Why Join

IEEE?
Habib M. Kammoun
[email protected]
 The world’s largest professional association for
the advancement of technology
Since 1884
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 IEEE Today

420,000 members
107,000 members are students
160 countries
38 societies and 7 technical councils representing the
wide range of IEEE technical interests
3 million documents in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library
1,500 standards and projects under development
148 transactions, journals and magazines
sponsors more than 1,300 conferences

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Main IEEE Organizational Units

Board of
Directors

Publication Member &

Industry Educational Geographic Standards Technical
Products &
Activities Activities Association Activities
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GOLD / Chapters
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Affinity
Groups
Student
Branches

WIE Student
Student AG Chapters
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 IEEE Societies & Councils
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Systems Education
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Control Systems Lasers & Electro-Optics
Magnetics Social Implications of Tech.
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Reliability
Nanotechnology
Robotics & Automation Sensors
Signal Processing Super Conductivity
Systems
Technology Management
IEEE Region 8
+70,000 members (including +22,000 students)

56 Sections

6 Subsections

495 Society Chapters

57 Affinity Groups

342 Student Branches

69 Student Branch Chapters
40 Student Branch Affinity Groups
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 How become member ?
Join IEEE (as Student / Professional)
Postal Address in Tunisia
 Member in IEEE Region 8
 Member in IEEE Tunisia Section
Join IEEE X Society
 Member in IEEE X Tunisia Chapter (if exist)
For Students: Select Y School in your profile
 Member of the Student Branch in Y School (if
exist)
For Students members in X Society and Y School
 Member of the X Student Chapter in Y School
(if exist)

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 How become member ?

Join IEEE WIE (Free for students)

 Member in IEEE WIE Tunisia Affinity Group
 For Students: Member in IEEE WIE Student AG
(if exist)

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 IEEE STUDENT BENEFITS…

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 IEEE Student Membership

Engaging Students’ Interests Public Programs

&
Opportunities
Technical Programs
&
Humanitarian
Opportunities
IEEE
initiatives
IEEE  President’s Change
Technical chapters
the World competition
IEEE Xtreme
 Future Cities
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Technical speakers
activities
 IEEE Spectrum
 IEEE Potentials
Member
 Society Development Career Programs

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 Job Fairs
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 ‘Soft-skill’ seminars
 Industry
connections
 Engineers Week
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

 200+ digitized books downloadable from IEEE
Xplore, with 40-50 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 (1.9 million
documents)
Professional Networking
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

Google @IEEE.org
 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
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 Network
 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
Society Membership Benefits
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 w/innovators, experts,
and practitioners
 Members-only rates on additional
publications
 Volunteering opportunities
 Technical committees
 Journal editors
 Conference organizers
What is in it for you...

Awards & Contests

• Regional level
o Exemplary Student Branch Award
o Larry K. Wilson Student Activities Award
o Website Competition
o Student Paper Contest
o Promotional Multimedia Contest

• Global level
o Presidents´ „Change the World“ Competition
o Darrel Chong Student Activity Award
o Outstanding Branch Counsellor and Advisor Award
o IEEEXtreme
o etc.

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What is in it for you...

IEEE Presidents´
Change the World Competition
• Idea: Identify and solve a real-world problem using
engineering and leadership skills
• US$ 10.000 for winning team to implement the project
• US$ 5.000, 2.500, 1.000 for runner-ups

www.ieeechangetheworld.org

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 Start programming...

IEEEXtreme 24-Hour
Programming Competition
Global challenge in which teams of IEEE student
members compete in a 24-hour time span to solve a set
of programming problems.

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 IEEE Grants $$$
IEEE R8 VCF: Travel support for participating to conference
in R8
– Min. 2 years member
– Author of accepted conference paper
– About 500$
IEEE Mini-Grants for University Student Design Projects
– to help with student design projects with an industry standards
component
– 500$ for students and 300$ for Faculty members
IEEE Computer Society Merwin Scholarship
IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant Award
IEEE IAS: Myron Zucker undergraduate student design
award : Attendance to IAS Annual meeting + 800$
IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship Program
Etc.
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 Student Branches &
Student Chapters…
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Student Branch Activities

IEEE Student Branch is the operating

organizational unit of IEEE constituted by
a minimum of twelve (12) IEEE student
[graduate student] members

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What do we do...

Goals of student activities

• Be the anchor point for questions related to IEEE,
formation, operation and training of Student Branches
and student volunteers
• Network students
• Provide a platform for exchanging best practices in
the student arena
• Voice students´ ideas and concerns on all IEEE levels
(Region 8 / global)
• Develop and continue retention and recruitment
strategies
• Bring more fun to IEEE!

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 Strengthen your technical connection...

Student Branch Chapters

Technical sub-unit of an IEEE Student Branches

Link your SB activities with an IEEE society!

Benefits:
– Access to the technical activities of that society
– Increased access to Society sponsorship packages
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 Funds for student chapters

Examples:
– SMC Society: can offer 300$ to fund
student activities like “student paper
contest award”
– IAS Society: can offer 500$ just after
the establishment to fund student
activities
– Etc.

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 Join; add a project; lend your expertise online
www.engineeringforchange.org
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 Student Development
through Volunteering…
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 More advantage for Volunteers!

Volunteering is a rewarding way to develop

interpersonal skills, create new professional
relationships, and apply your expertise to help
others

Become a member of an IEEE O.U.!

 Volunteer with IEEE Society
 Tunisia section, Region 8, SAC, PA, EAB,....

Local leaders can participate to international IEEE

meetings
 Networking with IEEE leaders in other countries
 Improving you English level
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IEEE Tunisia Section
www.ieee.tn
Approved by IEEE on June 21, 2008
1373 members (stats. on February 2016)
– 843 Students
– 219 Graduate students
– 247 Members
– 31 Associates / Affiliates
– 33 Senior members
– 0 Fellow members
– 0 Life Member
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 IEEE Sub-units in Tunisia
19 Technical chapters
2 Affinity groups
– Young Professionals (YP)
– Women In Engineering (WIE)

17 Student branches
– ENIT, ENIS, ENSI, SupCom, ENISo, ENICar, INSAT, ENIG, FST,
ENIB, ENSIT, ENIM, ISECS, ULT, ISSATSo, ENSTAB, ISET Djerba

30 Technical student chapters

7 WIE student affinity group
– ENIS, ENIT, ENIG, ISSATSo, ENIB, ENIM, ENI Carthage
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 Thank you!

Habib M. Kammoun

[email protected]
http://kammoun.regim.org

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