Region 4 Mission

1
Region 4 Mission

• Mission Statement
• Represent IEEE throughout our geographic area by
  providing excellent support to all sections,
  subsections, chapters and student branches so
  they may in turn provide value to IEEE members

2
Region 4 Goals

• Effective training for section/chapter officers
• Effective and timely communications between
  region and sections/chapters
• Understand needs of sections/chapters- feedback
• Strong support for technical and professional
  activities for our sections/chapters
• Promote our profession to students and public
• Promote recognition of members and leaders in the
  region

3
Training Strategy

• Train section/chapter chair/chair-elects at
  Region meeting- Area Chairs
• Treasurers- Bob Dawson
• Secretary- Bill Gorder
• Student Activities- Jim Riess
• Professional Activities- Tarek Lahdhiri
• Program- Sat Basu
• Newsletter/webmaster- Bob Evanich
• Membership Development- Bob Adams
• Gold- Kristi Brooks

4
Training Plans

• Job Descriptions- make sure people know what we
  want them to do by 4/1
• Create training materials- PowerPoint, mostly
  completed
• First pass of training- conference call with
  presentation sent ahead of time 3/1. Post to
  Region web site for use
• Create a place on Region web site for training
  materials Jensen/Evanich- completed
• Include feedback on training to ensure
  improvement
• Regular Strategic Planning conference calls to
  continue plans and ensure completion, 3rd
  Wednesday at 8AM
• Gather feedback from Region meeting to determine
  training needed at next meeting

5
Communications Plan

• Encourage all sections to have web sites that
  list technical meetings available to members-
  Sections are owners
• Link to neighboring section web sites
• Encourage section members to participate in
  meetings in neighboring areas by providing
  reminders and links
• Add contacts in neighboring sections for
  electronic newsletters
• Create a page on region web site to link to all
  sections to find technical meetings- Bob Evanich
• Or, develop an automated system that will allow
  the Region to pull technical meeting data from
  section web sites.
• Sections to create an XML file on web site to
  contain meeting data
• Script will collect and compile into a calendar
  on a daily basis
• Probably some notification of when data has
  changed
• Sections responsible for notifying members to
  look
• Perhaps a Region email quarterly to all members

6
Communications Plan continued

• Quarterly conference call by each area chair with
  Section leadership
• Area chairs to visit sections (2 to3 per year).

7
Awards Plan

• Proactively work for awards submissions for
  Region, RAB, IEEE-USA, TAB, EAB, and IEEE
• Make list of awards that are available
• Ensure that submission dates are known
• Ensure that applications are available
• Track applications

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Region Committee Position Goals

• All Region committee members (including section
  chairs) to develop goals for their
  position/section for 2004
• Goals to report to Region Director,
  Director-Elect and Secretary by 3/1
• Distribute collection of goals to Region
  Committee by 3/15
• Review goals at LRSPC meeting in March
  teleconference