IEEE Life Fellow José M.F. Moura was successful in getting nominated by petition as a candidate for 2018 president-elect. His name appears on this year’s ballot along with the two board-nominated candidates, Fellow Vincenzo Piuri and Life Fellow Jacek M. Zurada. (We published our interview with Piuri and Zurada last month.) Moura is a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Carnegie Mellon. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineers, a

Voting will open in August. I have two major goals if I am elected IEEE President: Grow IEEE membership and manage IEEE finances professionally to root out waste and to focus resources on providing the best services and products to the membership and technical communities. Why should we be concerned with reversing the trend of decreasing membership of the last few years? We need to think strategically and ask the hard questions. What would it take to double or triple our curr