Ned R. Sauthoff
CONGRATULATIONS TO NED SAUTHOFF
IEEE-USA President
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Ned R. Sauthoff |
Ned Sauthoff, NPSS’s liaison to the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee, became president of IEEE-USA on Jan. 1, 2001. In 1998-99, Dr. Sauthoff served as IEEE-USA vice president of Technology Policy Activities. He began his work with IEEE-USA’s Technology Policy Council (TPC) in 1988 and by 1997 had risen to TPC vice-chair. He was presented the IEEE-USA Divisional Professional Leadership Award in 1996 in recognition of his accomplishments as chair of the organization’s Energy Policy Committee in 1994-95. Dr. Sauthoff is a plasma physicist who heads the Off-site Research Department of the United States Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Plainsboro, N.J. He began his career there after he earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Princeton University in 1975; he received a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1971 and a master’s in nuclear engineering in 1972, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has headed numerous departments at PPPL, including the Physics Department from 1992-94, and the Plasma Science and Technology Department from 1994-97.
Dr. Sauthoff said he plans to work with IEEE-USA volunteers and staff to realize the great potential for electrotechnology and information technology to improve the quality of life. “We will address that mission both by building careers and by shaping public policy,” he said. “IEEE, as the leading technological professional society in the world, has a responsibility to serve by providing both authoritative perspectives to decision makers and professional development tools to our members. IEEE-USA provides those services to U.S. decision makers and to its more than 230,000 members. In 2001, we will provide improved tools to a greater number of our members and will enhance our public-policy grassroots outreach by engaging our geographically dispersed membership in all U.S. Congressional districts.”
Dr. Sauthoff pointed out that in the area of building careers, IEEE-USA sponsors conferences and symposia; develops and disseminates career-development tools; argues for a strong U.S. engineering workforce through programs ranging from pre-college to continuing education, to permanent immigration; and supports pension portability for a mobile workforce. In the area of technology policy, IEEE-USA works for reliable restructuring of the electric supply industry; strong research and development through both industrial tax incentives and federal funding; fair intellectual property rights in today’s economy; and privacy and reliability of the information infrastructure.
Ned R. Sauthoff, the IEEE-USA President, can be reached at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, MS-37, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, N.J. 08543; Phone: +1 609 243-3207; Fax: +1 609 243-3266; E-mail: n.sauthoff@ieee.org.