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- IN THIS ISSUE:
- RAB CALL FOR
NOMINATIONS
- REBATES, LATE BUT NOT TOO
LATE
- EAB AWARDS NOMINATIONS
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- MILESTONE PROGRAM
- IEEE STATS & WEB APPS
- E-CONFERENCE MEETING, A BEST
PRACTICE
- CEU COURSE DIRECTORY NOW ON THE IEEE
WEB
- LARGEST IEEE STUDENT BRANCH
- NEW SENIOR MEMBERS ELEVATED
- IEEE CONTACT INFORMATION
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- CALL FOR
NOMINATIONS,
- IEEE RAB ASSEMBLY ELECTED
POSITIONS
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- There is still time to submit your nomination! The Regional
Activities
- Board (RAB) Nominations and Appointments Committee is seeking
nominations
- for the following positions:
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- * Vice President Regional Activities
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- * Vice Chair Member Activities
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- * Vice Chair Region, Section and Chapter Activities
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- * Vice Chair Strategic Planning
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- * Vice Chair Student Activities
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- * RAB Treasurer
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- The RAB Nominations and Appointments Committee will recommend
candidates
- for election by the RAB Assembly for the 2001 term, for the
office of Vice
- President Regional Activities/RAB Chair, RAB Treasurer and the
RAB Vice
- Chairs. Nomination packages are available from Regional
Activities
- Department (ra-admin@ieee.org).
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- The deadline for nominations is 30 April 2000. Additional
information is
- available at the following URL:
- www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/rab/ra-assembly.html.
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REBATES, LATE BUT NOT TOO
LATE
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- The annual reports required for IEEE Sections to earn funding
in the form
- of a rebate were due on 22 February 2000. THANK YOU to the 224
out of 298
- Sections who have submitted all three reports (Meeting
activity, financial
- activity and current officers). For those Sections that have
not yet
- submitted all or some of the reports, although you have missed
the deadline
- to earn the 10% bonus, the rebate can still be earned. The
forms and
- information can be found on the Web at www.ieee.org/ra/scs,
select the link
- for "Required Reporting". Please contact Vicki Waldman for
reporting
- status or with any questions: v.waldman@ieee.org,
telephone +1 732 562
- 5564.
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MAY 15 DEADLINE FOR 2000 IEEE/EAB
AWARDS NOMINATIONS
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- The Educational Activities Board (EAB) is offering five
awards: Meritorious
- Achievement Award in Accreditation Activities, Meritorious
Achievement
- Award in Continuing Education, Major Educational Innovation
Award,
- Meritorious Service Citation, and the Employer Professional
Development
- Award. These awards are designated to specifically recognize
individuals
- and companies who make significant contributions to furthering
the
- professional development of IEEE members. For complete
information about
- nominating for the awards, access the EAB Awards page at
- www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/arc/awards/index.htm, or
contact Rae Toscano
- at r.toscano@ieee.org,
telephone +1 732 562 6526.
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DESIGNED JUST FOR
YOU
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- At the Section level, the IEEE History Center administers the
IEEE
- Milestones Program to honor significant achievements in
electrical,
- electronic and computer engineering. Details on the program
and how to
- propose a Milestone can be found on the History Center web
site at
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- www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/milestones_program.html.
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- After approval by the IEEE History Committee and IEEE
Executive Committee,
- a bronze plaque is cast with a cost of $500, and a dedication
ceremony is
- held by the Section to honor the achievement. Ordinarily, the
Section is
- responsible for the cost of the plaque. However, through a
gift from the
- IEEE Life Members Committee (LMC), Sections are now eligible
for special
-
- funding to cover the cost of the plaque: The LMC will be
sponsoring up to
- four plaques in the year 2000. Therefore, if you are
interested in having
- a Milestone within your Section, please visit our web site
referenced
- above. It contains the information you will need to get the
ball rolling.
