Long day.. Second tpday ina. Row that began at 4am for an all day meting in france time.. The another whole day of work here.. Im beat…
I did manage to grab 30 min for a lunch with my colleagues at the IEEE exec board,. Ieee is the internaional professional group for electrical engineers. There were about 12 folks there . paul and pascal had arrainged for a nice lunch as we marched through the years business .
Most of us were from ibm. Ive known most of these folks for more than 20 years.. Ive watched them get hired, get married, have kids grow oler and alternately love and hate their work. There is something truly reassuring about being around these folks….. But its a little scary too.. There was only one person in the room under 30… What oes that say about us ? What should we do about it.. Interested to get folks thoughts on that
Nite all, nite sam,
-me
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What does it say about us? Depends on the “us.” IBM? Simple, shrinking company in the US. Lots of young EE’s, but they aren’t in this IEEE region. IEEE, good question. I wonder if it’s a critical mass thing. A small company with 3-5 EE’s, I wonder how/if they get involved in the IEEE. How do they find Senior Members to work on advancement?
So, do we start cold calling IEEE members to get them to events? The dinner before Christmas was really nice … and free to members. Great talk from the MicroStrain founder. But there were probably 25 people there and I knew 20 of them from work. I’ve been in the IEEE for …. a gazillion years, and it’s the first one I attended (I was seriously thinking of going, as an officer, and then got told I was getting an award so I felt obligated.)
Do we reach out to the alumni organizations of regional and national engineering schools?
Just some thoughts.
p.s. Two under the age of 30. But only one between the ages of 10 and 30. 🙂