PACE Committee Report By Hamid Vakilzadian Region 4

PACE Committee Report By Hamid Vakilzadian Region 4 PACE Committee Chair Region 4 e-Meeting January, 2008

2007 -08 PACE Committee Members Chair: Hamid Vakilzadian • Student Professional Awareness – Kristi Brooks • Government Activities – Burton Loupee • Employment and Career Services – Tarek Lahdhiri • Technical Policy Activities – Jim Fancher • Pre-College Education – Steven James • Sections’ PACE Coordinator

Responsibilities • Promote the professional interests of the local members of Region 4 sections • Promote more professional activities within the Region 4 sections and student branches • Provide means for communicating the professional needs of the members to be communicated to Region 4 and IEEE-USA • Bring IEEE-USA’s and Region 4 Employment and Career Service opportunities to the Region 4 members • Encourage and support Professional Development (PDS) seminars within sections

Responsibilities (Cont. ) • Promote: – S-PAC (Student Professional Awareness Conference) – S-Pave (Student Professional Awareness Ventures) – S-PAW (Student Professional Awareness Workshop) activities in student branches • Advocate the profession to students, engineering community, and public • Strengthening Pre-College activities • Support Affinity Groups and WIE Activities

Highlights of 2007 Activities Precollege Activities – Steven James • Nomination of 4 for Teacher/Engineer Awards http: //www. ieeeusa. org/volunteers/committees/pec/t-e-partnership. html • Presentation of IEEE Benefits to Red River Valley Section • Help on development of “Starter Kits” for PEC Activities more info and “how-to” develop Pre-college activities: http: //www. ieeeusa. org/volunteers/committees/pec/index. html

Highlights of 2007 Activities Student Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC) Activities - Kristi Brooks • • • Michigan State University, Feb 19 th North Dakota State University, Mar. 6 th Valparaiso University, Mar. 30 th Presentation of Design Squad at 2007 Annual Meeting Contribution for the development of SPAW

Highlights of 2007 Activities IEEE-USA Technical Policy Committee Activity – Jim Fancher 7 Technical Policy Committees – Communications Policy (no new positions) – Transportation & Aerospace (no new positions) – Critical Infrastructure Protection (no new positions) – Energy Policy (one new position on Petroleum Electric Hybrid Vehicle, PEHV) • Attended 3 Energy Policy Committee meetings • Other R 4 members active on this committee: Dr. Fernando Alvarado, of Madison WI and Mr. Kevin Taylor of the SE Michigan Section – Medical Technology Policy (no new positions) – R & D Policy (no new positions) – ad hoc Tech Policy Workshops and Seminars (no new positions)

Highlights of 2007 Activities IEEE-USA Government Activities Committee (GAC) Burton Loupee • Attending monthly telecon meetings throughout the year. • Attending the meeting at the IEEE-USA Annual Meeting in Phoenix. • Attending a congressional Fly-In meetings with the legislator's offices and working on the H 1 -B legislation in March • Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort (CARE) – CARE has been experimenting with enrolling all members of a Section in the program. This Section-by-Section program would put all members of a Section in CARE and would give members the opportunity to opt-out. – Recommendation: R 44 should get at least one Section to try it.

Highlights of 2007 Activities • Funding for 17 PACE projects in Sections/subsections: Cedar Rapids, Central Indiana, Coulee, Chicago, Iowa Illinois, Southeastern Michigan, Milwaukee, Nebraska, Red River Valley, Rock River Valley, Twin Cities, Toledo • Presentations at IEEE-USA Annual Meeting on PACE training and PDSs fundamentals • Updating PACE training and PDS presentation slides • Representation of R 4 views on PACE Committee Meetings

Funded PACE Projects No. Section Project Name Project Type Date Project Cost Funding Amount 1 Southeastern Michigan Robofest 2007 Precollege 2/5/07 $39500 $2, 000 2 Red River Valley "Stuff You Don't Learn in Eng. g School" PDS 2/6/07 $6150 $1, 000 Twin Cities Making a Transition to Manager PDS 2/8/07 $5, 500 $1, 000 4 Chicago Career Networking Group Web Presentation PDS 3/1/07 $550 $200 5 Iowa-Illinois QC Elite FIRST Robotics Team Precollege 3/24/07 $48, 000 $200 3 6 Cedar Rapids Pro. Con 2007 PDS 4/19/07 $12, 500 $1, 000 7 Central Indiana Stuff you don’t learn in eng. school PDS 4/25/07 $3, 050 $400 8 Twin Cities Six-Sigma Workshop PDS 6/4/07 $1, 000 $500 Subtotal $6, 300

