The IEEE Leadership Wire

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***************************************************************************************************************** The IEEE LEADERSHIP WIRE is a report for top-level IEEE volunteers about IEEE affairs and organizational information. It is intended specifically for members of the IEEE Board of Directors, key Board committees and the six major operating boards. The newsletter is sent on or around the first of the month.
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CONTENTS:
*Board Series Highlights
*May Membership Highlights
*IEEE Honors Ceremony Celebrates Impact On Engineering Profession
*IEEE Receives Award For Excellence In Media and Publicity
*Hand-Held Cell Phone Ban Goes into Effect in New Jersey
*IEEE Job Site Adds Thousands of New Job Listings
*Virtual Museum Launches New Exhibit
*Teen Receives IEEE Presidents' Scholarship
*In the News

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**BOARD SERIES HIGHLIGHTS**
Here are some highlights from the recent IEEE Board of Directors Meeting Series in Kansas City.

- DUES: For 2005, basic membership dues will undergo a US$3 increase to US$116; the IEEE-USA dues assessment will be raised US$1 to US$35. These increases are based on the annual change in the Consumer Price Index, per IEEE Bylaw I-108.5. This bylaw was enacted to ensure that dues rates stay current with the general rate of U.S. inflation.

- SOCIETIES: The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Council will become the IEEE's 39th society next year. The IEEE Neural Networks Society has changed its name to IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, effective this year.

- NEW PUBLICATIONS: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS and IEEE/OSA JOURNAL OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY were approved for publication in 2005. The latter will be a joint publication by the IEEE and the Optical Society of America.

- TECHNICAL FIELD AWARDS: Two new technical field awards also were approved -- the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award and the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award.

- PUBLIC OUTREACH INITIATIVE: A proposal for an IEEE Public Outreach Program that includes an exhibit at Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, as well as a comprehensive online experience, was approved in principle. This program is estimated to cost US$9M. The Board's decision indicates its willingness to fund this program with US$3M provided fundraising requirements of US$6M are met. To learn more, view the presentation from the Board meeting at http://www.ieee.org/about/disney or contact Matt Loeb, IEEE Corporate Strategy & Communications, at mailto:m.loeb@ieee.org.

- IEEE ENABLING CULTURE PRINCIPLES: The Board officially adopted the IEEE Enabling Culture Principles (below) as a guideline for all IEEE volunteers and staff.

Member No. 1 & Customer Focus
Respect for the Employee and Volunteer
Teamwork
Lead by Example
Participatory Management
Accountability & Our Word is Our Bond
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Open Honest Communication and Feedback

**MAY MEMBERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS**
IEEE membership totaled 327,911 in May. This represents an increase of 1 percent from May 2003. For the complete Membership Development Report, visit http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/mdprogrpt.html.

**IEEE HONORS CEREMONY CELEBRATES IMPACT ON ENGINEERING PROFESSION**
Nearly 300 members and guests attended the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony on 19 June, in Kansas City, Mo., USA.

This year's event celebrated 19 individuals and two corporations for their impact on technology, society and the engineering profession. Among these individuals were two IEEE volunteers, 1999 President Kenneth Laker and former vice president of Educational Activities, Jerry R. Yeargan.

In addition, this year’s event marked several milestones, including the 100th anniversary of Eta Kappa Nu, the electronics and computer engineering honorary society; the centennial of the IEEE Edison medal; and the first two women to receive the IEEE Founders and the IEEE John Von Neumann Medals, Mildred Dresselhaus and Barbara Liskov, respectively.

Information on all of the IEEE awards recipients is available in the online IEEE Newsroom at http://www.ieee.org/newsinfo/juneawards.xml.

**IEEE RECEIVES AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA AND PUBLICITY**
On 21 June, the IEEE received a Silver Prize Award in the "Bulldog Awards for Excellence in Media Relations and Publicity" competition for its reaction to the 14 Aug. blackout that affected the U.S. Northeast and portions of Canada.

