Zhengming Zhao, ChairRobert S. Balog, co-chair

APEC 2013, Long Beach CA, USAFriday, March 22, 2013

IEEE PELS Membership Committee Report to the AdCom

Membership Committee

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Zhengming Zhao – Chair (growth)

Robert S. Balog – co-Chair (retention)

Pradeep Shenoy – GOLD chair

Brian Hadley – GOLD vice chair

Katherine Kim – Student Liaison

Vladimir Katic – Chapters Chair

Maryam Saeedifard – Women in PELS

Regional Liasons

There are totally more than 7,480 members in PELS

Share of the membership from different regions

Current Status of Membership in PELS

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Update

GOLD has held events at:– ECCE 2010, Reception @ Point of View Lounge– APEC 2011, Featured Speaker, Elizabeth Lions– ECCE 2011, unveiled new logo @ student-industry

dinner– APEC 2012, Reception– ECCE 2012, part of the student-industry dinner– APEC 2013, Dinner with a Luminary (48 participants,

6 luminaries)

Logo design contest

Membership Committee meeting held March 20, 2013 in LongBeach, Ca– Attendees: 7 participants

GOLD: Dinner with a Luminary, March 19, 2013 at APEC– Value proposition to participant: Increase

access within PELS– # Attendees: 49 (xx students, yy GOLD)– Cost: $5k (budgeted) ??? (final)

Recent Activities

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Dinner with a Luminary – APEC 2012

Students to GOLD– Increase Access

Dinner with a Luminary (APEC 2013)– Increase Recognition

New initiatives: Early Career award, student awards Ex: Free year membership with a full conference

registration for GOLD / student– Make it easy to “have that talk” with employer

Senior Member elevation– Senior Member advocacy, make it easy to

become elevated

New Retention Initiatives

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Most people outside USA know little about PELS except IEEE conference and magazine

They don’t know “what benefits they could get from the membership” except paying the annual fee and the less conference fee

There are no many relationships between IEEE PELS and other national professional society

Industry members seem to me in the minority

The Problem for Membership Growth

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Increase more then 100 in northern American

Increase more than 500 members from outer northern American

The total number of PELS’s member would reach 10000 by the end of 2014

Main steps:

- 2013:40 from northern American

200 from other regions

- 2014:60 from northern American

300 from other regions

Membership Growth Plan

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Develop the joint members For example in China:

How to Implement the plan

Major national academic organizations on power electronics include– China Electrotechnical Society (CES) 50000 members and 2000 senior members – China Power Supply Society CPSS) 30000 members and 1000 senior members

– Chinese Electrical Engineering Society (CEES) —— 60000 members and 3000 senior members HVDC Transmission and Power Electronics Division

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“Memorandum of Understanding between The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated and Chinese Electrotechnical Society”

Main terms include: 1. Visiting members 2. Joint activities 3. Coordination of technical meetings 4. Publications 5. Standards information 6. Membership – Joint membership

How to Implement the plan

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Increase industry membership For example in China:• Rapid development of power electronics in China——over 23% each year.• China has been the one of world's largest power semiconductor markets.• In 2011, the power semiconductor sales in China accounted for 50% of the global market.

Market sales of power semiconductors

How to Implement the plan

Increase student membership For example in China:

Power Electronics in Chinese Universities– About 90 universities offer power electronics course

– Among top 25 universities, in power electronics

Faculty and staff: ~ 400

Graduate students: ~ 2000 (will establish a student chapter in

Tsinghua University in coming April, about 50 members)

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How to Implement the plan

PELS would sign an official MOU with the societies, related to not only the membership, but also joint activities, coordination of technical meetings, publications, standards information, and others

PELS should recognizes them who have been recognized as senior members by the related societies, as PELS members, and then recommend them as senior members

Have a discount of membership fee for a group registration as joint, industry and student member

Provide more PELS information and publication, and translate

them into native language

Thoughts to increase benefits for the joint , industrial and student members

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