Our President's Message

 

Dear Colleagues,

For just over five decades, the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) has found its way to create a fertile ground on which a plethora of activities have grown in support of the professional development of our members. This process has required the participation of so many talented people who, from their workplaces, generate new ideas, concepts, projects, etc., which are later presented at conferences, seminars, or workshops around the world, published as research papers in our journals or technically registered in the form of standards. A large number of technical and social events are held each year within our chapters located in all the IEEE regions across the globe.

A key point in this process is the valuable work of the numerous volunteers who, throughout these five decades, have dedicated a considerable part of their time to the organization of all these activities. With a very high motivation to continue with this success story, we enter this new year with the hope of leaving behind the shadow of the terrible pandemic that we have just experienced.

We have already resumed in-person activities at the majority of our sponsored conferences and technical meetings, keeping the best of available digital resources and online services where they can be used. Our Distinguished Lecturer program has started to provide in-person speaking engagements upon request, our chapters around the world are resuming the organization of local events in support of our members, and so on. In the same way, the AdCom is ready to keep moving our strategic plans with the permanent objective of serving our community through the best alternatives within our reach, so that we can fulfill our permanent goal that IMS becomes the professional home of our members. With so many talented people being members of our beloved community, we can certainly create the synergy necessary to provide the best opportunities for success.

If you are not an IMS member yet, we warmly invite you to join us. If you are a member already, we extend to you a cordial invitation to get involved in the many activities which characterize our beloved society. We need your participation and your input for coming up with new initiatives and approaches to extend to the best of our resources the capabilities of this community, keeping high the IEEE spirit of advancing technology for humanity.

I look forward to seeing you at one of the many IMS events in the near future.

Cordially,

Manuel