The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association headquartered in New York City with operations in New Jersey. Formed in 1963 from the merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers, IEEE has over 420,000 members across 160 countries. IEEE publishes numerous journals and conference proceedings, sets industry standards, and provides educational and training opportunities for engineers.

1. Institute of Electrical
and Electronics
Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) is a professional
association for electronic engineering and
electrical engineering (and associated
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2. disciplines) with its corporate office in
New York City[3] 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.[4]

3. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Founded January 1, 1963
Type Professional
association
Tax ID no. 13-1656633[1]
Legal status 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization
Focus Electrical, Electronics,
Communications,
Computer Engineering,
Computer Science and
Information
Technology[2]
Location Piscataway, New
Jersey, US

4. Origins Merger of the American
Institute of Electrical
Engineers and the
Institute of Radio
Engineers
Method Industry standards,
Conferences,
Publications
Members 420,000+
Key people Stephen Welby
(Executive director &
COO)
José M. F. Moura
(President & CEO)
Revenue US$413 million
Website www.ieee.org

5. Due to its expansion of scope into so
many related fields, it is simply referred to
by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-
triple-E), except on legal business
documents. As of 2018, it is the world's
largest association of technical
professionals[5] with more than 423,000
members in over 160 countries around the
world.[6] Its objectives are the educational
and technical advancement of electrical
and electronic engineering,
telecommunications, computer
engineering and allied disciplines.[3][7]
History

6. Origins
The IEEE traces its founding to 1884 and
the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers. In 1912, the rival Institute of
Radio Engineers was formed. Although the
AIEE was initially larger, the IRE attracted
more students and was larger by the mid
1950s.
Growth
The AIEE and the IRE merged to create the
IEEE on 1 January 1963. At that time, the
combined group had 150,000 members,
93% in the United States. By 1984 there

7. were 250,000 members, 20% of whom
were outside the U.S. Today, IEEE has over
420,000 members in 160 countries, with
44.5 percent outside of the U.S This
international growth continues today.[8]
The IEEE headquarters is in New York City
at 3 Park Ave, but most business is done
at the IEEE Operations Center[9] in
Piscataway, NJ, first occupied in 1975.
Controversies
Huawei Ban
In May 2019, IEEE banned Huawei
employees from peer-reviewing papers or

8. handling papers as editors. As members
of its standard-setting body, Huawei
employees can also continue to exercise
their voting rights, attend standards
development meetings, submit proposals
and comment in public discussions on
new standards.[10][11][12]
The IEEE ban has sparked outrage among
Chinese scientists on social media. Some
professors in China decided to quit from
IEEE.[13][14]
On June 3, 2019, IEEE released a
statement, in which it proactively lifted

9. restrictions on Huawei's editorial and peer
review activities.[15][16][17]
IEEE produces over 30% of the world's
literature in the electrical and electronics
engineering and computer science fields,
publishing well over 100 peer-reviewed
journals[18][19] and magazines; it also
sponsors over 1800 conferences and
events.
The published content in these journals as
well as the content from several hundred
annual conferences sponsored by the IEEE
are available in the IEEE online digital
Publications

10. library and research database, IEEE
Xplore,[20] for subscription-based access
and individual publication purchases.[21]
In addition to journals and conference
proceedings, the IEEE also publishes
tutorials and standards that are produced
by its standardization committees. The
organization also has its own IEEE format
paper. In writing IEEE papers, it is not just a
matter of mentioning the author's name or
the page number or the date an article was
published. The most important aspect is
referring to the source by indicating its
number in a square bracket and ensure it

11. corresponds with the full citation as
mentioned in the reference list.[22]
The IEEE provides learning opportunities
within the engineering sciences, research,
and technology.
IEEE offers educational opportunities such
as IEEE e Learning Library,[23] the Education
Partners Program,[24] Standards in
Education[25] and Continuing Education
Units (CEUs).[26]
IEEE eLearning Library is a collection of
online educational courses designed for
Educational activities

