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I think it's time I upped my IEEE membership from Member to Senior Member, but it seems to be asking for other IEEE members as references.
Any IEEE members want to vouch for me? I need some member numbers.
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I guess no one is an IEEE member
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The references need to be Senior/Fellow-level members, don't they? Not sure how to go about seeking entry into that rarefied stratum of society. The usual Illuminati customs probably apply... reserve your mask and cloak early, try not to stare, and for God's sake, don't show up in a taxi...
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The references need to be Senior/Fellow-level members, don't they?
Ah, seems it might need Senior member or above. I have one friend who is a senior member, not sure how many I need though. -
I guess no one is an IEEE member
I dropped my membership many years ago, did not see any benefits in it. IEEE is tribe based, want you to pay for access to anything slightly different from the society you are member of. This was ridiculous. -
I see, you wish to infiltrate them, learn the Secret Handshake and expose it on youtube! Good on you!
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What perks does one get from being a IEEE senior member anyway?
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What perks does one get from being a IEEE senior member anyway?
The only perk seems to be that you get to pick who else gets the perk
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One wonders, then, if it's worth the effort.
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That seems like a circle jerk.What perks does one get from being a IEEE senior member anyway?
The only perk seems to be that you get to pick who else gets the perk
Also if you need seniors to approve you to become a senior then where did the first senior come from?
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I think it's time I upped my IEEE membership from Member to Senior Member, but it seems to be asking for other IEEE members as references.
Any IEEE members want to vouch for me? I need some member numbers.
Thanks.
PM sent with IEEE Senior membership number.
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I guess no one is an IEEE member
I guess they aren't. People in the UK gave up bothering with the IEE decades ago. It seems Americans are now doing the same with the IEEE. -
I guess no one is an IEEE member
I guess they aren't. People in the UK gave up bothering with the IEE decades ago. It seems Americans are now doing the same with the IEEE.
Here in Australia it's Engineers Australia that practically no electronics engineer is a member of. -
I guess no one is an IEEE member
I dropped my membership many years ago, did not see any benefits in it. IEEE is tribe based, want you to pay for access to anything slightly different from the society you are member of. This was ridiculous.
They were pushing IEEE membership pretty hard when I was in college to the point that they paid for a couple of student memberships for a couple of the chosen ones. I looked at signing up but couldn't get past the idea of having to choose a specific section based on area of interest which really surprised me since I was a college student and didn't know yet which of my areas of interest I was going to end up being employed in, if any. So how do you choose? That was problem one. Then, the other areas of interest being locked off once you choose one, whichever one it happens to be, and join being problem two and between both of them, the disincentive was so strong that I never did join IEEE.
I guess they can't be hurting for members that badly over this since they've never changed how this model of operation works. -
I guess no one is an IEEE member
I dropped my membership many years ago, did not see any benefits in it. IEEE is tribe based, want you to pay for access to anything slightly different from the society you are member of. This was ridiculous.
They were pushing IEEE membership pretty hard when I was in college to the point that they paid for a couple of student memberships for a couple of the chosen ones. I looked at signing up but couldn't get past the idea of having to choose a specific section based on area of interest which really surprised me since I was a college student and didn't know yet which of my areas of interest I was going to end up being employed in, if any. So how do you choose? That was problem one. Then, the other areas of interest being locked off once you choose one, whichever one it happens to be, and join being problem two and between both of them, the disincentive was so strong that I never did join IEEE.
I guess they can't be hurting for members that badly over this since they've never changed how this model of operation works.
I had it in school. Then I dropped it a few years later, around the time of the internet crash, as the relative expense wasn't worth it.
Similar to others, some of my reasons were:
1. Difficult to get information.
2. Every variation needed a different sign-up, etc. I don't know how it works now.
3. Very little corporate or management support or interest.
These days, I occasionally run across an IEEE reference when searching for information. Their database doesn't seem to be indexed into Google, otherwise I would be getting more hits. When I do encounter something, of course it's locked out. Not a problem; other non-IEEE links will usually have what I am looking for.
Membership is $208 with maybe $25 per "society"; and I would be interested in perhaps 6 of them. So that's approaching $400 per year, and to be honest it's probably worth it.
However, I would have to pay it myself. These days corporate long-term views and strategies are so corroded by Agile that there is no way I could get any management support. -
I guess no one is an IEEE member
I guess they aren't. People in the UK gave up bothering with the IEE decades ago. It seems Americans are now doing the same with the IEEE.
Here in Australia it's Engineers Australia that practically no electronics engineer is a member of.
Well there are not that many practising Electronics Engineers in Australia any more.
