MTTS ADCOM Meeting Fall 2005 Presidents Message

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MTT-S ADCOM Meeting Fall 2005 Presidents
Message

• K.C. Gupta
• October 1, 2005

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Whats happening in IEEE ?

• TAB Meeting June 2005
• Plenary Session, TAB Caucus, Presidents Forum,
  TAB Meeting
• IEEE China Summit August 2005
• Conference Strategy Meeting August 2005

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Selected points to share - -

• Highlights from IEEE Plenary Session
• IEEE Web Improvement Projects
• IEEE Awards Board
• Effects of IEEE Online Offerings on Membership
• Infrastructure cost
• IEEE Finances
• Environmental Scan
• China Summit

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Groups Working to improve the IEEE Web

• Persistent Nav
• Sub-portals
• Design

Web Navigation
Web Standards

• Statistics
• User Behavior

Web Analytics

• Project Coordination
• Usability/User Experience
• Policy
• Content Quality
• Best Practices

Web Advisory Group

• Organizational standards for Web navigation, look
  and feel, and reputation management

Web Search
Web Account

• Google vs Ultraseek
• Search engine decision

Web Development

• Develop and implements portal and content
  management functionality

• Single Sign-on
• Authentication

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IEEE Awards

• Publicize
• Advertise in your Regions, Sections Societies
  and publicize successes of awardees
• Arrange for presentations by awardees
• Participate
• Volunteer to serve on an Institute-level medal or
  award selection committee awards_at_ieee.org
• Volunteer to serve on an IEEE Awards Board Task
  Force awards_at_ieee.org
• Nominate your peers for Institute awards visit
  the awards home page at www.ieee.org/awards
• Send suggestions for improving the Awards
  Program awards_at_ieee.org

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Effect of IEEE On-line Offerings on Membership

• IEL impact on IEEE membership is minimal
• Greater impact on Society memberships and
  optional publications
• Perception of IEEE and Societies is critical
• We have some control over this
• We must strike a balance and have a consistent
  message
• Full findings at www.ieee.org/research

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Infrastructure Costs

• A 22-page document The Color of Infrastructure
  prepared by IEEE Finance Committee
• Purpose - helping both young and experienced
  volunteers to understand Infrastructure Costs and
  their importance in conducting IEEE business.
• Details associated with identifying the sources
  of IEEE infrastructure costs
• Specifying their distribution throughout IEEE
  organizational units
• Rules associated with infrastructure costs are
  contained the Finance Operations Manual (FOM),
  section FOM.2
• Copies available

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Ad Hoc Industry Relations Committee

• President Anderson/BOD appoints 2005 Industry
  Relations Ad Hoc Committee (Chair, Jim Leonard)
  in February 2005
• Jim Leonard was working on MOU at Boeing since
  2003
• IEEE Board of Directors approved funds in 2004 to
  investigate corporate partnerships under the
  Membership Project (Chair, Moshe Kam)
• Begins to evaluate whether IEEE can partner with
  industry in arrangements that are beneficial to
  both IEEE and the corporations
• Internal Stakeholder meeting held in May 2004
• Market research conducted by SPG (Boston) in 2005

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IEEE Finances

• 2004 Actual
• Actual is 22.8M net positive
• 21.6M favorable to budget
• Operations is 11.4M favorable to budget
• 2005 April Forecast
• Forecast is 7.4M net positive
• Forecast is 5.7M favorable to budget
• 2006 Budget
• Preliminary budget is a net surplus of 1.1M
• Additional Budget Considerations Still Under
  Review
• IEEE FinCom is working the items and does not
  anticipate any issue closing the budget with the
  BoD principles of a net zero or better budget

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Transnational Scan

• High-lights of a presentation by
• Mike Lightner, 2006 IEEE President,
• at June 2005 IEEE Plenary Session

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Population for Selected Countries
World population continues to explode from 2.6
billion in 1950, to 6.2 in 2002 and 9.1 billion
in 2050. In 2002, China is the most populous
country in the world and India, the second most
populous. India gains population rapidly and
eclipses China in total population in 2037. The
worlds less developed countries (LDCs) will have
a youth bulge. Nearly 50 of the worlds
population could be less than 18 years old by
2020.
42, 50
42, 47
41, 52
39, 50
39, 44
36, 39
32, 41
24, 32
39, 44
Median age(2002, 2030)
Sources U.S. Census Bureau - Population
Division, International Programs Center,
International Data Base and
Population Division, Department of Economic and
Social Affairs, United Nations
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Largest IEEE MembershipOutside the U.S.
(as of December 2004)
R-7
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China

