IEEE 101 An Introduction to The Institute Francis

IEEE 101: An Introduction to The Institute Francis Grosz, Ph. D. , P. E. Director and Vice-President for MGA, 2019 Southeast. Con 2019, Huntsville, AL 1

Who I Am and What I do Currently Director and Vice-President for MGA Immediate Past Region 5 Director Member of Region 5 Ex. Com for 19 years Officer for New Orleans Section Volunteer for many IEEE Conferences, including Technical Program Co-Chair for two major Technical Conferences

What is IEEE? The World’s largest Technical Professional Society, with ~425, 000 members in over 160 countries around the world 46 Technical Societies, Chapters and Councils covering almost every aspect of Electrotechnology Sponsor or Co-Sponsor of almost 2000 technical conferences annually The largest publisher of technical material in the world 3 6/8/2021

What is IEEE? (cont. ) Through IEEE-USA, an organization working to improve the U. S. position in Science and Technology and the profession in the U. S. A major maker and publisher of Standards for the Electrotechnology industry. A Corporation with a half a billion dollar annual budget An tax-exempt 501(c)3 public service organization whose goal is “Advancing Technology for Humanity. ” A Volunteer-led, Member-driven organization. YOU!

IEEE Structure MEMBERS Board of Assembly Directors Publication Products & Services IEEE-USA Educational Regional Standards Technical Executive Activities Association Activities Committee Societies ED Regions & Staff

Member & Geographic Activities Board and Committee Structure

IEEE Around the World: Regions 1 – 10

IEEE Region 1 – 6 (USA)

IEEE Region 3 Includes all or part of 12 states: Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, plus Jamaica. Region is further divided into 9 Areas, generally by State

Sections Fundamental grouping in IEEE is the “Section” Associated with a geographical area There are 41 Sections in Region 3, plus Subsections and Councils Sub Sections - Located geographically away from parent Section. Enough members to support local activities, but not enough to form a new Section

Geographic and Technical Unit Relationships

Students and Your Section Every Student Branch is associated with a Sections can and should support their Student Branches Know the people and Officers of your Branches. The Section should be helping them. The Section receives $1. 50/student rebate. Students should be invited to your Section and Chapter meetings. Joint Section/Branch meetings are a great way to network with students and members enjoy it as well. It also promotes a post-graduation link with IEEE.

IEEE Technical Activities More than half of IEEE members belong to one or more Societies, usually in their field of work or research Opportunity: Many Societies and Councils hold Conferences in Sections. If your Section can work with a Society on a Conference it promotes member engagement and offers an opportunity for revenue (surplus sharing).

IEEE-USA Charged with representing the professional interests of the IEEE members in the U. S. Only members in Regions 1 -6 Supported by dues component paid only by members in those Regions Sometimes at odds with other parts of IEEE

IEEE-USA (continued) Provides testimony to Congress and others on Professional issues affecting engineers in the U. S. Provides Professional and Technical advice and support for government bodies in the U. S. Example: Congressional & Executive Fellows

The IEEE Standards Association is a major International Technical Standards-making body covering almost all fields of electrotechnology and computer sciences.

Some Example IEEE Standards IEEE 802. 3 - CSMA-CD (Ethernet) IEEE 802. 11 x - Wireless LAN Connections (Wi-Fi) IEEE 1363 - Public Key Cryptography IEEE 1284 - Parallel Ports IEEE 1394 - Firewire IEEE 754 - Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic

IEEE Financial Support IEEE Rebates are available to Sections, Chapters, and Affinity Groups who submit a few basic reports. The forms are available on-line. The reports include a new Officers report when appropriate, yearly financial reports, and meeting reports via the L-31 form (submitted via the Web). Student Branch meetings should also be reported using the L-31 form. Student Branch reports are available via the Student Portal. All rebates are via the Section.

IEEE-USA Salary Survey Don’t know what salaries in your area of interest are? IEEE-USA annually conducts a salary survey that correlates salaries with area of interest, experience, geographic area, education, etc. People who submit their data get (limited) free access to the survey; for others this is a paid service, but it may be worth it to you. Information is at: https: //ieeeusa. org/careers/salary-service/

E-mail Alias One benefit available to IEEE members is an IEEE e-mail alias. This can be either an e-mail box via Google or an alias which redirects mail to your regular account. However, it will never change as long as you are an IEEE member and identifies you as an IEEE member. In addition, it also includes sophisticated spam and malware monitoring. IEEE-e-mail processes approximately 820, 000 e-mails a day, and 1/3 of them are spam and 2% contain malware. See https: //www. ieee. org/membership_services/membe rship/googleapps. html

IEEE-USA MOVE The Mobile Outreach Vehicle for Emergencies is a great IEEE-USA program. Spearheaded by Regions 3 and 5, it supplies disaster support to victims of disasters in cooperation with the Red Cross. Recent deployments have included Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida. Manned by IEEE volunteers, it augments Red Cross services and the Red Cross is an enthusiastic supporter of the program.

IEEE-USA MOVE Vehicle

IEEE-USA MOVE Capabilities Satellite Internet communications Direct TV for news and communications Advanced Networking capabilities including Wi-Fi and routing Power Banks (1500) for users to recharge devices and capability to recharge 150 of these at a time. Networking and communications technical support

And Finally – Have FUN!

Thank You! Francis Grosz f. b. grosz@ieee. org