CALL FOR NOMINATIONs: IEEE CAS SOCIETY OFFICERS (2021-2022)
Each year, members of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) elect several members of the Executive Committee to serve the Society starting the beginning of the following year. This year we are electing members for the following officer positions for the 2021-2022 term:
- Vice President - Financial Activities
- Vice President - Publications
Descriptions of the duties of these officers and eligibility criteria can be found in the CASS Constitution and Bylaws.
CASS is a professional volunteer-based organization. It is essential that we elect energetic and engaged leaders who will organize activities that will meet the needs of entire Circuits and Systems community and who will guide our Society into the future. As a CASS member, you are in an excellent position to know the strengths of your fellow members and how they can best serve our community. As you consider potential nominees, please take into account that CASS wishes to promote diversity in every possible dimension. As such, CASS would love to receive nominations that also complete the current composition of its Executive Committee with respect to, to name a few, technical, gender, and geographic diversity.
Complete candidate nominations must be received by close of business (5:00 pm EDT) on 19 October 2020, in order to be considered.
Nomination Process
There are two options for adding nominees to the election slate. Nominators should indicate which of the following two options they prefer.
- The first option is to nominate by petition. The CASS Bylaws regarding the nomination petition process states: “Nomination petitions for the officers appointed by the Board of Governors require signatures from at least 22% of the voting members of the Board of Governors. The petition must be submitted to the Nominations Committee, together with the biography and position statement of the candidate..." Please contact the Society Operations Manager prior to 9 October 2020 should you care to nominate an individual by petition.
- The second option involves the Nominations Committee, which may also place candidates on the ballot at its discretion.
Nomination Documents
A complete nomination must include all items indicated by an asterisk in the nomination form. These items include data for the Candidate and the Nominator, a Candidate Photo, a Candidate Position Statement (limited to 1500 words), and a Candidate Biography (limited to 700 words), which needs to describe the most important contributions of the candidate (for CASS or in other organizations) which makes him/her particularly suitable for the specific position he/she is running for.
Nomination Submission
The nomination form must be submitted by 19 October 2020 through the CASS website to Yong Lian, Chair of the CASS Nominations Committee.
The Nominations Committee greatly encourages you to recommend suitable candidates for these elections. Our strength as a society is not only in our engineering expertise but also in our societal spirit including the sharing of information with each other. This we can do best when we have a strong organization with engaged members.
Call for Proposals of the CAS Emerging and Selected Topics for Industry Forums (CASIF) 2020
We are happy to remind you of the Second Call for Proposals of the CAS Emerging and Selected Topics for Industry Forums (CASIF) 2020.
CASS is establishing “CAS Emerging and Selected Topics for Industry Forums” (CASIF) on emerging and cross-discipline topics, where industrial speakers can describe real-world challenges, while the academic speakers describe potential technologies that can address the challenges. For example, in the last couple of years, Alibaba, IBM, and Intel have co-sponsored forums on AI.
We are calling for proposals to allow CASS local chapters and companies to co-host a half-day or one-day forum with speakers (may include CASS Distinguished Lecturers, international/local industry/academic speakers). The goals of the Industry Forums are to increase interaction between CASS & industry, demonstrate CASS technical leadership, and learn industry technical leadership and feedbacks.
CASS will provide funding support up to 50% of the expenses of each selected Industry Forum. (Some industry supports can be in-kind contributions, e.g., venue, logistic.)
Important Dates:
- Deadline for Proposals: 23 August 2020
- Announcement of Results: 15 September 2020
- Events: From 15 September 2020 to 31 December 2020
(Please notice that all forums must be held before 31 December 2020. Any awarded funding cannot be transferred to the next year).
You may submit proposals online here.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need any further information or detail.
Yen-Kuang Chen, 2020 VP Technical Activities
Guoxing Wang, 2020 VP Financial Activities
Yoshifumi Nishio, 2020 VP Regional Activities and Membership
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IEEE CASS Virtual Distinguished Lecture Webinar Series III: Aanalog RF Systems
We are excited to announce the launch of our third IEEE CAS Society Virtual Distinguished Lecturer Webinar Series on "Analog and RF Systems".
Series III of the IEEE CASS Virtual Distinguished Lecturer Program will consist of three 60-minute webinars which will all be held during the month of September 2020. Join us during these webinars to learn more about the research your fellow CASS members have conducted in the field of Analog and RF Systems.
We are thrilled to offer you the opportunity to attend these webinars and encourage your participation. Registration is completely free and will be limited to the first 500 registrants per event. In the case you are unable to register, you can also attend the webinar via Facebook Live, or access the webinar recording on the IEEE CASS Resource Center. Participants are eligible to receive a certificate of attendance at the end of each webinar.
Webinar 1: Reconfiguring the World: Adaptive-Transfer-Function and Multi-Band Filtering Devices for Emerging Wireless Systems — Roberto Gómez-García
1 Sept 9:00 AM EDT (UTC -4:00)
Register Now for Webinar 1
Webinar 2: Break the kT/C Noise Limit — Nan Sun
8 Sept 9:00 AM EDT (UTC -4:00) Register Now for Webinar 2
Webinar 3: Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter: An Algorithmic Topology Generation Approach — Man-Kay Law
15 Sept 9:00 AM EDT (UTC -4:00)
Register Now for Webinar 3