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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 or 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 or 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