IEEE Student and Professional Membership Benefits

IEEE Membership
Its Mission… Its Benefits… The Organization
Prepared By,
Md. Saidur Rahman Kohinoor
Asia-Pacific Regional (R10) Ambassador | IEEE Computer Society
Humanitarian Activity Coordinator | IEEE CS Bangladesh Chapter
Email: mdsaidur.r.kohinoor@ieee.org
@ SRKohinoor _ R10 Ambassador _ IEEE Computer Society

IEEE
The world's largest technical professional
organization for the advancement of technology.
8,50,000+ members.
160 countries.
The largest platform.
Anyone from any department.

IEEE VISION
Be essential to the global technical community
and to technical professionals everywhere,
and be universally recognized for the
contributions of technology and of technical
professionals in improving global conditions.
IEEE MISSION
IEEE's core purpose is: To foster technological
innovation and excellence for the benefit of
humanity.

IEEE Membership Grades
Student member
Graduate student member
Member
Senior member
Fellow member
Life member
Young Professionals

WHERE IS THE
IEEE BANGLADESH SECTION?
Region 1-6
Region 7
Region 8
Region 9
Region 10
Formed in 1993 with 53 members
25000+ members; 20000+ student members
36+ Student Branches

Benefits and Opportunities
of IEEE Membership
Students

IEEE Student Branch is the operating organizational
unit of IEEE constituted by a minimum of twelve (12)
IEEE student members
Goal: Engage students in the mission,
benefits, and opportunities of the IEEE
Sponsors activities and events technical,
professional, and humanitarian
aspirations
– Guest speakers
– Paper contests
– Local public imperatives
Fun, too!
– Social events to bring together
students with faculty
– Pi Day
Student Branch Activities

IEEE Xtreme Programming
Challenge
Worldwide, 24-hour programming
challenge for IEEE Student Branches
Teams of Student members, advised
and proctored by an IEEE Member,
compete in a 24-hour time span
against each other to solve a set of
programming problems.
Provide Student branches with an
exciting new competition
Increase activities that appeal to
computer, programming and
information technology fans in IEEE
Exciting Contests

IEEE President’s “Change the World” Competition
Recognizes students or teams of students who develop unique
solutions to real-world problems using engineering, science,
computing and leadership skills to benefit their community or
humanity
Opportunity to win US $10,000
Are you working on a project with a team of students that will change
the world or a corner of it? Then you or your team can enter
Exciting Contests (cont)

Exciting Contests (cont)
IEEE Regional Paper Contest
http://www.r10sac.org/activities/competitions/paper.html
IEEE Student Website Design Contest
http://sac.ieeer10.org/competitions/
The Great Mind Challenge
www-07.ibm.com/in/university/greatmind/tgmc.html
IEEEmadC
https://ieeemadc.org/
And so on…

Awards and Scholarships
Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award
Darrel Chong award
Student enterprise award
BDS Outstanding Student Volunteer Award
CS Best Student Volunteer Award
Scholarships and Fellowships
IEEE Medals
And so on…
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Does your Student Branch have an idea for a
community service program, robotics project
or other idea?
• Submit your proposal in the IEEE Student
Enterprise Award
• Topics may be of technical or non-technical,
ranging from research on state-of-the-art
technology to community service programs
• Competition encourages IEEE Student
members to work with others on an
engineering project of their choice - teamwork
• Request up to US $1,500 in your project
proposal
Student Enterprise Award
Congratulations Winners
Region 3:
University of Technology, Jamaica-Recycling
Proposal
Region 8:
Cairo University-Robotics Program
Arab Academy of Science and Technology-
Automatic Waiter-Graduation Project Proposal
Region 10:
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and
Technology-Passenger Safety System
Kongu Engineering College-Synthetic Vista
Dhirubhai Ambani Inst of Information &
Technology-Mesh Network
Government Engineering College-Thissur-
FPGA Based Project
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University-
HOPE: Wireless Gadget for Home Bound
Elders
Vimal Jyothi Engineering College-Borewell
Rescue & Inspection Robot

