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

2. Goals of Membership Committee
Have reversed trend of
declining membership
About -5%/yr for 9 years
14,337 in 2002 – 9,559 in 2010
2013 has seen positive growth
Improved member benefits
* Discount on ISSCC registration
* Webinar series
* DL tours and related events
* More online ISSCC tutorials
* Student travel grants

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

4. Monthly Membership Statistics 2008-2013
Gap begins to shrink
-600
-400
-70
Positive growth Finally !!!
June 2013
+3.1% growth

5. Society Membership Statistics inside 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. sscs.ieee.org/tutorials-on-line
Online Tutorials
SSCS launched tutorials online
sscs.ieee.org/tutorials-on-line
ISSCC tutorials ( ) and short course ( )
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
18 STGA awarded to students for attending ISSCC 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?
s 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.