IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Fall 2017 - 5

PRESIDENT'S CORN ER

Jan Van der Spiegel

Reflections

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) has always, and will continue to have, a profound and positive
impact on me, both in my career
and personal life. So allow me to
begin my final "President's Corner"
column with a heartfelt and sincere
thank you-to you, my fellow members-for allowing me the honor
and privilege to have served as our
Society's president.
Looking back over the last two
years, I am filled with a sense of
deep satisfaction, pride, and ap preciation for the progress and hard
work achieved by our team of volunteers on the Administrative Committee
(AdCom), our g rassroots leadership, and our administrative staff.
We have experienced two banner
years of growth, membership service, new product development, and
engagement activity. I would like
to thank our Chapter chairs, volunteers, and leaders for their tireless
dedication and hard work.
Several major programming initiatives and added member benefits
were launched over the past two
years that we can all be proud of and
enjoy for many years to come. Working in line with the Society's 2020
strategic plan, your volunteers and
I have spent time on understanding where our priorities should be
and on what the Society needed to
focus. The underlying mission of
the strategic plan was to serve and
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recognize professionals active in the
Branch Chapters located worldwide.
field of solid-state circuits.
This number continues to grow due
Thanks to the work of SSCS Memto the efforts of Stefan, who facilitates
bership Chair Patrick Yue, we enjoyed
Chapter chair meetings at regional
a steady incremental growth in our
SSCS conferences to share informamembership. But more importantly,
tion, encourage participation, and celwe see a balancing between indusebrate our Chapter activities.
try and the academic memberships.
Our Women in Circuits (WiC) ProMembership programs created in
gram, which started with the founda2016 and 2017 included the detion of a standing committee in 2016,
velopment of the SSCS mobile app,
supports our inclusion and diversity
IEEE Volta, to interinitiatives from the
est students in elec2020 strategic plan to
trical engineering and
increase female memSeveral major
circuit design as a
ber recruitment, reprogramming
career path, to ensure
tention, and advanceinitiatives and
a future workforce for
ment into leadership
added member
our global profession.
roles within the Socibenefits were
In addition, a series
et y. SSCS welcomed
launched over the
of campaigns was set
four new female Adpast two years
up to enhance and
Com members this
that we can all
increase our overall
past year to our Board.
be proud of and
SSCS membership. For
Highlights from 2017
enjoy for many
example, a senior memactivities include great
years to come.
bership campaign was
programs such as the
undertaken to increase
June Bay Area WiC netand support the elevaworking luncheon,
tion of IEEE Members to Senior Memwhich featured speakers from Apple
ber status. Details on qualifications
a n d the University of California,
and how to become a Senior MemBerkeley. Networking events were also
ber are outlined on the SSCS website:
held at the 2017 International Solidhttp://sscs.ieee.org/membership/
State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), VLSI
become-a-senior-member.
Symposium 2017, and 2017 European
I would also like to recognize the
Solid-State Circuits Conference. Thanks
achievements and efforts of Stefan
to the efforts of Alice Wang, our WiC
Rusu, our SSCS Chapters chair. Under
committee chair, and Wanda Gass,
h i s l e a d e r s h ip, t h e r e h a s b e e n
our WiC vice committee chair, we have
a steady increase in our Chapters and
seen a 25% growth in female members
engagement activities at the grasssince 2016.
roots level. We now have 106 ChapOur Society launched a new webters, Joint Chapters, and Student
site, which debuted at ISSCC 2016

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