THE IEEE LEADERSHIP WIRE
3 January 2007
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 the first week of the month.
CONTENTS:
*CALL FOR FELLOW NOMINATIONS
*IEEE TO OFFER MEMBERS MICROELECTRONICS CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES IN MANDARIN CHINESE
*CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR IEEE ERIC HERZ OUTSTANDING STAFF MEMBER AWARD
*FREE JANUARY IEEE SPECTRUM WEBINAR: CHALLENGES IN BATTERY STANDARDS AND SAFETY
*HISTORY CENTER ADDS 75 NEW ORAL HISTORIES TO WEB SITE
*IEEE FOUNDATION SEEKING 2007 GRANT APPLICATIONS
*MYIEEE ADDS NEW FEATURES
*ABET ACCREDITATION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES NOW AVAILABLE IN SPANISH
*IN THE NEWS
**CALL FOR FELLOW NOMINATIONS**
Nominations are being accepted for the IEEE Fellows class of 2008. The rank of IEEE Fellow is the institute’s highest member grade, bestowed on IEEE senior members who have contributed “to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology.” The deadline for nominations is 1 March 2007.
Senior members can be nominated in one of four categories: application engineer/practitioner, research engineer/scientist, educator or technical leader.
The Fellows Web site contains additional information on the nomination process including access to the Fellows Nomination Kit, lists of Fellows who may be available as references as well as the history of the IEEE Fellows program. Please visit the Fellows website at http:/www.ieee.org/fellows.
IEEE has partnered with Knowledge Master, Inc. to offer IEEE members a selection of 26 courses in microelectronics, semiconductors and integrated circuit design in Mandarin Chinese. This partnership fulfills two important objectives of IEEE: to serve the community of practitioners in the area of microelectronics and to serve a segment of its practitioner population that resides in China.
Founded in 2004, Knowledge Master, Inc. is an online education company that provides online career development courses for Chinese or Chinese American working professionals. The organization specializes in the delivery of highly interactive online courses, lectures and training classes through their website at http://www.KnowledgeOnDemand.com.
The courses are developed by Dr. Wen Ching Chang, an internationally-renowned professor of microelectronics, specializing in RFIC, CMOS, Analog IC, Optoelectronics and Wireless communications. To access courses offered by Knowledge Master, Inc. or to review other partners, visit http://www.ieee.org/partners.
**CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR IEEE ERIC HERZ OUTSTANDING STAFF MEMBER AWARD**
The IEEE is seeking nominations for the IEEE Eric Herz Outstanding Staff Member Award. Starting in 2007, the award will be presented on an annual basis. The award was established in 2006 to recognize “demonstrated contributions to the goals, objectives, and success of the IEEE to a present or past IEEE staff member with at least 10 years of service.”
Any IEEE volunteer may submit nominations. Members of the IEEE awards board, board of directors, the Herz Award selection committee or IEEE staff are not eligible to nominate or endorse candidates for this award.
The following criteria are considered: substantial impact on the goals and objectives of the IEEE while a staff member, substantial impact on the success of a number of IEEE initiatives and leadership in a number of staff activities.
The prize consists of a certificate, honorarium, and travel expenses to attend the presentation of the award at the final IEEE board of directors meeting of the year.
The deadline for submitting nominations is 31 January 2007.
To access nomination forms, visit the IEEE Awards Web site at http://www.ieee.org/awards or send a message to awards@ieee.org.
**FREE JANUARY IEEE SPECTRUM WEBINAR: CHALLENGES IN BATTERY STANDARDS AND SAFETY**
The latest program in IEEE Spectrum’s Tech Insiders webinar series will examine the IEEE Standards Association’s recent announcement that it is revising its guidelines for the design, manufacture and testing of Lithium Ion battery cells and packs, in light of the recent recall of laptop batteries. It will also discuss plans by industry representatives to address these same issues. Panelists will include John Drengenberg, manager, consumer affairs, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
The one hour online program will be held 25 January, 2006 at 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 19:00 GMT. For more information or to register, visit http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/webcast/4740.
**HISTORY CENTER ADDS 75 NEW ORAL HISTORIES TO WEB SITE**
The IEEE History Center has added 75 new oral histories to its online archive. The oral histories are organized into nine different collections and include interviews with Gordon Moore, the developer of Moore’s law and co-founder of Intel Corporation, Robert Noyce, one of the inventors of the integrated circuit and Wilson Greatbatch, who helped develop the implanted, cardiac pacemaker. All oral histories are in PDF format and include an abstract and an index.
To view the list of collections, visit http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/oral_history.html; for an alphabetical listing, visit http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/oral_history/oh_a_fo.html.
**IEEE FOUNDATION SEEKING 2007 GRANT APPLICATIONS**
The IEEE Foundation is seeking grant applications for 2007 projects in accordance with its mission to improve the technological literacy of society from childhood through adulthood.
