{"id":722,"date":"2019-04-02T17:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/?p=722"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:47:34","slug":"ieee-accomplishments-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/2019\/04\/02\/ieee-accomplishments-and-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"IEEE Accomplishments and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"List2ndlevel\">I have served as the Chair of <i>two\u00a0<\/i>Sections within R1 (Rochester and Syracuse) over a five year period.\u00a0 In those roles, I have managed the largest annual meetings in the Western Area of R1 including: the Syracuse Fellows Night and the Rochester Joint Chapter and summer meetings.\u00a0 As Rochester Section Chair, I managed the Section\u2019s Centennial Celebrations and hosted the R1 Board of Governors meeting. One of my goals was to improve the communication with our members.\u00a0 I created new web pages and enhanced the overall appearance of email communications to members resulting in the Section meeting both of its MGA recruitment and retention goals.<\/p>\n<p>At the Regional level, I have served on the R1 Board of Governors for seven years.\u00a0 For the last four years, I have served as the Information Management Coordinator and Webmaster.\u00a0 I have been responsible for revitalizing the R1 webpages and serve as the main conduit for conveying information to members across R1.\u00a0 I have created training videos and have led sessions for R1 in utilizing vTools to engage members.\u00a0 In 2018, I joined the R1 Executive Committee as the Western Area Chair and manage five western NY Sections within R1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected IEEE Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Region:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R1 Board of Governors (2011-2012, 2014-present)<\/li>\n<li>R1 Executive Committee (2018-present)<\/li>\n<li>R1 Information Management Coordinator and Webmaster (2016 \u2013 present).<\/li>\n<li>R1 Western Area Chair (2018 \u2013 present).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sections\/Chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rochester Section Chair (2014 \u2013 2018).<\/li>\n<li>Syracuse Section Chair (2011 \u2013 2012).<\/li>\n<li>Rochester Section Webmaster (2015-present).<\/li>\n<li>Rochester Section Vice Chair (2009 \u2013 2010, 2013 \u2013 2014).<\/li>\n<li>Rochester EMBS Chapter Chair (2008-2010).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IEEE Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IEEE-USA Regional Professional Leadership Award (2015): demonstrated leadership efforts in advancing the professional aims of IEEE in Region 1, specifically in revitalizing the Rochester Section and the photonics community.<\/li>\n<li>R1 Technical Excellence Award (2014): technical innovation &amp; leadership in the fields of biomedical engineering &amp; neurobiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have served as the Chair of two\u00a0Sections within R1 (Rochester and Syracuse) over a five year period.\u00a0 In those roles, I have managed the largest annual meetings in the Western Area of R1 including: the Syracuse Fellows Night and the Rochester Joint Chapter and summer meetings.\u00a0 As Rochester Section Chair, I managed the Section\u2019s Centennial Celebrations and hosted the R1 Board of Governors meeting. One of my goals was to improve the communication with our members.\u00a0 I created new web pages and enhanced the overall appearance of email communications to members resulting in the Section meeting both of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ieee-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/faculty\/gdowski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}