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- IN THIS ISSUE:
- - SECTION / STUDENT BRANCH RELATIONS
- - OFFICER ROSTER UPDATE
- - DID FUNCTION FOLLOW FORM?
- - HELPFUL INFO FOR VOLUNTEER NEWSLETTER EDITORS
- - REASONS TO GET AN IEEE WEB ACCOUNT
- - REFERENCE-LINKING SERVICE GOES LIVE
- - APPROPRIATE USE OF IEEE STATIONERY
- - TECHNICAL INTEREST PROFILES AVAILABLE AS PDF FILE
- - IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY LAUNCHES CAREER SERVICE CENTER:
- - DISTINGUISHED LECTURER PRESENTATIONS
- - AFTER-HOURS TRAVEL EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE.
- - 2001 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS MAILED
- - IEEE PRESIDENT-ELECT, 2001
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- SECTION / STUDENT BRANCH RELATIONS
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- This is the time of year for back-to-school sales and gearing
up for a new
- academic year. At IEEE this means a new flock of Student
members. We
- would like to encourage all Sections to recognize, keep in
touch with and
- support their local Student Branches and Student Branch
Chapters.
- Encourage Student members to attend your meetings and have
some events
- geared just for them. Remember, students are the future
volunteers and
- getting them involved now is key!
-
- Your Section SAMIeee recipient is able to provide lists of
Student members
- for individual Student Branches by filtering on the School
Code. For a
- list of Branches by Region, please visit the IEEE Student
Concourse web
- site at https://www.ieee.org/membership/students/sc_branches.html.
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- For Student Branch news, Branch Calendar, awards, scholarships
and contact
- information, check out the Student Concourse home page at
- https://www.ieee.org/students
or contact MailTo:student-services@ieee.org.
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- OFFICER ROSTER UPDATE
-
- The IEEE Section/Chapter Support staff is updating the officer
roster for
- November publication. Please make sure we have the latest
information for
- your Unit! The deadline for submissions to make the next
issue of the
- Roster is 15 September 2000. You can submit via the web
at
- https://www.ieee.org/ra/scs,
click on "Required Reporting", then "Officer
- Confirmation", or send the information via email to
- MailTo:scs-officer-report
@ieee.org.
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- DID FUNCTION FOLLOW FORM?
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- In the first quarter of 2000, each IEEE Section received a
package of 150
- post cards bearing the images from the IEEE membership image
campaign.
- Mailed to the Membership Development Chair or Section Chair of
each
- Section, the post cards were created to enable Sections using
SAMIeee to
- welcome new members and invite them to the next Section
event.
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- At the time they were mailed, we received very positive
feedback -
- basically, that this was a good idea which might require
minor
- modifications to be useful to all Sections. Now that some
time has passed,
- and you've had time to try them out, we'd like to hear more
from those of
- you in the trenches.
-
- Did you use the post cards? Is there anything we can do to
improve them?
- Were they effective? If you did not use them, please let us
know why?
- (Perhaps we can improve a next iteration.) Do you plan to use
them in the
- year 2000?
-
- We'd like to hear from all 300 Sections. We definitely want to
develop
- tools to assist the Sections, but we can only do it with your
input. Please
- take just a moment to give us your thoughts by emailing
to
- MailTo:c.coffey@ieee.org.
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- HELPFUL INFO FOR VOLUNTEER NEWSLETTER EDITORS
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- A new web page containing useful information for volunteer
newsletter
- editors has been established within the Section/Chapter
Support site at
- https://www.ieee.org/ra/scs.
By clicking on "Newsletter Editors" you will
- find hints on how to convert from hard copy to an electronic
format,
- articles on IEEE member benefits, products and services that
can be used to
- "fill space", links to featured Section newsletters, and to
the IEEE
- Electronic Communications page and newsletter policies. For
more
- information, contact Tracy Hawkins, MailTo:t.hawkins@ieee.org,
telephone +1
- 732 562 5512.
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- REASONS TO GET AN IEEE WEB ACCOUNT
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- You've probably heard many references to IEEE Web Accounts but
still may be
- asking "What is it, and why do I need one?" IEEE Web Accounts
provide IEEE
- members and customers with access to a growing number of
online services,
- many of them free. Web Accounts provide
- access to Bibliographies Online, BooksPlus, and Spectrum
Online; renewing
- membership; shopping in the IEEE Online Catalog & Store;
and soon, access
- to IEEE Xplore.
-
- According to IEEE Executive Director Dan Senese, "Upcoming
areas of planned
- migration to Web Accounts are e-mail alias services, IEEE
OPeRA (through
- Xplore), and other to-be-announced Society-oriented services
and
- publications."
