The annual IEEE election course of begins this month, so you should definitely verify your mailbox on your poll. That can assist you select the 2025 IEEE president-elect, The Institute is publishing the official biographies and place statements of the three candidates, as accredited 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 Discussion board, the place the candidates have been requested urgent questions from IEEE members.
IEEE Fellow Mary Ellen Randall
Mary Ellen Randall
Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
Randall based Ascot Applied sciences in 2000 in Cary, N.C. Ascot develops enterprise purposes 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 tasks.
Randall has served as IEEE treasurer, director of IEEE Area 3, chair of IEEE Girls in Engineering, and vp of IEEE Member and Geographic Actions.
In 2016 she created the IEEE MOVE (Cellular Outreach VEhicle) program to help with catastrophe aid efforts and for science, know-how, 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 prime businesswoman in North Carolina’s Analysis Triangle Park space, and he or she made the 2003 Enterprise Chief Influence 100 checklist.
Candidate Assertion
Aristotle mentioned, “the entire is bigger than the sum of its components.” Definitely, when IEEE, this metaphysics phrase involves my thoughts. In IEEE now we have engineers and technical professionals creating, standardizing and using know-how from various views. IEEE members around the globe:
- carry out and share analysis, product improvement actions, and commonplace improvement
- community and interact with one another and their communities
- educate present and future know-how professionals
- measure efficiency and high quality
- formulate ethics selections
- and lots of extra – these are only a few examples!
We carry out these actions throughout a large spectrum of in-depth topics. It’s our range, but oneness, that makes me assured now we have a constructive future forward. How can we execute on Aristotle’s imaginative and prescient? First, we have to unite on mission targets which span our areas of curiosity. This fashion we are able to deliver a number of disciplines and views collectively to perform these large targets. Our technique will information our actions on this regard.
Second, we have to streamline our financing of latest improvements and systematize the introduction of those packages.
Third, we have to execute and assist our greatest concepts on a seamless foundation.
As President, I pledge to:
Institute revolutionary services and products to make sure our mutually profitable future;
Interact stakeholders (members, companions and communities) to unite on a complete imaginative and prescient;
Broaden know-how development and adoption all through the world;
Execute with excellence, ethics, and monetary accountability.
Lastly, I promise to steer by instance with enthusiasm and integrity and I humbly ask on your vote.
IEEE Fellow John Verboncoeur
Steven Miller
Nominated by the IEEE Board of Administrators
Verboncoeur is senior affiliate dean for analysis and graduate research in Michigan State College’s (MSU) engineering school, 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 creating digital train and well being programs and the patron credit score report. He additionally had a job in creating the U.S. Postal Service’s mail-forwarding system.
His IEEE expertise contains serving as 2023 vp of Technical Actions, 2020 performing vp 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 through new members, merchandise and packages, together with occasions, publications, and revolutionary customized services and products, to allow our neighborhood to vary the world. Key strategic packages embody:
Local weather Change Applied sciences(CCT): Existential to humanity, addressing mitigation and adaptation should embody know-how R&D, native relevance for practitioners, college and Okay-12 college students, most people, media and policymakers and native and international requirements.
Good Agrofood Programs(SmartAg): Good applied sciences utilized to the meals provide chain from soil to shopper to compost.
Synthetic Intelligence(AI): Implications from know-how to enterprise to ethics. A key methodology for offering customized IEEE services and products inside our present portfolio, and interesting new audiences equivalent to know-how resolution makers in academia, authorities and know-how finance by extracting worth from our huge information to establish rising traits.
Organizational progress alternatives embody scaling and coordinating our public coverage technique worldwide, constructing on our credibility to tell and educate. International communications functionality is essential to coordinate and amplify our impression. Lastly, we have to improve our capacity to execute IEEE-wide packages and initiatives, from funding in transformative instruments and merchandise to mission-based schooling, outreach and engagement. This may be achieved by even handed use of assets generated by enterprise actions by creation of a strategic program to put money into our future with the objective of advancing know-how for humanity.
With a ardour for the nexus of know-how with finance and public coverage, I hope to earn your assist.
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 school 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 embody vp of IEEE Academic Actions, president of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu honor society, and chair of the IEEE Listening to Board.
Because the 2016–2017 vp of IEEE Academic Actions, he championed a number of profitable packages together with the IEEE Studying Community and the IEEE TryEngineering Summer time Institute.
Ramesh served because the 2022–2023 president of ABET, the worldwide accrediting group for educational packages in utilized science, computing, engineering, and know-how.
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 reside in an period of speedy technological improvement the place change is fixed. My management experiences of 4 a long time 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 necessary, because the tempo of change accelerates with advances in AI, Robotics and Biotechnology. I supply management that evokes others to consider and allow that perception to change into actuality. “I CARE”!
My prime 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 concentrate on three strategic areas:
Member Engagement:
- Broaden participation of College students, Younger Professionals (YPs), and Girls in Engineering (WIE).
- Broaden entry to inexpensive persevering with teaching programs by the IEEE Studying Community (ILN).
Volunteer Engagement:
- Nurture and assist IEEE’s volunteer leaders to remodel IEEE globally by a volunteer academy program that strengthens collaboration, inclusion, and recognition.
- Incentivize volunteers to enhance cross-regional collaboration, engagement and communications between Chapters and Sections.
Business Engagement:
- Remodel 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 abilities wanted for jobs of the long run.
Our members are the “coronary heart and soul” of IEEE. Let’s work collectively as one IEEE to draw, retain, and serve our various international members. Thanks on your participation and assist.
