President-Elect Candidates On Their Plans for the Future

The annual IEEE election course of begins this month, so be sure you verify your mailbox then on your poll. That will help you select the 2024 IEEE president-elect, The Institute is publishing the official biographies and place statements of the 2 candidates, as authorized 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 supplied tutorial 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 Techniques Society and is a distinguished lecturer for the society.

She has emphasised collaboration when serving in varied 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 provide transformational management for a greater IEEE. I strategy the duties of this position with respect for the challenges, and an consciousness of the chance the President-Elect is entrusted with to rework IEEE. I’ve confirmed myself to be a collaborative chief in each management place I’ve held. My most important accomplishments have stemmed from sincerely valuing and together with completely different pursuits and views, and teaming in direction of strategic objectives that permit the entire to develop into higher than the sum of the elements. If elected, I’ll proceed to see one IEEE whose dedication to technical excellence and experience supplies the inspiration and engagement based mostly 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 have interaction the following technology of IEEE, particularly WIE (Ladies in Engineering), Younger Professionals, and College students
• Embrace our world and numerous membership, successfully and equitably, to raised advance know-how
• Collaborate as a group on our transformational public imperatives- schooling, coverage, historical past, group, 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, world 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 Techniques in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., which designs essential methods. 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 essential methods. He has been a visitor lecturer at California State College, the College of California, and Xiamen College.

An lively 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 achieve a world perspective of what the world would possibly appear like in 2050 and past,and what these potential futures would possibly 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 world 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 group and resilient in an more and more unsure working atmosphere. To this finish, as President, I’ll pursue a method to rework IEEE with the next goals:

• A proactive, inclusive group that makes use of know-how for the nice of others. We’ll proceed to extend our membership and its range. We’ll develop collaborations with business, authorities, college students, and others who attempt to make use of know-how to make the world higher.
• Present sustainable options to the world. Working with a extra inclusive group offers 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 have interaction extra members and make investments IEEE funds to develop services that ship actual, differentiated worth. Our services have to be extra related and helpful to our whole group of volunteers and members.
• Construct a resilient group. For IEEE to final in any working atmosphere, we’ll set up the processes and governance to function effectively and regularly evolve our group. We should embrace rising multi-disciplinary communities and the members in rising world areas.