NPSS AdCom
1 March 2014
Santa Fe
President’s Report
Janet Barth
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Welcome New AdCom Members!
• Technical Committee Chairs
– Martin Purshke - Computer Applications in Nuclear & Plasma Science
(CANPS)
– Dimitris Visvikis - Nuclear and Medical & Imaging Sciences (NMIS)
• Elected NPSS AdCom (4-year term beginning 1 January 2014)
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Stefan Ritt - Computer Applications in Nuclear & Plasma Science (CANPS)
Steven Gold - Plasma Science And Applications (PSAC)
Weihua Jiang - Pulsed Power Science & Technology (PPST)
David Heimstra - Radiation Effects (RE)
Richard Lanza - Radiation Instrumentation (RI)
• Special Appointments
– Brendan Godfrey - Plasma Science and Applications (PSAC)/2014
– Gerald Cooperstein – Nominations/2014
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Meetings
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Division IV Meeting – 21 November
Fall TAB Meeting – 21-23 November 2013
Society Review – 13 February 2014
Division IV Meeting – 13 February 2014
Spring TAB Meeting – 14-15 February 2014
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Division IV Meetings
• Division IV Meeting – 21 November
– Overview of PAST Teacher’s Day
– Discussion on Technically Cosponsored conferences with Bill Moses
and Peter Stecker
• All Presidents agreed that Technically Cosponsored Conferences are critical as a
“light touch” way to build activities in areas in which we would like to expand
to keep our Societies strong.
– Magnetics Society and Antennas and Propagation Society Review
reports
• Division IV Meeting – 13 February 2014
– Missed due to flight cancellation
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TAB Meetings
November 2013
February 2014
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New TAB Leadership
February TAB Meeting
• Vin Piuri – New TAB VP
– See President’s Report Word doc for details on vision statement & goals
• Jacek Zurada – New TAB Chair
– See President’s Report Word doc for details on vision statement & goals
– Overview
• 50% of IEEE members pay an average of $25 more in dues to join a Society
• Technical Activities membership growth 1.5% in 2013
• On average, TAB entities sponsor or co-sponsor a majority of 1395
conferences (2013) (>170,000 papers/year)
• TAB entities publish more than 160 journals
– Over 35,000 papers/year
– All periodicals hybrid, some exclusively Open Access
– TAB alone publishes the ‘TA Spotlight’
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2014 IEEE President's Goals and Initiatives
Roberto de Marca
February 2014
• Continue to lead in Emerging Technologies (P2, P4)
• Strengthening engagement with industry in all IEEE activities
– Need answers to questions:
• How can IEEE bring value to Industry?
• Can industry leaders collaborate with IEEE in defining its vision for the future?
• What actions should IEEE take to still be a relevant organization 10 years
from now?
• Young Professionals
– Entrepreneurship: an ad hoc Committee was appointed to identify the most pressing
needs of this community and to recommend how IEEE can best engage professionals
in this sector with meaningful programs, products and services (P1, P2, P4)
– Develop a consistent (across the organization) line of Career Management/Planning
Products and Services.
• IEEE should pioneer the use of new technologies in offering its products
and services. (P4)
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2014 IEEE President's Goals and
Initiatives Roberto de Marca
February 2014
• Get an answer to the question: can IEEE be a leader on
Continuing Education?
• Fundamental Issues
– The need for the IEEE Board to take clear and unequivocal stances on
critical issues and core values
• Ex: Value of Membership
– The need to maintain an environment where volunteers are
motivated and having fun in contributing their time and talent to
IEEE. (as opposed to being inconvenienced and aggravated)
• Quality of financial information in support of
strategic/prioritization decisions.
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2014 IEEE President's Goals and
Initiatives Roberto de Marca
February 2014
• TAB Critical Issues
– How can we control IEEE spending so the Societies and
Councils can succeed?
• I have appointed an ad hoc committee on Infrastructure that I am
charging to find answers to this question and help the Board make
strategic/priority decisions.
• Bob Hebner, chairs the committee and several members are familiar
with TAB culture and problems: Flescher, Barr, Moura, Benedetto,
Hurley.
• Who sets the priorities and policies for the IEEE,
volunteers or staff?
– ANSWER: THIS IS A VOLUNTEER DRIVEN ORGANIZATION
AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE.
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Finance
• 2014 Budget Questions submitted by Signal Processing
Society President Ray Liu – November 2013
• Treasurers Report – November 2013
– Long discussion on increasing costs of TAB support.
– The issue is that income is not growing which is a fundamental
issue across all of IEEE.
– IEEE overhead growth is not sustainable.
• Electron Devices Society Income and TAB Support Fee –
February 2014
– Albert Wang, President, IEEE Electron Devices Society
– Presidents should look into their TAB support fee.
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EDS TAB Support
Total EDS Income
TAB Support Fee
9000
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2006
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Year
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Total EDS
Income
2009
TAB Support
Fee
2010
% Growth
YoY
2011
2012
2013
2014*
TAB support % of EDS
Income
2006
7708
172
2%
2007
5850
256
49%
4%
2008
7178
309
21%
4%
2009
6883
339
10%
5%
2010
7013
395
17%
6%
2011
6756
461
17%
7%
2012
6933
520
13%
8%
2013
7150
581
12%
8%
2014*
6759
600
3%
8%
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Treasurer’s Report
• Question – Are OU Treasurers are using off-line vs on-line
budgeting tools?
