2014/11/13

IEEEアンケート

EnglishIEEE 札幌支部
IEEE 仙台支部
IEEE 東京支部
IEEE 信越支部
IEEE 名古屋支部
IEEE 関西支部
IEEE 広島支部
IEEE 四国支部
IEEE 福岡支部-IEEEアンケートのお願い-IEEE Member Survey-

日本国内の IEEEの活動を強化し、会員サービスを一層充実するために会員の皆様にアンケートを実施します。ご協力のほどお願い申し上げます。
なお本アンケートは現在IEEEの会員ではないがIEEEに関心のある研究者、技術者の皆様にもお願いしております。この場合は下の * の項目についてご回答をお願いします。
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1.会員情報会員*
所属セクション*

会員

非会員

札幌

仙台

東京

信越

名古屋

関西

広島

四国

福岡

非会員の方はお住まいの住所ををそれぞれ 札幌：北海道、仙台：東北、東京：関東、名古屋：東海、関西：近畿、広島：中国、福岡：九州,沖縄 地方と読み替えて下さい。
メンバーグレード(S,M,SM,Fなど)

会員期間

(年間)

所属ソサイエティ(ieee-cs,ieee-comなど)

専門分野(コンピユータ、デバイス、通信システムなど)

年齢*

30歳未満

30-39歳40-49歳50-59歳

60-69歳

70歳以上

2.現在の所属*
大学

国公立研究機関

基礎研究者

企業

応用研究者

無職

企業の研究者

開発技術者

ここでの定義は 基礎研究： ノーベル賞の対象のような基礎的研究、応用研究： 研究の対象が未定で金額も少ない
将来的研究、開発技術： 開発の対象が顧客がすでにあるなどはっきりしていて金額も多い実用的開発
職種*
学生

大学院生

ポスドク

企業のプロジェクトマネージャ

大学教員

国公立研究機関の研究員

企業の管理者

企業の開発技術者

無職

技術分野 (最も当てはまるもの)*
バイオ医療技術
数学

物理

電気工学

電子工学

ソフトウェア工学

化学

コンピュータ技術

コンピュータ科学

情報技術

通信工学

他の技術分野その他の非技術分野

所属が会社の場合：会社規模(従業員数)
10人以下100人以下1000人以下5000人以下5000人以上博士号取得未取得済み(課程博士)取得済みの方取得済み(論文博士)

IEEEは役に立った 理由

役に立たなかった

会員になった時期
学生のころに入会した(1)

社会人になってから入会した(2)(上記1の方)
先生の推薦

友人の推薦

自分でみつけた(上記2の方)上司の推薦

学生会員からの延長

友人の推薦

国際会議発表/論文投稿を機会に会員になった/留まっている動機(複数回答可)

http://ieeejc.net/IEEE/

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論文掲載希望国際会議での発表希望

国際会議の聴講希望

技術英語の取得

自己のキャリアの拡大のため新分野や隣接分野等の動向を知るため

会議参加費のディスカウント

最新の技術のフォローのため

技術論文の理解

世界で自分を知って貰うため

ライフメンバーの活動がある

その他の動機他学会の会員*ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)

電気学会(IEEJ)

情報処理学会(IPSJ)

電子情報通信学会(IEICE)

映像情報メディア学会(ITE)
その他の学会

日本ロボット学会(RSJ)

音響学会(ASJ)

応用物理学会(JSAP)

照明学会(IEIJ)

日本機械学会(JSME)

上の学会の会員であるがIEEEの会員ではない方、その理由をお聞かせ下さい*
会費が高い
その他の理由

英語が苦手

アカデミックすぎる

あまり役に立たない

3.IEEEのことをどの程度ご存じですか(複数回答可)
IEEE会員は43万人以上で半数以上は米国外またセクション数は世界中で333以上
日本は14000人以上、国内セクションは9
世界を10のリージョンに分け、全体で333のセクジョン(日本はリージョン10に所属)
38のソサイエティと10の技術カウンシル
IEEE Xploreのデジタル図書館には350万のドキュメント、毎月800万件のダウンロード
1500の技術標準と現在進行中のプロジェクト
170の論文誌、定期刊行物と雑誌
92カ国で1300の会議をスポンサー
1000以上のIEEEではない学会などとの会議の共催
419,000人以上がこれらの会議に参加
IEEE Xploreを通じて1200以上の会議プロシーディングを発行
4.今までにIEEEの論文誌などを読んだことがある 論文誌名ない

