Steps to sign up for membership:

1. Navigate to this web link: https://www.ieee.org/membership/join/index.html.

2. Sign up for professional membership or student membership (if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate student). Feel free to add any special technical societies to your membership to get on their society list serves and to receive any associated society magazines.

3. Pay! You can write off this membership on your taxes (that is, if you don’t take the standard deduction).

Steps to sign up for IEEE email alias:

1. Navigate to this web link: https://www.ieee.org/membership/products/google-apps.html

2. Read the benefits paragraph.

3. Follow the hyperlink: “Sign up for GoogleApps@IEEE service.”

4. Log in using your new IEEE login and follow any prompts.

5. When it comes time to sign in, you log in via a Gmail portal by:

A. Providing in the username spot your IEEE email alias

B. When prompted by the IEEE software/website, logging in using your IEEE account information.

Your IEEE email address is perfect to give out to casual professional contacts that you want a professional presence with that is neutral to your current job.