2014 july report to the bod - ieee sensors council ·...

IEEE Monthly Highlights for the Board of Directors, July 2014

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Dear Directors: Below are key highlights of ongoing efforts and initiatives within IEEE during the month of July 2014. I look forward to your feedback. Please feel free to share this report with your organizations. Jim Prendergast 3 August 2014 Business Highlights/Ongoing Collaborations

• IEEE Total Membership*: 375,272 o Decreased 0.6%: -‐2,439 members o Higher Grade Membership (without GSM)

§ Increased 0.4%: +1,211 members o Undergraduate

§ Decreased 5.4%: -‐2,917 members o Graduate Students

§ Decreased 1.8%: -‐733 members • Total Society Membership*: 314,099

o Decreased 1.2%: -‐3,773members § 13 societies increased by more than 1% § 12 societies decreased by more than 1% § 13 societies saw increases or decreases of +/-‐ 1%

(*all membership figures are end of June 2014 and reflect the same time period YOY for 2013 unless otherwise noted)

• IEEE Technical Communities have garnered a combined +32,485 members to date.

• New social media feed is live on IEEE.org home page o Connects corporate social presences to IEEE.org o Allows visitors to see what’s happening on Facebook,

Twitter, and LinkedIn • Leading up to and during the World Cup, IEEE and Finn Partners

developed several proactive pitches to highlight the commentary from our experts in a wide range of technology driven topics, among them security, brain-‐machine interfaces for prosthetic exoskeletons, and power usage. In addition, IEEE-‐SA prepared an infographic (at right, above) to accompany the outreach to media, which received excellent social media pickup.

• Created a year-‐over-‐year social media dashboard (at right) to complement existing social media dashboard; Highlights the tremendous growth in all main social media channels


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• Corporate Exhibits Program is planning expanded presences at Futurecom 2014 (Brazil), CES 2015 (US) and Mobile World Congress 2015 (Spain)

• IEEE Computer Society launched new magazine: IEEE Cloud Computing http://bit.ly/1sEXj6M • The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, a longtime supporter of the National Ocean Sciences

Bowl Competition (NOSB), increased its level of support tenfold to this competition to $50K in the wake of a decrease in funding from National Science Foundation (NSF). The NOSB provides a forum for talented students to test their knowledge of the marine sciences.

• The first Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) took place at the 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Hong Kong, and focused on promoting the development of new strategies for autonomous landmine detection using a mobile robot. 14 international teams submitted their entries.

• IEEE filed comments with the Ministry of Science of India regarding its proposal to require open access distribution of journal articles resulting from research funded by its Department of Biotechnology and Department of Science and Technology. India is the latest country to propose a mandate of releasing articles after an embargo of only 12 months. In a July 25 letter, IEEE advocated for an embargo of 24 months.

• IEEE-‐USA announced the winners of the APP-‐E-‐FEAT Competition held in conjunction with 2014 National Engineers Week. First place in the 18-‐and-‐over category went to Jude John Tony of Kochi, Kerala India for an app that helps Android phone users optimize and protect their phones. First place in the Under 18 category went to Austin Rawlins of Jasper, Indiana, whose app concept provides emergency assistance.

• The U.S. House of Representatives passed the STEM Education Act of 2014 (H.R. 5031) on 14 July. The bill contains two IEEE-‐USA-‐backed provisions that enhance the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program and expand the definition of STEM education to allow federal STEM support for formal academic instruction in computer science.

• IEEE President-‐Elect Howard Michel and IEEE-‐USA President Gary Blank participated in a meeting at the U.S. State Department on 24 July to discuss the role of the Science & Technology Advisor at State and the primary considerations for selection of the next Advisor.

• IEEE-‐USA joined other S&T societies in a meeting with representatives of federal departments and agencies hosted by the Army Research Laboratory at Adephi, Maryland on 25 July to discuss the impact of Federal government restrictions on scientific and technical conference attendance.

