I did a little looking into this topic and have found some suprising information. First, let me tell you a little about what senior membership is. When I started looking into Senior membership, I had a tough time actually figuring out what the advantages were. The membership dues are the same, the periodicals rates are the same, I was beginning to get discouraged. Then I realized one small, but important, point.
Senior membership is to non-academes as tenure is to academics.
Jealous because tenure was something I could never achieve as long as I was not at a university. Senior membership for IEEE members fills this gap. National Engineers week is February 20 to 26, 2000. As in the past, the Piedmont section will be doing visits to local Middle and High schools to give a presentation on Engineering to students. The visits are usually about 45 minutes and we have some prepared material to assist.