Introduction to the IEEE Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org)

• World’s largest (~320,000) technical professional society

• Our charter:

“Scientific advancement and diffusion of knowledge”

“Advancement of the profession”

“Use skills to enhance the quality of life for all people”

• Our strengths:

Peer-reviewed proceedings, practical publications, newslettersInternational conferences & workshops with proceedings42 active technical Societies & CouncilsActive local Chapters; grassroots involvement of membershipProfessional support; personal networking opportunities Member services (e.g. bargain life insurance)

The IEEE Code of EthicsWe, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the

quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and agree to:

1. Accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment.

2. Avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist.

3. Be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data.

4. Reject bribery in all its forms.

5. Improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential consequences.

6. Maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations.

7. Seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the contributions of others.

8. Treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or national origin.

9. Avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action.

10. Assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in following this code of ethics.

Refereed Publications of IEEE

Trans. on Advanced PackagingTrans. on Antennas & PropagationTrans. on Applied SuperconductivityTrans. on Automatic ControlTrans. on Biomedical EngineeringTrans. on BroadcastingTrans. on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory & App’s II: Analog & Digital Sig. ProcessingTrans. on Circuits and Systems for

Video TechnologyTrans. on CommunicationsCommunications Lett.Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of

Integrated Circuits and SystemsTrans. on Components and Packaging

TechnologiesTrans. on Control Systems TechnologyTrans. on EducationTrans. on Electronics Pk’g MfgTrans. on Electron DevicesElectron Device Lett.Trans. on Electromagnetic CompatibilityTrans. on Energy ConversionTrans. on Engineering ManagementTrans. on Evolutionary ComputationTrans. on Fuzzy SystemsTrans. on Geoscience & Remote

Sensing

Proceedings of the IEEETrans. on Professional CommunicationJ. of Quantum Electronics Trans. on Rehabilitation EngineeringTrans. on Robotics and AutomationTrans. on Signal ProcessingTrans. on Speech & Audio ProcessingSignal Processing Lett.Trans. on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans Part B: Cybernetics Part C: Applications and ReviewsTrans. on Semiconductor ManufacturingJ. of Solid-State CircuitsTrans. on VLSI SystemsTrans. on Vehicular TechnologyComputer Society Publications Trans. on Computers Trans. on Knowledge & Data

Engineering Trans. on Parallel & Dist’d Systems Trans. on Pattern Analysis & Machine

Intelligence Trans. on Software Engineering Trans. on Visualization & Computer

Graphics

Trans. on Image ProcessingTrans. on Industry ApplicationsTrans. on Industrial ElectronicsTrans. on Information TheoryTrans. on Info Technology in

BiomedicineTrans. on Instrumentation &

MeasurementJ. of Lightwave TechnologyJ. on Selected Areas in

CommunicationsJ. on Selected Topics in Quantum

ElectronicsTrans. on MagneticsTrans. on MechatronicsTrans. on Medical ImagingJ. of Microelectromechanical SystemsMicrowave and Guided Wave Lett.Trans. on Microwave Theory and

TechniquesTrans. on MultimediaTrans. on Neural NetworksTrans. on Nuclear ScienceTrans. on Oceanic EngineeringPhotonics Technology Lett.Trans. on Plasma ScienceTrans. on Power DeliveryTrans. on Power ElectronicsTrans. on Power Systems

IEEE Conferences for 2004Intl Conf on Computers and Devices for Communication

(CODEC)Intl Conf on Asian Green Electronics (AGEC)Intl Conf on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing1st Consumer Comm’s and Networking Conf (CCNC)17th Intl Conf on VLSI Design 9th Joint Magnetism and Magnetic Materials – INTERMAG Intl Symposium on Nanoelectronic Circuits & Giga-Scale

Systems (ISNCG) 7th Intl Topical Workshop on Contemporary Photonic

Technologies (CPT)Intl Conf on Mobile Data Management (MDM)1st European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks17th Intl Conf on Micro ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT)Sensors for Industry Conf (SIcon 2004)Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf ASP-DACIntl Workshop on Electronic Design, Test & App’s (DELTA)ACM/Intl Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification

& Synthesis of Digital Systems (TAU 2004)2nd Nefertiti Winter School in Microwave Photonics6th Intl Conf Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT)IEEE/IAS PCIC Electrical Safety WorkshopIntl Workshop on System-level Interconnect Prediction(SLIP)10th Intl Symposium on High Performance Computer

