SSCS Membership Committee Report August 15, 2011 Tzi-Dar Chiueh Anne O’Neill Katherine Olstein

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 Goals of Membership Committee Reverse trend of declining membership About -4%/yr for 6 years 14,337 in 2002 – 9,583 in 2010 Focus on younger members and next generation volunteers 13% SSCS members GOLD, 1.5% students Improve the Member Benefits Now online tutorials/short course SSCS conference student travel grants 2

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 Membership Trend within IEEE IEEE membership continues to rise Other major societies also rising SSCS continues to lose members 3

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 SSCS Membership in the past 9 years 4 Falling steadily at a rate of about 5% Action now decides where this trend goes SSCS Membership % per year % in 2011

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 Membership Trend in 2011 IEEE membership rise, society membership steady SSCS membership decline 1% 5

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 Monthly Membership Statistics Gap begins to shrink < 80

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 Membership Efforts 1. Membership kits –sent to each chapter or conference that will layout the materials 2. New member welcome letter –Sent monthly 3. Web info on SSCS.org –Benefits listed, Join link 7

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 New Membership Efforts in campaign for ½ year rates –to IEEE members, recruited 73 new members s sent. Free on-line tutorials/short courses – line.htmlhttp://sscs.ieee.org/tutorials-on- line.html Student travel grant award for SSCS sponsored conferences 8

SSCS Membership Committee August Student Travel Grants awarded to students to attend ISSCC. Many of them came for student research preview. One winner for CICC Four awards for A-SSCC. 9 Student Travel Grant AWARDS - Accomplished

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 SSCS launched tutorials online sscs.ieee.org/tutorials-on-line ISSCC tutorials and short course ( ) –Free to SSCS Members –Priced at $30/90-minutes for IEEE members and double for non-members. “ The quality and content are both excellent. The transcript is truly helpful to understand the accent from other countries. It deeply impresses me with my first use. Many will want to join the SSCS society because of this advantage.” 10 Online Tutorials - accomplished

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 –Free on-line offering extends to DL talks now in planning –Slides  Slides only (voluntary basis)  Audio recording  Transcript 11 Online DL Talks

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 IEEE is launching a bundled society membership in 2013 –Each IEEE member can choose, free of charge, a society to bundle with his/her IEEE membership –IEEE may reimburse the society in the future SSCS needs to decide what competitive benefits to offer the bundled SSCS members –E-magazine, –Subset of free on-line tutorials/DL talks 12 IEEE Basic (Bundled) Society Membership

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 All SSCS members at ISSCC 2011 received a $10 Starbucks card –As a member thank-you –To draw attention to ourselves –To encourage networking –To enhance the conference experience ISSCC 2012 gift plan –USB keys with ISSCC content –Starbucks card (again) –Free one-year SSCS membership 13 Use Conferences to grow membership

SSCS Membership Committee August 2011 Summary 14 On-line free tutorials Student travel grant awards On-line DL talks Bundled membership benefit Member benefits at ISSCC