The annual IEEE election process begins this month, so you’ll want to verify your mailbox to your poll. That will help you select the 2025 IEEE president-elect, The Institute is publishing the official biographies and place statements of the three candidates, as accepted by the IEEE Board of Administrators. The candidates are IEEE Fellows Mary Ellen Randall, John Verboncoeur, and S.Okay. Ramesh.
In June, IEEE President Tom Coughlin moderated the Meet the 2025 IEEE President-Elect Candidates Forum, the place the candidates had been requested urgent questions from IEEE members.
IEEE Fellow Mary Ellen Randall
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Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
Randall based Ascot Applied sciences in 2000 in Cary, N.C. Ascot develops enterprise functions utilizing cellular information supply applied sciences. She serves because the award-winning firm’s CEO.
Earlier than launching Ascot, she labored for IBM, the place she held a number of technical and managerial positions in {hardware} and software program improvement, digital video chips, and check design automation. She routinely managed worldwide initiatives.
Randall has served as IEEE treasurer, director of IEEE Area 3, chair of IEEE Ladies in Engineering, and vice chairman of IEEE Member and Geographic Actions.
In 2016 she created the IEEE MOVE (Cell Outreach VEhicle) program to help with catastrophe aid efforts and for science, expertise, engineering, and math academic functions.
The IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu honor society member has obtained a number of honors together with the 2020 IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, which acknowledges excellent volunteer service to IEEE.
She was named a high businesswoman in North Carolina’s Analysis Triangle Park space, and she or he made the 2003 Enterprise Chief Influence 100 checklist.
Candidate Assertion
Aristotle stated, “the entire is larger than the sum of its components.” Actually, when IEEE, this metaphysics phrase involves my thoughts. In IEEE we’ve got engineers and technical professionals growing, standardizing and using expertise from various views. IEEE members world wide:
- carry out and share analysis, product improvement actions, and normal improvement
- community and interact with one another and their communities
- educate present and future expertise professionals
- measure efficiency and high quality
- formulate ethics decisions
- and lots of extra – these are just some examples!
We carry out these actions throughout a large spectrum of in-depth topics. It’s our range, but oneness, that makes me assured we’ve got a optimistic future forward. How will we execute on Aristotle’s imaginative and prescient? First, we have to unite on mission targets which span our areas of curiosity. This manner we will deliver a number of disciplines and views collectively to perform these massive targets. Our technique will information our actions on this regard.
Second, we have to streamline our financing of recent improvements and systematize the introduction of those packages.
Third, we have to execute and help our greatest concepts on a unbroken foundation.
As President, I pledge to:
Institute progressive services to make sure our mutually profitable future;
Have interaction stakeholders (members, companions and communities) to unite on a complete imaginative and prescient;
Develop expertise development and adoption all through the world;
Execute with excellence, ethics, and monetary accountability.
Lastly, I promise to guide by instance with enthusiasm and integrity and I humbly ask to your vote.
IEEE Fellow John Verboncoeur
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Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
Verboncoeur is senior affiliate dean for analysis and graduate research in Michigan State College’s (MSU) engineering faculty, in East Lansing.
In 2001 he based the computational engineering science program on the College of California, Berkeley, chairing it till 2010.
In 2015 he cofounded the MSU computational arithmetic, science, and engineering division.
His space of curiosity is plasma physics, with over 500 publications and over 6,800 citations.
He’s on the boards of Physics of Plasmas, the American Heart for Mobility, and the U.S. Division of Vitality Fusion Vitality Science Advisory Committee.
Verboncoeur has led startups growing digital train and well being programs and the patron credit score report. He additionally had a job in growing the U.S. Postal Service’s mail-forwarding system.
His IEEE expertise consists of serving as 2023 vice chairman of Technical Actions, 2020 performing vice chairman of Publication Providers and Merchandise Board, 2019-2020 Division IV director, and 2015—2016 president of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.
He obtained a Ph.D. in 1992 in nuclear engineering from UC Berkeley.