Architecture (HPCA)Intl Solid-State Circuits Conf -ISSCC 2004Nanoscale Devices and System Integration (CNDSI)Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)

Intl Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS)Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)Conf on Optical Fiber Communication - OFC 2004Applied Power Electronics Conf and Exposition - APECBAST Workshop: Pacific Northwest TestModern Prob’s of Radio Engineering, Telecommunications,

and Computer Science (TCSET)Euroregional Workshop on Thin Silicon Devices17th Conf on Software Engineering Education and Training INFOCOM 2004Pacific Rim Intl Symp on Dependable Computing (PRDC)2004 Aerospace Conf NanoTech 20045th Latin AmericanTest Workshop - LATW13th Annual Wireless and Optical Communications ConfIEEE/CPMT 20th Semiconductor Thermal Measurement &

Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM)Intl Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems &

Software (ISPASS)5th European Workshop on Ultimate Integration of SiliconIntl Conf on Pervasive Computing and Communications

(PERCOM)36th Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory (SSST)Intl Workshop on Junction Technology (IWJT)National Radio Science Conf (NRSC)ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas2nd Annual IEEE/ACM Intl Symposium on Code Generation

and Optimization (CGO)…

…Plus 359 more!

The 42 Technical Societies of IEEE

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Antennas and Propagation SocietyBroadcast Technology SocietyCircuits and Systems SocietyCommunications SocietyComponents Packaging, and Manufacturing

Technology SocietyComputer SocietyConsumer Electronics SocietyControl Systems SocietyCouncil on SuperConductivityDielectrics and Electrical Insulation SocietyEducation SocietyElectromagnetic Compatibility SocietyElectron Devices SocietyEngineering Management SocietyEngineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyGeoscience & Remote Sensing SocietyIndustrial Electronics SocietyIndustry Applications SocietyInformation Theory SocietyIntelligent Transportation Systems Council

Instrumentation and Measurement SocietyLasers & Electro-Optics Society Magnetics SocietyMicrowave Theory and Techniques SocietyNanotechnology CouncilNeural Networks SocietyNuclear and Plasma Sciences SocietyOceanic Engineering SocietyPower Electronics SocietyPower Engineering SocietyProduct Safety Engineering Society Professional Communication SocietyReliability SocietyRobotics & Automation SocietySensors Council Signal Processing SocietySociety on Social Implications of TechnologySolid-State Circuits SocietySystems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency

Control SocietyVehicular Technology Society

The Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) (My personal favorite!)

• One of the smaller societies (~6000 members)

• Publish Trans. on Plasma Science, Trans. on Nuclear Science

• Host ICOPS, NSS/MIC, PAC

• Typical research fields represented

fusion technologysemiconductor processing; plasma-assisted CVDcharged particle acceleration; beam transportpulsed power technology and applicationsphysical electronics: solid-state, vacuum, and plasma devices nuclear diagnostics and instrumentationradiation effectsmedical imagingnuclear power; reactor instrumentation and controlscomputational electromagnetics

• Many members have physics backgroundshttp://hibp7.ecse.rpi.edu/~connor/ieee/npss_foe.htmlhttp://www.ieee.org/newtech/reports/nps/report.html

History of NPSS The first activity of record in this field was the formation of a Nuclear Studies Committee in the IRE in 1947, to determine the proper role of the IRE in this new technical field. Subsequently, in 1949 a petition was filed for the formation of a Professional Group on Nuclear Science, and it was approved on April 5, 1949, with L. R. Hafstad as Chairman. On April 29, an organizational meeting was held, the membership at that time consisting of 54, increasing to 970 by the end of the year.

The new organization became visible on a number of fronts in the early 50's. In 1953, the PGNS formed an Atomic Energy Policy Committee which fielded a strong effort to have the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 modified. These efforts came to a fruition in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Early in the 50's the PGNS became a co-sponsor of the Scintillation Counter Symposium which has now merged into the Nuclear Science Symposium. Also in 1954 the first issue of the Transactions on Nuclear Science appeared. In 1956 the number of issues of the Transactions was increased from one a year to four.

At essentially the same time as the Professional Group on Nuclear Science was formed in the IRE, the AIEE formed a number of committees and subcommittees to work in this area, the most important being the Nucleonics Committee and Commmittee on Nucleonic and Radiation Instruments. With the merger of the IRE and AIEE on January 1, 1963, to form the IEEE, procedures were begun to merge the like-interest groups of the former societies. The IRE Professional Group on Nuclear Science merged with the AIEE Nucleonics Committee and the Committee on Nucleaonic and Radiation Instruments on October 29, 1963, to become the Nuclear Science Group of the IEEE.

