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IEEE-USA President on Offshoring :
Network Conference Offers Discount
: U.S. Lifts
Restrictions on IEEE Publishing :
The Other Side of the
Outsourcing Debate : IEEE
Election Goes Electronic :
Are you getting too much SPAM? :
SoutheastCon
2004 Student Competition Results Available
: Officers
Recruiters, The Job Market, and Resume Preparation
Rob Scruggs
This month we will be hearing from Peter J. Foley, Professional Recruiter with The Kidder Group, Inc. of Greenville. Peter will be talking about what recruiters can do for you, the current job market, resume preparation, and marketing yourself to prospective employers.
Where:
La Quinta Inn at Pelham Road and Haywood Road,
Greenville
When: Thursday, April 22, 2004
Agenda:
Dinner is $5 for all IEEE members and guests. Student dinners will be $3 (please bring change). Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 19, 2004 to Rob Scruggs if you plan to attend and especially if you plan to eat. Rob’s email address is scruggsr@squared.com. For directions to the Inn, please call (864) 233-8018. I will likely provide a carpool leaving from my house in Clemson (please contact me (m.stokes@ieee.org) if you want to ride). I plan to leave at or around 5:45pm
IEEE-USA President Addresses Serious, Long-Term Challenges Of Offshoring For U.S. IEEE Members
In his second column to the IEEE's U.S. members, IEEE-USA
President John Steadman writes about the very serious, long-term challenges that
offshoring poses to our nation's technological and innovative leadership,
economic prosperity, and military and homeland security, as well as job
security, tax revenue, intellectual property and individual privacy.
To read the President's column in its entirety, go to:
http://www.ieeeusa.org/newspubs/presidentscolumn/mar04.html.
To read the news release about IEEE-USA's new position on offshoring, visit:
http://www.ieeeusa.org/releases/2004/031804pr.html.
Network Conference Offers Discount
The Institute
NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2004, a trade show and conference, will address important themes facing today's network professional: security, wireless, collaboration, Voice over IP, performance, data centers, storage, infrastructure, and services. IEEE members receive US$100 off all educational offerings by using priority code EXESZJ47. IEEE Spectrum is a sponsor of the conference. Registration link
U.S. Lifts Restrictions on IEEE Publishing
The Institute
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ruled on 2 April that the IEEE's publishing process is exempt from OFAC regulations and licensing requirements for scholarly papers submitted by authors from Cuba, Iran, Libya, and Sudan. More information.
The Other Side of the Outsourcing Debate
Chris McManes
Dr. Ron Hira, chair of IEEE-USA's Career & Workforce Policy Committee, was online Friday April 2, 2004 fielding questions about offshoring and its effect on U.S. high-tech companies and workers. Washingtonpost.com technology reporter Cynthia L. Webb moderated the discussion. Read a transcription of the live chat.
The Institute
Members voting in this year's annual IEEE election will have another way to return their ballots: electronically over the Web. Full article.
Are you getting too much SPAM?
Mark Stokes
Then you should try out the IEEE’s newest member service, the UCE filter. The IEEE is offering as a free member service UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) filtering service. This service is available to all members and only requires you sign up for an IEEE email alias and turn the UCE filter on. Both of which can be done immediately and online.
You’ll need an IEEE web account to sign up for the alias service, but that too is easy (the alias signup site has full instructions for that). I have been using the service and while it is not perfect, it is very good at correctly identifying spam before it makes it to my computer.
There are three levels of filtering (aggression levels), and you can have the system simply tag the mail as being spam suspect, or you can have it go ahead and delete it (and reply to the sender that the mail didn’t work).
As an added benefit, the email alias will stay with you as long as you are a member. You can have it forward mail to your @ieee.org account to any other email account. Finally, probably the most significant benefit to the alias service is the free virus scanning. The system doesn’t care how big attachments are, it will find and block any attachment that is infected with a virus. I have never had this interfere with legitimate email, and it has never failed to catch viruses (for me anyway).
I strongly suggest if you use email in today’s world of spam and viruses/worms, to start using the alias system that is provided free to every member of the IEEE.
SoutheastCon 2004 Student Competition Results Available
Mark Stokes
SoutheastCon went quite well this year. Many people have
asked me for the final standings of the various competitions, so, here is a link
to the results of the college competitions and regional awards:
http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/secon04/competition_results.htm
(or linked from
http://www.southeastcon.com)
CHAIRMAN Mark Stokes (864) 647-2065 m.stokes@ieee.org
VICE-CHAIRMAN Rob Scruggs (864) 886 1348
scruggsr@squared.com
TREASURER
Wayne Cockrell: (864)223-2888x1452
j.w.cockrell@ieee.org
SECRETARY Jerry Clark (864) 918-2535 jclark89@hotmail.com
MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Lee Stogner (864) 281-8276
l.stogner@ieee.org
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Adib Chebli (864) 241-6583
a.chebli@ieee.org
STUDENT ACTIVITIES Dr. John Komo (864) 656-5916
john.komo@ces.clemson.edu
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES Lee Stogner (864) 281-8276
l.stogner@ieee.org
NEWSLETTER EDITOR Mark Stokes (864) 647-2065 m.stokes@ieee.org
AWARDS Dr. Randy Collins (864)656-5920
randy.collins@ces.clemson.edu
The Piedmont section of the IEEE is still offering sections of its newsletter for advertising space. If you are interested in supporting this effort, please contact one of the officers listed above.
-Mark