There are many benefits to becoming an IEEE Senior Member:

• The professional recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence
  
• An attractive fine wood and bronze engraved Senior Member plaque to proudly display.
  
• Up to $25 gift certificate toward one new Society membership.
  
• A letter of commendation to your employer on the achievement of Senior member grade (upon the request of the newly elected Senior Member.)
  
• Announcement of elevation in Section/Society and/or local newsletters, newspapers and notices.
  
• Eligibility to hold executive IEEE volunteer positions.
  
• Can serve as Reference for Senior Member applicants.
  
• Invited to be on the panel to review Senior Member applications.

The requirements to qualify for Senior Member elevation are a candidate shall be an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive or originator in IEEE-designated fields. The candidate shall have been in professional practice for at least ten years and shall have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years.”
To apply, the Senior Member application form is available in 3 formats: Online, downloadable, and electronic version. For more information or to apply for Senior Membership, please see the IEEE Senior Member Program website: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smprogram.html

New Senior Members
The following individuals were elevated to Senior Membership Grade thru March:

Kamal Alameh
Douglas R. Askegard
Saeed Assadi
Michael Burka
Adam J. Coleman
Yujie J. Ding
Noboru Edagawa
Aaron R. Hawkins
Guillaume Huyet
Kelin J. Kuhn
Mary Y. Lanzerotti
Xiang Liu
Stephen A. Lynch
Mohd Adzir Mahdi
Vyacheslav V. Maslov
Maike Miller
Mohamed Missous
Hock Min Ng
Paparao Palacharla
Kurt M. Peters
S. Pookaiyaudom
Stephen E. Ralph
Ravi P. Rao
William T. Rhodes
William L. Robinson
Pradip K. Saha
Masatoshi Suzuki
Robert B. Welstand
Xiang Zhou