ExCom/BoD ReportRegion 8 Meeting
Lewis Terman2007 IEEE President-Elect
Bucharest, RomaniaOctober 13, 2007
IEEE - the World’s 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
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
The Big Focus:Strategic Planning
Mega Issues
• Global Operation• The Profession• Fields of Interest• Membership• Products and Services• Public Advocacy and Image• Organizational Structure, Process, and
Culture
EnvisionedEnvisionedFuture*Future*
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Big Audacious
Goal
Vivid Description
ScanConditions, Trends &
Assumptions
Mega Issues
StrategicPrinciples
Annual Strategic Plan
Review
Priority Setting
Program Planning
Action Planning
CoreCoreIdeology*Ideology*
Core Purpose
Core Values
ValueProposition
GoalsObjectivesStrategies
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KNOWLEDGE-BASED Decision-Making
* 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
On-Going
• Alternative membership models
• Globalization
• Public Visibility
IEEE Goals and Objectives:Priorities
• 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
A. Profession - Industry and Practitioner (BoD/ExCom)
6. Increase IEEE's focus on industry-relevant products and services.
B. Profession - Education (EAB) 1. Expand and promote IEEE’s continuing education products.
B. Profession - Education (EAB) 7. Promote technical literacy, at the pre-university level, to prepare future generations of technical professionals.
C. Public - Global Advocacy (BoD/ExCom)
4. Establish an IEEE infrastructure to identify and manage action related to global technology issues.
D. Public Image of IEEE & Profession (AdHoc Committee on PV)
1. Increase public perception of IEEE as a contributor to the enhancement in the quality of life and the environment.
E. Organizational - Members & Vols (MGA)
5. Increase the breadth and value of programs and services accessible to the IEEE membership.
F. IEEE - The Association (BoD/ExCom)
2. Improve communication among IEEE volunteers, members and staff and strengthen linkages between IEEE entities.
F. IEEE - The Association (BoD/ExCom)
6. Improve IEEE organizational processes and accountability.
Goals Objective Statement
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
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
Humanity’s “Top Ten” Problems for the next 50 years
• Energy• Water• Food• Environment • Poverty• Terrorism & War• Disease• Education• Democracy• Population Richard Smalley,
Nobel Laureate
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
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
Disaster First Response, Management and Recovery
Sustainable Infrastructures
Available, AffordableHealthcare
Environment-Climate Change
UN Foundation and IEEE areas of
mutual interest
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
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
Thank you for your attention!Questions?