Vice Chair
SAC Standing Subcommittees
- Awards and Recognition Subcommittee, Jaison Sabu, Chair
- Branch Leadership Training Subcommittee, TBA, Chair
- Communications Subcommittee, Jignasa Ray, Chair
- RSAC Steering Subcommittee,Steven James, Chair
- RSR Steering Subcommittee, Jorge Soares, Chair
- Potentials Subcommittee, Elizabeth Johnston, Chair
- Student Professional Awareness Activities (SPAA) Subcommittee, John Paserba, Chair
SAC Ad-hoc Subcommittees
- SAC/GOLD Transition, Om Perkash Batra, Chair
- Strategic Planning, Jignasa Ray, Chair
- IEEEXtreme Project Lead, Gowtham Prasad
- Humanitarian Lead, Robert Vice
- Branch Counselor Support, TBA
- IEEE Globalization, TBA
Student Activities Committee (SAC) Resources
Below are resources and links for Student Activities Committee (SAC) members. Thank you to all the student activities volunteers who helped IEEE achieve 400,000 members milestone and 100,000 IEEE student members and graduate student members as of 31 December 2010.
Student Branch Counselor guide (PDF, 1.11 MB)
- This guide is provided to all IEEE Student Branch Counselors in 2010 and PDF in leadership trainig resources on the web for down load. Sent with IEEE promotional materials to welcome new IEE Student Branches.
Membership Development Manual-Student Branch edition (PDF, 1.17 MB)
- Reference manual for best practices to help sudent leaders and faculty counselors run a successful Student Branch, student-focused member benefits review and calendar of activities. Sent to all IEEE Student Branches in August and available for down load in the leadership training
