IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Nominations and Elections

	Fiez, Kuroda, Nauta, Sevenhans and Soyuer elected to SSCS AdCom for 2008-2010 15- Nov- 07 The SSCS membership has re-elected Terri S. Fiez and Mehmet Soyuer to the AdCom, and chosen Tadahiro Kuroda, Bram Nauta, Jan Sevenhans to join it as voting members beginning 1 January 2008. Coming from industry and academia, from Asia, Europe, and North America, these five join 10 other elected AdCom members whose term overlap. Thanks to these global technical experts for being willing to serve! Read the full story when it appears in the Winter 2008 SSCS News. Review the candidates as covered in the July 2007 issue.

Call for Nominees for SSCS Administrative Committee Election of fall 2008

Each year SSCS elects five members to govern the Society on the body called the Administrative Committee (AdCom). These AdCom members serve three year terms. The Bylaws of the Society guarantee a choice for members in the election by requiring that the nominating committee prepare a slate of a minimum of 8 candidates for the 5 positions. The nominating committee begins its work in the beginning of the year in order to announce its candidates in the Summer News issue. Members interested to run or to nominate others should send their recommendations to the Chair of the Nominating committee, Richard C. Jaeger, jaeger@eng.auburn.edu. The election is in the fall and student members are not eligible to run or vote. The five nominees receiving the highest number of votes of the Society membership will be elected. There is also a petition process for interested parties who are not endorsed by the Nominating Committee.

Scope

Elected AdCom members are expected to attend the two administrative meetings each year. Some Committee work is carried on by email throughout the year. The AdCom oversees the operations of chapters, publications and conferences including the Journal of Solid-State Circuits, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, the VLSI Circuits Symposium, and the Asia Solid-State Circuits Conference. In addition, the Society cosponsors or technically cosponsors a number of other conferences including the European Solid-State Circuits Conference.

The AdCom has responsibility for overseeing these and for other potential future technical activities within the Society's field of interest.

Terms of Office

The term of office is three years beginning 1 January 2009.
AdCom members may be reelected to a second consecutive term.
Members who miss two consecutive AdCom meetings shall be dropped from membership in the absence of extenuating circumstances.

Nominees by Petition

Those interested to use the petition process must begin no later than July 15, immediately after the Nominating Committee's slate has been announced in the summer issue. Contact the SSCS Executive Director, a.oneill@ieee.org. Once eligibility of the petition candidate is verified, any society voting member who wishes to sign such petition may do so electronically through ton-line software under the administration of the IEEE Corporate Office. The number of signatures required for a petition candidate is 2% of SSCS voting members at the time the petition process begins. This is expected to be approximately 140 signatures. Once a member is posted on the site, he or she will remain up to receive endorsement signatures, until a predetermined date in late August or early September when the election begins.