During 2007, unsolicited applications will be accepted in three cycles from IEEE units and other organizations working in areas of relevance and importance to the IEEE and its membership. Projects should achieve one or more of the following objectives:
♦ Improve primary and secondary science, technology, and math learning
♦ Encourage pre-university students to consider engineering as a career path
♦ Increase the public’s understanding of the role of engineers and technology in society
♦ Preserve the history of IEEE associated technologies
♦ Tap the technological expertise of IEEE members
♦ Demonstrate ability to be replicated
Applications Due: IEEE Foundation Meeting Date
13 April 2007 June 2007
7 September 2007 November 2007
To learn more about the IEEE Foundation’s grant guidelines, and to submit an online application, visit http://www.ieeefoundation.org.
The IEEE membership portal, myIEEE, recently updated its career development features. From the Profession Desktop, members can now get listings from the IEEE Job Site, which is updated daily. In addition, new modules link members to IEEE's Mentoring Connection site and IEEE-USA's Career Navigator site, where they can access career advice. From the portal, members can also access their subscriptions, launch IEEE.tv, and manage their membership account. Log in at http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/home/index.html.
**ABET ACCREDITATION CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES NOW AVAILABLE IN SPANISH**
The IEEE recently teamed with ABET, Inc., the recognized accreditor for college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology, to provide 2006-2007 accreditation criteria and procedures in Spanish. The translated documents are now available online. ABET, Inc. is a federation of 28 professional and technical societies.
IEEE commissioned the translations, oversaw the work and collaborated on the project with the Instituto de la Calidad en la Acreditacion de Carreras de Ingenieria y Tecnolgogia (ICACIT), a university-level Peruvian accrediting body in the process of being established and chartered. IEEE will have the translated documents updated when ABET updates the originals to ensure the most current information is available to individuals working on accreditation in Central and South America.
The translated ABET criteria and procedures were used during a 2006 IEEE workshop held for educators and practitioners on education in Lima, Peru.
The project was supported by the Educational Activities Board and the IEEE Peru Section. For access to the translated documents, visit http://dfl.ece.drexel.edu/icacit/index.php?PAGE=DOCUMENTS, or for more information on ICACIT visit http://dfl.ece.drexel.edu/icacit/.
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.
9 December – COMPUTER WORLD, MACROWORLD INVESTOR, INFOWORLD – Several international online publications reported the vote of the IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group to target 100 GB as the next speed of Ethernet technology. The 100 GB version of Ethernet will be 10 times faster than the current fastest type, 10 GB, the article states. A study group was formed in July to decide what speed IEEE should try to achieve in the next standard. The story reported that the next step is for IEEE to approve the formation of a working group to determine a solution. To read the full article, visit http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/06/11/22/HN100gbits_1.html.
20 December – PC WORLD.COM – The IEEE 802.11n (Wi-Fi) draft standard was highlighted in an article previewing the 40th annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that will take place 8-11 January, 2007 in Las Vegas. The article, which summarized key companies introducing home networking products, states “Leading the pack will be a host of routers and adapters designed to capitalize on (and improve upon) the draft 802.11n standard…. 802.11n delivers data rates as high as 540 Mbits/s at peak (and 200 Mbits/s sustained), which is ten times that of the current high-speed standard, 802.11g. With that much speed, vendors are betting that consumers are willing to take a flyer on the technology, even if the standard isn't fully cooked yet.” To read the full story, visit http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2075114,00.asp. The IEEE 802.11n standard has been the subject of many articles in such publications as EE Times, Networking News, ZDNET, ComputerWorld Austalia, ExtremeTech and Wireless Week.
December – INDIAWEST.COM, NEW INDIA PRESS, CONSUMERELECTRONICS.NET, INDOLINK – The international online publications featured stories announcing Thomas Kailath, Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) as the 2007 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient. Kailath is being recognized for his “exceptional development of powerful algorithms in the field of communications, computing control and signal processing.” To read the full Indolink.com story, visit http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=120806074442.
15 November – THE NEW YORK TIMES – Ron Hira, vice president for career activities, IEEE-USA, was quoted in an article discussing a new push to raise the cap on H-1B visas initiated by a coalition of business and education groups. Hira indicated that before a new cap should be considered, the H1-B visa program in general should be reviewed. “We think that before raising the H-1B visa cap there should be reform of the H-1B visa system,” Hira stated in the article. He also appeared on the 7 December CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight program discussing the rapid rate that research and development and other high-tech computer jobs are moving overseas.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, USATODAY.COM, MACROWORLD INVESTOR, FIDELITY.COM, Coverage of IEEE Spectrum’s first annual survey of the world’s most valuable patent portfolios appeared in several print and online publications. The rankings were based on U.S. patents filed in 2005 and the value of their impact on the company and its industry. Several organizations named in the survey including Micron Technology, Inc., ASM International and Finisar Coproration issued press releases announcing their recognition. IEEE Spectrum’s senior editor Harry Goldstein authored the article entitled “Patent Power” in the November issue of the publication. To read the full story, visit http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4699.
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