Rappaport Elected to IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors

WNCG Founding Director, Prof. Ted Rappaport has been elected to the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors and began serving his three-year term as a Member-at-Large in January. To be elected, one must be first selected by the Nominating Committee and then voted in by the full membership of the Society.

As a Member-at-Large Rappaport represents all of the Communication Society members at meetings of Board of Governors and has a responsibility to vote on issues and proposals judiciously for the good of the membership and the society. The position calls for an individual of recognized standing and integrity in the profession who is willing and able to commit the necessary significant amount of time, energy, and skill, according to their website.

Prof. Rappaport was also selected from the Board of Governors to be a member of the Operations Committee. Only one member of the newly elected class is selected from the group to serve on this additional committee.

In the past Prof. Rappaport has served the Communications Society as the Technical Program Chairman for the IEEE Global Communications Conference in 2004, member of the IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee, liaison between Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and special assistant to the editorial board of the IEEE Communications Magazine.

The Communications Society is one of the largest of IEEE’s 39 industry-leading technical Societies with 145 chapters and members in 71 countries worldwide. To learn more about the IEEE Communications Society you can visit their website at www.comsoc.org.