The SPIE Membership Committee is chartered by the SPIE Board of Directors to solicit, collect, evaluate and recommend an annual class of SPIE Members for promotion to Senior Member. After an extensive evaluation, the Committee presents its recommendation in the form of a written report to the Board of Directors. The Board uses the report to form the basis of a final decision as to the individuals that will be promoted in that year. The deadline for applications is the 2nd Monday in September of the current year.
Eligibility
According to the Standard Operating Procedures for Senior Members of SPIE, the Board of Directors may confer the grade of Senior Member on a Member who is a regular, early career, life, or retired Member of the Society at the time they are nominated, and has become distinguished through outstanding contributions in the relevant technologies.
Criteria
Candidates meeting the above eligibility requirements who are nominated for promotion to the grade of SPIE Senior Member will be evaluated by the Society's Membership Committee according to the following criteria:
Nomination Requirements
In order for the Society to fairly and accurately evaluate an individual's nomination to the grade of Senior Member of the Society, certain types of information will be required. The nominator should ensure that this information is provided. This information can be supplied in any form deemed appropriate but, as a minimum, should include:
1. The SPIE Senior Member Nomination Form that requests:
Participation with SPIE - Five years continuous membership (not Student) or active participation within SPIE. Required to be a regular, early career, life, or retired Member at the time of nomination.
Professional experience (both educational and career) - Ten years of professional experience, which may include the following credits for education (counting only the highest degree earned):
1 year for associate degree
3 years for a baccalaureate degree
4 years if you hold a baccalaureate and masters degree
6 years if you hold a doctorate
Significant performance - Five years of significant performance that sets them apart from their peers. In general, this demonstrated performance will be reflected in contributions in one or more of the following areas. Additional notes
Technical leadership
- Project leadership
- Research leadership
- Education leadership
- Entrepreneurial or Technical Management
Technical accomplishments
- Publishing in or reviewing for referred journals or conference proceedings
- Textbooks
- Successful product engineering and development
- Patents
Professional contributions
- Service to SPIE by involvement in conferences, publications, as an SPIE instructor, committee work, or governance
- Service to SPIE through community volunteer work in schools and science fairs, working as an educator, making contributions to the industrial community and or government agencies, contributions to the international cooperation or service to other societies in related fields.
These descriptions need not be limited to the space provided on the Nomination Form. They can be as long as necessary to adequately describe the individual's accomplishments.
2. A complete curriculum vitae including:
- Educational history
- Complete work experience including job-related accomplishments
- Candidate's complete bibliography, including all publications
- A complete listing with descriptions of candidate's honors and awards
- A listing of all patents
3. Nomination Support and Letters of Recommendation
Members in good standing may nominate themselves or other individuals as candidates for SPIE Senior Member status. If a person nominates themselves, then three colleagues must second the nomination by providing letters of recommendation (at least two must be SPIE Members). If another Member makes the nomination, then two colleagues must second the nomination by providing a letter of recommendation (at least one must be an SPIE Member).
The Membership Committee will notify all nominators, in writing, of their acceptance or other action being taken in regard to the individual nominee being considered.
Submit all materials to SPIE by the second Monday in September of the given year:
8 September 2008
14 September 2009
In the event that a nominee is not chosen as a Senior Member of the Society the first time he or she is nominated, the next two consecutive committees automatically consider him or her for Senior Member. Nominators are encouraged to update or add to the nomination materials, if appropriate, prior to the next year's deadline.
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