Funded PACE Projects Cont. Project Funding No. Section Project Name Type Date Cost Amount 9 Toledo MATHCOUNT Competition Precollege 6/20/07 $1, 000 $500 10/1/07 $5, 600 $400* 10 Toledo 2007 Inst. Night Membership Development 11 Milwaukee Introducing Eng. to Students Precollege 10/3/07 $1, 600 $600 12 Rock River Valley US FIRST Robotics Competition Procollege 10/23/07 $28, 000 $2, 000* 13 Iowa. Illinois Girl Scout Engineering Activity Precollege 10/28/07 $1, 900 $150 14 Nebraska Career & Membership Awareness Workshop PDS 11/16/07 $1, 070 $400 15 Coulee Robotics Project Precollege 11/16/07 $12, 250 $500* eit'07 Leadership & Project Management track PDS 12/4/07 $5, 800 $3, 000 17 14 Sections Annual Meeting Travel Support PACE Training 9/1/07 N/A $7, 000 Subtotal from Previous Page $6, 300 Total $20, 850 16

2007 IEEE-USA PACE Funding Funds from IEEE-USA for PACE, CY-2007 Budget Allocation Item for 2007 Spent in 2007 Actual Transfer for 2007 IEEE-USA Professional Development Funds for Regions 4 $11, 156. 27 $10, 850 $11, 156. 27 IEEE-USA Funds for 2007 Annual Meeting $4, 733. 00 $4, 769. 31 IEEE-USA funds for PDS Projects (additional) $2, 000 IEEE-USA SSVR Funds Used for PACE projects $2, 900 Total $15, 889. 27 $20, 519. 31 $20, 825. 58

Sections Attended at 2007 Annual Meeting Section 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. No. Participated Section Arrowhead 0 Calumet 0 Cedar Rapids 2 Central Illinois 0 Central Indiana 4 Central Iowa 2 Chicago 3 Fox Valley Subsec. 0 Northwest Subsec. 1 Fort Wayne 1 Iowa-Illinois 1 Madison 0 Milwaukee 0 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. No. Participated Nebraska Northeast Michigan 0 North-eastern Wisconsin Rock River Valley Siouxland South-eastern Michigan Southern Minnesota Coulee Subsection 1 Toledo Twin Cities 1 West Michigan Missouri Slope Red River Valley No. of Section Participated: 14 3 0 4 0 0 1 0 2

2007 IEEE-USA Annual Meeting Program Aug. 31 – Sept. 3 • Friday 8/31/2007 – Technical Sessions until 5: 00 PM – revenue generation – PACE Training: 5: 00 – 7: 00 PM – Breakout Sessions: 8: 30 -10: 30 PM • Brain Storming on “What Can I Do to Improve IEEE-USA? ” • Saturday and Sunday 9/1 -9/2 (8: 00 – 5: 30) – Three parallel tracks on various PACE topics including PDS fundamentals • Monday 9/3/2007 (8: 00 -12: 00) – R 4 Brain Storming Session and presentation of action items

Mark Your Calendars! 2008 Annual Meeting • When: April 25 -27 • Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Indianapolis Indiana R 4 will reimburse some of the expenses for one participant from each section/subsection • Sections are encouraged to send more Ex. Com Members on Section Support For registration and more info. , access the URL: http: //www. ieeeusa. org/calendar/conferences/2008 annualmeeting/default. asp

Professional Engineer License • New Requirements: B. S. +30 Credit Hours or an MS degree • Civil Engineers are primarily the national proponents of this increased requirement. • Oppositions by the state board of engineers in the states that are being considered • Inform members to allow those who have a position on the Bill to contact their state senators • Sections may take also a position and reflect it to their state senators through their section chair and PACE chair

PACE Committee Plan for 2008 • Kristi Brooks – – Attend the S-PAC meetings Implement S-PAC recommendations at the region level Hold 3 -4 S-PAC workshops at the Region level Hold Design Squad in 2 -3 schools • Steven James – Represent R 4 in pre-university committees – Organize 3 -4 pre-university activities at the region level – Write a proposal for IEEE-USA PEC funding of the project material for 2 school needs – Promote TIS program and other successful Pre-college projects at the region level (goal 3 sections, one in each area) – Ensure R 4 has at least 2 nominations for the Eng. -Teacher Partnership Award (IEEE-USA) – Work with IEEE-USA PEC in securing corporate sponsorship of teacher grant/reward program

PACE Committee Plan for 2008 • Tarek Lahdhiri – Conduct R 4 resource awareness seminars within sections (at least one in each area by June 08) – Determine, disseminate, and present Employment and Career Services info to the R 4 sections – Offer PDS workshops to the R 4 sections – Promote ECS and CWPC webnars • Burton Loupee – Attend and present R 4 views at IEEE-USA Government Activities Committee – Report the activities to the region – Promote Region 4 to get at least one section to sign up for CARE.

