Membership Development Workshop

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Membership Development Workshop Zagreb,
Croatia 09-10 Sept. 2006

• Saurabh Sinha
• ssinha_at_ieee.org
• Membership Devt., IEEE South Africa Section

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Geographical Position in Region 8
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Engineering in South Africa
Engineering Council of South Africa
www.ecsa.co.za
The Washington Accord is an agreement between the
bodies responsible for accrediting professional
engineering degree programs in each of the
signatory countries. It recognizes the
substantial equivalency of programs accredited by
those bodies, and recommends that graduates of
accredited programs in any of the signatory
countries be recognized by the other countries as
having met the academic requirements for entry to
the practice of engineering. The Washington
Accord was signed in 1989.
As at March 2006, the signatory
countries/territories of the Washington Accord
are Australia Canada Republic of Ireland Hong
Kong (since 1995) Japan (since 2005) New
Zealand South Africa (since 1999) United Kingdom
United States The following countries/territorie
s have provisional signatory status and may
become members in future Germany Malaysia
Singapore South Korea (Republic of Korea)
Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)
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Professional Societies (1)
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Professional Societies (2)

• Many more!

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Co-operation Agreement
5000 members
www.saiee.org.za
700 members
www.ieee.org.za
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Recruitment Retention (1)
New for 2006! 1 IEEE.tv not tested yet! 2
IEEE Mentoring Connection 10 Knowledge 1
AskIEEE or IEEE Xplore Digital Library 70
have access 2 IEEE Spectrum Magazine 20 3
The Institute Newsletter 5 Community 1
IEEE Sections 15 2 Technical Chapters 85
3 IEEE e-mail Alias 20 4 Volunteering
10 5 myIEEE 5 Profession 1
Consultants Database 0 2 Scholarships 1
3 Continuing Education Partners Program 1
4 Awards 1 5 Career Alert 5
Benefits
Bringing together knowledge, community, and
profession
FOCUS
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Recruitment Retention (2)

• You care would you join? Affinity Groups.
• GOLD?
• Its free why not?
• About 50 of the group show interest
• Interest level diminishes (family work etc)
• WIE?
• Not really (women in engineering)
• I wont pay.
• Consultants network?
• Not another one! Go away! OUT!

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Recruitment Retention (3)

• Technical talks?
• What works?
• Truly distinguished talks
• (A cutting edge talk renowned speaker)
• Site visits
• Administration must be excellent Burden to
  chapters.
• First announcement (1 month in advance) / email
  or web
• Reminders/RSVP (closer to the event date)
• Thank you notes with presentation/feedback
  opportunity
• Social engagement before/after is a must!
• Conferences funding benefits
• Volunteering Anything to do with students or
  pre-college learners
• Postgraduate presentations
• Teacher in-service programme (TISP) workshop
• Science Expo for Young Scientists

What gets their attention?
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Recruitment Retention (4)

• Way too academic
• Very few distinguished speakers are from industry
• Its expensive
• Basic membership Society membership
• Role of the - Industry relations officer (IRO)
• Computer Society?

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Recruitment Retention (5)
Across ALL Engineering disciplines

• Above includes technicians technologists
  engineers etc
• Only about 25 are registered with ECSA.
• In total, about 100,000 technical people.
• Approx. 1 technical person per 400 people.
• For IEEE affiliated fields, were looking at
  about 40 of the above, i.e. 40,000.
• About 10 are members of the SAIEE
• Less than 1 are members of the IEEE

These statistics are rough!
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• Reminder

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Statistics
Region 8 South Africa (1 of region 8 but
active)
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Recovery
South Africa (Last year?)

• Terminator

She sails. But at the same speed?
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Recognition

• IEEE President
• Mike Lightners visit (mid-Sept. 2006)
• RAB Awards to academic institutes
• Honorary memberships
• Membership elevations
• Member-get-a-member (MGM) programme

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What are we doing to change?

• Membership devt. officer per chapter
• (Geographical officers?)
• Chapter chairs are to report on membership
  statistics at meetings, and what theyre doing to
  address changes (or to make the IEEE more
  attractive)
• Increase in industrial membership
• Friends of the IEEE Industries
• Student membership drive (per SB)
• Recognition with ECSA

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Contact Details

• Saurabh Sinha
• ? ssinha_at_ieee.org
• ? 27-12-420-2950 (W) 27-12-991-2827 (H)
• ? 27-82-777-6893 (mobile)
• ? 27-12-362-5115 (fax)