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IEEE Life Members

Charles Husbands, Region 3 Life Member Coordinator

Life Member Requirements

n Age 65, plus 35 years of membership n Total equals 100 or more n Automatic transition

n Permanent gold membership card next

year

Life Member Benefits

n No IEEE member dues or assessments n Free basic society memberships after 5 years n Semiannual Life Member Newsletter n Reduced registration fees for IEEE technical

conferences

n Technical tour participation

n Panama Canal first n UK & Scotland this year n Tokyo planned for 2013

Section Benefits

n Volunteers with extensive experience

who may have time for section activities

n Many LMs have been long-time

technical society members

n May assist in section Excoms, projects

• r conferences

n Organize local meetings for IEEE

members

Life Member Fund

n Supports projects dealing with:

n Education n History n Humanitarian goals n Community outreach

n Examples:

n Small Radio Telescope at museum n Transcripts at National Electronics Museum n Milestones of electrical engineering

Life Member Affinity Groups

n Aid section activities n Rebate to section if 2 meetings per year

n Meetings can be joint with chapters/section

n Petition needs only 6 members to form n See

http://www.ieee.org/ societies_communities/geo_activities/ life_members/groups.html

Grant Applications 3X/Year

n See www.ieee.org/lmc for information

and applications

n Grants funded by donations from Life

Members (there are over 25,000 of them)

n Typically 15-20 grants per year, awards

evaluated by a committee of the IEEE Foundation

Incentives to Donate

n One time: Life Member pin for $50 donation n Each year: a pewter coaster commemorating

an electrical engineering milestone, for $100

• r more

n Telstar n Panama Canal n Bullet Train n ENIAC

Life Member Fund Activities

n $393,000 given to LMF in 2010 n Support for History Fellow n Support for History Center, Rutgers U.,

established 1980 – Newsletters at

n http://www.ieee.org/about/history_center/

newsletters.html

n Global History Network

http://ghn.ieee.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Home

n Newsletter contributions – “Tales from the

Crypt”

Need Assistance?

n Funds available to form new LM Affinity

Groups or invigorate old ones

n Contact Region 3 LM Coordinator n Charles Husbands

n chusbands@ieee.org or

chusbands@cfl.rr.com

n Phone 386-760-7163