ExComBoD Report Region 8 Meeting

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ExCom/BoD ReportRegion 8 Meeting

• Lewis Terman
• 2007 IEEE President-Elect
• Bucharest, Romania
• October 13, 2007

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IEEE - the Worlds 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

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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

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The Big FocusStrategic Planning

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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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Four Planning Horizons
15 years
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10 5
2 1 year
Action Planning
Strategic Planning
Critical Factors
Envisioned Future
Annual Strategic Plan Review Priority
Setting Program Planning Action Planning
Value Proposition Goals Objectives Strategies
Operational Strategy
Core Ideology
Scan Conditions, Trends Assumptions Mega
Issues Strategic Principles
Big Audacious Goal Vivid Description
Core Purpose Core Values

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

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On-Going

• Alternative membership models
• Globalization
• Public Visibility

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IEEE Goals and ObjectivesPriorities

• 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

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Goals Objective
Statement
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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

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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

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Humanitys Top Ten Problems for the next 50
years

• Energy
• Water
• Food
• Environment
• Poverty
• Terrorism War
• Disease
• Education
• Democracy
• Population

Richard Smalley, Nobel Laureate
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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

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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

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Sustainable Infrastructures
Disaster First Response, Management and Recovery
UN Foundation and IEEE areas of mutual interest
Environment- Climate Change
Available, Affordable Healthcare
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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

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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

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Thank you for your attention!

• Questions?

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