IEEE Region 10 Section/Chapter Coordinator James, Jhing-fa Wang Status Report for 2010 and plan for 2011 Region 10 EXCOM Meeting Taipei, Taiwan Mar

l About the Committee l Goals for year 2011 l Past Activities – 2010 Highlights l Proposed Activities – 2011 Highlights l Proposed Budget Overview

Region 10 Meet, Cebu, Philippines 3 R10 Section/Chapter Coordinator Maintain and support Existing Section/Chapters Support formation of new Section/Chapters Rejuvenate inactive Section/Chapters Interaction with HQ, Sections and Chapters Update members by providing Information – s and R10 Website General Goals of Section/Chapter Coordination

Goals for 2011(1) l Empowering Sections/Chapters – Establish mechanisms to guide, advice and assist IEEE volunteers to meet the needs of members – Develop and adopt effective, accountable and transparent entity governance

Goals for 2011(2) l To assist Sections with inactive Chapters/AGs especially 3 years inactive l To assist the Sections who have less than 15 meeting activities l To assist Sections in formation of Subsection l To assist Subsections elevation to Sections To achieve the above, various visits and training sessions shall be conducted with support from the local sections as well as electronic communications.

Goals for 2011(3) l To establish the Section/Chapter training materials put in Website l To collect the highlight activities information for the whole section/chapter put in the website l To make some visiting to sections

Report on Section Activities (Provided by Norman Marium) 1. Formation of new section : 1 2. Elevation of Subsection to Section Pune subsection was elevated to full section Shandong subsection submitted a petition to elevate to Section

3. Formation of subsections The following subsections have been formed. SubsectionSection ShenyangHarbin ChongqingBeijing HebeiBeijing ChangshaBeijing GuangxiBeijing GuangzhouBeijing TaiyuanXian

The following are the 15 subsections in R10 that are currently pending for approval:- 1.Brunei Darrusalam (under R10)2. Fujian (under Beijing) 3. Hainan (under Beijing)4. Henan (under Beijing) 5. Inner Mongolia (under Beijing)6. Jiangxi (under Beijing) 7. Jilin (under Harbin)8. Lanzhou (under Beijing) 9. Maldives (under R10)10.Mongolia (under R10) 11.Nepal (under R10)12.Ningxia (under Beijing) 13. Qinghai (under Xian)14. Tianjin (under Beijing) 15. Xinjiang (under Beijing)

Various countries have been communicated to assist in formation of new sections or subsection as follows : 1.Laos 2.Tai Chung, Taiwan 3.Myanmar 4.Cambodia

4. Visit to Sections 1. Visit to Sri Lanka May 2010 The IEEE Region 10 Section Coordinator visited Sri Lanka namely the city of Colombo and Kandy from May The trip was partially supported by IEEE PES via the Chapter Vice President Meliha Selak in the form of air-fare KL-Colombo- KL. The trip was initiated with the request from the Sri Lanka Section Chair Dr Lilantha Samaranayake to conduct a workshop for the section and chapters committee members. Then the PES membership drive and chapter formation was included in this trip with technical seminars added to optimize the visit. The initial schedule is as below.

15 May 2010Program with Section Officers - Officer Training workshop "How to make your Section more vibrant and Engaging the members?" 16 May 2010Program with PES members (and potential) - "What is IEEE and PES and what are the benefits of forming a Chapter?" 17 May 2010Talk in Colombo "Energy Crisis 2050? Malaysia Experience and way forward" and IEEE Promotion and membership drive. 18 May 2010 Talk in Kandy "Rotor Fault Condition Monitoring Techniques of Induction Machine" and IEEE Promotion and membership drive

2. Visit to Japan August 2010 The IEEE Region 10 Sections coordinator and the IEEE Region 10 Chapter coordinator visited Japan to conduct workshop “How to make your Sections and Chapters more vibrant”. It was scheduled as below: Monday August 2, 2010conducted for Nagoya Section, Tokyo Section, Sapporo Section and Japan Council Chapter operations officers Wednesday August 4, 2010conducted for Sendai Section officers

Region 10 Sections Status Report l Councils: 6 l Sections: 57 l Subsections: 21 l Chapters: 513 l Affinity Groups: 53 l Student branches: 666 l Student Branch Chapters: 60 l Student Branch WIE Groups: 26

Report on Chapter Activities (Provided by Deepak Mathur) Total number of petitions received in Total number of new chapters formed in (5 petitions are pending for approval) Total number of chapters in Region Number of Chapters Chapters at a Glance

l Chapters were also formed in the following countries where there is no section. This will bring more countries in R10 and IEEE map with increase in membership and popularity of IEEE. Maldives, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam Nepal and Mongolia l Chapter and section coordinator conducted a workshop for the sections of Japan at Tokyo and Sendai in Report on Chapter Activities

l Chapter Activities webpages was created and regularly updated. Details on society/council chapters (existing and potential for new) of each section are posted on the R10 website as a ready reference for section/chapter volunteers. Volunteers in sections and chapters found it very handy and making use of these information for managing their chapters effectively and efficiently. l Deepak Mathur, R10 Chapter Coordinator received 2010 MGA Achievement Award for his efforts in member development by engaging Region 10 members through enhanced chapter activities. Report on Chapter Activities

Visits in 2009 BEIJING XIAN SHANGHAI Thank you to the host Dr Ning Hua

Proposed Activities of Section/Chapter Highlight l Integration of Section/Chapter Website l To assist Maldives, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam, Nepal & Mongolia forming Section l To provide more effect information including “Section/Chapter training course”, “How to make your Sections and Chapters more vibrant”… by designing PPT or PDF files put in the website l Visiting several Sections & Chapters

Proposed Activities of Section/Chapter Highlight l Empowering Sections/Chapters - Establish mechanisms to guide, advice and assist IEEE volunteers to meet the needs of members - Develop and adopt effective, accountable and transparent entity governance - Help to set up the guideline to form the subsection more eligibly

Budget Planning l In the past : l Section Coordination : US$3000 l Chapter Coordination : US$3000 l Now : l Section/Chapter Coordination : l US$5000

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