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IEEE Members Elect President, 2004; WASHINGTON (08 November 2002) — The results of the IEEE's 2002 annual election have been tallied, and U.S. IEEE members have elected John W. Steadman to serve as IEEE-USA President in 2004. Steadman, head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wyoming, is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves on the IEEE-USA Board of Directors as vice president for Career Activities. Steadman will assume the role of president-elect on 01 January 2003, and will work with 2003 President James V. Leonard and current President LeEarl A. Bryant. The IEEE's U.S. members also selected former IEEE-USA President Merrill W. Buckley, Jr. to serve as IEEE-USA Member-at-Large, 2003-2004. Buckley, who served as IEEE-USA president in 2000, is an IEEE Fellow with a history of dedicated service and leadership at all levels of the Institute. Click here for more information and complete results of the 2002 IEEE annual election. Please note that these election results, as tallied by the IEEE Tellers Committee on 7 November 2002, are unofficial until the IEEE Board of Directors accepts the Report of the IEEE Tellers Committee at its 16-17 November meeting. This year, there were no Constitutional Amendments, and there were two survey questions. The number of ballots mailed was 249,352. The number of valid ballots returned was 39,059, a return rate of 15.66 percent. IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers created in 1973 to promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 235,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org.
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