1. IEEE PACE Approved projects & Funding Process
Kheng Swee Goh
R5 PACE chair

2. Recap – do you know your project can be a PACE project
PACE is unique to USA (funded by IEEE-USA).
It can provide up to 50% funding (usually split with section) for your approved project.
However, we can consider projects requiring more than 50% funding on a case-by-case basis.
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3. What projects will most likely be approved?
If your project has any elements of
“professional activity”, it can be considered a PACE project.
Due to limited funding, we normally tend to prefer projects that have a higher member(benefit)-to-dollar ratio.
ie; we would likely approve a $500 project reaching out to 100 members than a $1000 project reaching 25 people.
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4. Approved PACE projects so far...
S-PAC event at UH Clearlake
Spring MOCON Mini-MPAC2012
Coronado High School FIRST Robotics Team 2996
Engineering Week at LSU
Houston STEP event during SAC/GOLD meeting
Teachers in Service Program (TISP) Workshop for Douglas County School District
IEEE CTS/COMSOC/SP participation in NI Week
Technical Entrepreneurship
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5. Don’t forget, your projects may be “approved”, but you still need to follow up until THE END to be paid!
All forms must be fully filled, submitted, and approved.
Here are the steps...
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6. PACE INITIAL request (Step 1)
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7. PACE INITIAL request (1.cont.)
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8. What’s next?
form, along with detailed explanation of the event to R5 PACE chair.
Further /phone conversations for clarifications may occur.
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9. Email approval (Step 1.1) When you receive an email like this:
Time to proceed to Step 2...
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10. STEP 2 – Create your vTools meeting notice
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11. This will also help with the final L31 report in the end!
Select from drop down of Event Category: “Professional”
Factual description of event
5-6 keywords, including PACE
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12. STEP 2a – initial funding
If you need initial funding for your project, fill out an R5 funding request form (see later slides). Otherwise, skip to Step 3...
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13. STEP 3 – run your event!!
...run your event
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14. STEP 4 (very important) – Final report and R5 funding request!
DO NOT make the mistake of thinking that just because your project is approved, you/your section automatically gets paid... They WON’T, unless you complete this FINAL step!
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15. PACE final report (4. cont)
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16. Fill in the FINAL report form (amounts may be slightly different)
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17. Fill in the R5 funding request form
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18. Remember your vTools meeting?
Look! L31 report!! Just by clicking here!
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19. And you would’ve now completed yet another successful PACE event benefitting members!
...you rock!!
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