1. Young Professionals Summary and Initiatives
AESS Board of Governors Meeting
May 12-13, 2017
Seattle, WA
Lorenzo Lo Monte

2. Introducing IEEE Young Professionals
Caters to the professional development of recent graduates and early career professionals
Expose members and prospective members to new and unique career opportunities
Workshops
Seminars
Networking Events

3. Timeline
Appointed as YP Rep at the last BoG meeting

4. Timeline
Attended the YP general meeting in Costa Rica

5. Timeline Rafal Ramesh Mario Tushar Met YP Key Players
Informally guaranteed to fund YP events at conferences (about $2000)
Can’t guarantee
60k budget
Rafal
Ramesh
Mario
Tushar

6. Establish Young Professional events at all AES conferences
Main Focus for AESS
Establish Young Professional
events at all AES conferences

7. First Event at RadarConf
60 Attendees
AESS Mentoring l
$2,000
Free Food/ Drinks

8. Need Local Volunteers Target Conferences RadarConf Autotestcon
IEEE Aerospace Conference
International Conference on Information Fusion
IEEE ION
More ???
Need Local Volunteers

9. AESS Mentoring Meet-up
YP Event Flow
Select AES Conference
Set Schedules
Advertise
Request YP Funding
Summer School
Young Professional Event
Conference
Desired
AESS Mentoring Meet-up

10. AESS Sponsoring of YP Event
YP in Space
Partial Funding for “Space Bootcamp” ($7k)
Why?
Golden Rule
Closely related to AES
AES Sponsored WIE in India
MTT Donated $3k
VP Education approves idea