![]() ![]() And never take for granted the people who travel the journey with you. Bob Greene Never forget where you ve been. Chair, IEEE India Council Words of Wisdom You need to know what life you want (as well as what life you don t want), then you have to muster up the will and the drive to go after it. Looking forward for your support and inputs in future. I strongly believe that all of you will extend your support with involvement to the IEEE India Council to work for the benefit of IEEE Community in India as in the past. One can visit the IEEE Awards Board Nominations and Appointments Web page for details. I wish that our senior members from India should avail this opportunity to have maximum representation in the IEEE organizational committees. I also wrote in the last issue about the call for new volunteers to serve on IEEE Awards Board and on the Awards Board standing committees to assist with managing the recipient nomination and selection process for IEEE Medals, Technical Field Awards, and Recognitions, the highest awards IEEE presents on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors. As I already wrote in the last issue, the Last date for receiving proposals for 2014 IEEE Region 10 Fund for Technical Seminars and Distinguished Lecture Programs to be held in R10 Sections, by IEEE R-10 is 10th June I would like to remind all the Sections, Chapters and Societies to avail this opportunity without fail. The sections can discuss with the Student Branch counsellors and other members to innovate suitable methods to improve the situation. The sections should work with their student branches and provide student branch counsellors with a list of their unrenewed members and enlist their help in an outreach. I think that all Sections should identify their unrenewed members and schedule an outreach either by phone or, or both to encourage their members to renew. ![]() It is time for us to think about What can we do to alleviate this 1 IEEE India InfoĢ situation. This is truly applicable to India Council. Last month 141,043 members were deactivated who had not renewed for 2014, of which almost half were students. However, the membership strength in March 2014 is 332,904 which is up by 8.3% over the strength in February 2014, which is 307,348. This month s highlights on membership states that the total IEEE membership is down by -4,968 members, total Society memberships are down by -4,705 over 2013 statistics. This activity will keep the IEEE Student Members active and it will help penetrating the awareness of IEEE in the young minds of future professionals. Such programs shall be promoted by the IEEE Student Branches through their student members at the schools adopted by them. In the forthcoming EC meeting of the India Council the procedures and methods of organizing such programs will be discussed and finalized. IEEE EAB has given approval for a Computer Skill based program, IT-SUITS for offering through the IEEE India Sections. IEEE Student Branches can adopt the schools in their area and conduct awareness programs to the school srudents towards higher education and promote Computer skill based courses offered by some Career Development Institutions for the school students using the school computing facilities and the school teachers. In this connection I would like to invite the attention of the Section Chairs and the Student Branch Counselors to the newly promoted activity, Pre- University Education for the school children, introduced by the IEEE EAB. One of the reasons given for this situation is that the IEEE student members do not have adequate and interesting activities. This is giving a great concern to all quarters of IEEE. It is observed that most of the students who join IEEE during their first year do not continue till their final year of study. I also invite the members to write aricles on the promotion of membership, involvement of students with activities, on the services that IEEE Units in India could render to the society at large, ideas and suggestions for the retention of membership status on a continual basis, particularly retention of student membership, etc. I therefore appeal to all concerned to pass on the activities of the Sections, Chapters and Societies to the Newsletter Editor on time periodically every month without waiting for his call or request. Cooperation of the entire IEEE Community in India is required to make the Newsletter more purposeful. As you all are aware, the Newsletter of IEEE India Council is the media to communicate the activities of the IEEE Sections, Chapters and Societies in India to the community. Nair as the Newsletter Editor has come out very well. 2 Message from Chairman Dear Members, I am happy that the first issue of IEEE India Council s News Letter series 2014 with Mr.
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