Leah H. Jamieson

Candidate for 2006 IEEE President-Elect

Purdue University
400 Centennial Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA

+1 765 494 4966
L.Jamieson@ieee.org

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Navigating Change: Challenges, Opportunities, and Priorities

IEEE will thrive by combining the strengths of this outstanding organization with a vision for how it will realize future opportunities. My vision is to ensure action in four areas:

• Career-long support:
  • Ensure affordable membership.
  • Provide continuity in members’ careers through local and technical communities and web services that bridge career transitions.
  • Become an international leader in lifelong learning.
    
• Nimbleness in emerging technology areas:
  • Increase our agility through interdisciplinary communities in emerging areas; use the web to quickly make visible our activities in new areas.
  • Develop entry-level content for newcomers in a technical area; as we enter new areas, focus on theory and applications from the outset.
    
• Agility in the information culture:
  • Develop our understanding of how people – especially young people – access, use, organize, and share information.
  • Test new products and services through “rapid deployment” experiments. Develop an entrepreneurial culture that fosters innovation within IEEE.
    
• Global profession, local needs:
  • Build on IEEE’s global nature to enhance members’ success in the global profession.
  • Meet local needs in education, accreditation, professional development, information, and technology development and policy.

I will bring to the position of President a deep understanding of the IEEE and record of leadership and service both to the profession and to IEEE. I will be guided by key principles – value of membership, appreciation for volunteers, value to the profession and to society, sound financial models – in helping IEEE realize our myriad opportunities.

Biographical Sketch

Leah Jamieson (S’75-M’76-SM’91-F’93) received the BS in mathematics from MIT and the MSE and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. She is the Ransburg Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education. Her technical interests include speech recognition and parallel signal processing algorithms; she has published over 160 papers. Jamieson is co-founder and director of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) undergraduate engineering design program, initiated at Purdue and adopted by 17 universities. For her work with EPICS, she was co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. She has served on advisory committees of the National Science Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. She is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

An IEEE member for 30 years and an IEEE volunteer for 25 years, Jamieson serves on the IEEE Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and the IEEE Strategic Planning Committee. She is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing, Computer, Education, and Social Implications of Technology Societies and of the Central Indiana Signal Processing Chapter. She has served as President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (1998-99), IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2003), and chair of numerous Technical Activities Board (TAB) committees, including the TAB Periodicals Committee (2000-01), TAB New Technology Directions Committee (2004-05), TAB Strategic Planning and Review Committee (2002), TAB Management Committee (2003), and TAB Nominations and Appointments Committee (2004). She is currently IEEE Vice President for Publication Services and Products. She has been a Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, a Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, and has been recognized with the Third Millennium Medal, the Education Society/Hewlett-Packard “Outstanding Woman Engineering Educator” Award, the Computer Society Golden Core Award, and the Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award.