Shinji Hara |
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, abbreviated as SICE, was established in 1961. It has been a leading academic society for transdisciplinary type science and technology which covers fields of measurement, control, system/information, system integration, and related industrial applications. Therefore, the focus is essentially different from traditional disciplines such as electrical, mechanical, or chemical engineering.
SICE offers opportunities to the members for not only researching academic problems but also discussing solutions for industrial problems in steel manufacturing, chemical processes, automobile manufacturing, and so on. It also offers opportunities for resolving problems in various fields such as transportation, communication, environment, building, construction, medical treatment, welfare, and finance from the viewpoint of measurement, control, information, and systems.
We will have the 50-year anniversary in 2011. The year should be the start of new SICE for leading advanced science and technology with aiming at providing original concepts and powerful methodologies for solving variety of social problems such as environments, energy, and security. To this end, we set a slogan called "SICE Anytime Everywhere," which means that any scientific and/or technological problems to be solved always requires advanced technology of SICE fields. We believe that SICE has been one of the major players in advanced science and manufacturing technology in Japan, and it is one of such leading societies in the world.
(1) SICE Technical Activities: To develop wide fields as indicated above, SICE is composed of five technical divisions that cover the areas of measurement, control, system and information, system integration, and industrial applications. Eight regional chapters that play important roles for local communities in Japan are also organized.
(2) SICE Journal and Transactions: The SICE Journal covers all the fields of aforementioned science, technology, and industrial applications, and it publishes useful articles for future directions in variety of areas. The quality of SICE Transactions is known to be quite high in the fields. In addition, the new SICE English Transactions, "SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration (JCMSI)" was January of last year. We really encourage you to submit your papers to JCMSI.
(3) SICE International Activities: SICE is open to the world. The official language of the SICE Annual Conference is English since 2002 leading the global academic activities. The conference attracts many participants from all over the world. In 2006, we had the first overseas annual conference in Busan, Korea as a joint conference with ICASE (Institute of Control, Automation and Systems Engineers). We will have another joint conference "ICCAS-SICE 2009" with ICROS (Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems) this year in Fukuoka, Japan, of which the number of paper submission is more than 1,200, and we are planning to hold the second overseas annual conference next year in Taipei by collaborating with CACS (Chinese Automatic Control Society in Taiwan). In addition to annual conferences, SICE is active in organizing international conferences and symposia in cooperation with international organizations such as IEEE, IFAC, IMEKO, CIS, ICROS, and ISA.
Sciences and technologies of measurement, control, information, and systems will become indispensably important to sustain human life on the earth. In order to activate and develop these fields, SICE would like to contribute with a large number of researchers and engineers working in this field. I am sure that SICE can meet your expectations, and I am looking forward to you joining SICE.
Shinji Hara, Ph.D.
Professor, Faculty of Information Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo
(Feb. 10, 2010)
We are waiting for you to join us.