IEEE Societies and ACT Chapters

The IEEE's Technical Societies are semi-autonomous organisations that support the technical activities of the IEEE including distinguished lecture tours, conferences and publications. The IEEE currently has 38 technical societies and IEEE members are able to join as many societies as they choose, at a cost of US$25 per society. Occasionally individual societies have free membership offers in an attempt to build up their on-going membership.

The ACT Section currently supports four technical society chapters. Chapters are formed when at least 12 society members, sometimes from more than one section, put together a petition for the establishment of a local chapter. Having a local chapter provides an organising framework to initiate society-based technical activities. For societies without local chapters, the ACT Section will still support opportunities where they arise, covering local travel and accommodation costs, but this would be on an opportunity basis, rather than initiated by the ACT Section or Chapters.

Chapter activities provide a valuable opportunity for professional development and to network with your local peers. The ACT Chapters are detailed below.

Antennas & Propagation

The IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society field of interest encompasses experimental and theoretical advances in antennas including design and development, and in the propagation of electromagnetic waves including scattering, diffraction and interaction with continuous media; and applications pertinent to antennas and propagation, such as remote sensing, applied optics, and millimeter and sub-millimetre wave techniques.
The ACT Chapter of the A&P Society seeks to address the needs of ACT based professional wireless researchers, regulators and users, by providing a forum for presenting and exchanging ideas and information about current and ongoing issues and research trends relating to antennas, propagation and other wireless matters.
Computer Society

With nearly 100,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading organszation of computer professionals. Founded in 1946, it is the largest of the 38 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The Computer Society's vision is to be the leading provider of technical information and services to the world's computing professionals.
EDS and LEOS

The ACT Section hosts the Australian Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) joint chapter.
Chapter has been very active in attracting Distinguished Lecturers from both the societies to Australia and seminars are organised in various cities. In view of the large number of members in Victoria, a new chapter has been started in Victoria and currently chaired by Dr. Malin Premaratne. Chapter has been a technical co-sponsor of Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD) held in alternating years in December (1996-Canberra, 1998-Perth, 2000-Melbourne, 2002-Sydney, 2004-Brisbane, 2006-Perth) which brings together working in the fields of interest of EDS and LEOS.
Signal Processing & Communications

The IEEE Communications Society promotes the advancement of science, technology and applications in communications and related disciplines. The Signal Processing Society's field of interest is the theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analysing, recognizing, synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals by digital or analog devices or techniques. The term "signal" includes audio, video, speech, image, communication, geophysical, sonar, radar, medical, musical, and other signals.
The IEEE ACT Communications and Signal Processing Societies Joint Chapter brings distinguished lecturers from both societies, and other speakers, to meet with and present to our members in Canberra. We also arrange for technical tours of interesting facilities. Past visits have included the Parliament House Broadcasting Service and the Mt Stromlo Observatory (before the 2003 fires).