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July 13, 2013
San Francisco
President’s Report
Janet Barth
Division IV Meeting
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Antennas and Propagation Society
Broadcast Technology Society
Consumer Electronics Society
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
Magnetics Society
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
Council on Superconductivity
MTT Society Review
• Successes that the reviewers identified
– A new journal that does not just stir things around
– A portfolio of Regional conferences to supplement our
flagship conferences
– Vast structure for mentoring for local chapters
including Regional coordinators; Best Chapter Awards
– Reputation for quality resulting in attractiveness of
conferences and journals; volunteer support
– Exceptionally strong financial position which permits
MTT-S to make investments
Technical Activities of Current Future
Directions Working Groups
Harold Tepper, Future Directions – Senior Program Director
Division IV Round Table Discussion
• GOLD Functions – The CE Society had a lecture about Career
Development and networking at a recent GOLD function.
• Societies and Councils are being urged to sign Sister Society
agreements. Elie Track, President of the IEEE Council on
Superconductivity, expressed interest of working with NPSS
• Media – The CE Society had students from film schools attend
their conference to create UTube clips of the conference.
• Several conferences put IEEE and NPSS membership on
conference name badges
• The NPSS PAC’s Teacher Day was mentioned. There was a lot
of interest in this topic, so NPSS will give an overview at the
November Division IV meeting.
Candidates for Division IV Director-Elect
• Stephen D. Dukes
• William W. Moses
President’s Forum & TAB Meeting (1)
• Globalization of the IEEE continued to be of major interest at
the June TAB meeting, particularly growth in Regions 8-10.
– IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (IEEE/CAA JAS)
– IEEE has been approached by a multiple Chinese publications
• Distribution of Revenue Formula of Xplore Revenue
• Publication Ethics – Particularly Impact Factor Manipulation
• Open Access Payment Policy for Delinquent Authors
– Society pays
– The record of payment so far (200 articles) is better than overdue page
charges.
• Technically Co-Sponsored Meeting Charges by IEEE
• Society of Social Implications of Technology (SSIT)
• Sections Congress in Amsterdam 22-23 Aug 2014
President’s Forum & TAB Meeting (2)
• Sections Congress in Amsterdam on 22-24 August 2014
• Review of the Biometrics Council was presented
– Recommendation that the provisional status be extended for
eighteen (18 months), or 31 December 2014
– TMC will appoint an advisory committee to assist Council leadership in
fulfilling its business plan objectives.
• The IEEE Technical Activities Mission and Vision statements
were revised with the approval of TAB:
Inspire, Foster and Empower
Technology-Centric Worldwide Communities
President’s Forum & TAB Meeting (3)
• Future Directions Committee presented a proposal for a
project to address growing urbanization in developing
countries by supporting a “Smart Cities” project.
– Contribute to managing the urbanization by raising awareness on
benefits and downsides of technology
– Help guide the appropriate uses of technology
• The timeline for proposing new journals has been revised. The
timeline is given below. It will be strictly enforced.
• A concept for a new infrastructure initiative, Social Media at
IEEE, was presented at the meeting.
– Member surveys have shown that networking is important to 70% of
IEEE members.
– Members rank IEEE’s effectiveness low in this area.
President’s Forum & TAB Meeting (4)
• Reduction in IEEE revenue while overhead is increasing
– The IEEE has made extensive investments in three major infrastructure
projects
– Concern that Societies are not being treated as stakeholders
• Growth in the IEEE staff and overhead was a subject of
intense interest at the TAB session
– Concern was expressed that IEEE is bringing conference business
under their umbrella.
– Noted that the MOU process is having problems because volume of
MOUs was not expected (3 times more than expected)
– Noted that staff and infrastructure tracks with the growth in the
number of conferences and New Initiatives.
• A motion was passed to make available annually, as part of
the Societies’ budget process, a schedule that includes the
various allocations of the gross IP revenue resulting in
TAB/Society net IP distributions.
President’s Forum & TAB Meeting (5)
• The IEEE is developing guidelines for dealing with
inappropriate conduct. They will write a real policy to be
passed in November
• Examples
– Repeated use of IEEE position for personal gain
– Repeated inappropriate use of IEEE resources
– Repeated inappropriate behavior that does not reach the threshold of
harassment
• Note that many of these issues are “on the edge” of being
questionable, and if more blatant, they would be
automatically escalated to Ethics and Member Conduct
Committee.
Side Meetings
• Life Sciences Working Group
– Interested in support from NPSS
– EMBS reconsidering their involvement
• Transactions on Medical Imaging MOU
– Attendees
• Janet Barth - Nuclear & Plasma Sciences
• Bruce Wheeler - Engineering in Medicine & Biology
• Jackie Hines - Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
• Ray Lui - Signal Processing
• Richard Baseil - IEEE Signal Processing Society Executive Director
(Interim)
• Women in Engineering - Keyana Tennant