The award, in the "Response to Breaking News" category, recognizes the collaborative effort between IEEE staff and numerous volunteers in providing the media with access to technical experts and information.

As a result, the IEEE and its experts were identified in more than 100 radio, television and newspaper clips, including such high-profile outlets as THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, the Associated Press and ABC News.

According to the panel of journalists and public relations professionals who judge the Bulldog awards, "The excellent response under extreme circumstances solidified IEEE's reputation as a highly credible source."

For more information, contact Deb Schiff, Corporate Strategy & Communications, at mailto:d.schiff@ieee.org.

**HAND-HELD CELL PHONE BAN GOES INTO EFFECT IN NEW JERSEY**
IEEE volunteers who visit the IEEE Operations Center in Piscataway, N.J., USA, should note that a state law banning the use of hand-held cell phones while driving goes into effect today, 1 July.

Under this law:

tickets for a cell-phone violation may be issued as a secondary offense
fines range from US$100 to $250
drivers may use hand-held phones in emergency situations
the use of hands-free cell phones is still permitted

**IEEE JOB SITE ADDS THOUSANDS OF NEW JOB LISTINGS**
Last month, the IEEE Job Site added job listings from more than 100 participating media and newspaper sites on the CareerCast National Network, greatly increasing the number of postings previously available. Registered users may set up automated search agents to search for open positions in their field, and view the results online or by email.

Visit the IEEE Job Site at http://careers.ieee.org/.

**VIRTUAL MUSEUM LAUNCHES NEW EXHIBIT**
The IEEE Virtual Museum has launched a new exhibit, titled "Let's Get Small: The Shrinking World of Microelectronics." It explains how and why certain technologies emerged, and uses interactive and multimedia animations to demonstrate how transistors work, how integrated circuits were made, and how computers use microelectronics to manipulate digital information.

The exhibit is sponsored in part by the IEEE Foundation and the IEEE Life Members Committee.

Visit the IEEE Virtual Museum at http://www.ieee.org/museum.

**TEEN RECEIVES IEEE PRESIDENTS' SCHOLARSHIP**
On 13 May, IEEE President-elect W. Cleon Anderson presented the IEEE Presidents' Scholarship to a 17-year-old high-school senior at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Portland, Ore., USA. Elena Leah Glassman, who received the award for her project "Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled," will attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September and plans to major in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

The IEEE scholarship, which was supported by the IEEE Foundation, was the largest single award given by an organization at ISEF.

For more information, visit http://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/newswire91.htm or contact Sasha Eydlin, Educational Activities, at mailto:s.eydlin@ieee.org.

**IN THE NEWS**
The IEEE, its members, and its products and services are mentioned frequently in journalists' reports on technology and the engineering profession. Here are just a few recent references.

25 June -- INFOWORLD (http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/HNwlan_1.html) and more than 20 other publications announced the approval of the IEEE 802.11i amendment to the wireless local area network (WLAN) standard. According to INFOWORLD, the addition of the Advanced Encryption Standard protocol to IEEE 802.11 increases security to the level the U.S. government uses on its wireless networks.

15 June -- Two IEEE members were among several who were cited in high-profile media for their recent accomplishments. THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (http://smh.com.au/index.html) profiled newly elected IEEE Fellow Graham Hellestrand, CEO of VaST Systems Technology, and noted that he is one of a select few Australians to ever achieve the honor. POPULAR MECHANICS announced that Alex Malozemoff, executive vice president and CTO of Amercian Superconductor Corporation, had been named a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Council on Superconductivity. The story said he would serve as "an ambassador" for the IEEE from June 2004 through September 2005.

4 June -- The IDAHO STATE JOURNAL (http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2004/05/31/news/local/news12.txt) highlighted the dedication of the EBR-I, the nuclear breeder reactor, as the 54th IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing. The story explained the IEEE milestone program and the role of the IEEE Eastern Idaho Section in proposing the milestone to commemorate the establishment of the nuclear power industry in the U.S. Information about the milestone is available on the IEEE History Center Web site (http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/).