Professional Development Through Membership

Membership Drive 2017

Help your colleagues develop their professional careers: have them join the SBE today.

The SBE wants your help in recruiting new members, and you can win rewards for your efforts. Sponsor a new Member, Associate Member or Sustaining Member between March 1 and May 31, 2017, and you will be eligible for the prize drawings. For each approved new member application you sponsor you will earn $5 off your 2018 membership dues, up to $25. Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2017, to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 26, 2017.

New members are welcome throughout the year. Here's the link to the member application: SBE Membership application

Grand Prize

A trip to the SBE National Meeting held in conjunction with the annual Rocky Mountain Audio Video Expo (AVX) in Denver, CO, October 25 - 26, 2017. Prize package includes round trip airfare for one from within the continental US to the meeting; all SBE National Meeting and engineering conference events; and two nights at the host hotel.

Additional Prizes

donated by Sustaining Members and our bookstore publishers

Comark black leather business card cases
Comark Polo shirts
Comrex swag bags
Dielectric polo shirts
DVEO tropical shirts and sunglasses
ARRL Handbooks courtesy of Kathrein
SBE Store Gift Certificates courtesy of Pebble Broadcast Systems
Wheatstone FM-55 audio processor
Additional prizes will be announced as they are provided.

Golden Recruiter award

This award recognizes a chapter in each size division recruiting the most new members during the Membership Drive.

Category A and B are based on chaper enrollment, Class A represents chapers whose membership is less than the national median. Class B includes chapters with a membership greater than the national median. Plaques will be awarded during the SBE National Awards Dinner on Oct. 26 in Denver.

Membership Drive FAQs

Where do I find new members? Prospective members can be non-members attending chapter meetings, fellow engineers at work or other stations, suppliers or educators.

How do I get credit for new members? Direct prospective members to the SBE website to join online or provide them with a copy of the membership application and ask him/her to fill in your name on the line "Sponsor's Name/Who introduced you to SBE". Once the new member's membership application has been approved, your name will be placed in the prize drawing, which takes place in June 2017.

Official Rules: Only members of the SBE in good standing (national dues paid) are eligible. All applications are subject to approval by the admissions committee per the SBE By-laws. Only sponsorships of new applications for Member, Associate Member and Sustaining Members are eligible for the prize drawings. Each approved application will earn $5 off the recruiter’s 2018 membership dues, up to $25. Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2017, to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 26, 2017. Winners will be notified by mail. Grand prize winner may choose $500 cash in lieu of the trip package. There are no other prize substitutions. Winners are responsible for any taxes on prizes. Employees of the SBE and their family members are not eligible to win. Contest void where prohibited. Entrants agree that their name and likeness may be used by the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Inc. for promotional purposes.