How to Join the IEEE Control Systems Society

Contents:

• Membership Benefits
• Information on Membership and Admissions
• Questions or Concerns about Your Membership
• Trying to Locate a Section or Chapter?
• More Details on Membership
• For Those without Web or Internet Access
• Reduced Dues Programs
• Obtaining Publications

• Membership Benefits
• Information on Membership and Admissions:

To join the Control Systems Society, you must be an IEEE member or affiliate.

• Join IEEE
:
• download an IEEE application form, or
• apply for IEEE membership via the on-line membership forms.
=> When you join IEEE, you may join the IEEE Control Systems Society
=> and/or subscribe to our technical publications!

If you are already a IEEE Member, then you can add (Year 2000 prices):

• Control Systems Society membership, includes Control Systems Magazine
  • $15 for IEEE Member
  • $8 for IEEE Student Member
• Subscription to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • $12 for IEEE Member/Affiliate
  • $6 for IEEE Student Member
• Subscription to IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • $8 for IEEE Member/Affiliate
  • $4 for IEEE Student Member
Add a society or publication (a) when you renew, (b) using the short form near the back of the Control Systems Magazine to adding society membership or publications, or (c) by contacting IEEE Member Services member.services@ieee.org .

For information on IEEE membership, go to IEEE Member Services FAQs

• Questions or concerns about your membership?
  Contact IEEE Member Services:
  • Send email to member.services@ieee.org
  • Contact the member.services for your geographical region: For example, member.services.6@ieee.org responds quickly to members from Region 6.

• Trying to locate a Section or Chapter?
  • Web information on Sections and Chapters of  IEEE  by Geographical Region
  • My list of  IEEE CSS chapters - from IEEE January 1997

More Details

• IEEE membership categories include Student, Associate, Affiliate, Member, Society, Senior Member, and Fellow. (Fellows must be nominated.)
• IEEE member sponsors are no longer required for some membership categories.
• Students (with a courseload of at least 6 credits/term) from some IEEE Student Branches may now join IEEE using an on-line Web form.
• Students whose IEEE student branches do not use the on-line form must contact their IEEE student branch at their university and fill out an application. (The Student Branch submits the application for them.)
• Reduced membership fees are available for new graduates, low-income, unemployed, and retired engineers. Contact IEEE Member Services for details.

If you do not have Web access, have trouble downloading the application forms, or just prefer to do everything in hardcopy:

1. Obtain an application:

• Send email to member.services@ieee.org requesting the hardcopy form.
• If you are not on the internet, call 1-732-981-0060 or (in the USA) tollfree 1-800-678-IEEE, or write to IEEE/CSS, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ, 08855-1331 USA, for the membership application.

Include your name, organization, phone number, fax number, and address. Mention whether or not you are a student.

2. Fill out the membership application form.

• You must list Control System Society and/or the specific publications you wish to receive.

3. Send your completed application, with payment, to IEEE (not to me).

Reduced Dues Programs

In addition to the programs for student memberships, IEEE has reduced dues programs for

• Recent graduates from an undergraduate (first) degree, who are continuing members
  • should be assessed the reduced rate on your renewal form; if not, contact IEEE
• Retired members (who were members for at least 5 years) who are not working full-time
  • requires Special Circumstances form
• Unemployed members
  • requires Special Circumstances form
• Minimum income members (income less than US$8,600 in 1997 [for 1998 membership])
  • usually requires Special Circumstances form
  • automatically queried for new or lapsed non-student members by the Web membership forms.

For Special Circumstances form, check your renewal notice, or contact IEEE.

Publications

You should be able to find past Control Systems Society publications in your university library if it subscribes to the IEEE journal package. You can also contact IEEE directly to buy past publications, see IEEE Bookstore Order Information.

Your IEEE membership will entitle you to subscribe to publications at below the publication cost since the Control Systems Society subsidizes publications for members using income from other activities. Be sure to order your publications when joining IEEE or the Control Systems Society. Our journals are available on-line for those who subscribe. (CSS membership entitles you free to the Control Systems Magazine.)

For more information about our publications, check out the IEEE CSS Web Site.

Contact Information:

Molly H. Shor
Chair, Standing Committee on Membership and Admissions
IEEE Control Systems Society

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3211
(541) 737-3168
(541) 737-1300 Fax
shor@ece.orst.edu