Life Members – “Experience does not go on retreat”

IEEE Region 8 Life Member Committee

Magdalena Salazar-Palma, Chair, R8 LM Coordinator, [email protected]

Commitee Members:

Peter Magyar, Past Chair, Ex-officio Member, [email protected]

TBD

Preamble

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 Member Affinity Groups (LMAGs)

Status: 2025-07-29

LMAG Map 

In Memoriam Tony Davies (1936-2025)

With deep sorrow we report that Professor Anthony  (Tony) C. Davies of the King´s College London, died on March 22^nd 2025 from heart failure. Tony was a Life Fellow of IEEE, and was an active member of the United Kingdom and Ireland Section LMAG until his death.

Tony held many volunteer positions in IEEE, beginning in 1975 as UK&I Section Secretary. He was elected as Region 8 Director 2003-04, served as Past Director 2005-06 and was particularly active in developing IEEE activities in the countries of Eastern Europe and Russia. He served as a Vice President of the IEEE Circuit &Systems Society. As a Life Member he organized IEEE activities in the History of Technology.

Tony was member of the R8 Life Member Committee 2021-24. He supported the R8 LM activity very intensively. He was also more times speaker in LM and also in joint LM & YP & Student & Society activities.

With his seemingly tireless energy, good humor, and gregariousness, Tony stood out at every meeting he attended, from student meetings right up to the Board of Directors.  Working with Tony was always an enjoyable and rewarding experience widely appreciated by his IEEE colleagues.

His passing has left a large gap in IEEE’s volunteer resources and in the Region 8 Life member activity.