THE IEEE LEADERSHIP WIRE
6 September 2006
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.
CONTENTS:
*2006 IEEE ANNUAL ELECTION PERIOD OPENS*
*IEEE TO DEDICATE MILESTONES IN CANADA, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND THE U.S.*
*TELEMARKETING OUTREACH RECOVERS MORE THAN 4,000 IEEE MEMBERSHIPS*
*U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY GAINS ACCESS TO IEEE PUBLICATIONS*
*CALL FOR FELLOW NOMINATIONS*
*IEEE CREATIVE SERVICES RECEIVES GOLD INK AWARD*
*IEEE PRESS CALL FOR EDITORIAL BOARD NOMINATIONS*
*FREE SPAM FILTERING SERVICE AVAILABLE FOR IEEE EMAIL ALIAS USERS*
*MEMBERSHIP UPDATE*
*IN THE NEWS*
**2006 IEEE ANNUAL ELECTION PERIOD OPENS**
Eligible voting IEEE members will soon be receiving their 2006 IEEE Annual Election ballot packages in the mail. Ballot materials can also be accessed electronically at https://www.directvote.net/ieee/. The opportunity to vote in the IEEE Annual Election is a privilege of membership. This year, for the first time, the privilege is being extended to eligible graduate student members. Also for the first time, voters can view video footage of the candidates through www.ieee.org/elections. All ballots must be received by the election vendor by 1 November 2006 at 12 noon, Central Time USA (18:00 Greenwich Mean Time) to be counted.
For additional information about the IEEE Annual Election, please contact: corp-election@ieee.org.
**IEEE TO DEDICATE MILESTONES IN CANADA, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND THE U.S.**
The IEEE will dedicate four IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing in September honoring significant achievements in the engineering field around the world.
The first Milestone dedication is on 6 September at the University of Ireland in Maynooth. It commemorates the work of Reverand Nicholas Callan who made important contributions to the understanding of electrical induction and the development of the induction coil. The Milestone is sponsored by the UKRI Section.
This will be followed by a dedication program on 9 September at the Thomas Alva Edison Historic site in Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, sponsored by the Princeton/ Central Jersey Section. The site is where Edison developed the world’s first industrial research and development laboratory devoted to developing new technology. Edison and his staff created the first system of incandescent electric lighting and electric power generation, and invented recorded sound and a commercially successful telephone transmitter at this location.
The other September IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing include the “The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1) – which recognizes the different system sites – Oban, Scotland, Clarenville, Newfoundland and Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia; (sponsored by the Newfoundland and UKRI Sections) and the creation of Liquid Crystal Display technology at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey on 30 September – also sponsored by the Princeton/ Central Jersey Section.
**TELEMARKETING OUTREACH RECOVERS MORE THAN 4,000 IEEE MEMBERSHIPS**
The Member Services department, working in conjunction with Regional Activities, recently concluded a very successful arrears telemarketing program. The program, which ran from 5 March through 30 June, reached out to members in the U.S. and Canada (Regions 1-7) who had not renewed their IEEE membership for 2006.
This effort resulted in the renewal of 4,053 IEEE memberships, along with 3,601 Society memberships. Renewals were generated for all 39 societies, as well as for the Women in Engineering affinity group. This is a 38 percent improvement over last year’s efforts, and generated a total of $779,178.62 in revenue for the IEEE.
For additional information on this program, please contact Felicia Taylor, Regional Activities,
f.taylor@ieee.org.
**U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY GAINS ACCESS TO IEEE PUBLICATIONS**
Beginning this month, a new US$1.5 million order provides the U.S. intelligence community with full access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). The agreement signed by the Open Source Center (OSC) provides secure IEL access through Opensource.gov. According to its Web site, "OSC provides foreign media reporting and analysis to policymakers, government institutions and strategic partners… and delivers targeted, timely and authoritative open source intelligence for analysis, operations and policymaking."
The Open Source Center exists to safeguard government information resources while providing customers with a single source for secure access to both commercial networks and the public Internet.
For more information, contact Francis Staples, Sales & Marketing, at f.staples@ieee.org.
**CALL FOR FELLOW NOMINATIONS**
Forms and instructions for preparing nominations for IEEE Fellow grade membership are now available on the IEEE Web site at www.ieee.org/fellows. Nominations may be prepared electronically or in hard copy form and must be submitted by 1 March 2007.
The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. These accomplishments shall have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society.
To recognize the entire spectrum of engineering activity, candidates are classified as Application Engineer/Practitioner, Research Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator, and judged accordingly. At the time the nomination is submitted, the candidate must be a senior member who has completed five years of service in any grade of IEEE membership excluding affiliate membership. The nominee’s dues must be current.
Anyone may submit a nomination. However, all nominations must be supported by at least five, but no more than eight, references from active IEEE Fellow grade members familiar with the candidate’s work. If the candidate is from Region 9, the IEEE Fellow Committee will accept references from senior members.
