Get to Know the IEEE Board of Administrators

The IEEE Board of Administrators shapes the long run route of IEEE and is dedicated to making sure IEEE stays a powerful and vibrant group—serving the wants of its members and the engineering and know-how group worldwide—whereas fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing know-how for the advantage of humanity.

This text options IEEE Board of Administrators members Cecilia Metra, Eduardo Palacio, and Enrique Tejera.

IEEE Fellow Cecilia Metra

Director & Delegate, Division V

Cecilia Metra, an IEEE Fellow, is director & delegate, Division VDanilo Marchesi/Nonetheless Life

Metra teaches digital engineering whereas infusing her college students with a ardour for analysis and innovation. As a full professor and deputy president of the College of engineering on the College of Bologna in Italy, Metra makes a speciality of design for check and reliability of built-in circuits and methods. She has revealed extensively (greater than 200 papers), and her analysis has acquired private and non-private funding at nationwide and worldwide ranges.

Metra has been an enthusiastic volunteer for IEEE for over 30 years, serving in a number of roles, together with 2019 president of the IEEE Pc Society. Believing that younger generations have the accountability, capability, and freedom to form our future, Metra is targeted on making IEEE an inclusive group by way of which all its members can discover the information and networking alternatives to foster their skilled and private progress. Along with her present place on the IEEE Board of Administrators, she is co-chairing the IEEE Metaverse initiative, which goals to create a vibrant group of specialists within the discipline, organizing networking occasions with business and academia.

Metra is an IEEE Pc Society Golden Core member, awarded to long-standing members or employees who’ve offered service to the society. She can also be a member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society. She has acquired two meritorious service awards, eight certificates of appreciation, and the Spirit of the Pc Society Award from the IEEE Pc Society. As well as, she is a member of The Institute’s editorial advisory board.

IEEE Life Senior Member Eduardo Palacio

President, IEEE-USA

IEEE Life Senior Member Eduardo Palacio is IEEE-USA president.Martha Palacio

Palacio has spent his total 40-year profession designing, growing, and producing digital countermeasures methods. At the moment a small-business proprietor centered on know-how packages and enterprise improvement for the navy and civilian market, Palacio additionally teaches mission administration in addition to methods engineering and whole high quality administration at Stony Brook College in New York. Most of Palacio’s profession was spent in product improvement specializing in airborne, shipborne, and automobile safety towards enemy missiles and improvised explosive units (IEDs). His work has saved U.S. allied forces from hurt, defending plane and warships from radar-guided missiles and floor autos and troopers from IED assaults.

A member of the IEEE Aerospace and Digital Programs Society, Palacio has been an lively IEEE volunteer for greater than 30 years—serving in part, area, and world positions. Whereas Area 1 director, he led a workforce that shortly tailored to the digital atmosphere and delivered important member advantages by way of coaching classes, talks, and conferences. As IEEE-USA president, Palacio will look to ascertain a sustainable mannequin to permit IEEE-USA to succeed and develop.

Palacio is a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Lengthy Island Part Harold Wheeler Award for Management Excellence, and the IEEE Area 1 Award for Volunteer Management.

IEEE Senior Member Enrique Tejera

Director, Area 9: Latin America

An IEEE Senior Member, Enrique Tejera is director of Area 9.Enrique Tejera

Tejera is an electromechanical engineer with in depth expertise designing, working, and sustaining energy methods, together with technology, transmission, and distribution. Throughout his profession, he has engaged in initiatives that affected Panama’s improvement—as a part of the worldwide workforce engaged on {the electrical} interconnection between international locations in Central America. He was additionally answerable for planning the transmission and distribution methods and the upkeep of the Panama Canal energy system.

A member of the IEEE Energy & Vitality Society (PES), Tejera has been an lively IEEE volunteer for greater than 35 years—serving in nearly all of the management positions within the IEEE Panama Part, together with because the part chair in 1992. He has additionally served because the chair of the Area 9 awards and recognitions committee and on the IEEE Scholar Actions Committee. Tejera says IEEE can carry invaluable info, information, and innovation to the worldwide group. In his place with the IEEE Board of Administrators, Tejera is devoted to growing IEEE membership satisfaction, retention, and progress.

Tejera is a member of IEEE-HKN, serving on its board of governors (2017-19). At the moment, he opinions technical paperwork for conferences, prizes, and worldwide publications. He’s additionally a PES distinguished lecturer and editor in chief of the Spanish model of the PES Energy & Vitality Journal. Tejera has been acknowledged with a number of IEEE part, area, and society awards, together with the IEEE Area 9 Latin America Theodore Hissey Award (now the Excellent Scholar and Younger Skilled Actions Supporter Award); and the IEEE Area 9 Meritorious Service Award.

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