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- MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
- To help volunteers, members and prospective
members answer questions about IEEE membership easily
and quickly, the IEEE Membership department has
compiled a listing of key Web pages for membership
information at: www.ieee.org/membership/keyurls.html.
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- These pages contain answers to questions about
such topics as the benefits of membership, IEEE dues,
what publications are included in which Society
memberships, and how a membership grade can be
changed. For more information, contact Maria
D'Alessio, IEEE Regional Activities.
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- BORDOGNA AND ALEXANDER
- In order to fulfill the legal requirements of his
new position as deputy director of the National
Science Foundation, IEEE Past President Joe Bordogna
has resigned his position with the IEEE. The position
of Past President will be filled by Charles K.
Alexander who served as IEEE President in 1997 and
Past President in 1998.
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- Alexander is currently Chair of the IEEE
Nominations and Appointments Committee, which is
generally held by the person who had most recently
served as Past President. Alexander will continue as
Chair of the Nominations and Appointments Committee in
the year 2000. Bordogna assumed the IEEE presidency on
1 January 1998, succeeding Alexander. Bordogna intends
to stay involved with the IEEE, of which he has been a
member since 1955.
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- BRANDING...
- Managing the IEEE brand has become an important
topic within the IEEE. To help volunteers and other
members stay up to date on the subject, a new site has
been added to the IEEE Home Page at www.ieee.org/organizations/committee/branding.
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- The site contains timely, accessible and
authoritative information about the IEEE's Branding
project and provides details about the activities and
progress of the Branding Ad Hoc Committee. In
addition, the IEEE Branding site contains general
background on branding and various terms regularly
used in branding discussions, and other frequently
asked questions. The site will be continually updated
and expanded. Comments about the site, or the Branding
project, can be sent to the Committee at branding@ieee.org.
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- RSVP
- The IEEE ad hoc Branding Committee has recently
issued a request for the return of the 1999 IEEE
Society/Section Information Survey. This survey was
issued to all IEEE Societies and Sections during the
2nd and 3rd quarters of 1999. A major effort is
underway at the IEEE to review current policies
regarding approaches to membership and the working
relationships of IEEE entities. It is of the utmost
importance for all IEEE Societies and Sections to be
heard in this forum. The submittal of the completed
questionnaire is the most direct manner to guarantee
those IEEE Societies and Sections will have a voice in
these important deliberations.
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- If you have already responded, congratulations and
thank you for your participation! Should you need a
copy of the questionnaire, it can be found on the Web.
Look under
- www.ieee.org/organizations/corporate/strat_plan/brand4_99.PDF,
or you can request a copy directly from the IEEE
Strategic Planning/Institutional Research department
by e-mail: sp/ir-survey@ieee.org,
or phone 732.562.3938. Thank you in advance for your
consideration and participation.
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- IEEE PET
- IEEE seeks volunteers to review its new
Pre-college Engineers Training (PET) resource web
site. This site, once completed, will be a main
component of IEEE PET, a program that will train
engineers to work with K-12 teachers in an effort to
increase the technological literacy of students
worldwide.
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- Members who volunteer to review the site will be
given the secured web address and asked to share their
comments/suggestions for improvement of the PET
project. The IEEE will then revise the site as
necessary. Following the revision, PET will be pilot
tested by members in the Worcester, Massachusetts
& North Jersey Sections. A presentation about PET
and a report on the test progress will be delivered at
IEEE Sections Congress 1999. In early 2000, PET will
be deployed throughout all IEEE Sections, and members
will be encouraged to use it as a resource to help
them serve the education community. Those interested
in testing the PET training site should send an e-mail
to pet@ieee.org.
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- CHAPTER SUPPORT WHO DOES WHAT?
- When you have a question regarding a Chapter, whom
do you contact? If this is something you have asked
yourself, we can help.
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- For details on how to form a Chapter, contact
Peggy Kovacs. She can answer questions regarding
IEEE‚s Chapter formation rules and guidelines and
can supply you with a Chapter formation petition. When
you have the completed petition, send it to Peggy.
