1. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC Report
October 2007 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 ARC
* contained in PDF file on web

2. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC REPORT
October 2007 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

3. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC REPORT
October 2007 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

4. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC Report
October 2007 St John’s, N&L
Committee List for
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

5. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC REPORT
October 2007 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

6. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC Report
October 2007 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

7. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC REPORT
October 2007 St John’s, N&L
Schedule for
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

8. October 2007 Presentation @ St John’s, N&L
IEEE Canada ARC REPORT
October 2007 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