Mission and Goals

Mission

IEEE Region 9 mission is to provide services to our professional members and students to support the process of engineering creation, development, and integration, sharing and application of knowledge associated to electrical and information sciences and technologies, and adapting them to our conditions and needs, with the objective of promoting the social and economic development of humanity in the Latin American Region.

Goals

• Support the interests of the members, whose technical and professional objectives concur with the responsibilities of the Region within the IEEE.
• Encourage student activities and provide general supervision to the operation of Student Branches within the Region.
• Provide professional recognition to the achievements of the members of the Region through awards, recognitions, and nominations to IEEE’s Senior and Fellow degrees.
• Circulate a periodic publication with articles, news, announcements, and other information of interest for the regional members.
• Provide training opportunities for members through workshops and seminars.
• Collaborate with the Chapters and Sections in the promotion and implementation of programs for the education of members.
• Coordinate membership development initiatives.
• Collaborate with the Councils and Sections in the realization of technical conferences.
• Promote the participation of members in technical activities.
• Promote visits of technical speakers to different locations within the Region to present conferences for the professional improvement of members.
• Promote the use of electronic communications as a greater cost-benefit means of communication, given the conditions of the geographical dispersion of the membership of Region 9.