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IEEE-USA's Web Employment Services Offered Worldwide

Exclusive TODAY'S ENGINEER Preview: From Internet Futures to Balancing Home, Work

IEEE-USA Provides Overview of EECE Careers for Precollege Students

Abstract Sought for Y2K Professional Development Conference

IEEE-USA Inaugurates Biweekly "Pull" Service
 
IEEE-USA ANNOUNCE FINAL ELECTION RESULTS
 
National Engineers Week : "A Unique Opportunity"
 
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IEEE-USA's WEB EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OFFERED WORLDWIDE

IEEE-USA's benchmark Web-based employment services are being made available and promoted to IEEE members worldwide, IEEE-USA President Paul Kostek announced at the 1999 IEEE Sections Congress on Oct. 10 in Minneapolis. A new global employment services Web page describes how job seekers and employers outside the United States can avail themselves of the organization's Job Listing Service, Resume Referral service and consultants database.

The site, located at www.ieeeusa.org/employment/global, also contains an invitation for non-U.S. regions and sections to contact IEEE-USA for assistance in promoting these services to their members.

In addition, IEEE-USA is offering a special discount on its *Consultants Directory* database to e-zine subscribers. Electrical, electronics, software and management consultants can obtain listings through April 2000 for $25, half the original price.

To take advantage of the offer, go to www.ieeeusa-consultants.org/submissions/submit.html/.

With hundreds of consultants and their services arranged alphabetically, by state and category, the *Directory* can be viewed on the Web at www.ieeeusa-consultants.org/directory/search.html. It is also available free of charge in hard copy through IEEE-USA's Marnie Clarke, m.clark@ieee.org.

 
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EXCLUSIVE *TODAY'S ENGINEER* PREVIEW:
FROM INTERNET FUTURES TO BALANCING HOME, WORK

Providing the guest editorial in this forthcoming issue, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf one of the pioneers of today's Net, predicts some one-billion devices could be connected in three years.

Other articles in the fourth-quarter issue cover how the Net has transformed the way engineers communicate with members of their project teams, look for jobs and interact with suppliers; Web-based education; our ability to negotiate boundaries between home and work; the professional dilemma of cost cutting by higher ups putting a project at risk for violating laws; as well as an interview with the recently installed president of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, Anne Armstrong.

To see the current issue and to order a subscription (four quarterly issues at $19.95), go to www.todaysengineer.org.

 
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IEEE-USA PROVIDES OVERVIEW OF EECE CAREERS FOR PRECOLLEGE STUDENTS

IEEE-USA's Precollege Education Committee has produced an eye-catching brochure, "Careers in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering," aimed at K-12 students. The publication provides an overview of engineering, the work engineers perform, and how to prepare for work in the profession. It also touches on how engineering students can cover school costs. To obtain a free copy of the new brochure, contact Ann Hartfiel at a.hartfiel@ieee.org.

 
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ABSTRACTS SOUGHT FOR Y2K PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

IEEE-USA is seeking presenters' abstracts for its 2000 Professional Development Conference (ProDevCon), to be held Sept. 1-4, 2000, at the Camelback Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz. Entitled "The Millennium and Beyond," ProDevCon explores professional and career issues of interest to industry and engineering professionals -- ranging from career planning and professional skills management to engineering leadership, mentoring, financial planning,

organizational ethics, diversity and public policy. Abstracts are due Jan. 3, 2000. For more information about participating, contact Ann Hartfiel at a.hartfiel@ieee.org.

 
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IEEE-USA INAUGURATES BIWEEKLY "PULL" SERVICE

Members seeking the latest information on IEEE-USA's promotion of electrotechnology careers and policy can go to the organization's THIS WEEK website at www.ieeeusathisweek.org. Updated every other week, the current issue includes a direct connection to a streaming video featuring a debate of the IEEE and IEEE-USA presidential candidates, sections on workforce issues and career development, and a readers' forum on collective bargaining. Results from the IEEE elections will also be reported on the site.

 
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IEEE-USA ANNOUNCE FINAL ELECTION RESULTS
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 5, 1999) -- The results of the 1999 IEEE/IEEE-USA elections are in! Ned R. Sauthoff becomes the fourth IEEE-USA President directly elected by the IEEE's U.S. members, to follow 2000 President Merrill Buckley Jr. And James V. Leonard was voted IEEE-USA Member-at-Large, 2000-2001. In the IEEE election, Joel B. Snyder, a former IEEE-USA vice president of Professional Activities, was chosen IEEE President-Elect, 2000. Congratulations to our new officers and good luck!
 
The election results, as certified by the IEEE Tellers Committee on Nov. 4, are unofficial until the IEEE Board of Directors accepts the Report of the IEEE Tellers Committee at its Nov. 14 meeting.
 
The number of ballots mailed was 244,082.The number of valid ballots returned was 51,308.The rate of return was 21.02 percent. Other IEEE-wide results are:
 
OFFICE OF DIVISION DELEGATE/DIVISION DIRECTOR, 2000-2001
 
Division I Ralph W. Wyndrum, Jr.
Division III Thomas R. Rowbotham
Division VII B. Don Russell
Division IX Nahid Khazenie
 
OFFICE OF DIVISION DELEGATE-ELECT/DIRECTOR-ELECT, 2000
 
Division IV Peter W. Staecker
Division VIII Bruce D. Shriver
 
OFFICE OF REGION DELEGATE-ELECT/DIRECTOR-ELECT
 
Region 1, 2000-2001 Gerard A. Alphonse
Region 3, 2000-2001 James M. Howard
Region 5, 2000-2001 Jean M. Eason
Region 7, 2000-2001 Mohamed El-Hawary
Region 8, 2000 Levent Onural
Region 9, 2000-2001 Hugh Rudnick
Region 10, 2000 Teck-Seng Low
 
OFFICE OF STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
 
PRESIDENT, 2000 Donald C. Loughry
PRESIDENT-ELECT,2000 Marco W. Migliaro
 
STANDARDS ASSN. BOARD OF GOVERNORS, MEMBERS-AT-LARGE, 2000-2001 John W. Pope
Hans E. Weinrich
Gerald H. Peterson
Louis Costrell
 
STANDARDS ASSN. BOARD OF GOVERNORS, MEMBERS-AT-LARGE, 2000 Ben C. Johnson
Dennis Bodson
Ulrich Hartmann
Stephen L. Diamond
 
OFFICE OF TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT, 2000 Lewis M. Terman
 
For background information on the IEEE-USA elections and candidates, visit our nominations and elections Web page at <https://www.ieeeusa.org/election/index.html>
 
 
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National Engineers Week : "A Unique Opportunity"
 Y2K NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK SET FOR FEB. 20-26

What better way to kick off the 21st Century than a week devoted to turning ideas into reality? National Engineers Week, February 20-26, 2000, is a coordinated effort by IEEE-USA, major companies, engineering societies, schools and students to focus on the role of engineering and its contributions to our quality of life.

For the 2000 program, National Engineers Week offers a free planning kit, with tips for sponsoring local activities and events, including an impressive National Engineers Week 2000 Poster. In addition, the kit describes the Week's program, including: Discover "E" which will send tens of thousands of engineers into the nation's schools; and "Engineering Goes Public," which brings engineers and technology to libraries, science centers and shopping malls.

New for Y2K, on Feb. 22, the National Academy of Engineering will name the greatest engineering achievements of the last century, based on a year-long survey of engineering societies.
 
For more information about National Engineers Week programs or for kits, see the National Engineers Week Web site at www.eweek.org.
 
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