I remember years ago there were job ads for EE's would state the applicants must be a full member of IE Aust, IREE or IEEE. Then it went to must qualify for full membership or IE Aust, IREE or IEEE. Now it is never mentioned. They still state the degree one must have however.
Like comptometrists, is membership a thing of the past? (It is unlikely young players will even know what a comptometrist is without Googling it.) Now, only 16 out of over 500 million users of LinkedIn have comptometrist as a past title. But according to Engineers Australia LinkedIn website, they have over 100,000 members and 99663 followers. I would be interesting to find out how many practising electronics engineers are members.
I was asked to join as a senior member about 16 years ago, but I could not see any benefit in it considering the cost. All this money saved here and there can be put to better use such as test equipment.
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IEEE is not a regulating or licensing body, it is totally optional. Here practicing professional engineers Must be members of Professional Engineers Ontario which is the licensing body, but nobody forces you to be an IEEE member.
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..Here practicing professional engineers Must be members of Professional Engineers Ontario which is the licensing body,..
Even an EE must be the member? -
Here practicing professional engineers Must be members of Professional Engineers Ontario which is the licensing body, but nobody forces you to be an IEEE member.
You don't need that for electronics. Just don't call yourself "Professional Engineer". MS told them to go to hell when they tried to force them to change their naming, and that is the position I take. -
I guess no one is an IEEE member
I am, but in the same position as you. Only member. I've also been thinking about "upping" my membership.
You could try and contact your local chapter for references.
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Does one only get to become a Senior member once the grey hair starts to come in?
Do they have a Geriatric membership for the proper old greybeards? -
..Here practicing professional engineers Must be members of Professional Engineers Ontario which is the licensing body,..
Even an EE must be the member?
Yes, licensed professional electrical engineers must be a member. There are rules here about who can use the word "engineer" in their job title here that can be pretty strict. I'm an electronics technologist and one of my out of country friends accidentally referred to me as an electrical engineer by mistake in an email about some volunteer work we were co-ordinating and an actual engineer saw this and lost his mind telling me I could face grave legal consequences for this and so on. I didn't write the email and the person who did lives in the United States and clearly made a mistake so calm down. Some people are full of themselves.I had it in school. Then I dropped it a few years later, around the time of the internet crash, as the relative expense wasn't worth it.
Similar to others, some of my reasons were:
1. Difficult to get information.
2. Every variation needed a different sign-up, etc. I don't know how it works now.
3. Very little corporate or management support or interest.
These days, I occasionally run across an IEEE reference when searching for information. Their database doesn't seem to be indexed into Google, otherwise I would be getting more hits. When I do encounter something, of course it's locked out. Not a problem; other non-IEEE links will usually have what I am looking for.
Membership is $208 with maybe $25 per "society"; and I would be interested in perhaps 6 of them. So that's approaching $400 per year, and to be honest it's probably worth it.
However, I would have to pay it myself. These days corporate long-term views and strategies are so corroded by Agile that there is no way I could get any management support.
It's been the same experience for me.
As a technologist, I'm too low on the totem pole for my employer to pay for professional organization memberships for me. They won't even consider a cost sharing arrangement to cover a portion of it so if I were to join professional or trade organizations, it would be completely out of my own pocket. I was in a conversation with one of the lower level managers one day and it came out that they wouldn't even cover the cost or a portion of it for his membership in one of the relevant trade organizations so it's totally out of the question as a technologist. The senior managers and the executives are another matter entirely; as usual, that group takes very, very good care of themselves. About all he or I could do is pay out of pocket and then claim the cost at tax time as professional organization fees, so I've never had an IEEE membership and the one membership to another group I did have lapsed when I had a severe cash crunch and never did get reinstated. -
I've thought about joining IEEE because my work will pay for it, but I haven't been in a rush. I used to be a member of the ACM back in student days but I dropped that like a hot potato when I graduated. Never got any real value out of it, other than occasionally digital library access. But that's not a big draw when (1) my old department allows alumni to maintain a login server account (which, if you say, set up a SOCKS proxy over the SSH tunnel your IP address is now in the school ASN and you have library access) and (2) work provides the same access.
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I guess no one is an IEEE member
I am, but in the same position as you. Only member. I've also been thinking about "upping" my membership.
You could try and contact your local chapter for references.
No need. Turns out I already knew three personally, just had no idea they were IEEE senior members. There also seems to be no way to search the IEEE member database to check that status of someone? -
Does one only get to become a Senior member once the grey hair starts to come in?
No, you just need 10 years experience and the backing of 3 other senior members. And your study time is included. So you could become a senior member before you hit 30yo if you wanted to.