The general charter of the Membership Committee shall be to initiate and carry out activities that will serve to secure new Society and IEEE members and retain existing members. These shall include arrangements for membership tables or booths at the various conferences under Society sponsorship, working with the Chapters and Publicity Committees, and the “Engagement with Young Professionals” representative, to devise ways to bring interested engineers and scientists into the local chapters and recruit them as members, making sure that promotional materials are included in the regular issues of the Newsletter and posted on the Society website, and to keep close contact with the student and young professional members in the society, among other activities.