IEEE Sensors Council VP Technical Operations

Report Hulya Kirkici November, 1 2014 Valencia, Spain

IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program

IEEE Distinguished Lecturers are engineering professionals who help lead their fields in new technical developments that shape the global community. These experts specialize in the field of interest of their Society/Council and travel to various technical and regional groups, such as Society and Technical Council Chapters, to lecture at events.

The program provides lectures worldwide to present topics of current interest for chapter meetings. The program intends to bring experts otherwise not available to the chapters, other technical meetings interest to Sensors Councils, and enhances technical activities.

IEEE Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturer Program The Sensors Council’s Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) promotes the field of

Sensors to the broad engineering and scientific community, and to the public at large.

Lectures are meant to be public events and can be given at local IEEE chapters, at universities and companies, high schools, senior citizen homes, science fairs, science museums, etc. The Program is to be administered by a DLP Committee comprised of the VP-Technical Activities (VP-TA), VP-

Publications, and at least two additional members. Representation from multiple regions (Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific) is a priority.

Nominations for Distinguished Lecturers shall be solicited from the Sensors Council AdCom, Chairs and Co-Chairs of Technical Committees, Editorial Board of the Sensors Journal, and current DLs. A solicitation call for nominations shall appear on the Sensors Council web site.

Any IEEE member of any SC member society can nominate a candidate. A nominee must be an IEEE member. Self-nominations are allowed. During their terms the ExCom members cannot be nominated.

As part of this work, VP-TA sends each nominee a description of DL responsibilities. The DL nominees must confirm in writing their willingness to serve, and present their full CV, the list of publications, and a complete list of their serving, in the last five years and next few years if known, on governing bodies in and outside of IEEE – such as editorial boards, leadership roles in professional conferences, etc.

The list of recommended appointments is then submitted by VP-TA to the SC President Elect for approval.

Sensors Council’s Distinguished Lecturers Program Brian T. Cunningham, (2012 – 2014); Professor, ECE, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign http://www.ece.illinois.edu/directory/profile.asp?bcunning

Elfed Lewis, (2013 – 2015 - APPOINTED: JULY 2013); University of Limerick, UK

2014 activities Several presentations as invited/key-note speaker at different conferences (IEEE and non-

IEEE events),

Several presentations – seminars at other non-conference events (universities/workshops)

Recently requested funding to attend and deliver an invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA) conference, Queensland, NZ, in February 2015). http://icara.massey.ac.nz/invited_lewis.asp

Title: Recent Developments on Optical Fibre Sensors for Medical Oncology Applications

Discussion and Motion to Approve Funding

Motion – AdCom to approve the funding request from Elfed Lewis to attend and deliver invited lecture at the 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA) conference, Queensland, NZ, in February 2015

Future Funding Requests Should submit a formal proposal (not to exceed one page),

explaining the importance of attending a meeting/conference to the Sensors Council activities

Should accompany with the even organizers’ invitation

Priority should be given to attend and give lectures at the IEEE Chapter events

Priority should be given to IEEE events

Priority should be given proximity of the lecture location to the “home institution”

Call for Nominations for Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturer Call was issued and sent to former/present adcom members,

former/present associate editors in mid-summer

Received three names (nominations)

Distinguished Lecturer Nominees

Prof. Michael Shur, Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Eng , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Prof. Silvano Donati; Chair Professor, University of Pavia, Italy & National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Prof Zeynep Celik-Butler, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

Motion – to endorse appointment the nominees presented above as the Distinguished Lecturer of Sensors Council with a term of 2-years starting January 1, 2015.

Future of DL program

Need to appoint another DL from Region 10 (possibly also from Region 9)

Developing a revised write up describing the selection process and duties of DLs

Developing steps to match the DLs with the Chapters and other local meetings where DLs can easily travel to events

Developing funding structure and guidelines for request for funding by DLs and/or Chapters for attending/hosting lectures

IEEE Chapters Structure

Society/Council

Chapter

Section

Members Members Members Members

Financial Link

Technical Link

Why should the Society / Council Care about (it’s) Chapters?

Increased Technical activities for Members – Lectures, Workshops, Conferences, Social and Professional events

Technical activities for “potential IEEE & S/C members” – Especially where cost of IEEE membership is too high or where

IEEE is not well-established Increased visibility of the Society / Council – its structure - its publications - its meetings

Resource for potential Society leadership – Most ADCom members and Society Leaders evolved from their

Chapter activities Resource for hosting Society Symposia/Conferences

IEEE Chapters Structure (cont.)

Section (primary responsibility for finance) Reporting to Sections, and receiving funding from MGA If not reporting meeting activities, chapters become “inactive”

Society (support technical activities) No incentive (and maybe requirement) to report back to the society

Often the two “parents” are not on speaking terms Society / Council ask MGA the status of Chapters

IEEE Sensors Council’s Current Chapters Region Name Organizational Unit Name First Name Last Name

Eastern USA - Region 2 Northern Virginia/Wash Jt Section Chapter, SEN39

Jurgen Daniel

Western USA - Region 6 Richland Section Chapter, SEN39 Ryan Meyer

Europe, Middle East, Africa - Region 8 Spain Section Chapter, SEN39 Apostolos Georgiadis

Asia & Pacific - Region 10 Bangalore Section Chapter, SEN39 Rajanna Konandur

Singapore Section Chapter, SEN39 YungChii Liang

Taipei Section Chapter, SEN39 Hsiao Wen Zan

IEEE Sensors Council’s Newly Proposed Chapters UK Sensors Chapter – Proposed by Ravinder Dahiya (email

correspondence; Oct. 2014)

IEEE SF Bay Area MEMS and Sensors Chapter (IEEE Records will refer to it as “Sensors Council Chapter”)

Chair: Ramesh Ramadoss

Approved by MGA

Waiting for the SC President’s approval.

SC Executive Committee endorsed the formation of Sensors Council Chapter.

Motion: AdCom to endorse the formation of Sensors Council Chapter and sign the document of approval

Other Projects / Topics Educational Projects / Activates

Info request re: S/C "Bodies of Knowledge“ by Kristen Russell – Example: similar to the IEEE Computer Society's "SweBoK" (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok).

Increase visibility of DL program

Not in person lectures but online lectures also

Other speakers to IEEE Student Chapter – Lectures on sensors and sensor technologies

Other topics - Open for discussion