Distinguished Lecturer and Tutorial Program
All AESS Chapters and IEEE Sections are encouraged to take advantage of the AESS Distinguished Lecturer and Tutorial Program for their regular or special meetings. We have selected an outstanding list of speakers who are experts in their fields. The AES Society will pay reasonable speaker’s expenses for economy-class travel, lodging and meals. As a general guideline, speaker’s expenses involving travel wholly within North America or within the European Union will be covered up to $1,000. Expenses involving extensive international travel will be covered up to $2,000. The Society encourages arrangements whereby more than one lecture is presented in a single trip, and costs in such situations will be considered on a case by case basis. The inviting organization is expected to cover 50% of the speaker’s expenses.
The procedure for obtaining a speaker is as follows: If a Chapter or Section has an interest in inviting one of the speakers, it should first contact the speaker directly in order to obtain his or her agreement to give the lecture on a particular date. After this is accomplished, the Chapter or Section must notify the AESS VP for Education. If financial support from the AESS is required for the speaker’s expenses, he or she must submit an estimate to the AESS VP for Education before actually incurring any expenses. This estimate must be provided at least 45 days before the planned meeting to provide time for feedback from the VP for Education and for changes if needed. The VP for Education must provide written authorization to proceed.
Distinguished Lecturers and Tutorial speakers are ambassadors of the AESS. As such, they should take advantage of the opportunity to stimulate membership in IEEE and AESS in particular. To support this goal, the Society has prepared a short presentation on the benefits of Society membership. Speakers should contact Judy Scharmann well in advance of each lecture to arrange for shipping AESS and IEEE Membership brochures and back copies of Society Publications to hand out.
After giving a lecture, the speaker and/or host should prepare a short report suitable for publication in Systems Magazine and posting on the AESS web site. Pictures taken at the meeting are highly desirable.