1. Region 4 Director’s Report January 31, 2004 Presenter: Burt Loupee, R4 Director

2. IEEE Vision To Advance Global Prosperity By Fostering Technological Innovation Promoting Community World-Wide Enabling Members’ Careers

3. Mission Statement The IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession

4. IEEE Structure Geographic and Technical –10 Geographic Areas Regions 1 - 6 United States Regions 7 - 10 Other Countries –38 Technical Societies Technical Specialties

5. IEEE Regions 1-61-6 7 8 10 9 Divided into 300 Sections

6. IEEE US Regional Map

7. IEEE Membership (December Totals) Thousands 2002382,483+1.4% Higher grade membership is down slightly and students have grown

8. IEEE Organization

9. Regional Activities Staff Cecelia Jankowski Managing Director Felicia Taylor MD Project & Marketing Manager Donna Dukes A&A Supervisor William Hunter MD Project Coordinator Section/Chapter Support Vicki Waldman Supervisor Strategic Planning/Regional Activities Administration Information Processing Student Activities GOLD Tracy Hawkins Manager Dan Toland Manager Vera Sharoff Manager Cathy Downer Project Manager Laura Durrett Manager Mike Binder Director Membership Activities IEEE Potentials Mary Campbell Editor Singapore Fanny Su Manager E-mail Address: (First Initial).(Last Name) @ieee.org

10. Services & Programs SAMI EEE Entity Web Hosting E-Notice Section Outreach Virtual Communities Unit Reporting Online

11. RAB Strategic Goals Ensure value of Membership Be the leader in Membership Direction Be the leader in volunteer development Be at the forefront of communication between member to member; member to IEEE; and organizational unit to organizational unit Meet the challenges of a large and transnational organization Emphasize delegation using the powers reserved concept

12. Region 4 Status Good things are happening Need to concentrate on: –Assisting R4 sections with needs –Membership growth –Nominations for awards –Support Region 4 Conference