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committees working on new standards
for power systems. These committees
provide a great open environment for
networking and career-long support.
Detailed information on committees
can be found at https://www.ieee-pes
.org/technical-activities/committees.
One of the biggest challenges facing
PES today is the transition from student
member to member after graduation,
and we need your help. This can be a
particularly difficult time financially
for many new hires, and often they don't
see room in their limited budget for PES
membership. If they have not seen any
value in PES membership as a student,
chances are they will not make the transition to member after graduation.

PES Chapters
We encourage all of our PES Chapters
to adopt our SB Chapters in their local
area. This can include activities such as
providing speakers for their SB Chapter
meetings, inviting SB Chapter members
to attend local PES Chapter meetings
free of charge, volunteering to serve as

mentors for students, and sponsoring
technical tours for SB Chapters. Also encourage students to get involved in some
of the leading IEEE initiatives like Smart
Village, Smart Cities, and Smart Grid
to experience the value of membership
while they are still students.
All PES graduate students are PES
YP members and can work in officer
positions for their local PES Chapter.
We have success cases with PES graduate students who started work as PES SB
Chapter chairs and then transitioned to
officers in their local PES Chapter. Consider inviting some past PES SB Chapter
chairs and PES graduate students (PES
YP members) to get involved as an officer in your PES Chapter. This action
can bring energy and excitement to your
PES Chapter.
If your local university doesn't have
a PES SB Chapter, reach out to it and
help start one. It only takes a PES faculty advisor and six PES student members. PES has first-year free student
membership valid for individuals who
have never been a PES member. More

information is available at https://www
.ieee-pes.org/pes-communities/students.

PES YPs
We also encourage our YP members to
volunteer to serve as speakers for our SB
Chapters in their local area. Experience
has shown that our student members
very much like to hear from recent graduates in the workforce. YP members
can also volunteer to serve as mentors
and be very helpful in providing advice
for career decisions.

Bottom Line
PES student members need to experience the value of PES membership
while they are still students. Reach out
to them and show them benefits of belonging to our PES family.
We're going to need everyone working together to be able to adapt to all of
the changes that are coming! Today's
PES st udent members a re tomorrow's leaders.
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