Call for Nominations: Director-Industrial Relations and Director-Student Services

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the positions of Director-Industrial Relations and Director-Student Services. The term for each Director position will be three years (1 January 2012-31 December 2014).

The Director-Industrial Relations is responsible for identifying value, benefit, and services to attract and retain industrial members. The Director is a voting member of the Membership Board and a non-voting, ex-officio member of both the Conference and Publications Boards. The Director-Industrial Relations chairs the Industrial Relations Committee.

The Director-Student Services is responsible for identifying value/benefit/services to Student members, as well as recommending policy/mechanism for recruiting Student members. The Director is a voting member of the Membership Board and a non-voting, ex-officio member of the Conference Board. The Director-Student Services chairs the Student Services Committee.

Nominations should be submitted to John Treichler, SPS Vice President-Awards and Memberships, via j.treichler@ieee.org. When making your nomination, please provide the following information: Name of candidate, contact information, brief background, information about current SP, IEEE, or Other Society, as well other volunteer activities. Nominations must be received no later than 15 July 2011. The call for nominations can be found on the Society’s website at this link.