Membership

Suporting Your Members and What They Need To Know About Their ASHRAE Membership

  1. You will receive your membership card and certificate in approximately 4-6 weeks, most likely earlier.
  2. If you applied for Member grade, you will be contacted separately about the timeline for approval of your full membership status.
  3. If you applied as an Associate or Member, you will receive your Handbook in June of the calendar year that your membership covers. So, if you joined in July 2008, you will receive the 2009 Handbook in June 2009.
  4. You should receive your ASHRAE Journal by the end of the month throughout the year.
  5. Once your membership is paid, you can begin using the “members only” sections of the ASHRAE website.  If you applied online, you will already have a login.  If you applied on paper, you will need to go to the website and create a login with the contact information you used in your application and your member number.
  6. Anytime you have questions about membership, contact ASHRAE Customer Service via email at cservice@ashrae.org, or by phone at 1-800-5ASHRAE (US and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (International).
  7. Encourage new members to contact their local chapter once their joined.  Get involved with chapter activities is the best way to get connected with ASHRAE and understand how the grass root level operates.  New members should also be provided with the chapter's roster or get the list of chapter officers and their contact numbers.  This is a good resource incase the new member need help or assistance.  Chapter officers should take this as leadership opportunity in nurturing new members to adapt and be accepted to the ASHARE family.
  8. If you need more help or information, email membership@ashrae.org.

Presidential Awards of Excellence (PAOE) Points
By now, all chapters should have accessed the ASHRAE homepage and enter or updated their respective points per Membership Promotion Criteria.  We believed the online process of entering these points is the easiest for the MP chairs, but Chapter Presidents sometimes handle PAOE point assignments through coordination with their chairs.  But please take time to visit the site and update your PAOE points.  If you do not have your Chapter's login or password, please contact your Chapter President or send an email to vgrant@ashrae.org.

Region VIII Statistics

 

Total Members

New

Delinquents

Cancellation

Advance

%
New

%
Delinquents

% Net
Growth

%
Advance

Arkansas

268

14

29

8

2

5.22

9.76

2.24

0.75

Sheveport

71

1

2

6

0

1.41

2.50

-7.04

0.00

Houston

624

27

49

15

2

4.33

7.36

1.92

0.32

Alamo

226

9

14

16

0

3.98

5.91

-3.10

0.00

Austin

242

18

22

14

0

7.44

8.70

1.65

0.00

Dallas

593

31

32

39

1

5.23

5.20

-1.35

0.17

Central Oklahoma

275

6

7

19

1

2.18

2.21

-4.73

0.36

Northeastern Oklahoma

198

6

7

14

0

3.03

3.00

-4.04

0.00

Fort Worth

272

12

14

15

0

4.41

4.70

-1.10

0.00

West Texas

78

6

11

6

2

7.69

12.36

0.00

2.56

East Texas

77

3

13

1

0

3.90

11.82

2.60

0.00

South Texas

61

4

3

5

0

6.56

4.35

-1.64

0.00

Mexico City

106

17

30

13

0

16.04

19.11

3.77

0.00

Monterrey

105

21

47

12

0

20.00

37.90

8.57

0.00

Guadalajara

36

8

8

5

0

22.22

21.62

8.33

0.00

Total

3234

183

288

188

8

5.66%

8.04%

-0.15%

0.25%

Cancellations and Delinquencies
This is the biggest contributor on why we don't have big net positive growth in our chapters. If you look at the statistics, on the average, some chapters recruited well over 10 percent against the total membership and yet a positive growth of only less than 5 percent. This is because the cancellations pulled it down, and will even drag it lower if we don't pay attention to our delinquent members. Remember, members are delinquent once past 90 days. Chapters should establish telephone committee assigned to handle follow up of delinquencies. It will be encouraging if you can invite the delinquent members to join your chapter meetings.  Remind them of the importance and benefits of maintaining their ASHRAE membership.  As MP chair you are empowered to always promote Membership Promotion in all your meetings.  Think about ASHRAE as a great Society composed of talented individuals and make your members feel that they too can become great.

Regional Activities

· Chapters have been working on delinquencies through phone campaigns, e-mail, and or mail.

· Membership Promotion chairs from 6 of 15 chapters have contacted their MP RVC and forward chapter reports.

· RVC PAOE point totals have been posted on the ASHRAE web site for activity through January 2009.

· The spring 2009 Region VIII CRC will be held in Lubbock, Texas in April.  Membership Promotion Chairs have been heavily encouraged to attend the CRC and will be reemphasized in February at the President’s training meeting in Dallas, Texas.  The 2008 CRC 7 out of 15 incoming Chairs in attendance and 11 out of 15 Chapters represented at the MP Workshop.

· Region VIII has 3 chapters reporting point totals above PAR as of January 13th.

· November reports have been received from Arkansas, Austin, Mexico City, Monterrey, West Texas, East Texas Chapters.

· As of 7/13 of the fifteen Chapters show a positive growth for the year with Monterrey at 8.57%.  Chapter summaries are listed in the attached data summary below.

· Six Chapters reporting mentoring activity.  Reported mentoring includes buddy system for new members and reminders via phone and email.

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Membership in ASHRAE allows access to information about state-of-the-art HVAC&R technology and provides many opportunities to participate in the development of that technology. Participation is available locally, through chapters, and through membership on Society committees, such as standards projects committees, which are responsible for the development of standards, and technical committees which advise the Society on research needs, emerging technologies, and technical matters.

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Manage Your Membership

You can manage various aspects of your membership online, including paying dues and updating your bio. Follow the link below to manage your membership.

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Spring CRC Information

CRC Workshop Materials for Chapter Membership Promotion Chairs now available.

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ASHRAE/CIBSE Reciprocal Membership Agreement

ASHRAE members who hold professional engineering designations can now join CIBSE without undergoing the normal qualifications review. Likewise, CIBSE members can join without undergoing ASHRAE’s admissions and advancement review.

 ASHRAE/CIBSE Reciprocal Application Form (PDF)

  

16-40-40 Student Transfer Program

Before you take off that cap and gown, find out more about ASHRAE’s Student Transfer program – 16-40-40. See how staying in ASHRAE will benefit you in your new career.

YEA

 

ASHRAE is committed to advancing its programs and services for young members. With this in mind, ASHRAE has created a subcommittee called Young Engineers in ASHRAE (YEA), for members age 35 and younger!

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