投稿したことがある 論文誌名ない

5.今までにIEEEの国際会議に参加したことがある(聴講、発表) 会議名

参加したことはない

6.今までにIEEEの催し物に参加されましたか

ソサイエティ主催の会

名称

セクション主催の技術講演会

名称

7.IEEEのボランティアとして活動されましたか
ある どんな内容

ない

今後やってみたい
和文英訳

英文論文添削会議発表指導英文論文指導国際会議運営

通訳

各種委員

8.IEEEが今後会員各個人ごとのポータルサイトを作る場合(myPortal)、どんな項目を期待しますか。*
現在IEEEにはmyIEEEというものがありますが、これをもっと充実し、日常的にみなさんが気軽に覗き利用し、役に立つ情報提供とか会員相互のコミュニケー
ションができるように計画したいと思っています。
特に企業で働いておられる開発技術者は忙しくてなかなか学会に注目する度合いは少ないと思います。今後はIEEEはこういう方々にお役に立てるようにいろ
いろの施策を進めていきたいと思います。ここに自由にご意見をご記入下さい。
会議案内などの情報提供 希望項目
IEEE SNS
Xploreからの情報提供

希望項目

各種案内

希望項目

メール配信

希望項目

その他のご意見

9.IEEEへの要望
会費

ご自分が購読されている新聞、TV,他の雑誌などから考えてどの程度が適当な額と思われますか円

参加希望(以下で参加したいものをチェックして下さい)

http://ieeejc.net/IEEE/

外国での国際会議参加

国

外国での国際会議発表

国

国内での国際会議参加

都道府県

国内での国際会議発表

都道府県

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チュートリアルへの参加 テーマ
ワークショップへの参加

テーマ

技術講演会への参加

テーマ

米国では、特に若手の専門家と企業の開発技術者を対象にMAW(Metropolitan Area Workshop)を開いています。
その例としてボストンで開かれたワークショップをご覧下さい。
情報提供(具体的に)

コンテンツ

標準化活動
IEEEでは標準化活動を行っています。中でも802委員会が有名です。これらの活動に対しての活動に興味がある。

この分野
標準化活動を紹介してほしい。
標準化委員会に参加したいのでその手続きを教えてほしい。
仲間との交流チュートリアルで博士論文の提出先の斡旋

希望する

ワークショップで(具体的に)

その他

希望しない

日本では博士号が取れる大学は限られています。そこでIEEEが研究者/技術者と博士号取得可能な大学の間の橋渡しができるようなシステムを作りたいと計画しています。

就職の斡旋

希望する

希望しない

ベネフット/便宜供与
レンタカーの割引
動物園の割引水族館の割引レストランの割引
その他の希望
女性会員としての希望(WIE)
これからの日本では女性の研究者・開発者-WIE-(women in engineering)の活躍が益々期待されています。IEEEでも積極的に応援することにしています。
(具体的に)
10.国際的活動*
アジアの研究者/技術者との交流

希望する国

外国企業の求人情報/就職情報の提供と斡旋
調査団

希望する

希望しない

参加したい 具体的項目

11.その他* (ご自由に記入して下さい)

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日本語IEEE Sapporo Section
IEEE Sendai Section
IEEE Tokyo Section
IEEE Shin-etsu Section
IEEE Nagoya Section
IEEE Kansai Section
IEEE Hiroshima Section
IEEE Shikoku Section
IEEE Fukuoka Section-IEEE Member SurveyThe IEEE Japanese Sections are conducting this survey to reinforce IEEE activities in Japan and provide more valuable services
to our members.
Please answer the following questions.
This survey is also being conducted for non-IEEE research people and engineers
who are interested in IEEE services. Such people, please answer the items marked *.
You may freely fill in the following textbox with your email address. This address is only used forinquiries and the information guide described in this survey.
Your Email Address
In the following survey, select only one option for radio buttons
and check one or more options for checkboxes
Fill in characters/sentence for textboxes
Input today's date as 0714, 0802 in the next textbox to avoid a crawler search.

