IEEE Policies

In addition to the policies and procedures presented in Section 7, Part A, the following specific modifications and/or additions to those policies are approved for use within the United States. 

7.200   Congressional Fellows Program  

IEEE and its IEEE-USA Board recognize the value to the IEEE, the profession, the public at-large, and the Congress of the United States of providing timely technical assistance to the U.S. Legislature on matters relating to electrical and electronics engineering.  One means of doing this is by the appointment of qualified practitioners to serve with various Congressmen or their committees in the capacity of Congressional Fellows.

It shall be the continuing policy of the IEEE-USA Board to select a minimum of two such Fellows each year, to arrange for suitable funding for the program including the Fellow's grant or stipend, to see that the Fellow(s) is properly orientated with respect to Congressional procedures and protocols and receives necessary technical support, to assist him or her in securing a suitable assignment within the Congress, and to adequately publicize this program and its impact inside and outside the IEEE.

Fellows shall be selected based on technical competence, on ability to serve in a public environment and on evidence of service to the IEEE and the profession.  Specifically excluded as selection criteria shall be age, sex, creed, race, ethnic background, and partisan political affiliations.  However, the Fellow must be a U.S. citizen at the time of selection and must have been in the IEEE at Member grade or higher for at least four years.  Additional criteria may be established by the selection committee.