About IEEE

                                                             

                                                                 

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey. It was formed in 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers. Today it is the world's largest association of technical professionals with more than 400,000 members in chapters around the world. Its objectives are the educational and technical advancement of electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering and allied disciplines.

IEEE is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE inspires a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

IEEE's core purpose is to promote technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE will be essential to the global technical community and to technical professionals everywhere, and be universally recognized for the contributions of technology and of technical professionals in improving global conditions. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society. It is designed to serve professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic and computing fields and related areas of science and technology that underlie modern civilization.

IEEE’s roots go back to 1884. There was one major established electrical industry, the telegraph, which had come to connect the world with a communications system faster than the speed of transportation. A second major area had only barely gotten underway—electric power and light, originating in Thomas Edison’s inventions.

There are more than 400,000 IEEE members in over 160 countries around the world. IEEE members are engineers, scientists and associated professionals whose technical interests are innate in science and technology related field. IEEE, consisting of 2,173 student branches at colleges and universities in 80 countries, has over 107,000 student members. Women in Engineering (WIE) is one of the patent entities of IEEE's Affinity Group. IEEE publishes more than 148 transactions, journals and magazines. The IEEE Xplore Digital Library has over three million documents, available for download and reference.