Return on Investment for Member Societies
The Sensors Council delivers exceptional value to its 26 IEEE member societies through multidisciplinary collaboration in sensors technology—requiring minimal investment while providing maximum returns through publications, conferences, global networking, and leadership opportunities.
Your only ongoing cost: Travel expenses for one representative to attend two semi-annual AdCom meetings. However, this is covered by IEEE Sensors Council if representatives of member societies chair selected committees of the Council, such as the standing committees. The Council has remained financially self-sustaining since inception with reserves consistently above 50% of annual expenses.
Category |
Value Delivered |
|---|---|
| Visibility | Web and social promotion, shared booth, event advertising |
| Technical Impact | Journals, Distinguished Lecturers, and standards initiatives |
| Member Engagement | WiSe, Collaboration and Engagement, Young Professionals, and Chapters |
| Networking & Leadership | AdCom seats, volunteer pathways, and global exposure |
| Financial | No liability, self-sustaining structure, member discounts |
40+ lectures annually promoting the field of sensors to the engineering and scientific community, delivered at local IEEE chapters, universities, companies, high schools, and science fairs.
The Standards Committee and Member Society Relations Committee collaborate to organize standards workshops at member society conferences. The Industry Liaison Committee (formed 2015) coordinates industry initiatives, identifies new sensor standards topics, and creates sponsorship opportunities linking industry with Council conferences.
MSRC ensures every member society maximizes its partnership value, serving as the primary liaison between societies and Council leadership.
The Sensors Council is committed to expanding value for member societies. We invite exploration of these strategic collaboration areas:
MSRC actively seeks input from member societies on collaboration opportunities. We encourage societies to bring forward ideas that leverage our collective strengths and expand impact across the sensor ecosystem.
The Council has demonstrated consistent growth and innovation since its founding in 1999:
"Being the representative of EPS in Sensors Council gave me an opportunity to see how different IEEE OUs can collaborate in different activities. MSRC enables the member society representatives to collaborate with SC and bring some best practices on both sides."
Representative, IEEE Electronics Packaging Society
"The MSRC ensures every society's voice is heard and that collaboration brings measurable value."
Chair MSRC, Past President, IEEE Sensors Council
The fields of interest of the Council and its activities shall be the theory, design, fabrication, manufacturing and application of devices for sensing and transducing physical, chemical, and biological phenomena, with emphasis on the electronics, physics and reliability aspects of sensors and integrated sensor-actuators.
The purpose of the Sensors Council is to foster joint activities among societies engaged in sensors-related research and/or use of sensors in specific applications.
When the Council was formed in 1999, each of the 26 joining member societies paid a one-time fee of $2,000. The Fall AdCom meeting is hosted annually in conjunction with the IEEE SENSORS conference. In 2016, a second meeting was added to allow for early engagement of new volunteers, improve consistency of programs and projects, enhanced training and mentoring of volunteers, and greater involvement of AdCom members in Council activities. In 2021, it was decided to hold this meeting in conjunction with IEEE INERTIAL conference.
