Orlando Section Membership Development Report - March 25, 2011

The number of active members at all grades in the Orlando Section, which fell dramatically to 1156 on March 6, 2011, grew modestly to 1197 as of March 24, 2011. The earlier decrease occurred due to the annual removal of Members-in-Arrears from all membership rosters by IEEE MD in early March. 

A comparison with the totals for March 24, 2010 shows significant year-over-year losses in the Orlando Section, particularly among Members, Graduate Student Members, and Student Members.

                

 

Recent changes occurred in the following grades:  Associate Members (4), Graduate Student Member (13), Life Member (2), Member (15), Senior Member (2), and Student Member (5).

From February 23, 2011 through March 23, 2011, 16 new members joined the Orlando Section:  1 Member, 9 Student Members, and 6 Graduate Student Members. Please welcome these new IEEE members. Their names and technical interests appear on the attached list of new IEEE members to the Orlando Section.

From February 23, 2011 through March 23, 2011, 3 active IEEE members moved to the Orlando Section:  2 Members and 1 Student Member. Please welcome the IEEE members who have moved to the Orlando Section.  Their names along with their technical interests are shown on the attached list.

Since it requires far less effort to recover a former member than to recruit a new one, the MD Chair of the Orlando Section is contacting as many of the “lapsed” members as possible to appeal to them to renew and to determine the reasons for their non-renewal. 

 

Accordingly, the list of 359 Members-in-Arrears in the Orlando Section, as of March 24, 2011, has been ordered by IEEE grade and color-coded to indicate the affiliation of these lapsed members.   The list is attached to this report.

 

For example, the MD Chair will contact lapsed members at the Member and Senior Member Grade, with the exception of the lapsed members at these grades who are affiliated with the University of Central Florida (color-coded in yellow); the latter should be contacted by ExCom members in the UCF community. The Chair of the UCF Student Branch should contact those lapsed Student Members at UCF (color-coded in blue), while the Chair of the UCF Graduate Student Branch should contact lapsed Graduate Student Members at UCF (color-coded in pink).  Similarly, members of the Life Affinity Group should continue to contact lapsed Life grade members on the list (color-coded in green).

 

It is suggested that the first contact be an email message, where permitted.  The message should, as a minimum, ask the reason(s) for non-renewal:  economic, job loss, pay cut, etc.; graduation; procrastination; death; or other.  The message should also ask the lapsed member to recommend how the Orlando Section could improve its activities to promote timely member renewals. 

 

The last webcast for the IEEE Membership Development Committee was conducted on Saturday, March 19, 2011, based on February 2011 data.  A PDF file of the webcast content is attached to this report.  The next webcast is scheduled for April 16, 2011.

 
Regards,

William Hortos,

Chair, Membership Development
IEEE Orlando Section