The annual IEEE election course of begins this month, so make sure you examine 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 authorized 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 had 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 growth, digital video chips, and take a look at 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 (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 prime businesswoman in North Carolina’s Analysis Triangle Park space, and he or she made the 2003 Enterprise Chief Affect 100 listing.
Candidate Assertion
Aristotle mentioned, “the entire is bigger than the sum of its components.” Actually, when taking a look at IEEE, this metaphysics phrase involves my thoughts. In IEEE we now have engineers and technical professionals creating, standardizing and using expertise from numerous views. IEEE members world wide:
- carry out and share analysis, product growth actions, and customary growth
- community and have interaction with one another and their communities
- educate present and future expertise professionals
- measure efficiency and high quality
- formulate ethics decisions
- and plenty of extra – these are only a few examples!
We carry out these actions throughout a large spectrum of in-depth topics. It’s our variety, but oneness, that makes me assured we now have a constructive future forward. How can we execute on Aristotle’s imaginative and prescient? First, we have to unite on mission objectives which span our areas of curiosity. This fashion we will carry a number of disciplines and views collectively to perform these huge objectives. 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 assist our greatest concepts on a unbroken foundation.
As President, I pledge to:
Institute modern services to make sure our mutually profitable future;
Have interaction stakeholders (members, companions and communities) to unite on a complete imaginative and prescient;
Increase expertise development and adoption all through the world;
Execute with excellence, ethics, and monetary duty.
Lastly, I promise to guide 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 Middle for Mobility, and the U.S. Division of Power Fusion Power Science Advisory Committee.
Verboncoeur has led startups creating digital train and well being methods and the patron credit score report. He additionally had a task in creating the U.S. Postal Service’s mail-forwarding system.
His IEEE expertise contains serving as 2023 vp of Technical Actions, 2020 appearing 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 by way of new contributors, merchandise and packages, together with occasions, publications, and modern customized services, to allow our group 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 of the 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 expertise to enterprise to ethics. A key methodology for offering customized IEEE services inside our present portfolio, and interesting new audiences resembling expertise determination makers in academia, authorities and expertise finance by extracting worth from our huge information to determine rising developments.
Organizational development alternatives embrace scaling and coordinating our public coverage technique worldwide, constructing on our credibility to tell and educate. International communications functionality is crucial to coordinate and amplify our affect. Lastly, we have to improve our means to execute IEEE-wide packages and initiatives, from funding in transformative instruments and merchandise to mission-based schooling, outreach and engagement. This may be completed by considered use of assets generated by enterprise actions by means of creation of a strategic program to spend money on our future with the aim of advancing expertise for humanity.
With a ardour for the nexus of expertise 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 embrace vp 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 vp of IEEE Instructional 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 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 growth 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 group make a distinction. IEEE’s mission is very necessary, 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 turn 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 resolve our best 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).
- Increase entry to reasonably priced persevering with education schemes by means of the IEEE Studying Community (ILN).
Volunteer Engagement:
- Nurture and assist IEEE’s volunteer leaders to remodel IEEE globally by means 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.
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 growth that tackle expertise 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 numerous international members. Thanks on your participation and assist.