• The Conference Accountability Act (S.1347) is slated for US Senate Committee mark-‐up. The bill would limit participation by U.S. government participants in foreign conferences to 50 without a national interest exception. IEEE-‐USA is backing an amendment that would simplify the waiver process.

• IEEE-‐USA’s 2014 Consultants Fee Survey Report will be released in August. The median consulting hourly rate remained flat at $135/hour for the third straight year, although 18% of respondents charge $200/hour or more.

• IEEE-‐USA’s new digital publication, IEEE-‐USA Insight, is completing quality assurance testing. o Once "launched", this will replace two existing publications (IEEE-‐USA in Action and

Today’s Engineer), highlighting IEEE-‐USA’s views, policies, and careers.


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• IEEE-‐SA was welcomed to the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) as a member. GSC is a senior-‐level gathering of the world’s leading information and communication technologies (ICT) standards organizations.

• The first meeting of the IEEE-‐SA Europe Advisory Group was held on 23 July in Brussels. The group consists of standardization experts from industry and academia. Their charter is to advise IEEE-‐SA on its global standards strategy, with a particular focus on growing its presence in Europe.

• IEEE and DIGITALEUROPE co-‐hosted an event: “ICT Standards: MSP (Multi-‐Stakeholder Platform) Points the Way Forward in Europe—Perspectives From Some MSP Stakeholders”. The event received positive feedback and attention, including a comment from the European Commission encouraging a follow-‐on event in the future. Participants included: IEEE, DIGITALEUROPE, W3C, ETSI, IETF, and the European Commission.

• Agreement with National Standards Body of Kazakhstan was signed to allow Kazakhstan to adopt and translate several IEEE standards.

• Participated in an outreach program in Germany for Augmented Reality with the newly formed Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA), of which IEEE-‐SA is a member. The purpose of the outreach was to establish and/or strengthen relationships with the businesses and affiliated organizations that are developing and using augmented reality and to inform them about IEEE-‐SA's and AREA’s activities in this field. Met with companies in and around the Munich area, including Metaio, Bosch, Siemens, and Daimler.

Products and Services Snapshots

• IEEE Day will be held on 7 October. • Mouser Electronics, a leading electronics distributor based in Ft. Worth, TX, is sponsoring

IEEE's Student member programs. o This is a comprehensive member "program sponsorship" through which Mouser

supports IEEE student member programs via a multifaceted sponsorship that includes student media, competitions, awards and more.

• IEEE.tv is partnering with the Robotics Society to provide the first-‐ever video coverage of the North American Summer School of Surgical Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University

o Topics at the Summer School range from robotic surgery in children's hospitals to new frontiers in "haptics", allowing surgeons to get tactile feedback during robotic surgery.

• IEEE launched a monthly e-‐news campaign highlighting "Three Things You Need to Know" to all early career members with important announcements, product info and networking links.

• Sections Congress mobile app was launched on 17 July to all registrants to help with planning and taking full advantage of all the Congress has to offer. The IEEE Foundation is sponsoring the app.

• The IEEE Student Facebook page surpassed 155K friends, up from 13K since July 2013. • In support of IEEE’s mission to advance technology and disseminate high quality technical

information, the Marketing, Sales and Design staff team has developed and promoted volunteer-‐led Authorship Workshops to be held India, China, Germany and the UK.

• Product Marketing has launched a completely new version of the Innovate Lead Generation Site, innovate.ieee.org. The new site provides a centralized source of more engaging IEEE


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product and content, encourages users to learn more & come back often, and is optimized for mobile devices.

