IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - December 2014 - 7

membership development and for
enhanced technical collaborations.
We also signed an agreement with the
China Power Supply Association to
cosponsor a new power electronics
applications conference in China late
this year. We successfully launched
the even-year EPE in August 2014, and
preparations for the 2016 conference
are already under way. We cosponsored the International Future Energy
Electronics Conference in 2013 with
the Taiwan Power Electronics Association. The preparations for the 2015
and 2017 conferences are well under
way. We have signed an MOU with the
Brazilian Power Electronics Association to launch the first SPEC in 2015,
and the preparation for 2016 is ongoing.
Our Membership Development
Committee has created a detailed plan
to grow our membership to match pace
with the growth of power electronics. Specific plan details include the
100 # 100 student membership drive,
a senior membership drive, Chapter

chair meetings, outreach by our key
conferences, and so on. Our membership in China has doubled since 2012,
thanks to the committee's effort. We
will continue with our efforts to serve
student membership better. We had
our first Chapter chairs meeting at the
IPEC-ECCE Asia in Hiroshima 2014.
Our Society staff launched the first
100 # 100 campaign in April.
The committee also launched our
senior membership drive with strong
positive responses. We will significantly enhance our Chapter activities
as a way to bring more benefits locally
to our members throughout the world.
At the Society level, and with the
approval of the AdCom, we have significantly enhanced our staff support
as PELS engages increasingly in more
important activities on the global
stage. We hired an executive director to help focus our strategic efforts
and coordinate with the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) staff.
With PELS being selected to provide

an administrative home for the TEC,
we will look into growing our professional staff further. We are continuing to streamline our processes and
procedures to provide more agile
support to our global volunteers as
we appoint more international volunteers to our leadership positions.
In 2013, we celebrated our 25th
anniversary in Denver, Colorado, with
an ECCE social dinner and cake-cutting ceremony. It is worth noting that
all the PELS past presidents were in
attendance, together with the current
PELS president, the IEEE Division II
director, and the IEEE president. Our
souvenirs, which featured a special
logo, were very popular with our members at various global conferences
and events. Our power electronics ties
were well liked by our volunteers, who
have been wearing them at all PELS
events ever since.
In June 2013, we successfully
launched our new journal, JESTPE.
The September 2104 issue wa s

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