IEEE Region 8 Section Assessment Benelux Section

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IEEE Region 8 Section AssessmentBenelux Section

• 23 April 2004
• Krakow, Poland

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Section Team
Jan Biemond (Chair) TU Delft NLCor Claeys
(Past Chair) KU Leuven, IMEC BMartin
Bastiaans (Officer) TU Eindhoven NL
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Overview presentation

• Background to the Section
• Finances
• Governance
• Section Activities
• Chapter Activities
• Membership Development
• Student and Gold Activities
• Conferences
• Education
• Long-term goals/ New Directions
• Best practices

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Background to the Section

• Strengths
• Founded May 13, 1959 as part of IRE
• Part of IEEE since 1963 after merger with AIEE
• First chair Ir. H. Rinia (1959-1961), director
  Philips Research, Eindhoven
• Strong organizational and financial structure
• Local circumstances Excellent educational system
  and strong consumer electronics (support)
  industry

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Background to the Section (2)

• Successes
• Large of Chapters and Student Branches
• Relatively large of IEEE Fellows and Senior
  Members
• Two recent IEEE medalists
• Prof. Kees Schouhamer Immink, IEEE Edison Medal
  (optical disk storage)
• Prof. Aad T. de Hoop, IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal
  (EM propagation)
• Two Society Presidents
• Prof. Han Vinck, IEEE Information Theory (IT)
  Society (2003-2004)
• Prof. Djan Khoe, IEEE Lasers Electro-Optical
  Society (LEOS) (2003-2004)

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Background to the Section (3)

• Threats
• Lack of volunteers
• Uncertain future of (Electrical) Engineering
• Limited inflow into technical studies
• Lack of high-tech start-ups as innovation drivers
• Brain drain
• Outsourcing and off shoring of production,
  services and research
• Exodus of research labs and (consumer)
  electronics industry to low-income countries

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Finances

• Financial goals
• Section is planning to shrink its reserves due
  to
• Growing of Chapters with increased activity
  level
• New rebate scheme for SBs to promote activities
• Promotion of technical studies (at high schools)
• Level of reserves kept consistent with
  objectives
• To provide risk-bearing capital to support
  conferences and workshops within Benelux Region

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Governance

• ExCom Officers Standing Committee Chairs
  Chapter Chairs

• Officers (period 2002-2005)
• Chairman Prof. dr. ir. Jan Biemond (TU Delft
  NL)
• Junior Past Chairman Prof. dr. ir. Cor Claeys
  (KU-Leuven IMEC B)
• Vice chairman Prof. Dr. Ir. Patrice Mégret
  (Polytechnique de Mons  B)
• Prof. Damien Macq (Polytechnique de Mons,
  B) since 01/01/04
• Secretary Dr. Alan Hanjalic (TU Delft NL)
• Treasurer NL Dr.ir. Jan Bergmans (TU
  Eindhoven NL)
• Treasurer B Ir. Dirk Rabaey (Alcatel, B)
• Member B Prof. Joseph. Lahr (IST L)
• Member NL Dr.ir. Martin J. Bastiaans (TU
  Eindhoven NL)
• (Vice- chair candidate per 01/01/05)

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Governance (2)

• Standing Committee Chairs (2002-2005)
• Awards Ir. J (Hans) Noordanus (Philips
  retiree NL)
• Chapter Coordination Ir. Kees van t Klooster
  (ESTEC/ESA NL)
• Student Activities Prof.dr.ir. Daniel M. van
  Dommelen (KU-LeuvenB)
• Industry Relations Fred Snijders (Philips
  Research Eindhoven,NL)
• Educational Activities (NL) Prof. A.M.J. Koonen
  (TU Eindhoven NL)
• Educational Activities (B) Prof. Jacques Verly
  (Université de Liège  B)
• Professional Activities and Ing. K. K. Keimpema
  (retired Dutch PTT, NL)
• Membership Development Vacancy per 01/01/04
• Electronic Communications Dr.ir. J. Vanderschoot
  (Leiden University Medical Center NL)

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Governance (3)

• ExCom meetings twice a year (May/November)
• General assembly (with officer election) every
  second year last one in Eindhoven, the
  Netherlands, January 14, 2002
• Next in January 2005 (postponed with 1 year)
• Chairpersons alternate between The Netherlands
  and Belgium or Luxembourg
• Within Belgium/Luxembourgian turns, it alternates
  between Northern and Southern region

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Chapter Activities

• Chapters 15 1 1
• LEOS Lasers and Electro-Optics
• AP/MTT Antennas and Propagation/Microwave Theory
  and Techniques
• IT Information Theory
• SP Signal Processing
• VTC Vehicular Technology and Communications
• CE Consumer Electronics
• CAS Circuits and Systems
• ED Electron Devices
• EMS Engineering Management Society Chapter
• SSCS Solid State Circuits Society Chapter
• IAS/PEL Industry Applications/Power Electronics
  
• NPS Nuclear and Plasma Science
• EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
• CS Computer Society
• NN The Neural Network Chapter
• The ED/CAS Université Catholique de Louvain
  Student Branch Chapter

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Chapters Activities (2)

