1. Student Retention Challenges ~actions to improve situation starting from India~ Region 10 Meeting 3-4 March 2012 Kolkata, India Takao Onoye, Dr.Eng., Osaka University Regional Student Activities Coordinator Aby Kurian, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College Regional Student Representative

2. The Whole Figure of R10 Student Activities R10 Student members Dec 2009 : 35,904 Jan 2012 : 43,264 (SriLanka: 67GSMs, 545 StMs) R10 Student Branches Dec 2009: 672 Sep 2011: 805 185 SB/SB Chapter/SB WIEAG petitions approved in 2011 “Non-Stop” growth can be observed in R10 StMs/GSMs However…

3. Student Members Retention Rate R10 suffers from “very low” retention rate of StMs/GSMs Graduate StudentsUndergraduate Students OpportunitiesRenewalRateOpportunitiesRenewalRate R1-925,36619,29776.1%25,65210.71241.8% R109,4804,68149.4%22,6294,83821.4% India 3,03894631.2%18,6153,37718.1% R10 excl. India 6,4423,73558.0%4,0041,46136.5% Membership Retention in July 2011 Someone says this is the problem in India…. but This issue should be considered Region-wide.

4. Membership Makeup (July 2011) # Members: 379,266 84,254 33,947 Prof. Mini Thomas’s report on 2011 Considering membership construction, we should escape from this High-in High-out structure to achieve sustainable development of R10.

5. What do we know? Year after year, this is what the membership in India looks like IEEE Membership in India by Years of Service (14 Aug 2009) Years of Service Number of Members Something is wrong with First Year student retention in India Prof. Mini Thomas’s report on 2011

6. Why not to renew? o Membership is too expensive o Lack of local IEEE activity o Membership did not meet expectations The top 3 reasons were: Overall satisfaction was a lot lower among India students (18%), compared to US 46% on top 3 box % (very satisfied) 2010 Non-renewing survey Prof. Mini Thomas’s report on 2011 And other issues include: o Lack of awareness of branch counselor o Mass recruitment then insufficient members support o Student branch rebate based on just # members

7. 2012 Project 1: “Haute Couture” Support by GINI India GINI India term tries to create SIGs to support student members being classified based on several parameters:  Yr of Study  Department  Area of Interest Graduation Year of StMs Different Construction of StMs (UG students): Young (1 st ~3 rd Yrs) students enrolled more in India 2013-Total% R10 Total247413627068% India215853014572% R10 Except India3156612552% China Council52183962% Japan Council22662336% Korea Council19940349% Australia Council24956944% NZ Council15828655% Singapore10221248% Hong Kong599761% Indonesia5112142% Malaysia15129751% Taiwan25446055% Bangladesh22952244% Thailand348938% Senior(4 th Yr) students: usually have solid motivation in their designated fields Freshman/Sophomore students: need to receive wide/general knowledge

8. 2012 Project 2 Section#SB~1010~3030~5050~100100~ Bangalore60231041310 Bombay9444181210 Delhi7425198166 Gujarat1655321 Hyderabad874123797 Kerala629131015 Kharagpur300120 Kolkata20106220 Madras183884019 17 Pune941103 Utta Pradesh1355201 Sum621254140698870 SBs in India w/ # members Call for project proposals to raise student retention rate. SB allotment: 50$(~50StM/GSMs) 100$(50~StM/GSMs) SB rebate: 2$/member Select three excellent proposals from Large and Middle size SBs. Plans will be shared and executing among SBs. Large Size SB(100~) Middle Size SB(30~100) 1 st 250USD 2 nd 150USD 3 rd 100USD Total: 1,000USD “Stay as members” Project Plan Competition

9. 2012 Project 3: Student Professional Mentorship Program (SPMP) R10 SAC Team R10 GOLD Team Resource Pool SPMP Coordinator + SPMP Team Student Members SPMP Web Portal (Social networking+ Technical discussions) Project Structure A specific team to execute this project should be formed with a coordinator to coordinate the whole process. We suggest the team should comprise of  SPMP Coordinator  Two team members The team should identify a professional pool of volunteers who are ready to help students with their area of interest. These volunteers are added to the pool of resource. SPMP Coordinators Aby Kurian (R10 SAC) Regional Student Representative Rayees Amar Nishad (R10 GOLD) South Asia GOLD Coordinator

10. 2012 Other Activities Online/Offline Support of SB Officers/Counselors Volunteer Training/Development Webcasts are to be coordinated frequently by o Hang-Bong Kang (R10 MDC) o Takao Onoye (R10 SAC) o Aby Kurian (R10 SR) o Darrel Chong (MGA SAC Chair) o Om Perkash (MGA SAC-GOLD Rep) o S. Gopakumar (Kerala Section Volunteer) o ….and… Branch Operation Manual Branch Counselor’s Guide New Member Enrollment etc… All section/council chairs!

11. THANK YOU! onoye@ieee.orgonoye@ieee.org abykrian@ieee.orgabykrian@ieee.org