IEEE News

IEEE MEMBERS SELECT LEAH H. JAMIESON 2006 IEEE PRESIDENT-ELECT

PISCATAWAY, N.J., 4 Nov. -- Leah H. Jamieson, Ransburg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and associate dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., has been selected as 2006 IEEE president-elect. Pending acceptance of the Teller's Committee report by the IEEE Board of Directors, Jamieson will begin serving as IEEE president on 1 Jan. 2007. She will succeed 2006 IEEE President Michael R. Lightner, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Of the 253,788 ballots mailed, 36,576 valid ballots (14.41 percent) were returned. This compares with the 2004 return of 13.99 percent. All results are unofficial until the IEEE Board of Directors accepts the report of the Teller's Committee during the 13 Nov. Board meeting.

The other two candidates for IEEE president-elect were Gerald Peterson, senior manager emeritus at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, in Holmdel, N.J., and James M. Tien, Yamada Corporation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Jamieson and Peterson were nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors. Tien was nominated by petition. Of the members who voted, 15,965 selected Jamieson, 10,723 selected Peterson. Tien received 9,301 votes.

Jamieson, an IEEE Fellow, is only the second woman in the history of the IEEE to be chosen for the president-elect position. An IEEE member for 30 years, she presently serves on the IEEE Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, chairs the New Technologies Directions Committee and holds the position of vice president of the Publication Services and Products Board. Among her many other leadership roles, she has served as vice president of the Technical Activities Board and as president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

In addition to her current positions as professor and associate dean at Purdue, Jamieson is co-founder and director of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) undergraduate engineering design program, which was initiated at Purdue and has been adopted by 17 universities. For her work with EPICS, she was co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. She has served on advisory committees of the National Science Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Other Officers Named
The following candidate was selected as division delegate/division director for 2006-2007: Division VII, W. O. (Bill) Kennedy. He will take office on 1 Jan. 2006.

The following candidates were selected as division delegate-elect/director-elect for 2006:

Division II, Thomas G. Habetler
Division IV, Edward Della Torre
Division VI, Irving Engelson
Division VIII, Thomas W. Williams
Division X, William A. Gruver.

They will take office as division delegate/director on 1 Jan. 2007.

The following candidate was selected as region delegate-elect/director-elect for 2006: Region 8, Jean G. (Jean-Gabriel) Remy. He will take office as director on 1 Jan. 2007.

The following candidates were selected as region delegate-elect/director-elect for 2006-2007:

Region 1, Howard E. Michel
Region 3, William B. Ratcliff
Region 5, David J. Pierce
Region 7, Ferial El-Hawary
Region 9, Enrique E. Alvarez

They will take office as director on 1 Jan. 2008.

George W. Arnold was selected as president-elect, 2006 of the IEEE Standards Association. He will take office as president on 1 Jan. 2007.

Elected to serve two-year terms on the Standards Association Board of Governors as members-at-large are Carl R. Stevenson and L. B. (Bruce) McClung. They will take office on 1 Jan. 2006.

Peter W. Staecker was elected to serve as vice president-elect of IEEE Technical Activities. He will take office as vice president on 1 Jan. 2007.

Elected as IEEE-USA president-elect was John W. Meredith. He will assume the office of IEEE-USA president on 1 Jan. 2007. Taking office as IEEE-USA member-at-large on 1 Jan. 2006 will be Burton J. Loupee.

For more information, visit the 2005 IEEE Annual Elections Web page.

The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society with over 365,000 members in approximately 150 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics.

# # #