Elevate your IEEE membership

 

Member -> Senior Member

If you are a Member of the IEEE with ten years or more of professional practice and at least five years of significant performance during those years (as defined here), then the Queensland Section encourages you to consider applying to elevate your membership to Senior Member level, and enjoy the recognition that this status confers.

We can nominate you!

Normally, applications must be supported by three references from current Senior Members, Fellows or Honorary members.  However, for the past few years, the IEEE has been running the "Nominate A Senior Member Initiative". Through this initiative, the Queensland Section can nominate members for elevation, and this nomination takes the place of one of the three references that would otherwise be required.  The Queensland Section would be very pleased to help its members achieve Senior Member status through this initiative.  If you would like to be considered for nomination, please contact the Secretary and supply a copy of your CV.  Your request will be considered at the next monthly meeting of the Queensland Section executive committee and you will be contacted shortly thereafter.

Finding referees

The Queensland Section executive committee is aware that one of the biggest hurdles for many members in applying for elevation to Senior Member status is to find suitably qualified referees.  It is not always easy to know who, amongst your colleagues, holds current IEEE Senior Member, Fellow or Honorary status.  Therefore, the Queensland Section is undertaking an initiative to seek out and publish the names of Queensland Section Senior Members, Fellows and Honorary Members who are willing to help their colleagues through this process.  The current list is set out below.

Available referees (Queensland Section)

 

 

 

 

 

(Are you a current Senior Member, Fellow or Honorary Member in the Queensland Section but not listed above?  Your colleagues in the Queensland Section would welcome your assistance with refereeing.  The Queensland Section would like to publish your name only, no email addresses, in the list above.  To have your name listed, please contact the Chair.)

If you are seeking referees for elevation to Senior Member status, would like to contact a colleague listed above, but you are not in possession of the contact details, or if you have any other problems or queries concerning the process, please contact the Chair.

 

Full details of the Senior Member programme can be found here.

Senior Member -> Fellow

The grade of Fellow exists to recognise extraordinary accomplishment in our profession.  There has been a perception that Fellowship of the IEEE is only awarded to stratospheric professors.  This is not quite the case (though the ranks of IEEE Fellows certainly contain many in this class).  Did you know that the rules governing the award of Fellow have recently changed?  A category has been added for Application Engineer/Practitioner to encourage more applications from industry.

 

For full details of the Fellow programme, follow this link. For details of the recent changes, follow this link.