ExCom/BoD ReportRegion 8 Meeting

Lewis Terman2007 IEEE President-Elect

Bucharest, RomaniaOctober 13, 2007

IEEE - the World’s Largest Technical Professional Society

• Over 375K members - Including 80,000 students - In over 160 countries • ~ 1,400 Student Branches• 324 Sections• 39 Societies, 5 Technical Councils • Over 1,600 Chapters

BoD/ExCom Agenda Items

• RAB becomes MGA effective January 1, 2008 • Alternate Membership Models• Globalization• Product Management• Public Visibility

…..and…• China office reports • Shortening the BoD Series• H1B Visa (IEEE-USA)• Eta Kappa Nu merger (USA student honor society)• IEEE/IRE-AIEE 125th Anniversary in 2009

The Big Focus:Strategic Planning

Mega Issues

• Global Operation• The Profession• Fields of Interest• Membership• Products and Services• Public Advocacy and Image• Organizational Structure, Process, and

Culture

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Review

Priority Setting

Program Planning

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* Adapted from Built to Last, Collins and Porras, 1994

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10-15 Year Envisioned Future

• Big Audacious Goal:

Be essential to the global technical community and to technical professionals everywhere,

… and…

be universally recognized for the contributions of technology and technical professionals in improving global conditions

On-Going

• Alternative membership models

• Globalization

• Public Visibility

IEEE Goals and Objectives:Priorities

• Web survey of BoD members

• 6 goals

– 4 to 7 objectives per goal

• Under each goal, select 1 objective for priority attention in the 2008 budget year.

• 21 responses from BoD members

A. Profession - Industry and Practitioner (BoD/ExCom)

 6. Increase IEEE's focus on industry-relevant products and services.

B. Profession - Education (EAB)  1. Expand and promote IEEE’s continuing education products.

B. Profession - Education (EAB)  7. Promote technical literacy, at the pre-university level, to prepare future generations of technical professionals.

C. Public - Global Advocacy (BoD/ExCom)

 4. Establish an IEEE infrastructure to identify and manage action related to global technology issues.

D. Public Image of IEEE & Profession (AdHoc Committee on PV)

 1. Increase public perception of IEEE as a contributor to the enhancement in the quality of life and the environment.

E. Organizational - Members & Vols (MGA)

 5. Increase the breadth and value of programs and services accessible to the IEEE membership.

F. IEEE - The Association (BoD/ExCom)

 2. Improve communication among IEEE volunteers, members and staff and strengthen linkages between IEEE entities.

F. IEEE - The Association (BoD/ExCom)

 6. Improve IEEE organizational processes and accountability.

Goals Objective Statement

IEEE

• Core Purpose– To foster technological innovation and

excellence for the benefit of humanity

• Envisioned Future– Be essential to the global technical community

and to technical professionals everywhere,andbe universally recognized for the contributions of technology and of technical professionals in improving global conditions

IEEE - New Directions

HISTORICALLY• Framework: Technology

and discipline focused• Roles:

– Information collection and dissemination

– Quality control – Archival information– Fast turnaround

• Primary Alignment – research, academia

programs– journals, publications

• Technology Driven, activity based

TOMORROW• Framework: Issue/Problem

focused• Roles:

– Leadership in shaping the problem and solution space

– Collaboration, facilitation, and understanding solution options

– Living Best Practice output, not archival products

• Aligns with groups– industry, academic, government

and humanitarian– creates large and sometimes

untraditional partnerships

• Goal-based/Project focused; trials prominent

Humanity’s “Top Ten” Problems for the next 50 years

• Energy• Water• Food• Environment • Poverty• Terrorism & War• Disease• Education• Democracy• Population Richard Smalley,

Nobel Laureate

The IEEE and GEOSS

• Group on Earth Observation (GEO) – 72 members including the European Union, with 46

participating organizations

• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) – a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained system

to monitor the changing state of the planet

• ICEO - The IEEE Committee on Earth Observation - New IEEE journal - New on-line magazine - On-line game - Standards - Best Practices - Workshops – 18 in 2 years

Humanitarian Technology Challenge Partnering: IEEE with UN Foundation

• IEEE Partnering with the United Nations Foundation– An unprecedented opportunity for a collaboration– to develop technology-based solutions to

problems facing the world – particularly in developing regions

Disaster First Response, Management and Recovery

Sustainable Infrastructures

Available, AffordableHealthcare

Environment-Climate Change

UN Foundation and IEEE areas of

mutual interest

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)

• Founded at 1995 at Purdue University– Pioneered by Leah Jamieson– Now has 18 universities involved

• Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS)– Solving engineering/technology-based problems– With community service and educational

organizations – Teams of university undergraduates – Multi-year, multi-discipline projects– Students earn academic credit

EPICS

• Now has 18 Universities in a national program• Impact

– Application of engineering knowledge to real world problems

– Communication

– Customer awareness

– Project management

– Leadership

– Professionalism

– Community involvement

– Highly regarded by students, faculty, community

Thank you for your attention!Questions?