Standing Committees of the Board
of Directors. The following
additional Standing Committees, each with a
scope and mission statement approved by
the Board of Directors, shall be established by
and shall report to the Board of Directors:
Admission and Advancement
Committee Audit Committee
Awards Board Conferences
Committee Employee Benefits and
Compensation Committee Ethics and
Member Conduct Committee Fellow
Committee Finance Committee
Governance Committee History
Committee Insurance Committee
Investment Committee Life Members
Committee (joint with the IEEE Foundation)
Marketing and Sales Committee New
Initiatives Committee Nominations
and Appointments Committee
Strategic Planning Committee
Tellers Committee Women in
Engineering Committee
Standing Committees Assigned to
Major Boards. The following Standing
Committees of the Board of Directors are
assigned by the Board of Directors, for
administrative responsibility and
operational support, to other Major Boards as indicated:
Admission and Advancement
Committee – MGAB Conferences
Committee – TAB Life Members
Committee – MGAB Marketing
and Sales Committee – TAB and PSPB
Unless specified
otherwise in a governing document
approved by the Board
of Directors, the chairs and members
of the Standing
Committees shall be appointed by the
Board of Directors. In
accordance with IEEE Bylaw I-303.1,
the voting members of the
Standing Committees appointed by
individuals or committees, other
than the IEEE Board of Directors, as
specified in these Bylaws,
shall be annually submitted to the
IEEE Board of Directors for affirmation.
(b)
Where the governing
documents approved by the Board of
Directors provide for
member appointments to Standing
Committees and Boards
by bodies other than the Board of
Directors, such appointments
shall be made by the respective
appointing bodies in consultation
with the respective Chairs of such
Standing Committees and Boards.
(c)
The following
Standing Committees shall have at
least one member who
obtained his or her first collegiate
degree within the last
ten years at the time of appointment
and who is at Graduate
Student Member, Member grade or higher.
Conferences
Committee Ethics
and Member Conduct Committee
History Committee
Nominations and Appointments
Committee Tellers
Committee Women
in Engineering Committee
(d)
Staff
secretaries shall be designated
by the IEEE Executive
Director, when appropriate, to
assist the committees in their
work.
Subcommittees. Each Board and Standing
Committee shall have the right to create
subcommittees of its own
selection. Voting members of all Boards,
Standing Committees, and subcommittees
thereof shall be members of the IEEE and must be
of Graduate Student Member, Member,
Senior Member or Fellow grade, unless
specified otherwise in these Bylaws.
Qualified individuals, who need not be
members of IEEE, may be appointed to serve as
non-voting consultants to make their
expertise available to these bodies.
The term of appointment and duration of service
for such consultants shall conform to
the requirements of this Bylaw and
I-304.5. Where the Bylaws provide
for liaison appointments to Standing
Committees and Boards, such appointments shall
be made by the respective appointing
authorities in consultation with the respective
Chairs of the Committees or Boards, subject to
ratification by the Board of Directors
at its next meeting.
Term of Appointment. Unless specified otherwise, the
term of appointment for members, including the
Chair and any other officers of the
Boards and Standing Committees listed in Bylaw
I-304 and I-303, shall be for the
calendar year of appointment.
However, acceptance of appointment will carry
with it the understanding that a member
would normally be re-appointed annually to serve
for no more than three consecutive years.
Duration of Service. Unless specified otherwise, the
consecutive period of service of any member of
any Board or Standing Committee listed
in Bylaw I-305 shall not extend beyond three
years, except that a Chair or Past Chair
may serve one additional year. The
limitations of tenure may be waived in
individual cases for reasons deemed by
the Board of Directors to be in the best
interests of IEEE.
Distribution of Appointments. Unless specified otherwise,
appointments shall normally be distributed so as
to avoid the termination of more than
about one-third of the membership of any Board
or Standing Committee in any calendar year.
Additional Appointments. Additional appointments with
the approval of the Board of Directors
may be made to any Board or Standing
Committee to fill vacancies or to care for
special cases as the need arises, but
such appointments shall expire with the
expiration of the calendar year.
Standing Committee Operations Manual. The functions, scopes,
and responsibilities of each Standing
Committee, together with rules for operation and
guidance, as recommended by the Standing
Committee, shall be compiled by the IEEE
Executive Director for the approval of the Board
of Directors and contained in a document
titled "Standing Committee Operations
Manual." Following appointment, each new
member of a Standing Committee shall be
provided with a copy of the applicable Manual.
Involvement with Outside Organizations. In support of IEEE
purposes and objectives, there may be both ad
hoc and continuing working arrangements
with other not-for-profit organizations that may
be of a local, national, or international
nature. The Board of Directors
shall be responsible for establishing policies,
procedures, and guidelines for the
conduct of such arrangements (see Section 5 of
the IEEE Policies). The Board of Directors
may authorize the IEEE Executive
Director or other specified IEEE organizational
units to take all necessary actions to
support such arrangements. These
delegations of authority generally shall be to
the highest level within the IEEE
organizational structure consistent with the
nature of the outside organization and
the joint programs. Such IEEE
representatives or delegates shall vote in these
bodies as instructed by the Board of
Directors when a position has been taken by the
Board of Directors.
Review of Standing Committees. The Board of Directors may
appoint committees to review its Standing
Committees as listed in Bylaw I-304. The
charge and operation of these review committees
shall be specified at the time of
appointment. Following each such review,
recommendations shall be made to the Board of
Directors, concerning such areas as,
among other things, purposes, activities,
duties, and composition that best serve
the IEEE, its membership, and the public.
Ad Hoc Committees of the Board
of Directors. An Ad Hoc Committee of
the Board of Directors may be appointed from
time to time by the Board of Directors,
the President, or President-Elect to address
a specific issue or activity that is not
appropriate to be addressed by an
ongoing Standing Committee of the Board of Directors.
The scope, membership, source of
funding, and expected duration of each
such Ad Hoc Committee shall be specified at the
time of appointment. If the President or
the President-Elect appoints an Ad Hoc
Committee, notification of the formation
shall be provided to the Board of
Directors within seven business days, including
the above Ad Hoc Committee elements.
The activities of an Ad Hoc
Committee are expected to be completed by
the end of the calendar year of the
Committee’s formation, at which
time the Ad Hoc Committee shall terminate. Ad
Hoc Committee term extensions in
increments of one calendar year or less may be
made by the appointing body, the
President, or President-Elect, as applicable.
