James,
The reason I joined the IEEE was this Email Group. Even though membership is not required, our company felt we benefit so much from it that we would support the IEEE by joining. My company pays my annual dues and I personally benefit greatly because if it. First thing I found out was my car/home insurance company reduced my fees by $200 a year just for being a member of a professional organization. Check with your insurance company. Next, join the IEEE EMC Society. If you have a Local EMC Society Chapter in your area, start going to the monthly meetings and get involved. I have learned more during (and after) these meetings than all the seminars I have been to put together. This gives you a chance to hob-knob with your fellow wizards. If you don’t have a local chapter in your area, see if there is enough people interested in starting one. I think you only need about a dozen people to get started. Attend the IEEE EMC Expo. Sign up for workshops in areas you need to grow in, spend an entire day or more going through the vendor booths getting to know the products and the people (it is a small world), attend the dinner(s), and any invite you get to go to a vendor suite (more wizard hob-knobbing and social networking). If you are one of those brainiac, you will enjoy looking for math errors in those green books the IEEE EMC Society sends out every month. Haha. I have only a few minor negative comments regarding the IEEE membership. First, the annual fee keeps going up. Over $200 this year (ouch). I see where some people would have a hard time justifying this in hard economic times. The other is all the junk mail I get at home. Maybe there is a way to turn this off. I don’t know. All joking aside, I highly recommend joining the IEEE and EMC Society. There are many benefits, especially if you can get involved with a local chapter. The Other Brian From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pawson, James Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 6:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Society Membership and Professional Qualifications - Worth it? Hi everyone, Thank you for all your replies on the subject. There were a wide range of insightful opinions from "never found it useful" through to "very important" with most replies falling in the "could be useful to you depending on your circumstances" range. So: 1) I'm probably going to test run an IEEE membership for a year or two and judge the benefits for myself 2) I shall be further investigating the iNARTE EMC Engineer qualification as a learning excercise especially into areas of EMC I haven't had much experience with. Many thanks James ________________________________ From: Pawson, James [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 September 2011 13:31 To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] Society Membership and Professional Qualifications - Worth it? Hi folks, I'm investigating the possibility of the following... 1) joining the IEEE for the EMC Society (either as an affiliate member or an IEEE member) 2) working towards an iNARTE EMC qualification I'd be interested of hearing people's experiences of either of these and how it has helped them in their work Thanks and happy Friday James James Pawson Leading Hardware Engineer - EMC EchoStar Europe - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/> Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. 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