• China has come of economic age
• Oil demand will grow 3.4 per year through 2030
• Total volume of imports and exports reached 1
  trillion in 2004
• More than 400 of the world's 500 biggest
  companies are in China
• Chinas use of electronic media has exploded.
  (See chart)
• Chinas educational system produced 337,000
  science and engineering bachelors degrees in
  2001 and 220,000 were engineering alone
• SE degrees represent 60 of all bachelors
  degrees earned in China compared to 33 in South
  Korea, 41 in Taiwan and 31 in the U.S.
  Friedman
• Factoring out science degrees, engineering are
  46 of all bachelors degrees in China, 25
  Russia and 5 in the U.S. Friedman

Source Business Week, Mar 2004
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India
Output of Degree Level Engineering and IT
Professionals in India

• GDP growth rate is among the fastest in the world
  
• Demographic transition with a rising proportion
  of the population of working age (15-59 years)
• Software development, knowledge-based industries
  and outsourcing of services
• Large numbers of well-educated people skilled in
  English language
• More than 250 universities (over 900 colleges)
  and engineering colleges are providing computer
  education at the degree/diploma level
• Output of trained engineering and IT human power
  has increased since 1985, reaching 130,000 in
  2000 and is estimated at 300,000 in 2004

(In thousands)
Engineers
IT professionals
Source National Association of Software and
Service Companies (NASCOM)
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Other Emerging Markets

• Brazil bulk of foreign direct investment going
  into services banking, electricity, and
  telecommunications
• Russia produces more than 200,000 science grads
  a year. Students are well-trained in computer
  science, physics, mathematics, and engineering.
  Bad news is the aging population, aging Russian
  scientists, thinning ranks of Russian academia
• Eastern Europe excellent technical education in
  the region. European Union membership of these
  countries offers promising development for these
  economies.

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World Economic Data and for Selected Countries
Largest in category
Source CIA World Fact Book, latest data
available as of June, 2005
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Chinas Tech Revolution Brings Opportunities and
Challenges

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Moving Forward in ChinaA Different Challenge

• IEEE in China Summit Held on August 22 at
  IEEE Headquarters in Piscataway.
• K.C. Gupta and Peter Staecker among participants.
• Expert presentation in Morning, and World
  Café type discussion in afternoon.
• A web-based community for continuing discussions
• https//www.ieeecommunities.org/ieee.asia
• 7-page Executive Summary available on web

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Moving Forward in ChinaA Different Challenge

• Discussion to continue
• Evaluate the need for a unified and coordinated
  physical presence
• Assess business opportunities, first leveraging
  those currently in process
• Focus on education first -- improvement in
  educating engineers, globalize credentials,
  certification.
• Assess the role of membership in China.
• Not Business as Usual, but we cannot slow down
  whats already in process

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What should MTT be doing ?

• Transnational Committee Region 10
• Activities Committee/Coordinator to develop a
  strategy for positioning MTT-1 in rapidly growing
  areas of Region 10.
• An Ad Hoc Committee to focus on this item?

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Long Range MTT-S Publications Planning

• A joint meeting of MTT-S Publications Committee
  and Long Range Planning Committee held in June.
• An Ad Hoc Committee consisting of Karl Varian,
  Bob Trew, and Linda Katehi looking into this
  issue
• More in this ADCOM meeting later

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New IEEE Councils

• Systems Engineering Council
• Approved in principle in June TAB meeting
• 8 Societies (including MTT-S) interested
• Kick-off meeting held August 15-16
• MTT-S ADCOM to decide in this meeting
• EDA Council
• MTT-S decided to join in June meeting
• Michal Odyniec, Chair MTT-1, nominated as MTT-S
  representative

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New MTT-S Chapter

• In Brasilia, third in Brazil (others are in Rio
  and Sao Paulo.)
• 113th MTT-S Chapter
• Joint with Signal Processing, Computers,
  Communications, Power Engineering societies.

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ADCOM Honorary Life Membership

• Number of inputs received after election of the
  new Honorary Life Member of ADCOM at the June
  meeting.
• Questions raised
• Maximum number of ADCOM HLM members?
• Voting privileges?
• Nomination and election procedure?
• Etc.
• Past Presidents Council requested to look into
  this issue and advise ADCOM.
• PPC has already started discussions, and their
  input will be brought to ADCOM in future
  meeting(s).

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Concluding Remarks

• Pleasure to work with MTT-S team - all of you.
• Last meeting K.C. is chairing as 2005 President.
• Thanks for your help and cooperation.