Life Members – “Experience does not go on retreat”
It is a privilege to be an IEEE Life Member (LM) with so much to contribute back to the engineering community and to the public in general. You are entitled to become a LM when your age is at least 65 and the sum of your age and of your active membership duration reaches 100. Life Members are exempted of IEEE membership fees and pay lower fees at IEEE Conferences (at most – IEEE Student fees).
Most Life Member activities are performed by Life Member Affinity Groups (LMAG), similar to Chapters, established as part of an IEEE Section.
In summary the mission of Life Members Groups is to:
- Enhance and encourage interest in electrical and electronic engineering at secondary and tertiary (college) levels.
- Utilize the vast experience of LMs to impact the general public’s knowledge of electrical and electronic engineering and increase understanding of the role of engineers.
- Foster collaborations in pre-university education and encourage students to consider taking up engineering as a career.
- Promulgate the history of electrical engineering together with information and related technologies.
Please visit the website of the IEEE Life Members Committee (life.ieee.org) for more details.
IEEE Region 8 Life Members Committee 2023
Chair:
Péter Magyar Germany Section
Corresponding Members:
Anthony C. Davies, UK & Ireland Section
Goce L. Arsov, North Macedonia Section
Rima Fathallah, Tunisia Section
Samir I. Shaheen, Egypt Section
Shmuel Auster, Israel Section
IEEE Region 8 Life Member Affinity Groups (LMAGs)
Status: 2023-03-04
LMAG Name |
SPOID (Service Providing Organization ID)Former name: Geocode |
Chair & Email |
Benelux Section LMAG | LM80001 | Luc J. Claesen |
Bulgaria Section LMAG | LM80075 | Jordan N. Kolev |
Croatia Section LMAG | LM80065 | Zoran Vukic |
Czechoslovakia Section LMAG | LM80071 | Andre Sopczak |
Egypt Section LMAG | LM80003 | Samir I. Shaheen |
France Section LMAG | LM80005 | Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier |
Germany Section LMAG | LM80017 | Ulrich Reimers |
Greece Section LMAG | LM80029 | Grigoris Papagiannis |
Hungary Section LMAG | LM80051 | Imre J. Rudas |
Israel Section LMAG | LM80009 | Shmuel Auster |
Italy Section LMAG | LM80011 | Antonio Savini |
Jordan Section LMAG | LM80079 | Mohammed Zeki Khedher Mohammed |
Lebanon Section LMAG | LM80091 | Usamah O. Farrukh |
North Macedonia Section LMAG | LM80077 | Goce Arsov |
Poland Section LMAG | LM80033 | Adam Dabrowski |
Portugal Section LMAG | LM80045 | João Costa Freire |
Romania Section LMAG | LM80061 | Mircea Eremia |
Serbia and Montenegro Section LMAG | LM80069 | Vladimir Katic |
Slovenia Section LMAG | LM80067 | Jurij Tasic |
Spain Section LMAG | LM80023 | Rafael Martinez |
Switzerland Section LMAG | LM80007 | Hugo Wyss |
Turkey Section LMAG | LM80055 | Erdal Panayirci |
UK&Ireland Section LMAG | LM80015 | Brian Harrington |
LMAG Map – R8 Sections with and without LMAGs
R8 Sections with potential to establish LMAG
Number of LMs / Section / SPO ID (Geocode)
6 Russia Siberia Section, R80089
8 Cyprus Section, R80073
8 Iran Section, R80027
8 Saudi Arabia Section, R80043
9 UAE Section, R80049
14 Ukraine Section, R80063
18 Russia NW Section, R80087
24 Russia Section, R80059
28 South Africa Section, R80141
41 Austria Section, R80037
51 Denmark Section, R80025
57 Finland Section, R80035
66 Norway Section, R80013
132 Sweden Section, R80018
R8 LM Activities
Life Member Award Program 2023
https://life.ieee.org/awards-recognition/
2023 Individual Life Member (LM) Service Award
1. 2023 Individual Life Member (LM) Service Award Description
2. 2023 Individual Life Member (LM) Service Award Nomination Form – R8
Eligible are all Life-grade members of Region 8 with or without an LMAG in the Section. Please find the Award Description to check further eligibility criteria.