**IEEE CREATIVE SERVICES RECEIVES GOLD INK AWARD**
IEEE Creative Services of the IEEE Sales & Marketing department has received a Pewter Award in the 2006 Annual Gold Ink Awards. The annual competition honors the year's best printed materials, specifically recognizing quality of printing, technical difficulty and overall visual effectiveness.
The IEEE winning entry was a direct-mail package used to promote a customer event held in Silicon Valley earlier this year. The materials were printed by Haig Graphics. To see the award-winning entry, visit:
www.ieee.org/services/creativeservices/portfolio/dm/dm_4.html
More than 1,500 companies in North America entered this year's competition. The winners will receive recognition in the special Gold Ink Issue of Print Media magazine in October 2006.
This is the third time that IEEE has been recognized by the Gold Ink Awards.
For more information, contact creativeservices@ieee.org or visit www.ieee.org/creativeservices.
**IEEE PRESS CALL FOR EDITORIAL BOARD NOMINATIONS**
IEEE Press is seeking nominations for qualified candidates who are willing to serve, if elected, on the IEEE Press Editorial Board.
Members of the IEEE Press Editorial Board serve three-year terms. The board meets at least once a year, and meets frequently in teleconference. The primary duty of board members is to provide technical and scientific expertise in the development of world-class, worthy technical books. Board members are asked to work on a continuing basis with the editor-in-chief and IEEE Press staff to recruit authors, review their proposals and assist in identifying technical reviewers of proposals and complete book manuscripts.
Currently, IEEE Press operates under a strategic plan that calls for expansion of its publishing program while emphasizing acquisition of technical books. IEEE Press publishes in the full range of IEEE technical fields of interest, and currently has series that concentrate in communications, electromagnetics, biomedical engineering, power engineering, microwave technology, microelectronics and computational intelligence.
Interested nominators should submit a biography of no more than two pages that demonstrates the candidate’s interest and technical experience. Self-nomination for the board positions is permitted. The current IEEE Press Editorial Board will select candidates to recommend to the Nominations and Appointments Committee of the IEEE Publication Products and Services Board. Appointments are expected to be made at the November PSPB meeting.
Please send nominations (with bios attached) to Lani Angso, Book & Information Services, at
l.angso@ieee.org. The deadline is midnight, 19 September. For additional information, please contact Ken Moore, IEEE Book & Information Services, at k.moore@ieee.org.
**FREE SPAM FILTERING SERVICE AVAILABLE FOR IEEE EMAIL ALIAS USERS**
IEEE members with an IEEE email alias can quickly and easily sign up for a free UCE (unsolicited commercial email) / spam filtering service designed to help users manage the amount of UCE/spam they receive. This is an opt-in service which offers several levels of protection against unsolicited email messages.
After signing up for the UCE/spam filtering service, users canchoose to either tag or block messages determined to be possible spam. To sign up, visit https://uce.ieee.org.
The IEEE email alias service with virus protection and the optional UCE filtering is a benefit of membership. To register for an IEEE Email alias go to http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/benefits/products/prod_emailalias.xml?cprod=32559.
For more information, contact uce-admin@ieee.org.
**JULY MEMBERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS**
IEEE membership reached 342,641 in July 2006, an increase of 0.4 percent compared to July 2005. Specifically, higher grade memberships are down 1.2 percent, student memberships have increased 7.1 percent and society memberships have declined 3.2 percent. Complete details are available in the Membership Development Report at http://www.ieee.org/mdprogreport. In order to access this site, you must use your IEEE Web Account. If you do not have an IEEE Web Account, please go to http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/web/accounts/index.html.
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.
JULY – ASSOCIATIONS NOW MAGAZINE – A story which examined online “pay per article” vs. subscription publishing business models currently used by associations featured the IEEE/IET Electronic Library and the IEEE Xplore interface. Jonathan Dahl, staff director of IEEE Sales and Marketing was quoted in the article, detailing the great success of the IEEE/IET Electronic Library. “Since we first went online in November 1988, sales have just skyrocketed... Overall revenue has been growing at a fast pace and a large portion of our print customers have migrated to online subscriptions,” Dahl said.
5 AUGUST – ASSOCIATED PRESS – Mohammad Shahidehpour, an IEEE Fellow and editorial board member of the IEEE Power Engineering Letters and IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, was consulted for a story on how aging electrical equipment is being pushed to its limits by rising demand for energy, and may be subject to fail. Shahidehpour stated, “It’s like a highway that was supposed to handle 50,000 cars and all of a sudden it is handling 200,000 cars.”
18 AUGUST – INDIA ABROAD – Forty individuals of South Asian descent were highlighted for being recognized by the IEEE for their contributions to the engineering profession. The list included IEEE Medal recipients Sanjit K. Mitra (James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal) and Thomas Kailath (Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal) as well as technical field award recipients and individuals named as 2006 Fellows.
31 JULY – ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS (Denver, Colorado, USA) – A preview of the 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, which took place from 31 July through 4 August in Denver, Colorado highlighted presentations about the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn and lessons learned from the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The article noted that the conference, co-sponsored by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, examined how remote-sensing satellites can be used to gather a variety of information related to subjects including wild fires, natural disasters and climate issues.
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