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Updates on OU Formation &Announcement of Awards
Kukjin ChunR10 Vice Chair in Membership ActivitiesR10 Elevation Committee Chair
August 19, 2011
o July 20, 2011, Beijing
o Council/Sections/Subsections in China
o Good opportunity for sharing OU operation and management as well as common domestic problems
o Training sessions
Chinese Volunteers Workshop
Contents
o Backgrounds
o Elevation Committee
o Petition Status
o Awards
Subsection Membership payments and conferences supported by one membero 185 memberships were paid by one member in more
than 10 new Subsection petitions in Region 10 and 8
o Member names duplicated in multiple petitions by changing their addresses in Regions 8, 9 and 10
- Region 8 Mauritius Section
(3 Chapter petitions with the same names)
- Region 9 Guyana Subsection
Region 10 Executive Committee Meeting
o January 2011, Taipei
o Enhance member benefits (recognition & incentives)
o Stimulate inactive OUs with guidelines
o Help to build a new section in countries without OUs (e.g. Nepal, Myanmar)
o Increase industry support to attract new members.
o Correct membership duplication for wrong purpose
o March 2011, Yogyakarta
o Raise renewal/retention rate
o Enhance members benefits(Recognition & Incentives)
o Rejuvenate inactive Section/Chapters(3 years)
o Recently R10 is facing duplicate membership and wrong OU formation
o Revise approval procedure for new OU formation
o In the mean time, R10 is double checking with the parent Section
R10 Annual Meeting 2011
Recommendations
o Make recommendations for policy changes to petition submission process (Elevation Committee)
o It is advised that, for any new petitions submitted with mostly new members, the older members on the petition be contacted to verify their consent
o New OU in Region 10 will be only Subsection
o To upgrade to Section, any Subsection should demonstrate its sustainability as well as outstanding activities including membership growth
o More than 70 OUs dissolved in 2011
R10 Elevation Committee
o To promote sustainability of OUs and make recommendation to R10 director
o Kukjin Chun (Chair)
o Zhisheng Niu (R10 Conference Coordinator)
o Deepak Mathur (R10 SC2011 Coordinator)
o Jhing-Fa Wang (R10 Section/Chapter Coordinator)
o March 2011, Yogyakarta
o For the formation of new OUs:- Formation of OU should be approved by the
executive committee of the parent Section
- A confirming letter should be sent to parent Section Chair for verification and consultation
- The petition should be made preferably by a member of senior member grade of long standing
- 20 members for New Chapter and 30 for New Subsection
Elevation Committee Meeting
o For upgrade from Subsection to Section: - The upgrade should be approved by the executive
committee of the parent Section
- A letter should be sent to parent Section Chair for verification and consultation
- Petitioning subsection should be very active for consecutive three years and have demonstrated three fold growths in their activities
- The number of members of the petitioning subsection should be more than 100 as well as at least three times larger than the membership when the subsection was formed
Elevation Committee Meeting(cont’d)
Approval Process of petitions
Petition MGAR10
Director
Section Chair
SEC
Submission
Final approval
Approval
Checking
EXCOM
Recommendation
o Residency of petitioning members- only one Section
o Involved in multiple petitions
o All the signatures in person
o Petitioning members over 6 months of membership
o Approval by Sections' Executive Committee
o joint society chapter(s)
Questions to Section Chairs
Petition Status in 2011(as of July 2011)
SectionSubsectio
nChapter
Affinity Group
Approved by R10 0 3 8 1
Not approved 2 0 0 0
Hold 0 0 2 0
Processing 0 0 7 1
o Petition for Section Formation
o Stalled by Section Chair(More than 3 Months)
o Not Approved by the Society
- One chapter under Council, Society wish to form chapters under various Sections
o Add existing OU to another OU
- Requires the Region Director’s approval
Types
o In danger of being dissolved at the November 2011 MGA Board meeting
o Have not reported the minimum activity for 1 through 3+ years
o Have not reported any meetings in 2008, 2009, 2010
o Individual notifications have already been sent to the parent Section/Council Chairs and relevant Chairs
OUs in Danger of Being Dissolved
Announcement of Awards Recipients
Congratulations – Awards Recipients
o Website Competition
- College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala Section
- Student Branch Manipal, Bangalore Section
- Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi Section
o Student Paper Contests (Postgraduate)
- Wang Huai (City University of Hong Kong)
- Kan Wu (Nanyang Technological University)
- Amar Nandan (IIIT, Bangalore)
Congratulations (Cont’d)
o Student Paper Contests (Undergraduate)
- Shankar Mohan (National University of Singapore)
- Ramesh Nair (Amirta Vishwa Vidyapeetham)
- Amarjot Singh (NIT, Warangal)
o Region 10 Exemplary Student Branch
- The University of Auckland (NZ North Section)
- Macquarie University (New South Wales Section)
- College of Eng, Kolam (Kerala Section)
Congratulations (Cont’d)
o 2010 IEEE R10 WIE Affinity Group Of The Year Award
- WIE Affinity Group, Hyderabad Section
o The Top 3 GOLD Affinity Groups in the World
(IEEE GOLD Hall of Fame Award run by MGA GOLD)
- Lahore (Region 10)
- Malaysia (Region 10)
- Finland (Region 8)
o Larry K. Wilson Regional SA Award
- Imran Ali (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi Section)
Call for Nominations
o 2011 R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award
- Nomination Deadline – 30th October 2011
o 2011 R10 WIE Most Inspiring Engineer Award
- Nomination Deadline – 30th September 2011
o 2011 R10 GOLD Awards
- Nomination Deadline – 30th September 2011
2010 R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award
Satish Chaparala
(Hyderabad Section)
