R10 Director’s Report

1. R10 Director’s Report Lawrence W.C. Wong 2012 IEEE Region 10 Director IEEE R10 Meeting 3-4 March 2012 Kolkata, India

2. 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 representatives • IEEE R10 Council Chairs • IEEE Kolkata ExCom and representatives • IEEE and R10 Award winners • IEEE Staff

3. Appreciations • ZhishengNiu • R10 Conference & Technical Seminar Coordinator • Amarnath Raja • R10 Humanitarian Technology AG Coordinator • Deepak Mathur • R10 Sections Congress 2011 Representative • Om Prakash • R10 Student Representative

4. 2012 IEEE R10 ExCom • Operations Committee L Wong: R10 Director YJ Park: R10 Immediate Past Director T Fukuda: R10 Director-Elect M Ong: R10 Treasurer D Chong: R10 Secretary M Khalid: R10 Vice Chair, TA K Chun: R10 Vice Chair, MA • R10 Advisory Committee YJ Park, JU Seo, J Mazierska, TS Low • R10 Nomination Committee YJ Park, T Fukuda, L Wong • R10 Elevation Committee K Chun, JF Wang, D Mathur • R10 Audit Committee T Minami, YJ Park, HB Kang, E Mahinda • R10 Technical Activities BM Ali: Conf & Tech Seminar S Aramvith: Educational Activities YW Liu: Professnl Activities & History D Mathur: Humanitarian Tech R Asthana: Industry Relations • R10 Membership Activities HB Kang: R10 Mem Dev / Life Member T Minami: Awards & Recognition T Wong: GOLD T Hashimoto: Women In Engineering JF Wang: Section/Chapter Coordinator T Onoye: Student Activities A Kurian: Student Representative • R10 Coordinators (Others) J Dong: Electronic Comms & Info Mgt Z Ahmed: Newsletter

5. R10 Organizational Units • 57 Sections (0 formed in 2011) • 17 Sub-sections (3 formed in 2011) • 6 Councils • 469 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)

6. R10 Membership • R10 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.

7. R10 Membership As at 31 Dec 2011

8. Region 10 Membership(as of 31 December 2011) Region 10 Membership by Grade

9. R10 Membership by Section(as of 31 December 2011)

10. 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%

11. 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.

12. IEEE Updates (2/3) • Changesin 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

13. 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

14. 2011 Highlights • Operationalized rigorous petition validation process • Approved 2ndTENCON Series • POCO in July 2011 in Beijing, China • R10 Student/WIE/GOLD Congress in Auckland, NZ • 1st R10 Webcast on Membership Dev in Nov 2011 • IEEE Pakistan Fund disbursed to 4 projects • New IEEE-HKN chapters in R10: • University of Hong Kong • BharatiVidyapeeth'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.ZhishengNiu)

15. Plans for 2012

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