We invite and encourage you to nominate candidates for the grade of IEEE Fellow, by going to www.ieee.org/fellows ; (the deadline this year is March 1).
Election to IEEE Fellow grade is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon an individual by the Institute. The Communications Society has many qualified candidates, but election to IEEE Fellow grade is simply not a matter of merit. One tenth percent of the total IEEE voting membership, excluding Students and Associates, may be elected each year.
Whatever their careers, candidates must have made an outstanding contribution to the electrical and electronics engineering profession. Candidates from any field, including academia, government, and industry, may be nominated if they meet the following requirements at the time the nomination is submitted: 1) candidate must be an IEEE Senior Member; 2 ) candidate must have completed five years of service in any IEEE grade (Note: IEEE Affiliate membership does not apply; and 3) candidate’s membership dues must be paid in full.
Any person is eligible to serve as a nominator with the following exceptions: members of the IEEE Board of Directors, members of the IEEE Fellow Committee, IEEE Technical Society/Council Fellow Evaluating Committee Chairs, members of IEEE Technical Society/Council Evaluating Committees (only if a nomination will be reviewed by their committee) or IEEE staff.
If you have questions, please contact T. Russell Hsing, ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair (thsing [at] telcordia [dot] com)