Planning Successful Chapter Meetings
Ideas for Chapter Activities
IEEE Distinguished Lecturers Program
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Ideas for Chapter Activities

What has worked for other Chapters may be adaptable to your own. In no particular order, following are some "best practices":

• Establish an Innovation Committee: Students and emerging technologists.
• Mini-symposia across Chapters – cutting edge topics.
• Career days/planning.
• Booths at college days to publicize IEEE (increase awareness at pre-college level).
• Increase industry involvement – help to keep technologists in industry.
• Encourage Chapters to identify "hot" topics and bring in speakers to address those technical needs.
• List Chapter meetings on the Section or Chapter’s Web site.
• Send meeting announcements via email within corporations, universities, government agencies.
• Consider networking lunches or receptions at local restaurants.
• Offer free admission to lunch/dinner meetings to members who bring prospective members.
• Offer free admission to lunch/dinner meetings to members who bring completed Senior Membership applications.
• Have joint meetings among Chapters in related technologies or with related non-IEEE groups such as national societies.
• Offer better leadership training for Chapter officers == how to stage a meeting.
• Develop mentoring programs within Chapters.
• Publicize Chapter meeting to all Section members.
• Leverage local industries’ and universities’ support for membership.
• Match members and non-members at technical conferences.
• Encourage more joint Chapter activities, particularly among Chapters with common interests.
• Expand (add new people to) Society Distinguished Lecturer list.
• Encourage formation of Chapters in areas where there are enough Society members but no Chapter.