Khanh Luu

This is a list of documents that will help you on managing your Affinity Group

• YP Worldwide
• Benefits of IEEE Membership
• Membership Development Manual
• Member Benefits at a Glance
• STEP – Program Introduction & Resources

This section intends to give you some ideas on events to organize:

• STEP Program
• Meetings
• Social Events & Gatherings
• Seminars & Lectures
• Soft Skills Workshops
• Humanitarian Workshops

New YP AG Officers Reporting:

New officers or officer changes are submitted via the vTools.OfficerReporting tool. Access to this tool requires use of an IEEE Account.

Reporting Activities:

It is VERY important that you report your activities:

• Meeting Report L31 Form – Please include R8 YP committee mail ([email protected]) in the field “Email CC list:” Use IEEE Web Accounts as credentials. Your section will only get rebates if you report at least 2 meetings per year on time, so please make sure to do so!

STEP Program

The Student Elevation & Transition Partnership (STEP) program was created for local YP Affinity Groups to help facilitate the transition of student members as they graduate and become higher grade IEEE members. The program is intended to introduce the opportunities and benefits of IEEE membership during the onset of a career.

STEP Program Objectives:

• Recognize student members as they graduate and become part of the local YP community.
• Introduce graduating student members to the local IEEE entity (YP) beyond the IEEE Student Branch.
• Illustrate IEEE member benefits appropriate for young professional members.
• Retain student members as they are elevated to higher grade IEEE members by communicating and demonstrating the value of IEEE membership for young professionals starting new careers.

For more information visit the STEP website or read the STEP manual.

Please get advice from previous organizers:

• Croatia GOLD AG
• Finland GOLD AG

Humanitarian Workshops Program (Suspended)

The IEEE Humanitarian Workshop is an event designed to raise awareness of how technology can make a positive impact on the world in which we live. By inviting speakers who are currently playing leading roles in applying technology to humanitarian causes, it is desired that the workshop will provide engineers with greater access to such projects, and even to share their own ideas for future projects. Since humanitarian projects are of great interest to the younger generations of IEEE members, it is expected that the Workshop will bolster IEEE’s efforts in the recruitment and retention of such members.
For more information visit the website.

Recently, YP AG Chairs asked: How students members can join YP?

Basically, it happens automatically. Every student, fills the form where the expected graduation date should be filled. At this date, the IEEE membership system automatically elevates student member into YP member.

Additionally, every YP Chair has access to SAMIEEE, where the data about YP members within section can be presented.

If you are a YP AG Chair, use your web account credentials to login into SAMIEEE.

Regards,

R8 YP  2013

How to establish a YP Affinity Group in your section?

In order to establish a YP Affinity Group in your Section, you have to:

• Gather 6 YP members in your section
• Contact your section’s chairman
• A petition must be filled out with each member’s name and signature, the name of your section, and the name of your group’s organizer (who serves as interim chair until the election of a chair at one of your first meetings)
• Next, the petition must be submitted to your section’s executive committee for approval and then sent by email to IEEE Member and Geographic Activities staff at the Operations Center, in Piscataway, N.J. The IEEE staff then works with the affinity group organizer to complete the establishment of the group, ensuring that the appropriate IEEE region director and section have no objection to the formation.
• When your petition is accepted, start using YP’s supporting programs.

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