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Four U.S. IEEE Members Begin IEEE-USA Government Fellowships

WASHINGTON (24 February 2005) — Randall Brouwer, Gordon Day, Norman Schneidewind and Nick Zayed began their IEEE-USA Government Fellowships in January. Each is advising government leaders on key technology policy issues and helping them understand the key role engineers play in national security, innovation and economic prosperity.

Brouwer, professor and former chair of the engineering department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., is advising Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). The congressman is a member of the House Science Committee, chaired its Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee for the past eight years, and authored the IEEE-USA-supported Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act that President Bush signed into law on 23 December 2004. (See related story at www.todaysengineer.org/2005/Jan/x-prize.asp.) Rep. Rohrabacher is also a member of the Congressional Research and Development Caucus, of which IEEE-USA is an advisory committee member.

Day, a retired division chief for the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., is advising Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) on science and technology issues, particularly communications and homeland security. Sen. Rockefeller serves on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and is ranking member of the Aviation Subcommittee.

Schneidewind is a professor of information sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. He's supporting Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) and will act as the science adviser to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget and International Security.

Zayed is a communications systems engineer with the Northrop Grumman Corp. in Redondo Beach, Calif. He is working in the State Department's Office of Science and Technology Cooperation. The mission of the office is to provide, promote and facilitate policy coordination and international science and technology cooperation among federal technical agencies and their overseas counterparts.

For more information on IEEE-USA's Government Fellowship program, visit www.ieeeusa.org/policy/govfel/index.html, or contact Erica Wissolik, IEEE-USA program manager, government activities, at e.wissolik@ieee.org.

IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE. It was created in 1973 to advance the public good and promote the careers and public policy interests of the more than 220,000 technology professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, go to www.ieeeusa.org.

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