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SPS Membership Information and Application
Why Join SPS?
The SPS exists to help students transform themselves into contributing members of the professional community.
Course work develops only one range of skills. Other skills needed to flourish professionally include
effective communication and personal interactions, leadership experience, establishing a personal network of
contacts, presenting scholarly work in professional meetings and journals, and outreach services to the campus
and local communities.
Locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, the SPS offers the opportunity for these important
enrichments to the student’s experience.
What Does it Cost?
To cover in part, the cost of the Society’s services, members pay annual national dues of $20.00. Dues
for those with non-US addresses is $30.00. The remaining costs are covered by AIP funds. Members receive a
membership card and may purchase lapel emblems or pins. Local dues are set by the individual chapters.
What Will I Receive?
Upon payment of your $20.00 dues, you will receive:
How do I Apply?
Apply online using a credit card and our secure membership application form. -OR- Download the membership application form to print and mail in with a check, money order, or credit card information. (This file is in PDF format which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). 
Free Membership With One AIP Member Society
Undergraduates students can receive free membership in one of AIP's ten member societies for up to three years when joining SPS:
The American Physical Society (APS)
Promotes the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and all branches of fundamental and applied physics.
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Devotes itself to the advancement of optics, pure and applied, in all its branches.
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Seeks to increase and diffuse the knowledge of acoustics and to promote its practical applications.
The Society of Rheology (SoR)
Promotes the advancement and applications of rheology, the science of deformation and flow of matter, and its applications.
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Promotes the advancement of the teaching of physics and furtherance of appreciation of the cultural role of physics.
American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
Promotes the study of the arrangement of the atoms in matter, its causes, its nature, and its consequences, and the tools and methods used in such studies.
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Promotes the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science.
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
Seeks to promote the application of physics to medicine and biology.
AVS Science and Technology Society
Promotes communication, dissemination of knowledge, recommended practices, research, and education in the use of vacuum and other controlled environments to develop new materials, process technology, devices, and related understanding of material properties for the betterment of humanity. American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Promotes the scientific study of the Earth and its environment in space. |