Robert Bronder received his electrical engineering degree from the University of Nebraska and has had additional academic work at the University of Colorado and the University of Washington. He worked in the consulting field in Colorado prior to accepting a position with the Boeing Company in Seattle. He retired from Boeing after 39 years in commercial aircraft, aerospace, and electronics, and has returned to part-time consulting work. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado and Washington state. He resides in the Seattle area.

Mr. Bronder received one of the earliest IEEE-USA awards (1978) and holds the Citation of Honor award (1984) and the Regional Professional Leadership award (1987). He was the Region 6 PACE Chair for many years and held the Region 6 and IEEE-USA national State Government Activities Committee chair positions. Currently Mr. Bronder serves as Government Activities Chair for the Northwest Area of Region 6 and as a member-at-large of the national State Government Activities Committee. Locally, Mr. Bronder serves on the Seattle Section's executive committee, and he is chair of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society's Seattle Chapter.

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Each year state laws and regulations and local ordinances are adopted that affect the personal and professional interests of IEEE members in all 50 states. This presentation emphasizes the importance of personal awareness and activism on state government issues. The presentation provides examples of laws and regulations that affect engineering interests, briefs participants on hot state law issues and trends, introduces participants to the tools for personal activism (e.g., letter writing, visits, letters to the editor, etc.) and explains how IEEE members can organize within their states and sections and across science and engineering societies to influence their state and local governments more effectively. The presentation can be tailored to particular states or regions, as desired.

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