• New Chapters since 2000
• IAS/PEL Industry Applications/Power Electronics
  Oct. 2000
• NPS Nuclear and Plasma Science Chapter Feb.
  26, 2001
• EMS Engineering Management Society Chapter
  Oct. 24, 2001
• EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility Dec.
  2002
• CS Computer Society Chapter May 2002
• NN The Neural Networks Society Chapter May 30,
  2003
• ED/CAS Université Catholique de Louvain Student
  Branch Chapter Oct. 2003
• The Joint Industry Applications Power
  Electronics Society Chapter has applied to expand
  its activities to Power Engineering (Nov. 2003)
  and to become the joint
• IAS/PELS/PES Benelux Chapter
• A Chapter on Robotics and Automation is in the
  process of organization by Dr. Stefano
  Stramigioli, Twente University NL
• There are some recent initiatives to create a
  Chapter on Biomedical Engineering

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Chapter Activities (3)

• All Chapters are active, but there is sometimes a
  lack of reporting (VTC and SSCS) invited to
  next Section meeting
• Chapters are requested to report to our biannual
  Section meeting
• LEOS was nominated last year for the Chapter of
  the Year award of Region 8
• A good means to revitalize a Chapter is a
  (complete) change of board members (SP, AP/MTT)

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Membership Development Activities

• Theme Benelux Chair Membership value
• Membership development SM Fellow Student Total
  
• End 1998 133 36 412 2568
• End 1999 154 37 424 2706
• End 2000 154 42 385 2790
• End 2001 163 43 387 2795
• End 2002 169 46 478 2833
• End 2003 178 45 442 2750
• Membership division Industry 50
• Academia 45
• Government 5
• - Factors
• Electronic access
• Recent economic downturn
• Membership fee increase

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Membership Development Activities (2)

• How to reach members from industry?
• Promotion and sponsoring of conferences and
  Symposia with major industry participation
• Recent appointment of Industry Relation Officer
• Composition of Section and Chapter boards
• Link with industry through Gold
• Supporting friend Award for Alcatel

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Supporting Friend Award

• The IEEE would like to recognize Alcatel-Antwerp,
  for its consistent support in sponsoring various
  IEEE activities.
• The IEEE extends its gratitude for providing over
  15 years of faithful support to the IEEE for
  hosting the EXCOM meetings of the IEEE Benelux
  Section.
• For the encouragement of its employees to
  participate in member activities of the IEEE and
  to promote the value of membership.
• Alcatel was supportive in the establishment of
  the first GOLD Chapter program in Region 8. 
• Especially the financial management of Dirk
  Rabaey should be mentioned.

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Student Activities

• 7 recognized Student Branches
• Delft, Endhoven, Gent, Leuven, Liege,
  Louvain-la-Neuve, Twente
• Recent revitalization SBs Delft and Liege.
• Each ExCom meeting a student branch is invited
• Strong visibility
• Successful organization SBC-2000 in Eindhoven
• High visibility in Region 8 Student paper
  contests
• Symposia, Study projects, Debates, Beer courses
• Exchange visits of neighboring SBs

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SB Delft

• From competition to cooperation
• Focus on International MSc students

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IEEE Student Branch Leuven presents Beer Course
In cooperation with Zythos the Confederation
of Belgian Objective Beer tasters


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DEBATEIEEE Student Branch Leuven Wednesday,
April 28, 2004
Intellectual Exodus from Belgium Future and
Expansion of our Knowledge Economy

• Speakers
• Dirk Rabaey, IEEE Benelux, Alcatel Strategic
  Alliances
• Frank Vandenbroecke, Minister of Labor and
  Pensions
• Prof. Yves Willems, Dean Faculty Applied
  Sciences,
• Catholic University Leuven

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GOLD Affinity Group

• Very active Gold Affinity Group
• Certificate of Appreciation May 2002
• Lack of reporting in 2003
• Expiration of IEEE Membership GOLD Affinity
  Chair
• Jan van Nieuwenhuyse
• Discussion to combine activities with German
• GOLD Section
• Recent initiative of William Watté, Sammy
  Martens to
• revitalize GOLD through a new Board, etc.

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Conferences

• 3rd IEEE Conference on Standardization and
  Innovation in Information Technology, Delft, The
  Netherlands, Oct. 22-24, 2003
• 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems,
  Man Cybernetics, The Hague, The Netherlands,
  October 10-13, 2004
• 2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia
  and Expo (ICME), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July
  2005

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Education

• Several Chapters actively participate in The
  Distinguished Lecturer Program
• Many short courses and post graduate courses are
  offered by the different Universities, Graduate
  Schools, Philips CTT. Many IEEE members are
  involved, but no direct involvement of the
  Section
• Biemond was appointed as a member of Region 8
  Educational Activities Sub Committee per 01-01-04

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Long Term Goals/New Directions

• Membership development and retention
• Improved leadership in Section
• To promote engineering studies
• Pre-university programs
• International MSc programmes
• To invest in knowledge society
• To promote start-ups and spin-off companies
• To promote electronic industry as innovation
  driver

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Best Practices

• A very good relation with other professional
  Societies in the electronics field NERG, KIvI,
  AES, IEE, etc.
• Strong interaction with Chapters and SBs, partly
  based on a very good rebate/support program
• A relative high participation of SBs in Regional
  activities, like Student Paper Contests
• An excellent, inspiring host from Industry for
  our biannual ExCom meetings