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Region-1 Technical Activities. Dr. Ali Abedi, Senior IEEE Member Chapters Coordinator abedi@ieee.org. About me. Joined IEEE as student in 1996 DVP-chair, IT Society, Waterloo Section (2002-4) COM/CS Joint Founding Chapter Chair, Maine (2005-7)
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Region-1 Technical Activities Dr. Ali Abedi, Senior IEEE Member Chapters Coordinator abedi@ieee.org
About me • Joined IEEE as student in 1996 • DVP-chair, IT Society, Waterloo Section (2002-4) • COM/CS Joint Founding Chapter Chair, Maine (2005-7) • COM/CS Treasurer, Maine Chapter(2005-present) • Region-1 Student Conference Chair, 2006 • Maine Section Secretary (2006), Vice-chair (2007) • Maine Section Chair (2008) • Technical Program Committees in 2009: • IEEE GCC (Kuwait), IEEE IWCMC (Germany), IEEE CWIT (Canada), IEEE WTS (Czech Rep.) • Occupation: Assistant Professor of ECE at UMaine • IEEE Awards: • Regional Activities Board Friend of IEEE Award, 2006 • Best North American COM Chapter Chair, 2007
IEEE Technical Activities Strategy Short and long term goals: • Increasing efforts to drive technology within the IEEE • Improving value to Society members • Improving services and opportunities for young professionals within IEEE • Creating stronger corporate value and better services for practicing engineers
Regional Technical Chapters Coordinator Responsibilities • Establish and maintain communications with the R1 Chapters. • Work with the Area Chairs to help rejuvenate inactive Chapters. • Assist the Sections/Societies in the creation of new Chapters. • Find meaningful solutions to concerns and problems that are raised by the Chapters. • Enhance Regional Chapter management. • Develop appropriate training curricula, materials, and programs for Chapter officers, researching what the Societies have to offer. • Encourage mutual Chapter support by Societies and Sections.
Game Plan Communication Strategy Management Strategy Communications Inactive Chapters New Chapters Concerns and problems Chapter management Training Encourage mutual chapter support • Communications • Inactive Chapters • New Chapters • Concerns and problems • Chapter management • Training • Encourage mutual chapter support
Game Plan - Details • Communications Strategy • Email alias for Region-1 Chapters (Jan) • Webpage for sharing data between chapters (Feb) • Develop online resources to enhance webpage (Apr) • Management Strategy • Activity data from HQ and analysis (Feb) • Contact all section/chapter chairs (Mar) • Training workshops in summer (Aug)
Networking with other Regions • Identify other Regional Chapter Coordinators • Study their activities and adopt best practices • Contact society chapter coordinators • Create a comprehensive list of available activities such as COMSOC-DLT or CS-DVP, etc.
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