• IEEE has fully deployed the Blended Learning Platform in India. • The Morgan and Claypool eBooks library was deployed on IEEE Xplore on 8 July. • The fourth major IEEE Xplore release of 2014 (Rel. 4.14) was successfully deployed in July and

included the following enhancements and updates: o Computer Society Digital Library (interim version) in IEEE Xplore o Simpler institutional authentication experience for corporate subscribers o Self-‐service retrieval of usage reports for customers utilizing SAML authentication

• IEEE Xplore usage (PDF downloads) for June 2014 and YTD through 30 June was as follows: o 7.36 million downloads in June 2014, 3.6% higher than June 2013 o 49.3 million downloads for first half of 2014 vs. 50.6 million for same period in 2013

• The number of interactive, full-‐text HTML articles in IEEE Xplore continues to grow. o As of 15 July, IEEE Xplore contained 1.56 million HTML full-‐text articles o June was the fourth consecutive month where HTML article views exceeded 100,000 o HTML article views in June were 126,000 with first half of 2014 approaching 711,000 o Availability of IEEE Standards in interactive HTML is planned for Q4 2014

• Latest installment of the Why Conferences Matter video series was released this month. Entitled "Why Conferences Matter: The Global Community", the video focuses on how IEEE conferences bring together people from all over the globe to share ideas, form relationships, identify synergies, and develop collaboration opportunities.

• June and July are important months for conference events, as several of IEEE’s largest financially-‐sponsored conferences take place during these months. In all, 15 (10 in June; 5 in July) of the “Focus 60” (the 60 largest conferences that IEEE financially sponsors) take place during these months.

• IEEE has developed a tracking process for contract negotiation which enhances transparency, and includes a centralized review and evaluation by SME’s. We are bundling and leveraging overall IEEE’s spend by location and conference center chain, as well as leveraging missed opportunities.

o As of 22 July, the program has accumulated approximately $238K in contract savings and $2.9M in risk avoidance for IEEE’s conference business this year.

o Since its inception in 2012, the contract savings program has saved approximately $1.9M & $5.1M in risk avoidance for IEEE’s conference business.

Major Initiatives

• Professional Productivity and Collaboration Tools (PPCT) o User Testing: validated key tasks for the networking, career developer, and

author/researcher roles. Testers included a demographic mix of volunteers and target end users

o Testing of brand names and taglines recently completed (11 countries with members & authors/researchers represented); Presented to Steering Committee 30 July; Logo development to follow


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Global Offices • China

o Supported/organized IEEE China Student congress on 6-‐7 July. Over 60 student volunteers from 30 student branches attended and shared their experiences in organizing IEEE activities on campus.

o Standard P2030.2.1 kickoff meeting in Guangzhou on 9 June o Standard P2402 kickoff meeting in Tianjin on 25 June o Signed a letter of intent with Tsinghua University to launch a new open access journal

on computational visual media for hosting in Xplore. o Negotiating with China Society for Electrical Engineers (CSEE) to launch an open access

journal entitled CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems by the end of 2014. • India

o AICTE In India has asked IEEE to help conduct a three-‐day workshop in New Delhi in September on “Future of Technical Education”. IEEE will bring 15 international speakers to the event and has agreed to work with AICTE to write a policy document on technical education.

o A proposal for digital library access to Sri Lanka’s Institute of Information Technology to be submitted on 31 July.

o Authorship Workshop Planned 8-‐14 August: § Partnership with four leading academic institutions to conduct series of FREE &

LIVE authorship workshops scheduled between 8-‐14 August in India § A total of over 1,000 delegates have registered for the program in four cities.

o IEEE India signed an MoU with Vishweshwaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM) on 21 July. This MoU is valid for three years and encompasses many activities which includes a Distinguished Lecture Series for 2014-‐2015 starting July 2014, IEEE-‐VITM Android Application Development Course, Idea Lab Innovation Challenge for High School students, and Knowledge sharing of IEEE engineering models and Science and Technology Expo.

• Japan o The Japan Industry Advisory Board will be renamed as Japan Industry Promotion

Committee. It will be chaired by Dr. Mochida and will organize a kick-‐off Metro Area Workshop in Tokyo in November. The committee will execute survey to industry practitioners this fall.

• Singapore o POCO 2014 in Singapore successfully concluded on 19 July. Worked with A*Star

(Singapore government research agency) to offer an exclusive invitation to POCO conference attendees to visit the FusionWorld exhibits. POCO was well attended and feedback has been positive.

o Exploring possibility of co-‐developing “Coding for Children” program for the Singapore primary and secondary school students.

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