(lower case)

1.Member Data
Member Status*

MemberNon Member

Section*

SapporoHiroshima

SendaiTokyo
Shin-etsu
Shikoku
Fukuoka

NagoyaKansaiIEEE non-members, please check above as your address is in
Sapporo:Hokkaido,Sendai:Tohoku,Tokyo:Kanto,Nagoya:Tokai,Kansai:Kinki,
Hiroshima:Chugoku,Fukuoka:Kyushu,Okinawa district.
Member Grade(S,M,SM,F,etc)

Member Duration(years)Registered Societies(ieee-cs,ieee-com,etc)

Professional Fields(Computer、Device、Telecommunication, etc)

Age*under 30

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-69

70 and above

2.Profession*
University

Public InstituteCompany

Basic Researcher
Applied Researcher
Development Engineer and Practitioner

RetiredCompany Researcher

Definition here
Basic Research： Pure research such as that targeted for a Novel Prize、Applied Research： Target of research is not yet decided and the research money is small 、
Development ： Target of the development is clear, e.g. the clients exist and the development money is large.
Affiliation*
Student Graduate Student
Researcher at Public Institute

Post Doctoral Fellow
Company Engineer

University Faculty Member
Project Leader Manager Retired

Professional Field (Check the most appropriate one)*
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics Engineering
ChemistryComputer Engineering
Computer Science
Information Technology
Mathematics
Software Engineering
Telecommunications
Other technical field: specify
Other non-technical field: specify

Physics

Scale of Company(Employees)
less than 10

l1-100101-1000

1001-5000

more than 5000

Ph.D.
Not YetGiven(Course)

For getting the Ph.D.
http://ieeejc.net/IEEE/index-e.jsp

Given(Thesis)

IEEE was useful. Reason

not useful
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When did you become an IEEE member?
Student (1)After graduation (2)(checked 1 above)
recommended by faculty member

recommended by my friend

found by myself(checked 2 above)
boss's recommendation

grade up from student member

recommended by my friend

at the time of submitting a paper or attending an international conference
Motivation for becoming/staying as an IEEE member
to submit a paper
to present a paper at a conference
to attend the conference
to master technical English
to understand technical papers
to enhance my own career
to know the trend of new and contiguous fields
to get the member fee discountto let the world know me

to follow up current technology

to participate in Life Member activities

other motivation
Member of Other Institutes*
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
IEEJ(The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan)
IEICE(The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers)
IPSJ(Information Processing Society of Japan)
ASJ(The Acoustical Society of Japan)
IEIJ(The Illuminating
Engineering Institute of Japan)
ITE(The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers)
RSJ(The Robotics Society ofJapan)JSAP(Japan Society of Applied Physics)
JSME(Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Other InstituteMembers of the above institutes only, please let us know the reason why you are not an IEEE member *expensive feeother reason

English problem

too academic

not useful

3.To what extent you know about IEEE
has more than 430,000 members in more than 160 countries, more than 50 percent of whom are from outside the UnitedStateshas nearly 14,000 members and 9 sections in Japanhas 333 sections in 10 geographic regions worldwide (Japan is in region 10)
has 38 Societies and ten technical Councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests
has more than 3.5 million documents in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, with more than 8 million downloads each month
has more than 1,500 standards and projects under development
publishes approximately 170 transactions, journals, and magazines
sponsors more than 1,300 conferences in 92 countries
partners with more than 1,000 non-IEEE entities globally
attracts more than 419,000 conference attendees
publishes more than 1,200 conference proceedings via IEEE Xplore

4.Have you ever submitted to/read a paper of IEEE transactions or journals?
Yes read : Transaction or Journal nameNo

Yes submit : Transaction or Journal nameNo

5.Have you ever attended an IEEE conference?
Yes as audience or speaker: Conference name

No

6.Have you ever attended IEEE events?
events sponsored by societies: nameevents sponsored by sections: name
7.Have you ever worked as an IEEE volunteer?
Yes, kind of volunteerNo