2023 Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG) Achievement Award
3. 2023 Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG) Achievement Award Description
4. 2023 Life Member Affinity Group (LMAG) Achievement Award Nomination Form – R8
Eligible are Region 8 LMAGs which have been formed before Dec 31, 2022. Please find the Award Description to check further eligibility criteria.
Journal of LM Events
2023-02-28 GERMANY Section LMAG – Technical Meeting 2023 Q1
2023-03-24 Informative Meeting on LMAG Petition Preparation in conjunction with the R8 Committee Meeting
LMAG Petition Step by Step Training
Publications of R8 LMAGs
Benelux Section LMAG
- Symposium Book – String galvanometer by Wim van Etten, Cees Swenne and Enno van der Velde
General Information
Website of the IEEE Life Members Committee
life.ieee.org
LMAG Funds
- Funding of activities is provided by Life Members Committee (LMC), Region 8 and IEEE Foundation
- A rebate of $200 to the Section is provided annually from IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board
- Groups that report at least two meetings annually will receive the $200 rebate. The rebate is increased to $275 for groups with six or more reports annually.
- Groups are authorized by the IEEE Life Members Committee an annual budget not exceeding $2,000 towards meetings or activities approved in advance by the Regional LM Coordinator. The funding will be provided upon actual expenses.
Approval and Reimbursing Process
- The funding request pre-approval of the R8 LM Coordinator by using the LMAG Fund Request Form _ Pre-approval Form
- Submission of expense report incl. the signed pre-approval form and invoices,
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- either via Concur ( http://https://corporate.ieee.org/resources/travel-medical-and-insurance/ieee-expense-report ) for out of pocket expenses; the money will be transferred to the personal bank account
- or via Expense Report Form 2022 , signed by R8 LM Coordinator, submitted to IEEE LMC (John Day, Director, Member Products and Programs at IEEE and Laura Hall, Contracting Sales Administrator at IEEE); the money will be transferred to the Section
Types of activities of Life Member Affinity Groups
- Technical Lectures, joint activities with parent Section, visits to museums and technical sites, social gathering, luncheons
- Using existing groups’ experience, typical activities can range from: invited talks and seminars, technology-oriented meetings, history workshops and conferences, oral histories, and dialogue with other professional institutions, to initiating technical milestones, monitoring outside technical archives, museum projects, and social activities.
- In their Sections, LM Groups should cooperate with other Society chapters, affinity groups (YP and WIE) as well as with student branches – on common projects. They can work together in IEEE Foundation Grants Program, which are supported by LMC Life Members Committee. We encourage the forming of “History teams” to preserve the History of technological developments in which people participated through the use of the IEEE Global History Network (www.ieeeghn.org) and Engineering and Technology History Wiki – ethw.org
- For any advice or question, please contact Péter Magyar, IEEE Region 8 Life Members Coordinator
To form a new Affinity Group
- look at the full list of affinity groups above to see if you are already part of it
- find out if there is already an existing IEEE Section in your country – full list can be found here
- a petition to establish a LM Group requires the signature of 6 IEEE Members, including at least 2 Life Members
- if there is an IEEE Section in your country but not a LM AG, you are eligible to submit a petition – check the Guide to establish a new LMAG
Practical Advices in Administration and Holding Meetings
For finding the list of names of your LMAG members
- go to IEEE OU Analytics (login and password of member IEEE)
- choose “Memberships, subscriptions and more”
- under “Products” dropdown menu, choose only Life Members category and click apply
- see the “Details” tab
- the list of your members appears (you can export as table)
- you can also contact your Section or R8 Ad-hoc Subcommittee Chair Péter Magyar
For declaring the names of officers of your LMAG
- Go to https://officers.vtools.ieee.org
- If you are the present chair, you can add or change the officers by going to the concerned position, then go on “Add officer”. A window will be opened to asking you to give your N° of membership IEEE and the date of the start of your function. Go then on “Validate” and “Submit”
- If you are the new elected chair, go on “Chapter chair” and apply the same procedure..
For declaring your LMAG activities (event report)
- go to https://events.vtools.ieee.org/events/search
- login as IEEE member
- go to Event/Report Administration
- go to File >> Report for a Past Event
- OR go to Create an event
- two reports at least are required each year from any category (technical, professional, social, administrative)
For organizing elections
For sending a message by e-Notice
For reserving a teleconference on Webex
- go to: http://sites.ieee.org/vtools/tools-ok/webex/webex-registration
- send your request to IEEE staff at least 5 days before the event