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HwAoRrDk:
Does one only get to become a Senior member once the grey hair starts to come in? :D

Do they have a Geriatric membership for the proper old greybeards?
25 CPS:

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--- Quote from: Bud on September 10, 2020, 02:51:00 pm ---..Here practicing professional engineers Must be members of Professional Engineers Ontario which is the licensing body,..

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Even an EE must be the member?

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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.


--- Quote from: Tomorokoshi on September 10, 2020, 01:04:01 pm ---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.

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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.
0culus:
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.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 10, 2020, 03:43:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on September 10, 2020, 01:04:51 am ---I guess no one is an IEEE member  ;D

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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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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?
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: HwAoRrDk on September 10, 2020, 03:43:52 pm ---Does one only get to become a Senior member once the grey hair starts to come in? :D

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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.
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