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Region 4 Directors Report

• January 31, 2004
• Presenter Burt Loupee,
  R4 Director

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IEEE Vision

• To Advance Global Prosperity By
• Fostering Technological Innovation
• Promoting Community World-Wide
• Enabling Members Careers

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Mission Statement

• The IEEE promotes the engineering process of
  creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and
  applying knowledge about electro and information
  technologies and sciences for the benefit of
  humanity and the profession

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IEEE Structure

• Geographic and Technical
• 10 Geographic Areas
• Regions 1 - 6 United States
• Regions 7 - 10 Other Countries
• 38 Technical Societies
• Technical Specialties

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IEEE Regions
7
8
1- 6
10
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Divided into 300 Sections
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IEEE US Regional Map
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IEEE Membership
(December Totals)
Thousands
Higher grade membership is down slightly and
students have grown
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IEEE Organization
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Regional Activities Staff
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Services Programs

• SAMIEEE
• Entity Web Hosting
• E-Notice
• Section Outreach
• Virtual Communities
• Unit Reporting Online

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RAB Strategic Goals

• Ensure value of Membership
• Be the leader in Membership Direction
• Be the leader in volunteer development
• Be at the forefront of communication between
  member to member member to IEEE and
  organizational unit to organizational unit
• Meet the challenges of a large and transnational
  organization
• Emphasize delegation using the powers reserved
  concept

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Region 4 Status

• Good things are happening
• Need to concentrate on
• Assisting R4 sections with needs
• Membership growth
• Nominations for awards
• Support Region 4 Conference