I wish to act as a volunteer
translation correct English paper supervise a presentation at conference in English
supervise writing a technical paper in English
help conduct an international conference
interpreter committee member
8.What kind of services do you want when IEEE makes a personal portal site?*
Currently, IEEE is providing the service named myIEEE. To enhance the service via Internet, we are planning to make a personal portal
site. This site will be aimed at helping your daily routine work, providing timely information and enabling communication among themembers.
We understand development engineers and practitioners working for companies have the least chance to receive the services of the
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academic institutes. Therefore, IEEE plans to realize various services for these members. Please feel free to write your opinion here.
Information provision such as a near future conference schedule.
Items to receive
IEEE SNS (like Facebook)
Information provision from Xplore

Items to receive

Various events notification Items to receive
E-mail notification

Items to receive

Other opinions
9.Requests to IEEE
Appropriate Member
Fee

Describe it with respect to the newspaper, TV and other magazines you are subscribing to(Yen)

Hope to attend (Check all the following items that apply)

an international conference held abroad(country name)to present a paper at an international conference abroad(country name)an international conference held in Japan(prefecture name)to present a paper at an international conference held in Japan(pref.)

tutorial meeting: theme
workshops: theme
technical seminar: theme
In the USA, workshops called the Metropolitan Area Workshop (MAW) are held for young professionals
and industry practitioners. For example, the Boston workshop is shown here.
Information to receive

contents(in more detail)Standardization Activities
Various kinds of standard activities are underway in IEEE. Among them, 802 standard committee
is a famous one. For these activities,
I am interested in the field of.

Let me know about the standardization activities.
Let me know the procedure to join the IEEE standard activities.
Communication withpeer level engineers

at tutorial meetingotherFix-up your Ph.D. degree

Yes thanks

at workshop(in more detail)No thanks

In Japan, the number of universities where you can apply and get a Ph.D. degree is limited. To solve
this problem, IEEE plans to fix up your Ph.D. degree with the university to which you wish to apply.
Job Placement

Yes, I want.

No, I do not want.

Benefit/Convenience Provided
discount on rent-a-car
discount on zoo entrance fee
discount on aquarium entrance fee
discount on restaurant
other benefit described in
Request from WIEWIE (Women In Engineering) are expected to play an even bigger role in Japan. IEEE strongly supports WIE activities. Please describe
freely below.
(in detail)10.International Activities*
Interchange among Asian researchers and engineers countries
Information provision on global companies and fix-up of recruiting
Survey DelegatesYes thanks

No thanks

Yes, I want to participate: item

11.Other comments* (describe freely below)

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Japan Council

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Question Items for Survey
1.Member and Non-Member Data
Q1.
Q1.(1) Are you an IEEE member or not?
Q1.(2) Which sections are you belonging to?
Q1.(3) What is your membership grade?
Q1.(4)How long have you been an IEEE member?
Q1.(5)What are your registered societies?
Q1.(6)What is your professional field?
Q1.(7)How old are you?
2.Profession
Q2.
Q2.(1)What organization are you working for?
Q2.(2)What category type are you classified in?
Q2.(3)What is your affiliation?
Q2.(4)What do you major in?
Q2.(5) What is the scale of your organization?
Q2.(6)Do you have a Ph.D. degree?
Q2.(7)Was IEEE useful for you to get Ph.D. degree?
Q2.(8)When did you become an IEEE member?
Q2.(9)Who recommended you to be an IEEE member?
Q2.(10) What are the motivations for you to be an IEEE member?
Q2.(11) Are you a member of institutes other than IEEE?
Q2.(12) Please tell why you are not an IEEE member?
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3.About IEEE
Q3.To what extent do you know about IEEE?
4.IEEE Papers
Q4. Have you ever submitted papers for IEEE transactions/journals?
5.IEEE Conferences
Q5.Have you ever attended IEEE conferences?
6.IEEE Events
Q6.Have you ever attended IEEE events?
7.IEEE Volunteers
Q7.
Q7.(1)Have you ever worked as an IEEE volunteer?
Q7.(2)What type of work are you interested in as a volunteer?
8.IEEE Portal
Q8.What kind of services do you expect from IEEE Portal?

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9.Request to IEEE
Q9.
Q9.(1)How much do you think appropriate as an IEEE fee?
Q9.(2)What type of tutorials do you want to expect?
Q9.(3)What kind of workshops do you want to attend?
Q9.(4)What kind of technical seminars do you want to attend?
Q9.(5)What kind of MAW information do you want to get?
Q9.(6)What kind of standardization activities are you interested in?
Q9.(7)Do you want to participate in standardization activities?
Q9.(8)What chances do you want to get exchange views among friend by?
Q9.(9)Do you want to fix-up your Ph.D. degree application?
Q9.(10)Do you want job placement support?
Q9.(11)What benefits must IEEE provide with?
Q9.(12)Describe any other benefits IEEE should provide.
Q9.(13)Describe any about the WIE activities.

