The world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology
About IEEE
A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for advancing technology.
The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E).
Mission Statement
IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.
Vision Statement
IEEE will be essential to the global technical community and technical professionals everywhere and will be universally recognized for the contributions of technology and technical professionals to improving global conditions.
The IEEE is engaged in an enterprise-wide strategic planning process. The IEEE Envisioned Future, a summary of the long-range strategic plan, details the plan's main elements.
Who IEEE Serves
Through its global membership, IEEE is a leading authority in areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers, and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power, and consumer electronics.
Members rely on IEEE as a source of technical and professional information, resources, and services.
IEEE also serves student members in colleges and universities worldwide to foster an interest in the engineering profession.
Other important constituencies include prospective members and organizations that purchase IEEE products and participate in conferences or other IEEE programs.
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IEEE, an association dedicated to fostering technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, is the world's largest technical professional society. It is designed to serve professionals in all aspects of the electrical, electronic, and computing fields and related areas of science and technology that underlie modern civilization. IEEE's roots, however, go back to 1884, when electricity was just beginning to become a major force in society. One major established electrical industry, the telegraph, which—beginning in the 1840s—had come to connect the world with a communications system faster than the speed of transportation. A second major area was barely underway—electric power and light, originating in Thomas Edison's inventions and his pioneering Pearl Street Station in New York.
In the spring of 1884, a small group of electrical professionals met in New York. They formed a new organization to support professionals in their nascent field and to aid them in their efforts to apply innovation for the betterment of humanity—the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, or AIEE, for short. That October, the AIEE held its first technical meeting in Philadelphia. Many early leaders, such as founding President Norvin Green of Western Union, came from telegraphy. Like Thomas Edison, others came from power, while Alexander Graham Bell represented the newer telephone industry. As electric power spread rapidly across the land—enhanced by innovations such as Nikola Tesla's AC Induction Motor, long-distance AC transmission, and large-scale power plants, and commercialized by industries such as Westinghouse and General Electric—the AIEE became increasingly focused on electrical power and its ability to change people's lives through the unprecedented products and services it could deliver. There was a secondary focus on wired communication, both the telegraph and the telephone. Through technical meetings, publications, and promotion of standards, the AIEE led the growth of the electrical engineering profession. At the same time, through local sections and student branches, it brought benefits to engineers in widespread places.
Over the following decades, with IEEE's continued leadership, the societal roles of the technologies under its aegis continued to spread across the world and reach into more and more areas of people's lives. The predecessor institutions' professional groups and technical boards evolved into IEEE Societies. By the early 21st Century, IEEE served its members and their interests with 38 societies, 130 journals, transactions, and magazines; more than 300 conferences annually; and 900 active standards. Since then, computers have evolved from massive mainframes to desktop appliances to portable devices, all part of a global network connected by satellites and fiber optics. IEEE's fields of interest expanded well beyond electrical/electronic engineering and computing into micro- and nanotechnology, ultrasonics, bioengineering, robotics, electronic materials, and many others. Electronics became ubiquitous—from jet cockpits to industrial robots to medical imaging. As technologies and the industries that developed them increasingly transcended national boundaries, IEEE kept pace, becoming a truly global institution that used the innovations of the practitioners it represented to enhance its excellence in delivering products and services to members, industries, and the public. Publications and educational programs were delivered online, as were member services such as renewal and elections. By 2008, IEEE had 375,000 members in 160 countries, with 43 percent outside of the country where it was founded a century and a quarter before. Through its worldwide network of geographical units, publications, web services, and conferences, IEEE remains the world's leading professional association for advancing technology.
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Education Offerings
The IEEE helps its members meet their continuing education requirements by awarding continuing education units and professional development hours and develops products and services to support these efforts.
The IEEE is an authorized provider of continuing education units through the International Association of Continuing Education and Training.
At the pre-college level, the IEEE works with industry, universities, and government to raise students' literacy in science, math, engineering, and technology.
Grants
Through the IEEE Foundation General Fund and over 80 smaller special-purpose funds, the IEEE Foundation provides approximately US$2 million in philanthropic support each year to IEEE-related programs worldwide.
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Membership
There are over 365,000 IEEE members in over 150 countries worldwide.
IEEE members are engineers, scientists, and allied professionals whose technical interests are in electrical and computer sciences, engineering, and related disciplines.
The highest grade of membership – IEEE fellow – is attained through nomination by peers and approval by the IEEE Board of Directors for distinction in the profession.
Publications
The IEEE publishes nearly a third of the world's technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
This includes about 130 journals, transactions, and magazines and over 400 conference proceedings published annually. The IEEE also produces technical books, monographs, guides, and textbooks with John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
IEEE journals are consistently among the most highly cited in electrical and electronics engineering, telecommunications, and other technical fields.
Conferences
Over 100,000 technical professionals attend more than 300 conferences sponsored or cosponsored by the IEEE each year.
IEEE conferences cover relevant topics, from microelectronics and microwaves to sensors and security, showcasing the depth and breadth of members' technical fields.
Standards
The IEEE is a leading developer of international standards that underpin many of today's telecommunications, information technology, and power generation products and services.
Often the central source for standardization in a broad range of emerging technologies, the IEEE Standards Association has a portfolio of some 900 active standards and more than 400 standards in development, including the prominent IEEE 802® standards for wireless networking.