President-Elect Candidates On Their Plans for the Future

The annual IEEE election course of begins this month, so make sure you verify your mailbox then in your poll. That can assist you select the 2024 IEEE president-elect, The Institute is publishing the official biographies and place statements of the 2 candidates, as accredited by the IEEE Board of Administrators. The candidates are Senior Member Kathleen Kramer and Life Fellow Roger Fujii.

Senior Member Kathleen Kramer

JT MacMillan

Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators

Kramer is a professor {of electrical} engineering on the College of San Diego, the place she served as director of engineering from 2004 to 2013. As director she offered educational management over its engineering packages.

She was a member of the technical workers at a number of corporations together with Bell Communications Analysis, Hewlett-Packard, and Viasat.

Kramer is the previous vp of the IEEE Aerospace and Digital Methods Society and is a distinguished lecturer for the society.

She has emphasised collaboration when serving in numerous high-level IEEE management roles akin to IEEE secretary, director of IEEE Area 6, and chair of governance and of the IEEE advert hoc committee on innovating funding fashions. In these positions she contributed to advancing IEEE’s mission throughout a large spectrum of actions and technical communities.

Kramer earned bachelor’s levels in electrical engineering and physics from Loyola Marymount College, in Los Angeles. She earned grasp’s and doctoral levels in EE from Caltech.

Candidate assertion

I supply transformational management for a greater IEEE. I strategy the duties of this function with respect for the challenges, and an consciousness of the chance the President-Elect is entrusted with to remodel IEEE. I’ve confirmed myself to be a collaborative chief in each management place I’ve held. My most vital accomplishments have stemmed from sincerely valuing and together with totally different pursuits and views, and teaming in direction of strategic objectives that permit the entire to turn out to be higher than the sum of the components. If elected, I’ll proceed to see one IEEE whose dedication to technical excellence and experience gives the inspiration and engagement primarily based in its folks and their technical actions. I’m grateful for every of my management roles inside and on behalf of the IEEE – as every has introduced with it the chance to companion throughout the IEEE, working with inspirational and efficient leaders and volunteers, to contribute collectively to advance know-how. I commit to those 5 priorities:

• Encourage and interact the following era of IEEE, particularly WIE (Girls in Engineering), Younger Professionals, and College students
• Embody our international and numerous membership, successfully and equitably, to higher advance know-how
• Collaborate as a neighborhood on our transformational public imperatives- training, coverage, historical past, neighborhood, and humanitarian applied sciences.
• Enhance the effectiveness and effectivity of the IEEE whereas honoring our obligations to the membership
• Empower the success of our technical communities, international and native, to share and foster technical information and improve our skilled lives

Life Fellow Roger Fujii

Joey Ikemoto

Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators

Fujii is president of Fujii Methods in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., which designs crucial programs. Earlier than beginning his firm, Fujii was vp at Northrop Grumman’s engineering division in San Diego (US $1.086 billion).

His space of experience is certifying crucial programs. He has been a visitor lecturer at California State College, the College of California, and Xiamen College.

An energetic IEEE volunteer, Fujii most not too long ago chaired the IEEE monetary transparency reporting committee and the IEEE advert hoc committee on IEEE in 2050 and Past. The advert hoc committee envisioned situations to realize a world perspective of what the world may seem like in 2050 and past,and what these potential futures may imply for IEEE.

He was 2016 president of the IEEE Laptop Society, 2021 vp of the IEEE Technical Actions Board, and 2012–2014 director of Division VIII.

Fujii obtained the 2020 Richard E. Merwin Award, the IEEE Laptop Society’s highest-level volunteer service award.

Candidate assertion

On the entrance of our acute international challenges, IEEE has the distinctive alternative to contribute technical management and improvements towards lasting options. To grab it, we have to develop our group to be extra responsive in serving our neighborhood and resilient in an more and more unsure working surroundings. To this finish, as President, I’ll pursue a technique to remodel IEEE with the next targets:

• A proactive, inclusive neighborhood that makes use of know-how for the great of others. We’ll proceed to extend our membership and its range. We’ll broaden collaborations with trade, authorities, college students, and others who try to make use of know-how to make the world higher.
• Present sustainable options to the world. Working with a extra inclusive neighborhood provides us extra affect and mind belief to innovate for the world’s systemic challenges – local weather change, dependable meals sources, accessible well being care, clear environments, and sustainable power sources.
• Ship extra quantifiable worth to our members. We’ll interact extra members and make investments IEEE funds to develop services and products that ship actual, differentiated worth. Our services and products have to be extra related and helpful to our whole neighborhood of volunteers and members.
• Construct a resilient group. For IEEE to final in any working surroundings, we’ll set up the processes and governance to function effectively and regularly evolve our group. We should embody rising multi-disciplinary communities and the members in rising international areas.