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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Overview

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The IEEE (Eye-triple-E) is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 423,000 individual members in 160 countries, more than 50% of whom are outside the United States.  IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society for the advancement of technology.  The full name is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IEEE has...

  • 39 Societies and 7 technical councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests
  • 2,116 Chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests
  • 2,806 Student branches at colleges and universities in over 100 countries

Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others.

Through its technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE:

  • Produces over 30% of the world’s published literature in electrical engineering, computers, and control technology
  • Sponsors more than 1600 conferences in 95 countries
  • Has more than 1500 standards and projects under development