10.International Activity
Q10
Q10.(1) What countries do you want to visit and exchange views with engineers?
Q10.(2) Do you want information on global companies and fix-up of recruiting?
Q10.(3)What countries and items do you expect for international survey activities?
11.OtherQ11. Describe other comments.

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Following items are not shown because the survey data are dispersed.
-International conferences(presentation) in Japan-International conferences(attend) in Japan-International conferences(presentation) abroad-International conferences(attend) abroad-Names of international conferences-Mail address(to avoid privacy problem)-Scale of companies-Events by societies-Read papers published by IEEE
-Names of journals/transactions to which you submitted papers-Attended events by societies5Q1.(1) Are you an IEEE member or not?

Before taking this survey, it was anticipated that the data of
non-IEEE members was few. But, it is very good that we have
got many data of non-IEEE members.
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Only 4.3% of total Japanese IEEE members responded.
Japanese IEEE members are about 14,000.
Members who answered to this survey are 605.
This small number can be interpreted as follows:(1) Since membership application goes directly to the IEEE not throughsections , IEEE members are not aware of sections and theiractivities.
(2) This survey, they think, may be nothing to do with their interest to
the IEEE.
(3) Japanese volunteers working in the Sections and Council can be said
simply to contribute to the 4% of Japanese IEEE members.
(4) This number is considered good because even the IEEE president
election is on the vote of the 15% of IEEE members.

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Q1.(2) Which sections are you belonging to?

Shin-etsu section seems to fail in notifying survey.
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Q1.(2)sections
are yougrade?
belonging to?
Q1.(3)Which
What isyour member

JC thanks Kansai and Tokyo Sections for its effort to obtain
not a few non-IEEE member answers.

9Q1.(3) What is your membership grade?

It is important that more members
should be upgraded from members
to SM.

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Q1.(4)How long have you been an IEEE member?

Retention rate:8.40 years

We should be proud of this membership continuation but it should be
noted that number of members from 2 to 10 years is small compared to 1 year.
11Q1.(5)What are your registered societies?

For acronym, see
http://www.ieee.org/documents/trans_journal_names.pdf
Big five societies are Computer Society, Communication
Society, MTT-S, ED-S, and Photonics Society.
12Q1.(6)What is your professional field?

The members in telecommunication and computer technology are large
while bio-electronics and robotics are yet small.
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Q1.(7)How old are you?

Under 40 is 27%.

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Q1.(7)How old are you?

Under 40 is 52%.

This year, IEEE redefined YP from 10 to 15
years after graduation.

Young non-IEEE members under 40
years old are dominant compared tomembers.

It is interesting to know that the new definition of ‘YP’ is more
appropriate to non-IEEE members.

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Q2(1)What organization are you working for?

This graph shows that IEEE is academic-oriented in Japan.
16Q2(1)What organization are you working for?

This and previous graphs have clearly revealed that industry practitioners
are the main target for our IPC team.
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Q2.(2)What category type are you classified in?

This survey denoted the basic research as ‘Pure research such as thattargeted for a Novel Prize’. However, this graph clearly shows Japanese
researchers/engineers are very fond of the word ‘basic’.
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Q2.(2)What category type are you classified in?

This graph seems to tell that IEEE is for researchers notfor development engineers.
19Q2.(3)What is your affiliation?

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Q2.(3)What is your affiliation?

It is more likely that each section has asked for non-IEEE member students andindustry workers to write this survey but not for non-IEEE faculty members.
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Q2.(4)What do you major in?

The number of bio-technology is yet small.
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Q2.(4)What do you major in?

The ratio of telecommunication and computer science has decreased fornon-members while electricity and information increase.

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Q2.(4)What do you major in?
Other technical fields?

This question is related to one of the criticism of this survey that is mainly
for EE engineers not for mechanical and other engineers.
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Q2.(4)What do you major in?
Other non technical fields?

