Activity Report of the IEEE/CSS IAC to BoG
Eduardo F. Camacho
Nov. 8, 2004
The committee met at the ACC in
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IEEE International Membership was discussed in the context of a study
presented by the vice-president of MAB. It
seems necessary to assess the situation regarding international membership. The
feeling was that there was also a drop of membership, especially worrying in
the case of student members. Possible actions to increase international
membership were discussed: Increase
services, special offers as done commercially (such as a free registration for every 4 or 5
new registration ...), advertising at international conference, student flyer
distribution to chapters, sponsoring international conferences such as the Latin
-American control conference (in connection with Distinguish lecturers program).
The general feeling was that drastic actions were needed to attract people to
the society.
ˇ List of Active control groups: Ways of increasing the participation of
those groups in IEEE/CSS activities and also to maintain the list and the
addition of new groups were discussed. Also some measures in coordination with the
travel support program were discussed.
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Control around the Globe: This initiative
consist of getting a series of reports about the state of control in different
countries of the world to be published in the IEEE CSS CSM under the heading of
"Control around the Globe". There seems to be a difficulty in getting
enough contributions.
ˇ Distinguished Lecturers Program: The Committee fully support the program
and some ideas of how to make this program better known were discussed. The topic was later discussed by e-mail and the
results of the discussion transmitted to the VP of MAB
ˇ Travel Support Program: The possibilities of modifying the Program and
its implementation where discussed. The general opinion of the Committee was
that the IAC fully support the program main objectives, although changes in the
procedures may be advisable in order to facilitate the implementation to
Conference organizers. A further discussion was carried out by members of the
Committee and some proposals were sent to the VP for MAB.