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SSCS Membership Committee Report

SSCS Membership Committee Report. August 12, 2013 Tzi-Dar Chiueh Marriot, Cambridge, MA. Goals of Membership Committee. SSCS Membership 2002-2010. Falling steadily at a rate of about 5 %. SSCS Membership. +3 % per year. -5% per year. 14337. 9559. 9635. 9258. 9542.

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SSCS Membership Committee Report

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  1. SSCS Membership Committee Report August 12, 2013 Tzi-Dar Chiueh Marriot, Cambridge, MA

  2. Goals of Membership Committee

  3. SSCS Membership 2002-2010 • Falling steadily at a rate of about 5% SSCS Membership +3% per year -5% per year 14337 9559 9635 9258 9542

  4. Monthly Membership Statistics2008-2013 Gap begins to shrink -600 -400 -70 Positive growth Finally !!! June 2013 +3.1% growth

  5. Society Membership Statisticsinside IEEE, June 2013 • Highest recruitment gains: Solid States Circuits Society, up +45.0% • Highest reinstatement gains: Intelligent Transportation Systems, up +77.3% • Highest renewal gains: Robotics & Automation Society, up +17.4%

  6. Use CONFERENCES to Grow Membership • All SSCS members at ISSCC 2013 receive a $40 discount on their registration fee • Now normal practice in other IEEE societies • Significant increase in the percentage of ISSCC registration with SSCS membership (among IEEE members) • 55% (2012)  70% (2013) • Still 700+ chose to use IEEE discount only

  7. Use CHAPTERS to Grow Membership • Leverage DL tours in developing regions • Delhi, India (July 2012) • Beijing/Shanghai, China (August 2012) • Pretoria/Capetown, South Africa (Oct. 2012) • New DL tours underway • Eastern Europe, Croatia/Poland/Bulgaria • South America, Brazil/Argentina

  8. Use CHAPTERS to Grow Membership • Forming new (joint) chapters • India • Poland • Thailand • Sweden • others

  9. Online Tutorials • SSCS launched tutorials online sscs.ieee.org/tutorials-on-line • ISSCC tutorials (2007-2008) and short course (2004-2008) • 10 more tutorials of ISSCC 2009 have been uploaded to the SSCS Education webpage. • Free to SSCS Members

  10. Student Travel Grant Awards -2013 Four STGA winners in A-SSCC Kobe, Japan, Nov. 2012. 18 STGA awarded to students for attending ISSCC 2013. Many applicants/winners are paper authors and student research preview presenter.

  11. Summary Membership decline has slowed in 2011/2012. Several new initiatives have been implemented in 2012. With efforts like ISSCC discount, DL tours, and student member campaign, SSCS membership has grown for the first time in the past decade.

  12. Membership Initiatives • Promotion campaigns to attract new members • Advertise in IEEE Xplore • Cover page for SSCS article? • Emails to IEEE members with technical interests and SSCS conference attendees • Member reward • More benefits • Member loyalty recognition • Gifts to long-term members • SSCS awareness

  13. New benefit proposals • Expand free on-line tutorials • goal within SSCS to double the size of the tutorial each of the next 3 years • Expand to other sponsored conferences’ tutorials (PDF) • Full material (slide PDF, video) should only be available to SSCS members. • exclusive members-only rooms at ISSCC, VLSI, CICC, etc, with WiFi, coffee. • view early-access JSSC content online for SSCS members only. • Starbuck card/coupon in every conference

  14. New benefit proposals • put ISSCC keynote video searchable and in youtube (like TED talks), insert a short promotion message • universal free access to a subset of journals, conferences, tutorials or workshops linked through the SSCS webpage.

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