12. self-paced learning. Education Partners,
exclusive for IEEE members, offers on-line
degree programs, certifications and
courses at a 10% discount. The Standards
in Education website explains what
standards are and the importance of
developing and using them. The site
includes tutorial modules and case
illustrations to introduce the history of
standards, the basic terminology, their
applications and impact on products, as
well as news related to standards, book
reviews and links to other sites that
contain information on standards.
Currently, twenty-nine states in the United
States require Professional Development

13. Hours (PDH) to maintain a Professional
Engineering license,[27][28] encouraging
engineers to seek Continuing Education
Units (CEUs) for their participation in
continuing education programs. CEUs
readily translate into Professional
Development Hours (PDHs), with 1 CEU
being equivalent to 10 PDHs. Countries
outside the United States, such as South
Africa, similarly require continuing
professional development (CPD) credits,
and it is anticipated that IEEE Expert Now
courses will feature in the CPD listing for
South Africa.

14. IEEE also sponsors a website designed to
help young people better understand
engineering, and how an engineering
career can be made part of their future.
Students of age 8–18, parents, and
teachers can explore the site to prepare
for an engineering career, ask experts
engineering-related questions, play
interactive games, explore curriculum
links, and review lesson plans. This
website also allows students to search for
accredited engineering degree programs in
Canada and the United States; visitors are
able to search by state/province/territory,
country, degree field, tuition ranges, room

15. and board ranges, size of student body,
and location (rural, suburban, or urban).
Through the Student Activities Committee,
IEEE facilitates partnership between
student activities and all other IEEE
entities.[29]
Most IEEE members are electrical and
electronics engineers, but the
organization's wide scope of interests has
attracted people in other disciplines as
well (e.g., computer science, software
engineering, mechanical engineering, civil
Membership grades

16. engineering, biology, physics, and
mathematics).
An individual can join the IEEE as a student
member, professional member, or
associate member. In order to qualify for
membership, the individual must fulfill
certain academic or professional criteria
and abide to the code of ethics and bylaws
of the organization. There are several
categories and levels of IEEE membership
and affiliation:
Student Members: Student membership
is available for a reduced fee to those
who are enrolled in an accredited

17. institution of higher education as
undergraduate or graduate students in
technology or engineering.
Graduate Student Members: Graduate
Student Membership is discounted but
members at this level have greater
privileges than do Student Members.
Members: Ordinary or professional
Membership requires that the individual
have graduated from a technology or
engineering program of an appropriately
accredited institution of higher
education or have demonstrated
professional competence in technology
or engineering through at least six years

18. of professional work experience. An
associate membership is available to an
individual whose area of expertise falls
outside the scope of the IEEE or who
does not, at the time of enrollment, meet
all the requirements for full
membership. Students and Associates
have all the privileges of members,
except the right to vote and hold certain
offices.
Society Affiliates: Some IEEE Societies
also allow a person who is not an IEEE
member to become a Society Affiliate of
a particular Society within the IEEE,
which allows a limited form of

19. participation in the work of a particular
IEEE Society.
Senior Members: Upon meeting certain
requirements, a professional member
can apply for Senior Membership, which
is the highest level of recognition that a
professional member can directly apply
for. Applicants for Senior Member must
have at least three letters of
recommendation from Senior, Fellow, or
Honorary members and fulfill other
rigorous requirements of education,
achievement, remarkable contribution,
and experience in the field. The Senior
Members are a selected group, and
certain IEEE officer positions are

20. available only to Senior (and Fellow)
Members. Senior Membership is also
one of the requirements for those who
are nominated and elevated to the grade
IEEE Fellow, a distinctive honor.
Fellow Members: The Fellow grade is
the highest level of membership,
conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors
upon persons "with [extraordinary
records] of accomplishments in any of
the IEEE fields of interest". It cannot be
applied for directly by the member; the
candidate must be nominated by others,
and of the Institute's voting membership
no more than one in one thousand can