Candidate Assertion
Guarantee IEEE stays THE premier skilled technical group, ship worth by way of new contributors, merchandise and packages, together with occasions, publications, and progressive customized services, to allow our neighborhood to vary the world. Key strategic packages embrace:
Local weather Change Applied sciences (CCT): Existential to humanity, addressing mitigation and adaptation should embrace expertise R&D, native relevance for practitioners, college and Okay-12 college students, most people, media and policymakers and native and world requirements.
Sensible Agrofood Techniques (SmartAg): Sensible applied sciences utilized to the meals provide chain from soil to shopper to compost.
Synthetic Intelligence (AI): Implications from expertise to enterprise to ethics. A key methodology for offering customized IEEE services inside our present portfolio, and fascinating new audiences corresponding to expertise determination makers in academia, authorities and expertise finance by extracting worth from our huge information to determine rising tendencies.
Organizational development alternatives embrace scaling and coordinating our public coverage technique worldwide, constructing on our credibility to tell and educate. International communications functionality is vital to coordinate and amplify our affect. Lastly, we have to improve our potential to execute IEEE-wide packages and initiatives, from funding in transformative instruments and merchandise to mission-based training, outreach and engagement. This may be completed by even handed use of sources generated by enterprise actions by way of creation of a strategic program to spend money on our future with the purpose of advancing expertise for humanity.
With a ardour for the nexus of expertise with finance and public coverage, I hope to earn your help.
IEEE Fellow S.Okay. Ramesh
S.Okay. Ramesh
Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
Ramesh is a professor {of electrical} and laptop engineering at California State College Northridge’s faculty of engineering and laptop science, the place he served as dean from 2006 to 2017.
An IEEE volunteer for 42 years, he has served on the IEEE Board of Administrators, the Publication Providers and Merchandise Board, Awards Board, and the Fellows Committee. Management positions he has held embrace vice chairman of IEEE Instructional Actions, president of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu honor society, and chair of the IEEE Listening to Board.
Because the 2016–2017 vice chairman of IEEE Instructional Actions, he championed a number of profitable packages together with the IEEE Studying Community and the IEEE TryEngineering Summer season Institute.
Ramesh served because the 2022–2023 president of ABET, the worldwide accrediting group for educational packages in utilized science, computing, engineering, and expertise.
He obtained his bachelor’s diploma in electronics and communication engineering from the College of Madras in India. He earned his grasp’s diploma in EE and Ph.D. in molecular science from Southern Illinois College, in Carbondale.
Candidate Assertion
We stay in an period of speedy technological improvement the place change is fixed. My management experiences of 4 many years throughout IEEE and ABET have taught me some timeless values on this quickly altering world: To be Inclusive, Collaborative, Accountable, Resilient and Ethical. Connection and neighborhood make a distinction. IEEE’s mission is very vital, because the tempo of change accelerates with advances in AI, Robotics and Biotechnology. I provide management that evokes others to imagine and allow that perception to develop into actuality. “I CARE”!
My high precedence is to serve our members and empower our technical communities worldwide to create and advance applied sciences to unravel our biggest challenges.
If elected, I’ll deal with three strategic areas:
Member Engagement:
- Broaden participation of College students, Younger Professionals (YPs), and Ladies in Engineering (WIE).
- Develop entry to reasonably priced persevering with teaching programs by way of the IEEE Studying Community (ILN).
Volunteer Engagement:
- Nurture and help IEEE’s volunteer leaders to remodel IEEE globally by way of a volunteer academy program that strengthens collaboration, inclusion, and recognition.
- Incentivize volunteers to enhance cross-regional collaboration, engagement and communications between Chapters and Sections.
Trade Engagement:
- Rework hybrid/digital conferences, and open entry publications, to make them extra related to engineers and technologists in trade.
- Give attention to innovation, requirements, and sustainable improvement that handle expertise wanted for jobs of the longer term.
Our members are the “coronary heart and soul” of IEEE. Let’s work collectively as one IEEE to draw, retain, and serve our various world members. Thanks to your participation and help.
