Message from Juan Manuel Ramirez Cortes

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the August edition of our Newsletter.

As the year advances, we are very happy to see how the various projects in support of our members are becoming a reality. One of these initiatives proposed and implemented by our Membership Committee is “Pitch IMS as your Professional Home.”

We all have heard many stories from our colleagues describing how being a member of IMS has been valuable in support of their professional career. In that sense, this project aims to encourage the formal dissemination of those stories in the form of short communication capsules. Details can be consulted in this Newsletter and on our webpage. Another important well-known program that IEEE promotes in order to recognize the professional career of our members is “Senior Member Elevations”, which represents a recognition of peers for technical and professional excellence. I would like to encourage our IMS Chapters around the world to take advantage of this program and complement it with some activities at Chapter level. For instance, you may celebrate your elevations organizing a local event with the participation of some invited speakers or any other technical or social activity. You may count on the support of the IMS for the organization of those events; for that purpose take a look at the Chapter Funding Program in our webpage. I take again this opportunity to remind you about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2024 I2MTC which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. We invite you to prepare and submit your papers to this event.

Cordially,

Manuel