1. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
2. Signal Processing Digital Library*
3. Inside Signal Processing Newsletter
4. SPS Resource Center
5. Career advancement & recognition
6. Discounts on conferences and publications
7. Professional networking
8. Communities for students, young professionals, and women
9. Volunteer opportunities
10. Coming soon! PDH/CEU credits
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IEEE Signal Processing Society offers funding to SPS members and chapters to encourage volunteerism and society involvement in local activities. The Society offers funding opportunities for several subprograms under the Member Driven Initiatives program.
In 2021, the MDI program launched two new programs in addition to the existing Seasonal School and Chapter Initiative funding to increase involvement locally through Regional Events and Forums.
SPS members and Chapters can request up to:
In 2022, the Society launched its newest initiative program in collaboration with the IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee. The SPS-HAC initiative program is aimed at utilizing Signal Processing technologies to address local community challenges and has its own separate call for proposals. More information can be found below.
Member Driven Initiative proposals are reviewed on a semi-annual basis.
Current calls for proposals will be sent to all SPS members and posted to the Call for Proposals page on the SPS website.
Seasonal schools are geared towards providing attendees with specialized background in select signal processing topics, professors and established practitioners work with attendees in virtual tutorials and applications, and building meaningful collaborative relationships. For more details, visit the Seasonal Schools page.
Aimed at networking events with topics of interest to industry members. Formats include panel sessions and presentations or lectures by industry experts. Content should be created based on interest to industry and cannot include papers for publication.
Local high quality technical events (such as local workshops or small conferences) to serve the local or regional community. Events should target themes of interest to SPS members. Meetings can include conference paper publications.
Submitted by the local Chapter, these interactive events are designed to provide attendees with specialized background in select signal processing topics, chapter-centered events for practicing engineers, chapter meetings featuring industry executives, outreach to get students at primary schools interested in signal processing, design competitions, or other ideas.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society has partnered with the IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) to conduct a special Call for Proposals to support projects in SPS chapters that utilize Signal Processing technologies to address local community challenges. Projects should present a convincing plan to a) understand the real needs of a local community or local stakeholder organization and b) complete in no more than six months’ time a pilot project utilizing Signal Processing technologies to address those local community challenges.
The official SPS-HAC Call for Proposals and full details on the program are located on the IEEE SPS & HAC Projects Call for Proposals on Signal Processing Technologies for Local Community Challenges page.
The proposal form, along with full details of the current call for proposals for SPS-Humanitarian Activities initiative can be accessed at the following link: IEEE SPS & HAC Projects Call for Proposals on Signal Processing Technologies for Local Community Challenges.
For more information, questions, email sps-mdi@listserv.ieee.org.
If this Proposal Form is approved, the organizers will be encouraged to further develop a full proposal for a more comprehensive review by IEEE Signal Processing Society.
The following eligibility requirements must be met for the proposal to be considered.
Seasonal School, Forum, Regional Meeting, and Chapter Initiative proposals that meet all eligibility requirements can be submitted using the following steps.
Proposal Submission Process
Notification of Decision. Decisions for approved proposals and respective funding amounts will be sent to the organizers of proposals.
View the full 2024 Cycle 2 Member Driven Initiative Call for Proposal here ›
View the Membership Event Organizer Guidelines: For all SPS financially sponsored and co-sponsored membership related events with the main purpose to help organizers create coherent event experiences while remaining compliant with IEEE and SPS policies.