We would like to encourage everybody to consider nominating a colleague for the IEEE Fellow Grade. Please note some trends for Region 2 in the following email:

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Region 2 Leaders,

As 2009 begins, let’s be sure that Region 2 has every opportunity to obtain every Award and Recognition for our Region’s Members that IEEE has to offer.

The first item is the Fellow Member Elevation. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2009.

Go to www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/index.html to get started.

If you study the attached scanned statistical report you will note four disconcerting trends in 2008.

1. Region 2 had the second lowest number of Fellow Nominations (52) in the USA
2. Region 2 had the second lowest number of Fellow Elevations among the USA Regions (18)
3. Region 2 had the lowest number of number of Industry Nominations in the USA (9).
4. Region 2 had the lowest number of Industry Elevations in the USA (3).

The problem is the lack of Region 2 nominations and especially Industry nominations.

In global IEEE there were over twice as many Education nominations (all quite deserved) as Industry nominations yet there are twice as many industry members as education members.

Solution: We need more overall nominations, and many more Industry Fellow Nominations. I feel that with all the industry, all the academia, all the sections, and all the IEEE Societies that we have in Region 2, we can escalate the number of Fellow Nominations in 2009. I know it is not easy having been through the process multiple times.

Disperse this email to as many IEEE Members as you can in your network, Sections, Sub-Sections, Chapters, Committees, Societies, Workplace, etc.