Region 4 Director’s Report

January 31, 2004

Presenter: Burt Loupee, R4 Director

IEEE Vision

To Advance Global Prosperity By • Fostering Technological Innovation

• Promoting Community World-Wide

• Enabling Members’ Careers

Mission Statement

• The IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession

IEEE Structure

• Geographic and Technical– 10 Geographic Areas

• Regions 1 - 6 United States• Regions 7 - 10 Other Countries

– 38 Technical Societies• Technical Specialties

IEEE Regions

1- 6

77 881010

99

Divided into Divided into 300 Sections300 Sections

IEEE US Regional Map

IEEE Membership

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100

150

200

250

300

350

400

'82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02

(December Totals)Thousands

20022002382,483382,483+1.4%+1.4%

Higher grade membership is down slightly and students have grown

IEEE Organization

Pu b lica tio n,Svc & P rod

IEEE-U SA Ed ucatio n alA ctivities

S tan d ardsA sso c iation

R egio ns

R eg io n alA ctivities

IEEE So c ie ties

T echn icalA ctivities

Exec D irec tor& S ta ff

Execu tiveC o m m ittee

O th er B oDC o m m ittees

Board ofDirectors

Assembly

MEMBERS

Regional Activities StaffCecelia Jankowski

Managing Director

Felicia Taylor

MD Project & Marketing Manager

Donna Dukes

A&A Supervisor

William Hunter

MD Project Coordinator

Section/Chapter Support

Vicki Waldman Supervisor

Strategic Planning/Regional Activities Administration

Information Processing

Student Activities

GOLD

Tracy HawkinsManager

Dan TolandManager

Vera SharoffManager

Cathy DownerProject Manager

Laura Durrett

Manager

Mike BinderDirector

Membership Activities

IEEE Potentials

Mary Campbell

Editor

Singapore

Fanny Su

Manager

E-mail Address:

(First Initial).(Last Name) @ieee.org

Services & Programs• SAMIEEE

• Entity Web Hosting

• E-Notice

• Section Outreach

• Virtual Communities

• Unit Reporting Online

RAB Strategic Goals

• Ensure value of Membership• Be the leader in Membership Direction• Be the leader in volunteer development• Be at the forefront of communication between

member to member; member to IEEE; and organizational unit to organizational unit

• Meet the challenges of a large and transnational organization

• Emphasize delegation using the powers reserved concept

Region 4 Status

• Good things are happening

• Need to concentrate on:– Assisting R4 sections with needs– Membership growth– Nominations for awards– Support Region 4 Conference