R10 Director’s Report

Lawrence W.C. Wong2012 IEEE Region 10 Director

IEEE R10 Meeting3-4 March 2012Kolkata, India

Welcome

IEEE Distinguished Guests:– Peter Staecker: 2012 President-Elect– Howard Michel: 2012 Vice-President, MGA– Tariq Durraini: 2013 President-Elect Candidate– Roberto de Marco: 2013 President-Elect Candidate

IEEE R10 Section Chairs and representativesIEEE R10 Council ChairsIEEE Kolkata ExCom and representativesIEEE and R10 Award winnersIEEE Staff

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Appreciations

Zhisheng Niu– R10 Conference & Technical Seminar Coordinator

Amarnath Raja– R10 Humanitarian Technology AG Coordinator

Deepak Mathur– R10 Sections Congress 2011 Representative

Om Prakash– R10 Student Representative

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2012 IEEE R10 ExComOperations Committee

L Wong: R10 DirectorYJ Park: R10 Immediate Past DirectorT Fukuda: R10 Director-ElectM Ong: R10 TreasurerD Chong: R10 SecretaryM Khalid: R10 Vice Chair, TA K Chun: R10 Vice Chair, MA

R10 Advisory CommitteeYJ Park, JU Seo, J Mazierska, TS Low

R10 Nomination CommitteeYJ Park, T Fukuda, L Wong

R10 Elevation CommitteeK Chun, JF Wang, D Mathur

R10 Audit CommitteeT Minami, YJ Park, HB Kang, E Mahinda

R10 Technical ActivitiesBM Ali: Conf & Tech SeminarS Aramvith: Educational ActivitiesYW Liu: Professnl Activities & HistoryD Mathur: Humanitarian TechR Asthana: Industry Relations

R10 Membership Activities HB Kang: R10 Mem Dev / Life MemberT Minami: Awards & Recognition T Wong: GOLDT Hashimoto: Women In EngineeringJF Wang: Section/Chapter CoordinatorT Onoye: Student ActivitiesA Kurian: Student Representative

R10 Coordinators (Others)J Dong: Electronic Comms & Info MgtZ Ahmed: Newsletter

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R10 Organizational Units

57 Sections (0 formed in 2011)17 Sub-sections (3 formed in 2011)6 Councils469 Chapters (25 formed in 2011)27 GOLD groups (3 formed in 2011)24 WIE groups (4 formed in 2011)837 Student branches (101 formed in 2011)138 Student branch chapters (32 formed in 2011)

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R10 MembershipR10 is currently the largest IEEE region in terms of membership. At the end of December 2011 the Region had 97,393 total members:– R10 represents 23.4% of IEEE’s total membership. – R10 has 54,301 Higher Grade Members, 11,805

Graduate Student Members and 31,287 Student Members.

Membership in the Region is up by 7.5% from December 2011, representing a gain of 6,800 members.Higher grade membership is up by 7.0% from December 2011, representing a gain of 3,546 members.Graduate Student Membership is up slightly by 0.1% December 2011, representing a gain of 17 members.Student membership is up by 11.5% from December 2011, representing a gain of 3,237 members.

R10 Membership

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As at 31 Dec 2011

Region 10 Membership(as of 31 December 2011)

Region 10 Membership by Grade

REGION 10 - MEMBERSHIP TOTAL BY GRADE

Dec-11 Grade Dec-11 Dec-10 # Change % ChangeHonorary 10 10 0 0.0%

Fellow 946 894 52 5.8%

Senior Member 4,866 4,487 379 8.4%

Member 45,342 42,582 2,760 6.5%Associate 3,137 2,782 355 12.8%

GSM 11,805 11,788 17 0.1%StM 31,287 28,050 3,237 11.5%

Total 97,393 90,593 6,800 7.5%

R10 Membership by Section(as of 31 December 2011)

