IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization with more than 500,000 members dedicated to Advancing Technology for the benefit of Humanity. IEEE has been operating for more than 140 years and has members in more than 190 countries around the world. Membership is broadly open to: Engineering; Computer Science; Information Technology; Physical Sciences; Biological and Medical Sciences; Mathematics; Technical Communications; Education; Management and Law and Policy.

The administrative core of IEEE is divided into 10 geographic Regions and further divided into 347 local Sections and more than 3000 Student Branches. The technical core of IEEE is divided into 10 technical divisions and further divided into 39 Societies and more than 4000 local Chapters.

The Lehigh Valley Section was established a little over 100 years ago and includes members from Scranton in the northeast to Reading in the southwest, has more than 800 members, 4 Technical Chapters (Solid State Circuits, Electron Devices, Computer and Power and Energy), 4 Student Branches (Lafayette, Lehigh, Scranton and Wilkes) and a Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group.

30 or more Lehigh Valley Section members are represented in each of 7 different Societies( Power and Energy, Electron Devices, Communications, Young Professionals, Standards Association, Industry Applications, Computer).

Technical, educational and career focused activities are provided to IEEE members at the Student Branch, Technical Chapter and Section levels regularly during the calendar year. Recurring events during the year are the Morton Student Paper Contest (more than 60 years), the summer picnic, Engineer’s Week activities support for PJAS and quarterly meet-n-greets.

The LV Section has several appointed Officer Roles available such as the Vice-Chair, Section Student Activity Coordinator and the Membership & Marketing Coordinator. If you are interested, feel free to reach out to David Thompson directly. Change is no stranger within IEEE and will continue in the next 4 years, for example as Region 1 and Region 2 are merged, remaining as Region 2 and as new Technical Societies and Affinity groups are added.