IEEE Fellows Nomination Guidance Event
IEEE Southeastern Michigan Fellows Guidance Elevation event: 2026!
Receiving an IEEE Fellow designation is an exceptional honor. This prestigious grade elevation can be conferred to an IEEE member who achieves outstanding accomplishments in any IEEE field of interest. At the time the nomination is submitted, a nominee must:
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- Hold IEEE Senior member or IEEE Life Senior member grade at time of being nominated
- Have 15 years or more of professional experience
- Be a member in good standing and have completed a minimum of five cumulative years of IEEE membership in any grade preceding 1 January of the year of elevation
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The IEEE Fellow grade is a way for the IEEE members to receive recognition for their professional experience and significant performance in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the related fields including Computer Science and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Biological and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Technical Communications, Education, Management, Law, and Policy.
The Southeastern Michigan Section Membership Development Committee will conduct a session to share the whole process for Fellow nomination, timelines, etc., to assist potential fellows in their journey. We will running this session on March 21st in East Lansing (details in the Location; Registration box), from 11:30 AM to 1: 30 PM. You do need to register and lunch will be part of the event. This is an In Person event.
Note: We will be sharing more information at the event itself. Some details can be viewed at: https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/fellows-nomination
To sign up for "Elevation" Time Slot, please register on this site for the event and consider contacting existing IEEE fellows as references; also bring a physical/hard copy of your resume, and relevant supporting materials (list of papers published, standards work done, patents, senior/leadership positions, etc.).
Some recent Fellows in our Section have been profiled in our monthly newsletter - Wavelengths!
Some recent Fellows in our Section have been profiled in our monthly newsletter - Networking:
* We recommend that if attendees cannot join us in person do look for the next events { most likely between the end of August and early October}.
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- 4790 Hagadorn Road
- East Lansing, Michigan
- United States 48823
- Building: Suite 164
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Joydeep Mitra, PhD, FIEEE
MSU Foundation Distinguished Professor
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~mitraj
- Starts 01 March 2026 05:00 AM UTC
- Ends 20 March 2026 06:00 PM UTC
- 9 in-person spaces left!
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Joydeep Mitra of IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section
Fellows Guidance
Biography:
Joydeep Mitra (Ph.D., FIEEE, IEEE DL) is MSU Foundation Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Director of the Energy Reliability & Security (ERiSe) Laboratory, and Senior Faculty Associate at the Institute of Public Utilities. He also holds an honorary position as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Prof. Mitra received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, and a B.Tech.(Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has five years of industry and consulting experience ranging from power system hardware installation to modeling and simulation of energy markets, and over twenty years of academic experience. Prof. Mitra has conducted research in power system modeling, analysis, stability, control, planning and simulation, and is known for his contributions to power system reliability analysis and reliability-based planning. He has over 250 publications and patents in the power systems area; he is co-author of the book, "Electric Power Grid Reliability Evaluation: Models and Methods," and of IEEE Standard 762, a standard on reliability reporting. Prof. Mitra's research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Laboratories, and several electric utilities.
Prof. Mitra is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE-PES Douglas Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, the 2020 Merit Award from the International Society for Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), and the 2019 IEEE-PES Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He serves as a Member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Press. In the past he has served as Chair of the IEEE-PES Fellow Evaluation Committee, Chair of the IEEE-PES Analytic Methods for Power Systems Committee, Chair of several IEEE-PES Subcommittees, and on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Power Engineering Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Prof. Mitra engages actively in several IEEE activities such as organizing conference tracks and contributing to the development of IEEE standards.
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Address:Michigan, United States
Sharan Kalwani of IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section
Section Support for the Fellows Guidance
Biography:
A seasoned scientific, technical and computing professional, Sharan has spent over 25+ years implementing many new and pioneering technologies from operating systems (UNIX/BSD/UNICOS/IRIX/Linux/Solaris/), high performance computing (Cray, SGI, various clusters), engineering applications (CAE/CFD simulation software), optimization, networking (TCP/IP, Infiniband), operations (ITIL, ITSM), scientific domain (Bio-Informatics), and project management. An inspiring speaker and author, Sharan looks to raise the professional approach of every individual he interacts with. He has worked in many diverse areas and is a sought after speaker at many conferences and seminars, such as Supercomputing, HPC Advisory Council, SIAM, IB Trade Association, Association of Information Technology Professionals, etc.
He enjoys teaching, contributing to STEM activities and publishing. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, Emeritus member of Michigan!/usr/group (mug.org), and leads the SEMCO.ORG. He has published a book on the topic: "UNIX and TCP/IP network security" " ISBN: 1581430213; and is now working on his second text, about a new computer programming language. He has been the Chair of the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section since November 2021 and has held various officer roles in different chapters of the Southeastern Michigan IEEE. He also serves as one of the writers/editors of the Sections monthly newsletter - Wavelengths. He has also served as Vice-Chair of IEEE Sustech 2022, IEEE SusTech 2021 Global Conferences. He is the recipient of:
* 2018 IEEE MGA Achievement award,
* 2021 IEEE Region 4 Jack Sherman award
* 2022 Robert Neff Section award
* 2023 IEEE Region 4 Outstanding Service Award
* 2024 Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) Anne O. Fletcher Award
for his contributions towards IEEE activities.
Sharan is the 2026 Chair of the Membership Development Committee (MDCom)
Email:
Address:Michigan, United States
Agenda
11:30 AM - Introductions and lunch.
11:45 AM - Start of presentation, Q&A
01:30 PM - Wrap up, Clean up, Solidify new friendships, contacts, networking. Then we temporarily say 'Good bye'
IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section Membership Elevation event (more to come in case you miss this one). Potential Fellow members - if you missed this due to prior plans (e.g. travel, vacation, etc.) do contact the organizers so they can schedule more such events to benefit our IEEE Southeastern Michigan community members. Thank you.
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