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Q2.(6)Do you have a Ph.D. degree?

66% of members have Ph.D. degree.
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Q2.(6)Do you have a Ph.D. degree?

We know that there are opinions for increase of the so-called course Doctors
for industry workers. This is a policy of MEXT(Ministry of Science and Education).
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Q2.(7)Was IEEE useful for you to get Ph.D. degree?

51% is presenting papers at conference,reading and submitting papers.

This shows that the paper presentation at the conference
and paper submission are important to get Ph.D.
Is IEEE happy to play a role of professors meeting at the university?
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Q2.(8)When did you become an IEEE member?

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Q2.(9)Who recommended for you to be an IEEE member?
When I was a student30

Q2.(9)Who recommended for you to be an IEEE member?
After graduation

We should ask company managers to be more influential to engineers andpractitioners.
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Q2.(10) What are the motivations to be an IEEE member?

It is due to Japanese employment system that academic institute like IEEE isnothing to do with personal ‘carrier development’.
For some companies, volunteer activities by WIE are even worse for promotionin the company.
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Q2.(10) What are the motivations to be an IEEE member?
Otherreasons to stay IEEE
Other
reasons?

It is shown that volunteer activities are
motivation to stay as an IEEE member.

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Q2.(11) Are you a member of the institutes other than IEEE?

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
IEEJ(The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan)
IEICE(The Institute of Electronics, Information andCommunication Engineers)
IPSJ(Information Processing Society of Japan)
ASJ(The Acoustical Society of Japan)
IEIJ(The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan)
ITE(The Institute of Image Information and Television
Engineers)
RSJ(The Robotics Society of Japan)
JSAP(Japan Society of Applied Physics)
JSME(Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers)

Big three national societies are IEIEC,IEEJ and IPSJ.

Participation rate of institutes is 2.4 institutes/member.

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Q2.(11) Are you a member of the institutes other than IEEE?

Participation rate of institutes is 0.5 institutes/non-member.
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Q2.(12) Please tell why you are not an IEEE member?

This year, three candidates for IEEE president did
not mention about the membership fee. If one of
the candidates promises the reduction of the fee,
he will get more chance to be elected to be the IEEE
president.
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Q2.(12) Please tell why you are not an IEEE member?
Other reasons?

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Q3.To what extent do you know about IEEE?

Only the items seem to be known (not quantitatively).
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Q3.To what extent do you know about IEEE?

Xplorer is fairly known even among non-members.
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Q6. Have you ever attended IEEE section events?

This shows that Japanese sections
are not yet well known among
Japanese IEEE members although
they have restructured in 1998.

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Q7.(1)Have you ever worked as an IEEE volunteer?

Conference related volunteers are many.
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Q7.(2)What type of work are you interested in as a volunteer?

Conference and committee related volunteers
are many.

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Q8.What kind of services do you expect from IEEE Portal?

Mail dispatch service seems to overlap with other services.

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Q8.What kind of services do you expect from IEEE Portal?
Announcement?

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Q8.What kind of services do you expect from IEEE Portal?
Xplorer?

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Q8.What kind of services do you expect from IEEE Portal?
Events?

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Q8.What kind of services do you expect from IEEE Portal?
Mail Send?

Many members want myPortal to dispatch the stuffs that are focused on personal
interest. However, it is difficult to implement the system for personal interest on
conferences, events, etc.
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Q9.(1)How much do you think appropriate for IEEE fee?

It is of prime importance how to reduce the membership fee.
They say that
(1)Volunteer system of academic institutes e.g. IEEE is week at its cost reduction.
(2)Some officers elected by vote come from academia who are week at managing
organization.
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Q9.(2)What type of tutorials do you want to attend?

The items are dispersed. It is important
how to select the items for MAW next year.

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Q9.(3)What kind of workshops do you want to attend?

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Q9.(4)What kind of technical seminars do you want to attend?

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Q9.(5)What kind of MAW information do you want to get?

It seems that MAW is not well known among engineers.
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Q9.(6)What kind of standardization activities are you interested in?

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Q9.(7)Do you want to participate in standardization activities?

Standardization is important for industry practitioners.
They say that current standard documents are difficult to read. If so,
it should be improved.

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Q9.(8)What chances do you want to get exchange views among friends by?

