IEEE Philadelphia Section Debate

Segment 1 Questions

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1. If you were elected the 2010 IEEE President, what will be your top two priorities?
2. What do you believe distinguishes you from your rival candidate?
3. Is volunteer governance still a good idea for IEEE? IEEE is run by volunteers. Do you think this is a good idea?
4. What plans do you have for partnering with other professional engineering societies such as ASME, ASCE, Chemical Engineers and so forth?
5. How would you encourage more participation in the IEEE from engineers in developing countries?
6. IEEE has become more financially solvent in recent years.  What is your take on IEEE’s use of its resources?
7. Do you think that IEEE should have a different membership model?
8. IEEE Press is a money losing operation.  Should IEEE discontinue its operations, outsource it, or continue to run it as a member benefit and continue operating it at a deficit?
9. Do you support open access to IEEE technical literature?

Segment 2 Questions

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10. As President, what is the first thing you will try to change in the IEEE?
11. How can IEEE encourage more women to choose engineering as a career and stay in the field?
12. How do you think the IEEE should increase its public visibility?
13. This is a presidential year in the United States. A time when considerable policy that affects engineers is established, trade, immigration, tax policy, research and development and so forth. Do you favor a vigorous IEEE-USA involvement in this process?
14. How would you balance IEEE’s reserves against charitable and other worthwhile activities?
15. As candidates from academia and industry and busy with your professional careers, how will you be able to focus on IEEE’s membership needs and activities?
16. How can IEEE better encourage young people to pursue engineering careers - electrical, computer?
17. What’s IEEE doing to encourage employers to provide their employee’s with professional development training?
18. With the IEEE’s introduction of the Graduate Student Membership grade, is the GOLD program, Graduates of the Last Decade, still as relevant as in the past?

Segment 3 Questions

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19. Membership in technical societies is declining.  How can we address this?
20. With a good deal of conversation within the IEEE about renewed nuclear power initiative, 43 new plants.  Is it time for the IEEE community to gear-up to support this initiative?
21. What would be your plans in incorporating the student membership in the overall IEEE?
22. As a student, I can benefit from the IEEE events on campus and in the IEEE online database.  But what motivation is there for me to remain a member after graduation?
23. The IEEE and President Terman have said much recently about humanitarian effort that IEEE could and should become involved with.  As President, what would be your position on how IEEE could best position itself to support this effort?
24. Online only.  Stop sending paper, use the money saved for the web.
25. What role if any do you think the IEEE should have in promoting self regulation of engineering as a profession?
26. What would be your plan to increase membership and more importantly, involved in the IEEE?
27. Why aren’t you campaigning outside North America?
28. What do you see as the IEEE of the future, and as President, how will you influence to get there?