Region 10 by Sections # of members

Australian CT Section 510

Bangalore Section 5,765

Bangladesh Section 843

Beijing Section 4,768

Bombay Section 5,029

Changwon Section 222

Chengdu Section 469

Daejeon Section 986

Delhi Section 4,624

Fukuoka Section 793

Gujarat Section 880

Harbin Section 477

Hiroshima Section 444

Hong Kong Section 2,596

Hyderabad Section 4,817

Indonesia Section 700

Islamabad Section 544

Kansai Section 2,277

Karachi Section 582

Kerala Section 5,113

Kharagpur Section 297

Kolkata Section 1,709

Kwangju Section 178

Lahore Section 521

Macau Section 152

Madras Section 10,828

Malaysia Section 2,400

Nagoya Section 1,170

Nanjing Section 1,511

NSW Section 2,550

NZ Central Section 310

NZ North Section 737

NZ South Section 280

N Australia Section 160

Pune Section 1,160

Queensland Section 1,147

R10-Countries Outside Sections

240

Region 10 - Apo/Fpo 90

Philippines Section 256

Sapporo Section 246

Sendai Section 675

Seoul Section 2,910

Shanghai Section 1,004

Shikoku Section 261

Shin-Etsu Section 243

Singapore Section 3,093

South Australia Section 561

Sri Lanka Section 1,116

Taegu Section 303

Tainan Section 875

Taipei Section 3,847

Thailand Section 657

Tokyo Section 7,763

Uttar Pradesh Section 1,744

Victorian Section 1,936

Vietnam Section 152

Western Australia Section 828

Wuhan Section 372

Xian Section 672

Election Statistics

R10 voting rate of 11.10% compared to average global voting rate was 12.88% Sections with highest voting rates:– 1st : Northern Australia 18.75%– 2nd : Beijing 17.49%– 3rd : Vietnam 15.96%

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IEEE Updates (1/3)

Change in Volunteer term of office(approved by MGAB in June 2011)– All Section officers must be elected. This election can be

conducted annually or every two years.  An individual may serve two consecutive terms of office.  

– A lifetime term limit shall be established for Section officers.  An individual shall not normally serve in a position for more than 3 terms (i.e. 6 years) provided there is at least a one term break. 

– The MGA Operations Manual to be revised to incorporate text which explains how an individual may be removed from the position and how an individual can be suspended from office.

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IEEE Updates (2/3)

Changes in petitioning procedures in MGA Ops Manual(Approved by MGAB in Nov 2011)– Petition organizers to submit a business plan summary for the proposed

OU that includes planned meetings and activities for initial 6 months.– Parent OU must endorse the formation of a new geographic unit prior to

submission of the petition to staff.– IEEE members unable to sign petition due to geographic distance may

submit an email with their ID with subject header indicating their agreement to be a member of the unit and to participate in activities.

– A copy of the completed petition form to be sent to Parent OU AND to the Region Director (or designee).  RD (or designee) may reach out to organizer to discuss/validate the goals and objectives

– Petitions with > 25% of the petitioners being new (members for <14 days) result in follow up inquiry by staff to organizer to determine if an event such as a membership drive was driver of so many new members

– Staff sends email to a all petitioners requesting concurrence that they signed the petition

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IEEE Updates (3/3)

New IEEE reserves allocation policy(approved by IEEE Board in Nov 2011)– Geo Units to share in both the gains or losses of reserves– All Geo Units with a 3 Year Average Reserve to Expense ratio of

200% or more and with a 3 year average balance in Net Assets of $20,000 or more (USD) at year end shall contribute

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2011 HighlightsOperationalized rigorous petition validation processApproved 2nd TENCON SeriesPOCO in July 2011 in Beijing, ChinaR10 Student/WIE/GOLD Congress in Auckland, NZ1st R10 Webcast on Membership Dev in Nov 2011IEEE Pakistan Fund disbursed to 4 projectsNew IEEE-HKN chapters in R10:– University of Hong Kong– Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, New Delhi

Student activities:– Xtreme Competition

50% of teams from R10 1st (Chulalongkorn) & 2nd (Muratuwa) winners from R10 5 of top 10 teams from R10

70 new Fellows from R10 (inc. Zhisheng Niu)

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Plans for 2012

Plans Actions

Bring greater value to members

• Facilitate AG formations, such as WIE, IEEE-HKN, HT • Promote awareness of committee positions• Intensify N&A nominations• Increase members from industry

Empowering Sections/Chapters

• Supporting volunteer training workshops• Enhance petitioning process• Improve sustainability of student branches• Improve retention

Strengthen inter-OU collaborations

• Advice & mediation to aid problem resolution• Facilitate networking & dialogue

Launch New Initiatives Program

• 2nd TENCON series launch• R10 Webcast – R10 MD, volunteer training, etc.• Establish R10 DLP• Grow HT activities• Revamp R10 website• Facilitate OU legalisation

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