-
- To register for an IEEE Web Account or for more information,
visit
- https://www.ieee.org/web/accounts/.
-
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- REFERENCE-LINKING SERVICE GOES LIVE
-
- CrossRef, the reference-linking service, went live on 5 June
2000. The IEEE
- and 32 other leading scientific and scholarly publishers are
participating
- in this initiative, which will revolutionize the way engineers
and
- scientists use the Internet to conduct online research.
-
- According to CrossRef Executive Director Ed Pentz, "CrossRef
is now well on
- its way to becoming the comprehensive source for linking
journal articles.
- The reference links that researchers want and need are
starting to appear."
-
- For a demonstration of the live reference links, visit
- https://www.crossref.org/demos/gallery.htm.
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- APPROPRIATE USE OF IEEE STATIONERY
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- Volunteers who have IEEE stationery (business cards,
letterhead, etc.) may
- use that stationery only for official IEEE business. Use of
stationery for
- other purposes may imply IEEE endorsement of that
purpose.
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- TECHNICAL INTEREST PROFILES AVAILABLE AS PDF FILE
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- The current IEEE Society/Council Technical Interest Profiles
(TIPS) are now
- available on the Technical Activities Society/Council Home
page as an Adobe
- PDF file at https://www.ieee.org/organizations/tab/societyhome.html.
-
- For more information on TIPs, contact Alicia Tomaszewski, IEEE
Technical
- Activities, MailTo:a.tomaszewski@ieee.org.
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- IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY LAUNCHES CAREER SERVICE CENTER:
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- The new IEEE Computer Society Career Service Center is the
latest of
- several IEEE online
- resources for job seekers. The Center features searchable
postings for jobs
- available in the computer field around the world. In
addition, IEEE
- Computer Society members can post their resumes and access the
Society's
- other career-related services from the Center.
-
- Visit the site at
https://www.computer.org/careers/.
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- DISTINGUISHED LECTURER PRESENTATIONS
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- As a result of the recent funding approval for the Electronic
Distinguished
- Lecturer initiative, IEEE Technical Activities staff has been
coordinating
- taping and formatting three Distinguished Lecturers
presentations with
- Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Each of
these
- presentations will consist of a Distinguished Lecturer's
audio, along with
- their PowerPoint presentation. Each presentation is
approximately 45
- minutes in length and will be available in both English and
Spanish
- versions.
-
- The audio portion will be the only translated portion of
these
- presentations, the PowerPoint slides will remain in the
speaker's original
- English format.
-
- Once the presentations are ready for viewing on the World Wide
Web, the
- site will have links to both the English and Spanish versions,
giving the
- viewer the option to choose their language preference for the
audio on any
- specific presentation listed on the site.
-
- For questions regarding the Distinguished Lecturer program,
contact
- MailTo:society-lecturers@ieee.org.
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- AFTER-HOURS TRAVEL EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE.
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- Effective 31 August 2000, IEEE members who need emergency
travel assistance
- after business hours can call Global Travel Services' improved
hotline at
- +1 800 872 2689. Those living outside the United States or
Canada should
- call +1 907 266 6677. The access code for all callers is
4QM.
-
- For more information, contact Global Travel Services,
- MailTo:travel-team@ieee.org
or +1 800 TRY IEEE.
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- 2001 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS MAILED
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- 2001 IEEE Membership application packets have been shipped to
all Section
- Chairs, Section Membership Development Chairs and all Student
Branch
- Counselors. Camera ready copies for duplication were
included.
- Application samples have also been sent to Society
Presidents.
-
- Of course, don't forget that the always convenient web
application can be
- found at: https://www.ieee.org/membership/.
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- IEEE PRESIDENT-ELECT, 2001
-
- Arthur W. Winston was successful in his bid to be a petition
candidate for
- 2001 IEEE president-elect. Winston served in 1998 and 1999 as
vice
- president, IEEE Educational Activities. He will run against
Lloyd A. "Pete"
- Morley and Raymond Findlay for the 2002 IEEE presidency.
-
- The IEEE Annual Election Web site identifies the candidates on
the 2000
- ballot and the positions for which they are running. As
biographical
- sketches, candidate statements and rebuttals become available
and are
- received in total for each of the election categories, they
will be posted
- at https://www.ieee.org/organizations/corporate/candidates.htm.
-
- For more information, contact Angela Wyckoff, IEEE Corporate
Activities,
- MailTo:a.wyckoff@ieee.org.
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