Policies & Procedures - 6.8 Distinguished Lecturers Selection Committee

- approved 2001, updated 12/2011-

Purpose/Mission

The Distinguished Lecturer Program provides a means for IEEE Chapters and other organizations to identify and arrange lectures by renowned authorities on IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) topics.

Organizational Structure

The Selection Committee shall consist of the following members:

• TAC Vice Chair (Committee Chair)
• Vice President - Technical Activities
• Vice President - Member Relations
• Director - Membership Programs Development
• Chair of the Standing Committee on Emerging Technologies

Distinguished Lecturer Selection Policies and Procedures

The following are minimum qualifications for Distinguished Lecturers:

• The Distinguished Lecturer must be a Senior Member of the IEEE.
• The Distinguished Lecturer must be a member of the IEEE Communications Society.
• The Distinguished Lecturer must agree to prepare a conference tutorial if asked to do so. (Not all will be asked.)

The Chair of the Selection Committee (TAC Vice Chair) shall contact the ComSoc Technical Committees in June of each year in order to encourage nominations. Nominations will be submitted to the Chair of the Selection Committee with a copy of the ComSoc Vice President for Technical Activities.

The Chair of the Selection Committee shall schedule a Committee meeting in November of each year to select members.

Nominations received outside of this period will be held until three nominations are received, after which a meeting of the Committee will be held to act upon these nominations.

Selection Committee meetings will normally be conducted by phone or email.

Nominations

Nominations can be made in two ways:

• An individual may nominate another person. The nominator must be a member of ComSoc and a Senior Member of IEEE.
• A person can receive the nomination of a ComSoc Technical Committee.

The following are suggested guidelines for use by the ComSoc Technical Committees in the nomination of Distinguished Lecturers:

• Is the candidate is a competent speaker as evidenced by previous presentations?
• Does the candidate speak to interesting topics in communications; is the talk of a tutorial or R&D nature within the scope of the sponsoring TC? Avoid outdated topics in communications, material that is readily available from other sources, or subjects too narrow to be of broad listener interest.
• Each TC should provide no more than 4 candidate proposals, including background support for the nomination, such as a summary of experience, website, or curriculum vitae.

The term of appointment as a Distinguished Lecturer is nominally two years. A person can be appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer more than once. At the discretion of the Committee, an appointment as a Distinguished Lecturer can be continued for an additional two-year term