-
- Please note that the nomination process, from beginning to
end, can take up
- to 6 months. So you will want to act quickly to be eligible
for this
- generous offer from LMC (note that other costs may be incurred
by the
- Section in conjunction with the Dedication Ceremony, but that
in the past
- corporate sponsorship has frequently been obtained for
some/all of these
- costs).
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IEEE STATS & WEB
APPS
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- New higher-grade and student member applications continue to
surge ahead of
- last year's record numbers. In just the first eight weeks of
the calendar
- year, IEEE has received 3,816 new higher-grade member
applications (2,535
- of them via the Web) for a 10% increase over the first two
months of 1999.
- Student member applications are showing a more moderate
increase of 1.2%
- over last year. 5,726 Student applications have come in in
eight weeks,
- nearly 23% via the Web. Last year, only 14.3% of Student
applications came
- in via the Web, so the rate of Web usage among prospective
Student members
- is increasing dramatically.
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- If this pace continues, IEEE could see nearly 26,000 Web
applications in
- 2000. The web application form can be found at
www.ieee.org/membership.
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- E-CONFERENCE
MEETING, A BEST PRACTICE
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- On 29 January 2000 the full Region 3 Executive Committee met
for their
- first e-conference meeting. Thirty-one members participated
from 9 states.
- Prior to the meeting, all committee and entity chairs
submitted their
- reports via e-mail, and these were posted on the Web prior to
the meeting.
- The meeting lasted four hours.
-
- Software used by participants included MSChat and mIRC.
Training in use
- of e-conference software and techniques was conducted at the
fall ExCom
- meeting in early December in Nashville, Tennessee. The IEEE
server at
- Piscataway, New Jersey was used and performed flawlessly
throughout the
- day.
-
- In Region 3, e-conference techniques and technology have been
under
- investigation and development since early 1999, with the first
phase
- guidelines presented at Sections Congress 99. An ad hoc
e-Conference
- Committee was established this year to complete subsequent
phases of the
- guidelines. Other Region 3 committees have used the guidelines
in numerous
- e-conference meetings before conducting the region wide ExCom
meeting in
- January.
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- For further technical details, visit the web site
- www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/e-conf/
or contact any member of the project team
- listed there.
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CEU COURSE DIRECTORY NOW ON THE
IEEE WEB
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- Planning professional development requirements for the year?
Maybe it's
- time to have skills freshened up for either short-term or
long-term goals.
- Help is as close as the IEEE website at
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- www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/ceucourselist.htm.
-
- A list of courses offering Continuing Education Units (CEUs),
as well as
- contact information, can now be found on the IEEE website.
Listed by date,
- the courses run the gamut from Advanced Induction Motor
Production through
- XML Technologies.
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- Attention course developers: To list your CEU offering or
offer CEUs at
- your educational program, please contact Sharon Strock,
Projects
- Administrator, at s.strock@ieee.org.
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LARGEST IEEE STUDENT
BRANCH
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- The largest IEEE Student Branch in 1999 was the Thadomal
Shahani
- Engineering College in Bombay, India, with 695 Students.
Rounding out the
- top five largest branches are: the University of Texas,
Austin, USA;
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., USA; Crescent
Engineering
- College, Madras, India; and the University of Illinois,
Urbana, USA.
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- For more information, email Student Services at student-services@ieee.org,
- or contact Laura Durrett of IEEE Regional Activities at
telephone +1 732
- 562 5523; email l.durrett@ieee.org.
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NEW SENIOR MEMBERS
ELEVATED
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- Nearly 170 IEEE members were elevated to Senior Member grade
at the
- February meeting of the IEEE Admission & Advancement
Panel. The list of
- the new Senior Members may be viewed at
- www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/feb00smupdt.html.
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- To inquire about the status of a Senior Member elevation, send
an email
- message to
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- senior-member@ieee.org.
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IEEE CONTACT
INFORMATION
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- IEEE Operations Center
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