Project Funding:
IEEE SIGHT - Special Interest Group on Humanitarian
Technology
http://sight.ieee.org/
EPICS in IEEE - Engineering Professionals in
Community Service
http://epics.ieee.org/

Through the Student Branch:
Develop professional networks
Enhance presentation skills in
low risk environments
Develop management skills,
e.g., leading without authority
Committee experience
– Managing projects
– Managing people
Student Development Through Volunteering

Financial Rewards
Help your Student Branch grow, and be
rewarded and recognized
All student members receive personalized
membership referral cards through IEEE’s
Member-get-a-Member program
Earn incentive rewards (money) by recruiting
other IEEE members
– US $2 for each student recruited; US $15
for each professional grade recruited
– Top recruiters recognized in IEEE’s
membership development report,
circulated to 2,000+ IEEE Volunteer
leaders worldwide
More about member-get-a-member program
at www.ieee.org/md

Graduating
Student Transition and Elevation Program
(STEP) Events
Sponsored by IEEE Graduates of the Last
Decade (GOLD) www.ieee.org/gold
Allows students to network with other
young professionals
Linkage to another local entity other than
student branch/chapter
Student Graduation Kits
Mailed to every graduating student
Recommends benefits for a beginning
professional – Job Site, Mentoring Connection,
IEEE memberNet
Overview of members-only discounts
Incentives to update mailing address info

‘Professional Home’ After Graduation
Connectivity via the IEEE Network
IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade
(GOLD)
Local IEEE Section & Technical Chapters
IEEE Societies
Beginning Career Benefits
IEEE memberNet directory
IEEE Job Site
IEEE Mentoring Connection
Many more… www.ieee.org/myieee

IEEE Computer Society Student
Membership

Why Computer Society?
IEEE Computer Society is global network of technology
professionals which provides computing and IT professionals
with trusted, high quality, state-of-the art information on an
on-demand basis.
Computer Society members network in 168 Countries with 221
chapters.

Who We Are?
Computer Society Members Work In:
Industry, Academia, Government, and are Self Employed
Computer Society Members Are Responsible For:
• Software Development/
Design Engineering
• Cloud Computing
• Systems Engineering
• Security & Privacy
• Embedded Systems Development
• Data Analytics
• IS/IT/ICT
• Mobile Application Development
• High Performance Computing
• Big Data
• Internet of Things
• UI Design/Development
• Website/Applications/
Development
• AI
• Quality Assurance
• Multi-Core Programming
• Computer Graphics and
Applications
• Green Computing
• Games and Simulation
• Smart Grid

What We Do?
Provide Information Learning Career Growth
Computer Society Digital Library and Publications
• 600,000+ Searchable Articles
• 569,000+ Authors
• 13 Magazines
• 20 Journals
• 9,000+ Conference Publications
Technical Webinars
• 140+ Webinars
live and archived
Conferences and Events
• 140+ Webinars
live and archived
Skillsoft Complete
• 100’s online courses and career resources
• Thousands of technical and business books from top publishers

Computer Society Scholarships for Students
 Richard E. Merwin Scholarship
 40, US$1000 Scholarships Awarded
 Deadlines: April 30 & September 30
 Designed to recognize and reward active student volunteer leaders in
student branches or chapters who show promise in their academic and
professional efforts
 Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society
 4, $1,000 Scholarships Awarded
 Deadline: October 31
Lance Stafford Larson Paper Contest
 2, $500 Scholarships Awarded
 Deadline October 31

Benefits and Opportunities
of IEEE Membership
Industry & Professionals

Engineering a Brighter Future…
Knowledge ...
stay current with the latest technology trends
Profession …
many programs to help increase your skills, earn
scholarships, give and receive professional mentoring
Community …
be a part of the world’s largest community of technology
professionals - a network of communication and learning
that is unrivaled in the industry