In 1972 two major events occurred for the Group. Midyear the scope was widened to include the plasma science field and in September the group was given Society status. The augmented group became the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. March of 1973 saw the debut of a second publication, the Transactions on Plasma Science. NPSS thus has the distinction of issuing two publications, in addition to a newsletter.

Over the years the Society has inaugurated or assumed responsibility for a number of conferences. Every year the Society sponsors conferences on Plasma Science, Radiation Effects, and Nuclear Science. Conferences on Particle Accelerators and Engineering Problems in Fusion Research and Data Acquisition in Nuclear and Particle Physics are sponsored every other year. In addition, other conferences such as Symposium on Nuclear Power systems are co-sponsored by the Society.

Understanding IEEE Organization

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The Regional Activities Board

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The Technical Activities Board

Our technical meetings• Held ~quarterly

• No “memberships” required to attend

• Announced in Grid on-line Magazine:

http://www.ieee-sfbac.org/grid.html

• Announced via chapter e-mailings

• Great technical talks

NPSS Oakland/East Bay Chapter

Recent OEB-NPSS Technical Talks

• James Morgan, LLNL, A Physicist in Arms Control Feb 04

• Jasmina L. Vujic, UCB, Nuclear Power for the 21st Century Mar 03

• Bill DeHope, LLNL, Advances in Flash Radiography Nov 01

• Jasmina L. Vujic, UCB, Nuclear Energy: Beyond Year 2001, May 01

• Paul M. Grant, EPRI, The Coming Age of Superconductivity Feb 01

• Glen Dahlbacka, LBNL, The Chabot Space and Science Center Nov 00

• Monica Blank, CPI, Characteristics and App’s of Gyrodevices, May 00

• David Price, Physics Intl, The Decade Quad X-ray Simulator, Mar 00

• Bill Moses, LBNL, Nuclear Detectors for Cancer Imaging, Jan 00

Previous OEB-NPSS Technical Talks

• Doug Wright, LLNL/SLAC, CP Violation in B Mesons, Oct 99

• Neville Smith, LBNL, Opportunities with ALS Radiation, May 99

• Ned Birdsall, UCB, Plasma Simulation, Mar 99

• Ron Rojesky, ITEC, Laser and e-beam Lithography, Jan 99

• Herb Friedman, LLNL, Medical Device Development, Oct 98

• Michael Wright, Varian, X-ray Imaging With Amorphous Si 5/98

• Andrey Mishin, Schoenberg, Portable Linacs, March 98

• Herb Friedman, LLNL, Laser Guide Star at Lick Obs., Jan 98

• Dennis Matthews, LLNL, Laser Paint Ablation, Dec 97

• Ken Whitham, Titan Beta, Industrial Linacs (& Frascati) May 97

• Hugh Kirbie, LLNL, Solid-State Linear Induction Accels, Mar 97

Early OEB-NPSS Technical Talks

• Arne Vliecks, SLAC, Klystrons & SLED, Jan 97

• Cary Zeitlin, LBL, Space Rad Effects on Astronauts, Nov 96

• Ben Feinberg, LBL, Advanced Light Souce, May 96

• Michael Lieberman UCB, Plasma Processing, Jan 96

• Tom Budinger, LBL, PET & MRI Imaging, Oct 95

• Bob Hamm, AccSys, RF Quadrupole Accelerators, May 95

• Curt Clower, LLNL, NIF, the National Ignition Facility, Mar 95

• Jose Alonso, LBL, Proton & Light Ion Medical Therapy, Dec 94

• Mike Zisman, LBL, B Factory, May 94

• Jay Marx, LBL, Quark/gluon Plasmas and STAR Mar 94

• Jim Brase, LLNL, Laser Guide Star, Jan 94

• Glen Dahlbacka, LBL, MEMS, Nov 93

• John DeFord, LLNL, Tech Xfer/Comp Electromagnetics May 93

Why join IEEE?• Member $ benefits (e.g. group life insurance rates)

• Discounts on books, publications, conferences

• Career benefits; professional advancement

— You’ll be perceived as a stand-out

— You will rise “above the crowd”

• Many employers cover dues (Ask!) so, why not?

• Be a giver, not a taker

• It’s the right thing to do

• It’s the professional thing to do

• Ethics strengthening & support

• Member friendships, camaraderie, personal networking

Joining IEEE is easy!

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