| IEEE FELLOW NOMINATIONS |
| Iencourage you to nominate a deserving colleague for IEEE Fellow and begin the job of preparing the application and lining up references now. It’s not too early. Each year, deserving nominations just make the deadline, while others fall short by only a few days. Nominating forms, detailed instructions, and frequently asked questions can be found at the IEEE Fellow Program Web Site at www.ieee.org/fellows. To be nominated, the nominee must meet the following three basic qualifications: hold IEEE Life Senior Member or IEEE Senior Member grade at the time the nomination is submitted; be a member in good standing (that is, dues must be current); and must have completed five years of service in any grade of IEEE membership. Note and this is very important—IEEE affiliate membership within an IEEE society does not apply. I’m often shocked to learn that folks who have made significant contributions to our Society aren’t even Senior Members. It only takes a few minutes to prepare an application to be a Senior Member and it is web based. A nomination must be supported by at least five, but no more than eight references from active IEEE Fellows or IEEE Life Fellows. For nominees who reside in Region 9, references will also be accepted from IEEE Life Senior Member or IEEE Senior Members. The biggest stumbling point for nominations is getting five references. If possible, nominators should list eight references. That way, if one or two references can’t meet the deadline, the nomination still has the required five references. A list of IEEE Fellows can be found at the IEEE Fellow Program Web Site. NPSS has elevated many fellows over the years, so it shouldn’t be difficult to identify a strong list of references. I suggest that nominators contact the Chairs of NPSS’s Technical Committees for assistance. They can be found on the NPSS website at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/adcom_officers.html. The Fellow process at IEEE is now fully electronic. For the last five years, The Electronic Fellow Nomination Process (EFNP) has been available to nominators, references, and endorsers. In 2009, the IEEE NPSS Fellow Evaluation Committee (FEC) will receive all nominations referred to NPSS in electronic format. The NPSS FEC will review, score, and rank these nominations online. This will clearly expedite the committee’s work. The NPSS FEC expects access to nominations by April 15 and must provide its feedback to IEEE by June 15. The IEEE Board of Directors recently approved changes to the process for nominating and elevating IEEE members to Fellow Grade. The goal of these changes is to increase the number of nominations received for members from industry and to make the process more receptive to nominations received for application engineers or engineering practitioners who have made contributions of unusual distinction to the profession. Specifically the changes established a new nomination category for individual contributions, “Application Engineer/Practitioner.” This category recognizes significant contributions in “product development, advancement in system, application or operation, project management or construction activity, process development, manufacturing innovation, codes or standards development, or other application of technology.” In the last two years, NPSS has successfully elevated several members in this category. Also, the existing designation; “Engineer/Scientist” was changed to, “Research Engineer/Scientist”. The other existing categories, “Educator” and “Technical Leader” remain the same. So, the IEEE now recognizes contributions in four distinct categories. This year the NPSS FEC added three members from the international community. They are Professor Paul Chu from the City University of Hong Kong, Erik Heijne from CERN in Switzerland, and Jean-Luc Leray from CEA in France. Welcome aboard! They join U.S. members Ron Huesman, Stan Schriber, Jim Schwank, and Peter Turchi. We regret that Professor Osamu Ishihara will be leaving the committee. We are grateful for his many years of outstanding service as both the Chairman and member of the NPSS FEC. On behalf of the NPSS Fellows Evaluation Committee, I urge you to consider making an IEEE Fellow nomination next year. March 1, 2010 will be here sooner than you think. Being elevated to an IEEE Fellow is a very special and noteworthy milestone in anyone’s career. Last year, 6 members of NPSS were elevated to Fellow grade. They were Ilan Ben-Zvi, Dennis Brown, Gerald Cooperstein, Lars Eriksson, Ravindra Joshi, and Mounir Laroussi. Our sincere congratulations! As always, this is an extremely competitive process—only 0.1% of the total voting IEEE membership can be elevated to the grade of Fellow each year. It’s always challenging to review these nominations. I hope you can make our job even more difficult by increasing the number of nominations in 2010. Peter S. Winokur, Chair, NPSS Fellow Evaluation Committee, can be reached at the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Washington, DC; Phone: +1 202 694-7090; E-mail: p.winokur@ieee.org. |
 Peter Winokur Chair, Fellow Evaluation Committee |
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