Who we are
The IEEE UK&RI section has a vibrant student community of over 2,000 members.
Numerous active student branches located at different universities in the
section provide a local point of contact for the student members at the
respective universities. Student membership of the IEEE provides numerous
benefits at a low cost. The pages below give an overview about the student activities in our section.

IEEE for Students

What is IEEE from the student’s point of view?
IEEE student membership provides a set of benefits specifically targeted at
students in order to increase their positive experience on their way to
becoming an expert in their field. These benefits include, but are not
limited to:
1. Start building your professional network and enhance your future career
Participate in Student Branch activities at your university and attend
technical and professional meetings in the UK&RI section where likeminded
members at various stages of their career paths meet to discuss technical
and professional issues and career concerns.
2. Attend top technical events at low member rates
Accept invitations to attend and participate in numerous technical conferences
in a variety of technical interest areas as well as educational seminars,
technical and professional programmes and courses.
3. Get your own personal subscription to IEEE Spectrum and Potentials
IEEE Spectrum delivers, on a monthly basis, the latest technological
information with behind-the-scenes stories to put the news in context.
IEEE Potentials discusses career issues and other subjects of interest to
those starting out in the electrical and computer engineering professions.
4. Save with low member prices on IEEE products
Your membership gives you access to the world’s most comprehensive source of
electrical and electronics publications, specialised books, conference records,
published standards and e-learning materials. IEEE provides the best technical
information in the world and your membership entitles you to low member prices
on all of it.
5. Establish yourself early in the profession’s premier technical organisation
IEEE members are the technical and scientific professionals making the
revolutionary engineering advances which are reshaping our world today.
To enable young professionals who join IEEE as students to maintain their
membership through the early years of their career, IEEE provides a graduated
dues program. When you graduate with your first professional degree, with no
interruption to your IEEE membership, you may be eligible for up to four years
of reduced IEEE dues and assessments.
Additional information about IEEE student membership is available in the
<Students Section> on the main IEEE website and on the website of the
<Region 8 Student Activities Committee>.
Link 1: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/index.html
Link 2: http://www.r8sac.org/

Student Branches

A Student Branch is a student society at a university that gives students
the opportunity to meet and learn from fellow students, as well as faculty
members and professionals in the field. A good IEEE Student Branch can be
one of the most positive elements in an Electrical Engineering or Engineering
Technology department. IEEE Student Branches are established at over 900
universities and colleges throughout the world. Student Branch activities
offer numerous educational, technical, and professional advantages of IEEE
membership through special projects, activities, meetings, tours and field trips.
Seminars with guest speakers, who are professionals working in the field,
enable students to enhance their knowledge outside the classroom. Student
Professional Awareness Conferences (S-PACs) help increase awareness of
professional issues such as ethics, continuing education, and communication skills.
There are currently 15 active student branches in our section. If you would be
interested in founding a new student branch at your university, please contact
the UK&RI Section Student Activities Chair.

• Brunel University London
• City University London
• <De Montfort University Leicester>  http://ieee.dmu.ac.uk/
• <Dublin City University>  http://ewh.ieee.org/sb/ukridcu/
• Imperial College London
• <Queen Mary, University of London>  http://ieeesb.elec.qmul.ac.uk/
• Strathclyde University Glasgow
• University College Cork
• <University of Bedfordshire>  http://www.beds.ac.uk/cstlabs/ieee
• University of Essex
• <University of Greenwich>  http://ieeegreen.org/web/index.php
• <University of Manchester>  http://ewh.ieee.org/sb/uk/manchester/
• University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
• <University of Southampton>  http://www.ieee.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
• University of Westminster

* UKRI Section Student Branch

If your Student Branch has a website that is not listed above, please e-mail the UKRI Webmaster: (webmaster-ukri@ieee.org).

Additional <resources for student branch volunteers> are available on the
main IEEE website http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/branch_resources.html

How to join?

Joining the IEEE as a student member for a discounted membership fee is
possible through the <corresponding section> of the main IEEE website http://www.ieee.org/join
Once you are a student member of the IEEE, your automatically become a member
of the UK&RI Section if you enter your permanent address as lying either
within the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland.
If there is a student branch registered at your university, you automatically
become a member of the student branch as well. In case there is currently no
student branch at your university, you can still make use of all the other
benefits IEEE student membership grants to you. If you would be interested in
founding a new student branch at your university, please contact the UK&RI
Section Student Activities Chair.

Contact us / Committee
The Student Activities Chair helps Student Branches in the Section
to maintain continuity, provides them resources for managing their
activities, and ensures a steady contact with their Section. He serves
as liaison to Student Branch Counsellors and Student Branch Chairs and
coordinates section wide student activities across the Student Branches.

Student Activities Chair: Andreas Koltes
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0FD

Phone: +44 (0)1223 763679
Mobile: +44 (0)7725 361172
E-Mail: andreas.koltes@cl.cam.ac.uk | koltes@ieee.org

IEEE UK&RI Student Activities

Chairperson:Andreas Koltes Email:andreas.koltes@cl.cam.ac.uk