2010 IEEE Election Results

IEEE Members Select Moshe Kam 2010 President-Elect

8 October - Moshe Kam, department head and Robert Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa., USA, has been selected as 2010 IEEE President-Elect. Pending acceptance of the Teller's Committee report by the IEEE Board of Directors on 22 November, Kam will begin serving as IEEE president on 1 January 2011. He will succeed 2010 IEEE President Pedro Ray, president, Ray Engineers, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The other candidates for 2010 IEEE President-Elect were J. Roberto Boisson de Marca, professor, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Joseph V. Lillie, AT&T (retired) Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. All of the candidates were nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors.

Of the members who voted, 15,690 selected Kam, 14,903 selected Lillie, and 12,704 selected de Marca.

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Region 3 selects David G. Green as Director Elect for 2010-2011

David G. Green of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, has been selected as the IEEE Region Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect, 2010-2011

David G. Green has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) since 1981. His areas of interest include software engineering, collaboration systems, computer networking, and the engineering design process. He is a member of the project management team for the university´s Active Directory (Windows Services) and Exchange (E-Mail) projects. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (BSE, 1975; MSE, 1977) with an Electrical Engineering specialization. David Green has received numerous IEEE awards including the IEEE Millennium Medal, IEEE Educational Activities Meritorious Service Award, Region 3 Outstanding Service Award, Regional Activities Board Innovation Award, USAB Regional Professional Leadership Award, IEEE´s Outstanding Branch Counselor, and the Region 3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Education Award. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ASEE, HKN, and Tau Beta Pi, and a life member of ARRL.

The other candidate for IEEE Region Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect, 2010-2011 was Eric S. Ackerman, Assistant Dean Nova Southeastern University, Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

Of the members who voted, 1,474 selected Ackerman and 2,178 selected Green.