Gordon W. Day

IEEE's Future

I wholeheartedly endorse IEEE’s motto, “Advancing Technology for Humanity,” as a vision for our future.  To fulfill it, we must become a stronger, more global, and more assertive society. 

We advance technology through the professional contributions of our members, volunteers, and customers.  We must support them vigorously, in ways that meet their local needs.  We must continuously enhance our technical resources – publications, conferences, and standards – adapting and expanding them quickly to support emerging technologies and exploring new strategies for delivery.  We must expand our career-building resources, especially in times like these, and adjust them to local needs and cultures.  We must increase access to continuing education.  And as more technologists become contractors, consultants, and entrepreneurs, we must better understand their needs and develop appropriate resources to support them.   

Our opportunities are global.  Leading-edge technology is created globally, technologists are globally dispersed, and many of our employers are globally integrated.  To achieve our vision, we must embrace this global diversity and meet the needs of technologists everywhere.  We should pursue international partnerships and expand our global presence, among other strategies.

We also have a responsibility, as the world’s largest and broadest community of applied technologists, to explain clearly and assertively how “advancing technology…” leads to a better quality of life and greater prosperity.    It is an important message for the public, for governments, and for the next generation of potential technologists.

Gordon W. Day
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