This document discusses how non-engineering students often join the IEEE student branch due to encouragement from seniors and promises of career benefits, but may initially see it as only for engineers. To help these students feel more included, the branch asked them to organize and run non-technical, social, and cultural events. This provided opportunities for active participation, leadership skills development, and helped the students feel more connected to IEEE. As a result, many more new members became interested in both technical and non-technical IEEE activities.

2.  Mostly school pass out students
 Some 2nd year students of under-graduate
courses
 Even students studying in non-Engineering
courses, say, Bachelor of Architecture, Mass
Communication, etc..

3.  Encouraged by seniors and existing members
 Attracted to benefits of subscription such as
access to online information on the website, on-
line account, e-mail Id and monthly magazine
 Attracted to certificates, and to have fun while
working as a team member
 Promised to be helped in career ahead by
joining
 Since others have joined, they are further
pressurized to join

4.  Usually know IEEE for the name sake only, i.e.,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
 IEEE is meant for Engineers only
 Specifically for Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, no space for Computers,
Mechanical, Civil, Information Technology,
etc..

5.  Invitations to join technical workshops and
lectures happening at Branch/Section level
 A monthly magazine and an almost daily
update of world-wide happening technical
developments

6.  Mere spectators/listeners of such
workshops/lectures
 Barely go through their inbox which is full of
e-newsletters and e-magazines
 Starts losing their interest in the new
membership and eventually feels disconnected
from IEEE

7.  Wants to integrate and interact with the society
but founds it too technical to start…

8.  Provided platform for their active participation
 Asked them to organize non-technical/
cultural/ social/ humanitarian events
 They were in charge of publicity, infrastructure
and other logistics needed
 Had a feedback after each event to decide
whether to continue with the same
event/theme or not

9.  Non-Technical Lectures
 Group Discussions
 Debates
 Presentations
 „Earth Hour‟ and „Earth Day‟

10.  Sudden turn up of new members
 We got surrounded by them in college lobbies
and canteen
 Lots of proposal for new events such as street
shows, video making competitions, and
workshops on website development arrived
 Certainly they themselves wanted to work on the
technical aspect of IEEE

11.  “… I enjoyed the event…”
 “… can you please elaborate if IEEE has got
something to do with humanity?”
 “….I think I have got something to do with
IEEE”

12.  It implants leadership training, event
management and presentation &
communication skills
 Provides a feel good factor
 They gets connected to the world of IEEE

13. Thank You!