21. be selected as Fellows in any given
year.[30]
Honorary Members: Individuals who are
not IEEE members but have
demonstrated exceptional contributions,
such as being a recipient of an IEEE
Medal of Honor, may receive Honorary
Membership from the IEEE Board of
Directors.[31]
Life Members, Life Senior Members and
Life Fellows: Members who have
reached the age of 65 and whose
number of years of membership plus
their age in years adds up to at least 100
are recognized as Life Members, Life

22. Senior Members or Life Fellows, as
appropriate.
Various technical areas are addressed by
IEEE's 39 societies, each one focused on a
certain knowledge area. They provide
specialized publications, conferences,
business networking and sometimes other
services.[32]
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Society
Medals and awards
Technical societies under the
IEEE

23. IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society
IEEE Broadcast Technology Society
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Components, Packaging &
Manufacturing Technology Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation
Society
IEEE Education Society

24. IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility
Society
IEEE Electron Devices Society
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Society
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
IEEE Industry Applications Society
IEEE Information Theory Society
IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement
Society
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
Society

25. IEEE Magnetics Society
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
Society
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
Society
IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
IEEE Photonics Society
IEEE Power Electronics Society
IEEE Power & Energy Society
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society
IEEE Professional Communication
Society
IEEE Reliability Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

26. IEEE technical councils are collaborations
of several IEEE societies on a broader
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Society on Social Implications of
Technology
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics
Society
IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics &
Frequency Control Society
IEEE Technology and Engineering
Management Society
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
Technical councils

27. knowledge area. There are currently seven
technical councils:[33]
IEEE Biometrics Council
IEEE Council on Electronic Design
Automation
IEEE Nanotechnology Council
IEEE Sensors Council
IEEE Council on Superconductivity
IEEE Systems Council
IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID)[34]
To allow a quick response to new
innovations, IEEE can also organize
Technical committees

28. technical committees on top of their
technical societies and technical councils.
There are currently over twenty such
technical committees.[35]
The IEEE Foundation[36] is a charitable
foundation established in 1973[37] to
support and promote technology
education, innovation and excellence.[38] It
is incorporated separately from the IEEE,
although it has a close relationship to it.
Members of the Board of Directors of the
foundation are required to be active
members of IEEE, and one third of them
IEEE Foundation

29. must be current or former members of the
IEEE Board of Directors.
Initially, the role of the IEEE Foundation
was to accept and administer donations
for the IEEE Awards program, but
donations increased beyond what was
necessary for this purpose, and the scope
was broadened. In addition to soliciting
and administering unrestricted funds, the
foundation also administers donor-
designated funds supporting particular
educational, humanitarian, historical
preservation, and peer recognition
programs of the IEEE.[38] As of the end of
2014, the foundation's total assets were

30. nearly $45 million, split equally between
unrestricted and donor-designated
funds.[39]
In May 2018, Intellitech Corp., an EDA
software company from Dover, New
Hampshire, filed a suit against IEEE to the
United States District Court for the District
of New Hampshire, claiming that the IEEE
had copied, used and modified technical
documents which contained Intellitech's
watermark, and moved for summary
judgment, requesting to establish IEEE's
liability for copyright infringement. The
Legal issues

31. court denied Intellitech's request for
summary judgment and concluded that
the doctrine of implied license put forth by
the IEEE is highly fact-specific, thus
precluding summary judgment.[40] The
court also denied the IEEE's motion for
summary judgment, which sought to
preclude Intellitech from recovering
statutory damages, attorney fees, and
injunction, based on Title 17 of the United
States Code § 412(1).[40]
Glossary of electrical and electronics
engineering
See also

32. Engineering and Technology History
Wiki
IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Honor society
IEEE History Center[41]
Certified Software Development
Professional (CSDP) Program of the
IEEE Computer Society
Institution of Engineering and
Technology (UK)
IEEE Cloud Computing
IEEE conferences
IEEE Standards Association
IEEE Xplore , research database and
online digital library archive

33. GlobalSpec - acquired by IEEE in 2016,
having partnered with them and using
their search engine of engineering and
industrial products.[42]
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