Membership Development

1. If you would like to become an IEEE Member, please visit the the main IEEE site and then click on the Membership button. Alternatively, you can contact the Membership Development Committee Chair, Zhihui Zhan, <cszhanzhh@scut.edu.cn>.
2. If you are an IEEE Member and need help to become a Senior Member or a Fellow, please contact the Membership Development Committee Chair.

Tips on How to Become a Senior Member or a Fellow

Senior member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply. IEEE members can self-nominate, or be nominated, for Senior Member grade. To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must:

• Be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields;
• Have experience reflecting professional maturity;
• Have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees);
• Show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice.

Prospective members who would like to apply directly for Senior Member grade must first join IEEE and then submit the Senior Member application form. An IEEE Member Number is required on the Senior Member application. There is no additional fee to apply for Senior Member grade.

On the other hand, at the time the IEEE Fellow nomination is submitted, a nominee must:

• Have accomplishments that have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society;
• Hold IEEE Senior member or IEEE Life Senior member grade;
• Have been a member in good standing and has completed a minimum of five full years (consecutive or not) of IEEE membership in any grade preceding 1 January of the year of elevation.

The Fellow evaluation process consists of two steps. The first evaluation is completed by the IEEE Society/Technical Council that is identified on the nomination form. The IEEE Society/Technical Council evaluation is extremely important, because it is an impartial and even-handed view of the nominee¡¯s merit, by persons who are familiar with his or her work. Once the IEEE Society/Technical Council evaluation is completed, their comments and scores are given to the IEEE Fellow Committee for the second evaluation. Society/Technical Council¡¯s Fellow evaluations that are not received by the 15 June deadline will be deemed incomplete and will not be forwarded for consideration to the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee.

If you are an IEEE Member and need help to become a Senior Member or a Fellow, please contact the Membership Development Committee Chair.