Purpose of Establishing a Didactic Membership Category
- Create a link between Education, Suppliers and End Users
- Discuss challenges in industry relating to education
- Discuss challenges in education relating to industry
- Professional registration within education
- Discussions to align education and the automation industry requirements
Rules regarding Didactic Membership
- Fees are the same as that of Regional Membership.
- Membership fees are returned to the Didactic Institute to fund and run a SAIMC branch for the students and lecturers at the institute.
- The education institute registers as a Didactic Institute.
- Qualifying members of the Dicatic Institute then regiosters as Didactic Members
- Third year students and above as well as staff in Automation, Instrumentation, Measurement, Mechatronics, Control and Computer Engineering may register without costs as Didactic Members. They then qualify for the ECSA annual fee discounts.
- SAIMC will guide members to register with ECSA
- As soon as the person leaves the education institution, they need to notify the SAIMC who will change their membership category to the appropriate level
- It is expected that the education institute will confirm the membership of all qualifying members by the 1st January of the upcoming year so that the SAIMC may notify ECSA.
