Region 3 EAC Report - IEEE Southeastcon 2010

In addition to the goals for the EAC committee given in the
the last report filed, the following additional goals stem from
the report from the special review committee chaired by Roy
Harris.

1. As mentioned in the special committee report, the Educational
Activities Committee abandoned the practice of having a yearly
meeting (at Southeastcon) a number of years ago. The special
committee mentioned that this equates to the local educational
activities representatives becoming disengaged and thus requires
most of the work to be completed by the EAC chair. The EAC chair
will therefore work with the Region 3 leadership to find an appropriate
solution to this issue either by revising the charter for the EAC
or reconstituting the roles of local EA representatives.

2. With the resolution of the first issue, the EAC will develop and
maintain an agressive push across the region to re-engage members
into educational activities. The reason for this need is two-fold: as
the region faces a crisis in a shortage of STEM and other IEEE 
professionals, EAC needs to work with the other appropriate regional 
entities to
help attract more people into these areas and eventually into
the IEEE Region 3 fold. The second reason is that jobs that are
being lost to the outsourcing of traditional electrical and computer
engineering  areas, are slowly being replaced in renewable/smart
energy and green engineering areas.

3. The region 3 EAC needs to re-visit previous chairs to fill-in for gaps in
reporting of yearly goals and outcomes.

4. The EAC web site is not current. The EAC chair needs to work with
the Region IT/WEB representatives to update this information and put
a process into place such that this information remains current.


Respectfully submitted,

Bruce L. Walcott
IEEE Region 3
EAC Chair

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Dr. Bruce L. Walcott                                    College of Engineering
Associate Dean                                  University of Kentucky
College of Engineering                                  Lexington, KY 
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