Staying Technically Current
IEEE Spectrum Magazine
 Monthly, the award-winning IEEE Spectrum magazine
explores the creation, application and implications of
new technologies
IEEE Press E-Books Classics
 250+ digitized books downloadable from IEEE Xplore,
with 6 new e-books added annually
IEEE.tv 2.0
 IEEE’s Internet television network, exclusive Member
programming, downloading privileges, and transcripts
The Institute Newsletter
 Monthly (4 print, 8 online) newsworthy IEEE activities
both in professional and technical areas
IEEE Potentials Magazine
 6 issues (online), the magazine for technology's rising,
student innovators
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
 Table-of-contents and abstracts (nearly 2.0 million full-
text documents)

Sections, Student Branches, and Technical Chapters
 Local, face-to-face technical and social meetings
 Engage peers through informative technical meetings
 Recognition of accomplishments
IEEE MemberNet
 Authoritative member directory of IEEE
 Networks personalized to each member
 Opt-in privacy protection
IEEE e-Mail Alias
 Identifies you as the IEEE ‘family’
 Virus protection and spam filtering
IEEE Mentoring Connection
 Peer-to-peer advice and counsel
 Participate as either mentor or mentee
Volunteering
 Opportunities that build leadership skills and
networking opportunities
Professional Networking

Membership paying for itself
 As much as 50% off IEEE products
 Registration discounts on 350+
conferences annually
Additional Benefits (add-ons)… the power of volume
purchasing*…
 Financial Services
 Insurance Services
 Home & Office Services
 Travel Services
*Benefits vary by country
Member Discounts / Reduced Rates

Career Development & Recognition
IEEE Job Site, Career Alert
 Locate career opportunities easily and
confidentially
 Weekly email newsletter containing career advice
Career Development Webinars
Continuing Education Partners Program
 Up to a 10% discount on online degree programs
Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Life
Membership
 Membership communities serving the special
interests and needs of recent graduates
Awards & Scholarships
 Recognizes the accomplishments of IEEE members
 Enhance your resume with an IEEE scholarship

Volunteering & Giving Back to Society
Volunteering
 Developing critical, non-technical skills that enable you to be
more effective professionally
Commitment to the Next Generation
 Enabling low-cost student membership
 Introduction of engineering and technology to young people
worldwide
Humanitarian Programs
 IEEE Humanitarian Technology Activities
 IEEE President’s Change the World Competition
 Humanitarian workshops
IEEE Global History Network
 Preservation, research, and dissemination of information
about the history of electrical science and technology
 Technological and organizational history of IEEE, its
members, and their professions, in order to increase
awareness

IEEE Society membership enhances the
benefits of IEEE membership
 38 Societies representing a full spectrum
of technical interests
 Local technical chapters
 Subscriptions and online content
 Local technical chapters
 Networking with innovators, experts, and
practitioners
 Members-only rates on additional
publications
 Volunteering opportunities
Technical committees
Journal editors
Conference organizers
Society Membership

Enabling and promoting the collaborative
application of technical knowledge to
advance economic and social well-being
 Individual Membership
Engage in an unlimited number of
Individual Projects
IEEE-SA Newswire, eTools
Standards Insight Blog
Member discounts
Participate in IEEE-SA Board of Governors
& Elections
 Corporate Membership
IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group
Unlimited Sponsor Balloting of Corporate
Projects
Tiered number of complimentary IEEE-SA
Individual Memberships
Participation in & nomination of
employees for IEEE-SA Corporate
Advisory Group (CAG) and Board of
Governors (BOG) Elections
IEEE Standards Association

