PACE
of the IEEE Long Island Section

PACE (Professional Activities Committees for Engineers) of the LI Section is a grassroots network of IEEE volunteers and committees. The goal of PACE is to promote the professional interests of IEEE's LI members as well as provide a mechanism for communication of members' views on their professional needs.

Organizations

> IEEE LI Consultants Network

> IEEE USA

> IEEE USA PACE

Past Lectures

So You Want to be a Consultant? 12 Steps to Success
Vince Socci - On Target Technology Development
2011 May 4

Many people have considered going into business for themselves as an independent consultant, but have held themselves back because they did not have a clear vision for how to get started. Perhaps they did not know how to define their technical offering. Maybe they feared the business and marketing aspects of being a consultant. They may not know how to get started. Worse yet, they may have already started with unrealistic goals or a poor plan, and ended up in trouble. This is a how-to-do-it seminar for the beginner consultant, with a step by step process to launch a new consulting business. It explains what to do and what to watch out for. Valuable lessons and insights from real experience are revealed. This is a guide for practitioners who are ready to try their hand in the consulting business.

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More About the Role of PACE on Long Island

PACE works closely with the IEEE Long Island Consultants' Network (LICN), an organization that PACE helped found in 1984. The LICN was the first entity within the IEEE that was geared to support independent consultants within the IEEE. Membership to the LICN is limited to individual engineers.

PACE was instrumental in petitioning the IEEE to accept the LICN as an alliance. This entity later became part of the Alliance of IEEE Consultants' Networks (AICN) on a national scale. Now, there are more than 25 of these networks throughout the United States.

PACE assists in making Continuing Educations Units (CEUs) available at seminars for Professional Engineers who require Continuing Education Courses for renewal of their New York State licenses every 3 years. While these courses are offered to all engineers at no charge, Licensed Engineers pay a nominal charge of $20.00 if they require CEU credit. This charge covers the costs of certificates and maintaining records, as required by the New York State Education Department. Additional seminars from IEEE distinguished speakers such as the IEEE "M-PAC" are available for PACE meetings.

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