• Treasurer’s Seminar on 20 March 2014 – Presidents
encouraged to attend
IEEE Reserves
$350
$300
$250
$200
$150
$100
$50
$0
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Treasurer's Report (2)
Prelim 2013 S/C Budget to Actual (net)
Society Periodicals Package (ASPP)
IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)
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Conduct Warning System/Training
• New Section of IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB)
Operations Manual – Warning System for Repetitive
Unprofessional Behaviors – Motion was passed.
• IEEE Ethics and Compliance: Education/Training Program Pedersen/Lach
• Ad Hoc Code of Conduct and Policy Review Committee
– On-line training being developed IEEE Staff & Vounteers
– Training will be required for IEEE Employees, Volunteer Leadership
(Board of Directors, IEEE Major Boards, IEEE Board Standing
Committees, some IEEE Standards Association Committees , Section
Chairs and Treasurers, Society Treasurers, Conferences (Chair and
Technical Program Chair), and Treasurer (Financial Interest).
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Professional Productivity &
Collaboration Tools (PPCT)
• Target professional needs of authors, researchers, and
current/potential IEEE members by developing tools to:
– Remotely collaborate in a seamless way
– Strengthen connections with the global community of
technology professionals
– Access and manage the information they need in their
profession in a very efficient way
– Accelerate research and publication with improved tools
– Facilitate professional development and networking
• Purpose is to create a specialized service with a scope and
depth of expertise in engineering and technology not found
in general social networks.
• We need to rapidly catch-up with other organizations.
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Researcher Forum
• Reports from the Researcher Forum are available
– “Implications of the Changing Research Enterprise”
• Important observations
– The need for publications is being replaced by need for
information.
– Trust requires personal interactions.
– Conferences and other IEEE meetings are likely to be
even more important in the future.
• This suggests changes in IEEE business model.
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Publications
• Signed New MOU for Transactions on Medical Imaging
(T-MI)
• Appointed Michael King and Suleman Surti to the T-MI
Steering Committee
• Finalizing a Letter of Intent for “Trans-B”
• New IEEE Journal proposal
– IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (Phase 2)
– Sponsorship - Financial: IEEE Signal Processing Society (60%),
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (20%), IEEE Engineering in
Medicine & Biology Society (20%); Technical: IEEE Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Society
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Conferences
• IEEE Global Conference Business - In 2013 IEEE….
– Sponsored 1489 conferences (75% in R7-10)
• 768 financially sponsored approved (62% in R7-10)
• 721 technically co-sponsored approved (89% in R7-10)
– In 93 countries
– Partnering with over 1000 non-IEEE entities
• 75% of all IEEE Conferences are co-sponsored
• 88% of those are co-sponsored by a non-IEEE entity
– Estimating over 425,000 attendees
• 249k financially sponsored conferences
• 176k technically sponsored conferences
– Thru Dec 2013, acquired 1362 conference proceedings
• Motion to appropriately allocate expenses from Technical
Co-Sponsorship was passed.
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Sections Congress
August 22-24, 2014, Amsterdam
• Technical Activities has this single window of opportunity per 3-years
to interact with MGA (Section Chairs). TA participation includes
• 15 “IGNITE” sessions – share success stories of Chapters, Conferences,
Education/DL
• Sections Congress 2014 – Track 1
– Improving IEEE engagement in Industry
– Continuing Professional Education
– Building Technical Communities - some perspectives
• Sections Congress 2014 – Tracks 2, 3
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Meeting Member Technical Needs by Building Strong Chapters
Conducting Conferences - Here, There and Everywhere – Bill Moses
Engaging New Technologies, Smart Cities, and Communities
Smart Cities in Context of Future Directions Speaker TBD ( Harold Tepper or Bill
Tonti)
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Other News
• Educational Survey Overview
– IEEE/TAB pushing for more Distinguished Lectures and conference
Short Courses recorded
• Ad Hoc Committee on Industrial Practitioners Report
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Action plan to address the problem
Specific milestones for the plan
Metrics, such as membership goals
Need names of Society members leading the effort
• Transition of Life Sciences to a Technical Community (LSTC)
• TAB voted to support the IEEE Technology Management
Council’s Transition to a Society.
• Elections
– Moura and Zuckerman were approved for the slate the for 2015
Vice President-Elect, Technical Activities for IEEE Ballot.
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Request for Renewal Changes
• New Contact: Meena Shanmugavel at periodical@ieee.org
• May 1 – Page Counts needed
– During this transition year, we are requesting the
Societies/Councils/Treasurers to submit the Total Page Counts and Ad Page
Counts for each periodical (magazines, journals/transactions, letters,
reviews, and newsletters).
– If your Society/Council has over-run your page budget for periodicals
consistently, please adjust your page budget to properly reflect the higher
level, if appropriate. We’re looking to improve the accuracy of the page
counts to improve the accuracy of the page rates from PSPB.
• May 15 – All Other Information Needed (examples):
– Dues changes
– Membership benefits (adding or eliminating any items or media types of
periodicals from your benefits list)
– New periodical media types offered for any of your publications or
eliminating existing media types
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TAB Hall of Honor
• Roger Pollard
– For leadership toward the creation of IEEE Xplore and fostering
constructive relations between IEEE Operating Units.
• Hal Flescher
– For enhancing the ability of TAB/IEEE to support technical
activities, particularly through better financial management.
• Ellen Yoffa
– For transforming the Society Review Committee through the
adoption of new policies and processes to the benefit of
Societies and all of TAB.
• Wanda Reder
– For organizing, championing, and leading the IEEE Smart Grid
effort and establishing a sustainable model for subsequent
new initiatives.
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