Providing researchers and practitioners
worldwide with the most essential
information in technology today
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL)
 Publishes more than 148 transactions,
journals and magazines
 More than 3.0 Million documents
available
IEEE Xplore
 Provides full-text access to
 IEEE journals, transactions, letters, and
magazines from 1988 with select
content back to 1913
 IEEE conference proceedings from 1988
with select content back to 1953
 IEEE standards from 1948 & IEEE books
from 1974
 IET journals, letters, and magazines
from 1988 & IET conference
proceedings from 1988
Over 387,000 Participants at more than
1,300 meetings & conferences
worldwide
 Region Conferences
 International Conferences
 Symposiums
 Workshops
 Tutorials
IEEE Publishing & Conferences
2013 POCO during 25-27
July in Portland, OR, USA

Ensuring the growth of skill and knowledge
among the technical profession
IEEE eLearning Library
 Tutorials developed by recognized experts in
a wide range of engineering and research
technologies
 A series of engaging and highly interactive
online learning tutorials
 Developed by recognized experts in a wide
range of engineering and research
technologies
IEEE Continuing Education Partners
Providers Program (CEP)
 Through agreements with continuing
education providers, The IEEE Continuing
Education Providers Program (CEP) can meet
the needs of its members by providing an
additional marketing channel and revenue for
its providers
 Several providers are offering a minimum
of a 10% discount on courses to IEEE
Members world-wide
IEEE Standards Education
 Helps electrical and computer engineering
undergraduate programs incorporate standards in their
learning processes
 Provides learning tools to use in learning
about standards and their impact on
design and development
TryEngineering.org
 Partnership between IEEE and IBM
 Intended for pre-university students, parents, teachers,
school counselors, and the general public
 Visitors can explore how to prepare for an engineering
career, ask experts engineering-related questions, and
play interactive games
TryComputing.org
 Find a university by searching a database
 Career Profiles: meet computing professionals
 Lesson Plans help you teach essential computer skills to
your students
TryNano.org
 Partnership between IEEE, IBM and
tryscience.org
 TryNano.org offers a searchable
database of the many universities
around the globe that currently offer
a nanotechnology degrees
IEEE Educational Activities

Advancing global prosperity by fostering technological
innovation, enabling members' careers and
promoting community worldwide
GEOSS
 Linking millions of established national, regional
and international sources and datasets into a
single network capable of tracking environmental
changes in oceans, earth, atmosphere and
ecosystems around the world
 Benefits to society include disaster reduction,
health, energy, climate, weather, water and
agriculture, among others.
 IEEE is supporting the development of the GEOSS
plan through its Committee on Earth Observation
IEEE Life Sciences Initiative
 The overall objective of the Life
Sciences New Initiative is to make
IEEE a major and recognized player in
the life sciences, in particular in the
disciplines that are at the intersection
between the organization's traditional
fields—electrical engineering,
computer engineering, and computer
science—and the life sciences.
 The IEEE Life Sciences Portal has the
goal of evolving into one of the
premier global resources for life
sciences technologies, information,
and activities. The organization seeks
to create new opportunities to
introduce technology to new and
different audiences and disciplines.
Making the World a Better Place

In Summary…

Benefits of IEEE Membership
 Keeps you technically current
 Grows your professional network locally and
internationally
 Access to in-person technical forums
 Members-only discounts—IEEE products,
conferences, and insurance coverage
 Provides tools for career development and
advancement
 Developing critical, non-technical skills to be more
effective
 Opportunities to volunteer, and give back to society
Special Interest Memberships
 Expands the scope and depth of your technical
knowledge
 Extends your professional network
 Influence the direction and application of technology
through standards development
 Promotes the entry into and retention of women in
engineering programs
IEEE—the Organization
 The world’s largest technical
professional association,
400,000 members
 Local activities in a global
network
 World-renowned standards body
 Sponsors 1,300+ conferences
annually
 Making the world a better place
 125 years of engineering the
future
IEEE Membership: Its benefits, its mission, the
organization

Questions ?

Thank you!
mdsaidur.r.kohinoor@ieee.org
Cell: 01732-477046
Facebook: srkohinoor
38@ SRKohinoor _ R10 Ambassador _ IEEE Computer Society

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