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Call for Nominations for SMCS President-Elect and Members-at-Large

In October 2008, the Board of Governors will elect the 2009 President-Elect/2010-11 President of the SMC Society. In addition, five members of the Society will be elected for three-year terms beginning 2009. As members of the Board of Governors, they will represent the members of the SMC Society and approve the annual budget, amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws, elect Society officers, and authorize the expenditure of Society funds. All members of the Board of Governors are expected to attend the annual meeting each October for which transportation and living expenses are reimbursed.

Nominations are requested for the position of 2009 President-Elect/2010-11 President and 2009-2011 Members-at-Large. All nominations should be submitted as a Word or pdf file, and include the following information:

• Full name and contact details
• IEEE member number
• Contributions to the profession (max 200 words)
• Contributions to the SMC Society and the IEEE (max 200 words)

According to the SMCS Bylaws "All candidates for Vice President shall have been a member of BoG or ExCom sometime during the past 5 years and served for at least one year. The candidates for President-Elect and President shall have served at least one year as a Vice President. All BoG, President, President-Elect, and Vice President nominees must be members of the Society at the time ballots are distributed. "

Nominations should be sent by email to , Chair of the Nominations Committee. The deadline for receipt of nominations is July 15, 2008.

The SMC Society welcomes the following new senior members

Anibal T De Almedia	James H Lambert	Kay C Tan	Yuri A Ivanov
Ching-Chih Tsai	Xin Xin	Bilgee Sukhbaatar	Liu Qiao
Yiu-Wing Leung	O L Chacon Mondragon	Mia N Siddique	Yong Shi
Thomas M Martinetz	Eunice E Santos	Vladimir S Jotsov	Suman K Mitra
Guang J Liu	Kenji Nakayama	David D Haynes	Michael Jiang
Marian S Stachowicz	Gregory G Griffes	Paulo J Leitao	Tong Lee
Roger A Grice	Victor-Emil I Neagoe	Shantaram Vasikarla	Steven D Silver
L. M Camarinha-Matos	Ellis F Hitt	Chia-Feng Juang	Minghu Ha
Ashraf S Saad	Vicente B Feliu	Xuemin Chen	Robin K Burk
Abdullah Al-Mamun	William J Tastle	Umesh Harigopal	Bernhard Schoelkopf

Newly Elected Members of the Board of Governors

The SMC Board of Governors welcomes the following new Members at Large as determined by results of the society-wide election:

Shyi-Ming Chen
Irving Engelson
Mu-Der Jeng
Seong-Whan Lee
MengChu Zhou

Newly Elected IEEE Fellows

Congratulations to the following SMC Society members who were elected IEEE Fellows for 2008

Fan-Tien Cheng
Diane Cook
Dimitar Filev
Jian Chen
Pau-Choo Chung
Robert Gao
Christian Jutten
Ilya Kolmanovsky
Hamid Krim
Max Meng
Karen Panetta
Chi-Hsu Wang
Wen-June Wang
Xinghuo Yu