October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC Report October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Content of This Presentation Review of Actions at Spring 07 BOD* Review of ARC Actions since Spring 07 BOD* Committee List for 07–08 Publicity Plan for Awards* Ethical Practices Timetable for 07-08 ARC * contained in PDF file on web

October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC REPORT October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Review of Actions at Spring 07 BOD Approved one time costs of new dies Increased budget to produce 10 medals and plaques Increased membership of ARC by 3 to include technical expertise (telecommunications, power engineering, and computer engineering and science) Approved the new schedule for ARC Delegated approval of medal recipients to ExCom Directed ARC to develop publicity plan for awards

October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC REPORT October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Review of ARC Actions since Spring 07 BOD 10 medals and plaques were presented at the 07 awards banquet Awards booklet was distributed at the 07 awards banquet Awards booklet was distributed by IEEE Canada President Hanna at the following IEEE Board meeting Awards booklet was distributed by IEEE Canadian Foundation President Bob Alden at the following IEEE Foundation Board meeting Bob Hanna (IEEE Canada) and Bob Alden (IEEE Canadian Foundation) together sent specific proposals to three non-IEEE entities regarding endowment of three of our achievement medals 07–08 ARC has expanded membership – see next slide ARC developed a publicity plan – see next but one slide

October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC Report October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Committee List for 2007-08 Chair - Robert T.H. (Bob) Alden LF-IEEE, F-EIC Past Chair - Vijay Bhargava F-IEEE, F-EIC Eastern Canada Rep - Mo El-Hawary F-IEEE, F-EIC Central Canada Rep - John Plant LF-IEEE, F-EIC Western Canada Rep - Ebrahim Vaahedi F-IEEE A Past McNaughton Winner - Hussein Mouftah F-IEEE, F-EIC A Past Fessenden Winner - David Plant F-IEEE A Past Power Winner - Hermann W. Dommel F-IEEE A Past Comp. Winner - Nicolas D. Georganas F-IEEE, F-EIC Past President - Bill Kennedy SM-IEEE, F-EIC President (ex-officio) - Bob Hanna F-IEEE, F-EIC

October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC REPORT October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Publicity Plan for Major Awards Call for nominations to appear in Oct & Nov e-news Announcement of medalists to appear in the January e-news Expanded version of previous item to appear in next issue of the IEEE Canadian Review and submitted to THE INSTITUTE Copies of the awards booklet to be distributed widely – at CCECE, EPC, selected Section AGMs and other conferences in Canada as well as board meetings of IEEE Canada, IEEE Canadian Fdn, IEEE, IEEE Fdn, EIC Electronic copies of awards booklet to be distributed to editors of provincial PE organizations and selected trade pubs with offer to submit specific award information on request

October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC Report October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Ethical Practices All members of IC ExCom and ARC are ineligible to nominate or endorse nominations for IC Awards All discussions and decisions within ARC (esp. for deliberations about nominations and decisions about awards) are confidential All discussions about possible future award sponsors are confidential

October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC REPORT October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Schedule for 2007-08 Sep 07 – Appoint new committee and thank previous committee Sep 07 – Start process for obtaining EIC Nominations Oct 07 – Start process for obtaining IC Major Award Nominations Oct 07 – Call for Nominations to IC News Nov 15, 07 – EIC Fellow & Medalist nominations due Nov 30, 07 – IC Medalist nominations due Dec 15, 07 – ARC decisions to IC President & ExCom Dec 20, 07 – Award winners notified by IC President Dec 20, 07 – Unsuccessful nominators notified by ARC Chair Dec 20, 07 – Recipient Info to IC News Jan 08 – Recipient Info to IC Review Jan 08 - Recipient Info to Birks for medal production (and plaques) Jan 08 – Request to Recipients for photos and biographies Mar 08 – Brochure production May 08 – Awards presentations and promotion as in publicity plan

October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L IEEE Canada ARC REPORT October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L Service Awards W.S. Read E.F. Glass M.B. Broughton J.J. Archambault Nominations Due November 30, 2007 Nomination + 2 Endorsements Use web forms ieee.ca/awards/nominate.htm