Peggy also records Chapter officers and maintains the
Section/Chapter Officer roster.
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- Vicki Waldman can answer your questions about
Section/Chapter relations, required reporting and
rejuvenation. Forms and information regarding Chapter
formation, reporting requirements and rejuvenation can
be found on the Section/Chapter Support Web site at
www.ieee.org/ra/scs.
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- If you are a Society volunteer and have a location
in mind to form a new Chapter, you will need to know
if local membership can support a Chapter - Linda
Pellis is your contact. She can supply you with a
Chapter opportunity analysis that will contain the
statistics necessary to make an educated decision.
Along with the analysis, she can provide contact lists
for your project. Linda can also assist you regarding
Society subsidy payments to Chapters, give you
information on Society support for Chapters and can
help you coordinate Chapter mailings. Check out the
Society Chapter Web site at www.ieee.org/organizations/tab/ciaindex.html.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS TRAVEL
PLANS
- In an effort to enhance the visibility of the
Distinguished Lecturer's Program and accessibility of
the speakers, the IEEE Technical Activities Department
is currently planning to incorporate the travel plans
of each Distinguished Lecturer within the program
information that is currently circulated using the
current auto-retrievable file system. This program
enhancement is based on the success that IEEE Electron
Devices Society has had in soliciting and publishing
their Distinguished Lecturers travel plans for the
benefit of their membership.
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- The dissemination of speakers' travel plans will
allow IEEE Sections and Chapters to better synchronize
meetings with a specific Lecturer's current travel
plans. Plans are currently being coordinated to
accomplish the capture of this information through an
outreach directly to the speakers for their travel
plans. Travel plans will be incorporated into the
auto-retrievable files of the specific Society's
speakers. A database will also be kept of all captured
travel information for tracking purposes and updated
regularly. For more information, contact society-lecturers@ieee.org.
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- A GREAT BENEFIT FOR ALL IEEE MEMBERS!
- Would you like to be able to express your ideas
more persuasively, write more quickly and easily or
just get along better with some tough folks at work?
Well, the answer is just an email away. The IEEE
Professional Communication Society (PCS) offers short
courses and workshops on all aspects of effective
communication to other IEEE Sections and Chapters, as
well as in-house courses for members‚ companies.
Courses include: Giving a Winning Presentation Without
Fear; Writing Effective Proposals, Technical Reports,
Letters, and Email; Doing Usability Testing; and
Developing Web sites.
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- The PCS trainers are all experts in their fields
and experienced presenters. They are always happy to
customize a course to meet the interests and needs of
your Section, Chapter or company.
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- To learn more about the PCS, you can visit the web
site at www.ieee.org/organizations/society/pcs
or contact the PCS Education Chair, Lisa Moretto.
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- HERE'S A TIP...
- Looking to recruit some prospective members for
your next Chapter meeting? Identifying members with
Technical Interest Profiles (TIPs) is an excellent
recruitment tool to identify IEEE members with
interests that closely match your Society's technical
profile. Consider using these listings to invite these
members to become an active part of your Chapter. You
may gain increased Society membership. This effort
could also create a positive impact on your Society's
Chapter activities and bring increased networking
opportunities.
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- For more information on how to obtain these
listings, please contact tad-chap-dev@ieee.org
or your Section's SAMIEEE recipient j.medina@ieee.org.
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- WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
- Has your contact information (home or work)
changed recently? If so, then please drop a note to
address-change@ieee.org
or enter the changes from the Web at www.ieee.org/membership.
Contact information can be any combination of change
of address, email address, phone number and area
code.
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- Should a member notify the Section, Chapter or
SAMIEEE recipient of a change, please remind them to
also contact the IEEE N.J. Operations Center at the
email address or URL above.
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- If you have not moved far and wish to remain a
contiguous member of your old Section, be sure to
mention it when submitting the address change, or
contact Peggy Kovacs, IEEE Regional Activities.
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