1. IEEE Membership Awareness and BenefitsAswin ShibuIEEE India SAC

2. What is IEEE? 3. What is IEEE?IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated toadvancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit ofhumanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global communitythrough IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technologystandards, and professional and educational activities.AIEE + IRE1 January 1963 4. IEEE Day October 7th?IEEE Day 2014 is the 5th time in history when engineers worldwidewill celebrate the anniversary of the first IEEE members gatheringto share their technical ideas in 1884.Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow 5. IEEE Quick FactsMore than 430,000 members in more than 160 countries, morethan 50 percent of whom are from outside the United States;More than 120,000 Student members;333 sections in ten geographic regions worldwide;2,231 chapters that unite local members with similar technicalinterests;2,516 student branches at colleges and universities in 80 countries;790 student branch chapters of IEEE technical societies;432 affinity groups - Young Professionals (YP), Women inEngineering (WIE), and Life Members (LM). 6. IEEE at a glancePublications IEEE publishes nearly a third of the worlds technical literature in electricalengineering, computer science, and electronics.ConferencesOver 100,000 technical professionals attend the more than 1,300 conferencessponsored by IEEE, every year.Standards The IEEE Standards Association has a portfolio of more than 1,500 standardsand projects under development. This includes the prominent IEEE 802standards for wireless networking. 7. IEEE at a glanceEducation and careersBy awarding Continuing Education Units and Professional DevelopmentHours, IEEE helps its members meet their continuing education requirementsand develops products and services in support of these efforts.Grants The IEEE Foundation relies on donations to award grants to new and innovativeprojects that support a variety of educational, humanitarian, historicalpreservation, and peer recognition programs of IEEEAwards Accomplishments in IEEE technical fields are recognized with annual awards foroutstanding contributions to technology, society, and the engineeringprofession. 8. Where do I belong in IEEE? 9. Membership Grades A Student member must carry at least 50% of a normal full-timeacademic program as a registered undergraduate orgraduate student in a regular course of study in IEEE-designatedfields.Student Member The total cumulative period for a member to hold the Studentmember grade and/or the Graduate Student member grade islimited to eight years.GraduateStudent Member Associate member grade is designed for technical and non-technicalindividuals who do not meet the qualifications formember grade but who wish to benefit from membership andpartnership in IEEE.AssociateMember Grade 10. Membership Grades An individual who has received a three- to five-year university-Member Grade level or higher degree. The candidate shall have been in professional practice for at leastten years and shall have shown significant performance over aperiod of at least five of those years.SeniorMember Grade The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in theprofession and is conferred only by invitation of the Board ofDirectors upon a person with an extraordinary record ofaccomplishments in any of IEEEs designated fields of interest.Fellow MemberGrade 11. Membership Grades Other CategoriesThe designation Life Member is applicable only to a member who hasreached the age of 65 years and who has been a member of IEEE (or oneof its predecessor societies) for such a period that the sum of his/her ageand his/her years of membership equals or exceeds 100 years.Life MemberThe GOLD group is defined as post-student members who are within tenyears of receiving their first professional degree.YoungProfessionalsA Society Affiliate is a member of an IEEE Society. Society affiliates are notIEEE members and are not entitled to any IEEE benefits or services that arereserved solely for IEEE members.SocietyAffiliate 12. Take this down!! 13. Student Branch Benefits 14. Student Branch BenefitsLocal Networking connecting to peersSelf-sustaining entity that can organize any event under IEEE,without need for any permissionSharing of ideas, Open platformAbility to form Technical Societies and Special Interest GroupsOrganizational abilities, Administrative skills, Technical exposureCompetitions, Paper presentations 15. IEEE India Benefits 16. IEEE IndiaAccess to Technical WebinarsNewsletter - CommuniqueAll India Student CongressFacebook groups Specific to Sections and IEEE IndiaVolunteering opportunitiesCross-section interactions 17. IEEE Global Benefits 18. IEEE Global Benefits: LiteratureSpectrumPotential MagazineAccess to Digital LibraryInstitute NewsletterIEEE complimentary articles, books, papers.Much more! 19. IEEE Global Benefits: Products and ServicesGoogle apps@IEEE and alias,IEEE.tvResumeLabMicrosoft DreamsparkCenter for Leadership ExcellenceSPAC / SPA-XMemberNetMembership Development (MD) KitsMember-Get-a-Member (MGM) ResourcesEntity web-hostingMuch much more! 20. IEEE Global Benefits: Awards and ScholarshipsLarry K WilsonStudent EnterpriseR10 Exemplary Student BranchOutstanding Branch CounselorDarrel ChongWIE Best VolunteerWIE affinity awardMuch much much more! 21. IEEE Global Benefits: CompetitionsPresidents Change the WorldIEEEXtreme 7.0IEEE-Google Little Box Power Inverter ChallengeIEEE-IBM Smarter Planet ChallengeR10 Website ContestR10 Call for ProjectsAll Region 10 Young Humanitarian Technology ChallengeMuch much much much more! 22. Thank you!