PACE Committee Plan for 2008 • Jim Fancher – Attend and present R 4 views in IEEE-USA Technical Policy Committees – Report the policies to the region • Hamid Vakilzadian – Determine and fund an effective and long lasting PACE project at the region level – Survey topics of importance to the sections and train an Xcom/R 4 member to deliver one as a workshop to the R 4 sections – Review and recommend funding of the sections’ PACE projects – Discuss the recommended action items of the 2007 annual meeting with the R 4 PACE committee and plan to implement 2 items.

PACE Committee Plan for 2008 • Hamid Vakilzadian – Participate in the IEEE-USA PACE committee meetings and report the results back to the region – Promote professional development seminars (PDS) and encourage 2 -3 sections to organize one. – Provide PACE training for the sections, if needed. – Hold quarterly telecon meetings with Section PACE chairs – Collect, disseminate, and report the R 4 PACE project to IEEEUSA – Review sections’ PACE Projects – Promote Annual Meeting participation

Appendix A 2007 Annual Meeting Report

Annual Meeting Recommended Action Items How Can I Help to Improve IEEE-USA? • Pre-college activities • Improving innovation within the U. S. • Increasing U. S. membership • Improving communication with our members

R 4 Recommendations on. Pre-college activities • Encourage R 4 members to engage with their school system through IEEE products (TISP, design squad, etc. ) and volunteering. • Participate, mentor, and fund non classroom science and engineering programs such as First Robotics, Science Fair, Future City, etc. with emphasis on 5 th-9 th grades. • Provide tutoring for students through student branches. ===================== • Make Middle School and High School Science and Math teachers and counselors a member of IEEE and educate them on the TISP • Have specialized teacher for math and science

R 4 Recommendations on Improving innovation within the U. S. • Put innovation Inst. infrastructure in place at Region and Section levels through PACE activities speakers and Innovation Inst. passing the goals of the institute to the membership. • Review section’s activities to address non- traditional and risk taking options which may fit better individual situations with focus on innovation. • Organize creativity workshops and brain storming sessions at the section events.

R 4 Recommendations on Increasing U. S. membership • Have heavily differentiated rates for IEEE member and non member activities and products. • Emphasize IEEE’s value by restricting access to certain information to members only. • Have membership drive open house at the section level which also includes family friendly activities. ===================== • Raise awareness of IEEE through national marketing campaign.

R 4 Recommendations on Improving communication with our members • Improve quality (info contents and timeliness) of the newsletters and web sites • Have IEEE info (local events) sent to members and non members • Organize study groups at chapter and/or section levels for topics of interest.

Appendix B 2007 PACE Committee Reports

IEEE-USA PACE Committee Meeting Report (May 2007) • Adequately prioritizing IEEE programs • Finding ways to produce revenues • Poor student retention – loss 75 - 89% students between college and employment • Who should organize the annual meetings and possible name change (PACE Committee? ) • Urge all members to take personal responsibility for their own competitiveness • Conducting successful annual meeting

IEEE-USA PACE Committee Meeting Report (May 2007) • Successfully organize IEEE-USA programs: SPACs, PACE projects, and Congressional Visit Day • Sending GOLD members to Annual Meeting • Length of the annual meetings (2 or 3 days? ) • Region PACE Calendar • Main Speaker Database for IEEE for the place of the society database • Voluntary Contribution Fund

IEEE-USA PACE Committee Meeting Report (Oct. 2007) • Suggestions for the 2008 Annual Meeting Committee – Poster Session – PACE Leadership Training Session and PDS Session – What to do with last Annual Meeting Recommendations? – No Technical Workshops on Friday – 2 -day meeting – starting Friday afternoon, ending Sunday morning – Location: possibly in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or St. Louis – Audience: Sections Leaders, Section PACE Chairs, Region Leaders, GOLD Leaders – Day/Time Slot for various Topics and Speakers – Possible Breakout Session Topics on: • a national US issue • an IEEE issue • a local issue

IEEE-USA PACE Committee Meeting Report (Oct. 2007) • • • Region PACE Fund Financial Status Reports/Requests Discussion of Society/Division Representative IEEE-USA Activities on – Grassroots (Government Activities Committee) – Congressional Visits Day (CVD) – Educate the attendees on a certain issue such as (need to select the issue) – Invite the local elected officials (or congressional aids) to attend – Overview Session on Products and Services