Report of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee

Over the last several months, AP-S has been updating its Bylaws to address changes accumulated since the last update in 2008, under the motivation of this year's Society review by the IEEE. As indicated in the April issue of the Magazine, we have updated our list of committees; added descriptions for the Editors of the Magazine, AWPL, and our Web site; added awards that have been in place and recently approved; and changed our method of selecting a ballot for AP-S elections. We recently submitted our changes to the IEEE TAB and they made some minor modifications. The IEEE has preferred language describing remotely held AdCom meetings (i.e., via teleconference, video conference, e-mail, or other means of non-real-time participation: see Section 4.11). We incorporated their suggested changes. The final IEEE-approved version is published here, and will be available on the AP-S Web site. In this process, we also updated the table of contents in response to the changes, as can be seen in the full version on the Web site.