Technical professional association IEEE has announced that Gordon W. Day has been elected president of the association for 2012. Day will become the 50th President of IEEE on January 1, 2012. He will also serve as CEO. He will succeed 2011 IEEE President Moshe Kam, Department Head and Robert Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Day will serve on the Board of Directors as IEEE President-elect for 2011. More recently, he has served as science advisor to US Senator Jay Rockefeller and Director of Government Relations for the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association. He has been a professor adjoint at the University of Colorado and a visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK), and has served on many industry, government, and academic advisory groups. He has also served the IEEE previously in many leadership capacities, including president of the IEEE Photonics Society and of IEEE-USA, which supports the career and public policy interests of IEEE members in the US.
IEEE supports the technical and professional interests of over 400,000 members in 160 countries. It publishes a third of the world's literature in the electrical engineering and computer science fields, sponsors over 1100 conferences each year, and has an active portfolio of nearly 1,300 industry standards and projects under development.
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