Volunteers and company managers think thatthe exchange-views among friends are important.
But the survey seems to tell that the members are
not interested in it.

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Q9.(9)Do you want to fix-up your Ph.D. degree application?

This is one of discussion items for IPC.
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Q9.(10)Do you want job placement support?

This is another item for discussion.

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Q9.(11)What benefits must IEEE provide?

We must learn from U.S. and Singapore cases.

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Q9.(12)Describe any other benefits IEEE should provide.

Is there any good idea to discount the hotel charge for attending conferences?
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Q9.(13)Describe any about the WIE activities.

Since the items are dispersed , more detailed survey
seems necessary for WIE.
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Q10.(1) What countries do you want to visit andexchange views with engineers?

Singapore is unamazingly ranked No.3 among Japanese engineers
following China and India.
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Q10.(2) Do you want information on global companies andfix-up of recruiting?

This is another item for discussion.
We proposed this at the previous SC in Amsterdam as oneof important IEEE functions.

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Q10.(3)What countries and items do you expect for international
survey activities?

This question seems too broard to answer.

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Q11. Other comments.

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(1)
-Invite more conferences to Japan. It is important to let Japanese participate
in them and increase their presence in the community.
-Xplore is not good because it disables the paper submission after the content
was presented at the conference.
-PR of Japanese universities to foreign students.
-The survey of this kind is wonderful. The proposed items is necessary to berealized. If the volunteer activities become more visible, more volunteer
activities become possible. Let young engineers participate in IEEE activities.
-This survey sometimes is hard to write in.
-Xplore should be free of charge without any limitation if he/she is an IEEE
member.
-It is not good that IEEE imposes strong limitation on the 'in cooperation with'conferences.
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(2)-IEEE is well known overseas including Asian countries. But it is not wellknown in Japan. Hope to increase the popularity of IEEE and PR of its benefits
with respect to national societies. It is expected that Japanese Sections
become the gateway to the globalization of engineers.

-I got the course Dr degree for engineers outside universities. I think that the
information about this is valuable to activate the young engineers.
-The events in Ishikawa and Toyama prefs. are few in Nagoya section.

-Let the IEEE members freely download any papers.
-Increase the number of magazines that can be viewed by Xplore.
-I feel now that Japanese 'visibility' has decreased as I have committed in IEEE
as a volunteer. I expect that Japanese engineers not only write papers but act
as volunteers.

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(3)
-The cost performance of IEEE is very worse compared to IEEJ. One reason islanguage barrier. The fee should be about ¥5000. Increase the mail announce
by Japanese and the usefulness of the home page.
-I had a connection with IEEE when I was a student. But, it is not now because I
became to work for company and engage in development.
-I want IEEE to provide information on the study and work abroad in
conjunction with helping to get Ph. D. degree.
-In 2014, I became a non-member because useful information is few.
-I want to know the technology trend that IEEE provides. But, it is difficult daily
to check its information because of my job. It is good to list up its summary sothat I can look into detail the items that are interesting to me.
-I am a member of national societies but not a member of IEEE. The reason isthat it is difficult to access to the information because it is written in English. I
hope that IEEE stays more close to us.
67Concluding remarks(1) Japanese IEEE members see TAB is big while MGA is small.
(2) Through this survey, it has been clarified that past and present Japanese IEEE
members are simply interested in reading the published papers, attending theinternational conferences, and to a small extent, submitting the papers. Thus,
they are not interested in sections' events.
(3) This survey shows that the volunteer activities for TAB are highly respected
while those for MGA/Region/Sections not.
(4) IEEE membership fee is considered high (as twice as members expect). Its
solution should be discussed.
(5) IEEE is not well known even for engineers working for companies in our field.
More PR activities must be done to let them know IEEE.
(6) Japanese non-IEEE members have been very cooperative to write this survey.
And thus, it seems that the promotion of some IEEE member value and benefits
will lead them to become IEEE members.
(7) For industry practitioners, the entrance to become IEEE members is not simply
through publications and events that IEEE has served for the members so far.
Some other benefits should be provided for them, e.g. kind of tutorials through
MAW. However, it should be noted that MAW is not yet known among Japanese68
engineers.

End of Survey

Acknowledgment
IPC Team of Japan Council thank not only IEEE members but also non-members
who answered for this survey.

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