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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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The IEEE corporate office is on the 17th floor of 3 Park Avenue in New York City
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has the most members of any technical professional organization in the world, with more than 365,000 members in around 150 countries.

History
The IEEE is incorporated in the State of New York, United States. It was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, founded 1912) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, founded 1884).
The major interests of the AIEE were wire communications (telegraph and telephony) and light and power systems. The IRE concerned mostly radio engineering, and was formed from two smaller organizations, the Society of Wireless and Telegraph Engineers and the Wireless Institute. With the rise of electronics in the 1930s, electronics engineers usually became members of the IRE, but the applications of electron tube technology became so extensive that the technical boundaries differentiating the IRE and the AIEE became difficult to distinguish. After World War II, the two organizations became increasingly competitive, and in 1961, the leadership of both the IRE and the AIEE resolved to consolidate the two organizations. The two organizations formally merged as the IEEE on January 1, 1963.
Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson (AIEE, 1889-1890), Alexander Graham Bell (AIEE, 1891-1892), Charles Proteus Steinmetz (AIEE, 1901-1902), Lee De Forest (IRE, 1930), Frederick E. Terman (IRE, 1941), William R. Hewlett (IRE, 1954), Ernst Weber (IRE, 1959; IEEE, 1963), and Ivan Getting (IEEE, 1978).

[edit] Overview
IEEE's Constitution defines the purposes of the organization as "scientific and educational, directed toward the advancement of the theory and practice of electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering, as well as computer science, the allied branches of engineering and the related arts and sciences." In pursuing these goals, the IEEE serves as a major publisher of scientific journals and a conference organizer. It is also a leading developer of industrial standards (having developed over 900 active industry standards) in a broad range of disciplines, including electric power and energy, biomedical technology and healthcare, information technology, information assurance, telecommunications, consumer electronics, transportation, aerospace, and nanotechnology. IEEE develops and participates in educational activities such as accreditation of electrical engineering programs in institutes of higher learning. The IEEE logo is a diamond-shaped design which illustrates the right hand grip rule. It also sponsors or cosponsors more than 450 international technical conferences each year .
IEEE has a dual complementary regional and technical structure - with organizational units based on geography (e.g., the IEEE Philadelphia Section) and technical focus (e.g., the IEEE Computer Society). It manages a separate organizational unit (IEEE-USA) which recommends policies and implements programs specifically intended to benefit the members, the profession and the public in the United States.
The IEEE consists of 39 societies, organized around specialized technical fields, with more than 300 local organizations that hold regular meetings.
The IEEE Standards Association is in charge of the standardization activities of the IEEE. There are seven steps to its standard setting process, which typically takes 18 months to complete: 1. Securing Sponsorship, 2. Requesting Project Authorization, 3. Assembling a Working Group, 4. Drafting the Standard, 5. Balloting (75% approval required), 6. Review Committee, and 7. Final Vote.
The current (2008) president of IEEE is Lewis M. Terman. The current (2007) president of IEEE-USA is John W. Meredith.

[edit] Publications
Main article: List of IEEE publications
IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and computer science fields, publishing well over 100 peer-reviewed journals.[1].
The content in these journals as well as the content from several hundred annual conferences are available in the IEEE's online digital library [2]

[edit] Educational opportunities
The IEEE provides learning opportunities within the engineering sciences, research, and technology. The goal of the IEEE education programs is to ensure the growth of skill and knowledge in the electricity-related technical professions and to foster individual commitment to continuing education among IEEE members, the engineering and scientific communities, and the general public.
IEEE offers educational opportunities such as Expert Now IEEE ,[3] the Education Partners Program,[4] Standards in Education[5] and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).[6]
Expert Now IEEE is a collection of online educational courses designed for 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 require Professional Development Hours (PDH) to maintain P.E. licensure, encouraging engineers to seek Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for their participation in continuing education programs. CEUs readily translate into Professional Development Hours (PDHs) (1 CEU is equivalent to 10 PDHs).
IEEE also sponsors a website[7] designed to help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be made part of their future. Students (ages 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 and board ranges, size of student body, and location (rural, suburban, or urban).

[edit] Criticism
A number of Open Source software proponents, such as Richard Stallman[8] and Daniel J. Bernstein[9], have criticized IEEE's copyright policy. When publishing with the IEEE, the author is forced to transfer his copyright[10] to the IEEE who then sells the paper in journals as well as online without paying anything to the authors or the reviewers. Attendance fees to conference meetings are also notoriously high. This has prompted the appearance of new, more open scientific publishers[11][12]. However, publishing in IEEE journals is almost mandatory for those operating in the scientific communities of IEEE covered fields: impact factors of IEEE publications are among the highest[13].

[edit] Standards and the IEEE Standards Development Process
IEEE is one of the leading standards-making organizations in the world. IEEE performs its standards making and maintaining functions through the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). IEEE standards affect a wide range of industries including: power and energy, biomedical and healthcare, Information Technology (IT), telecommunications, transportation, nanotechnology, information assurance, and many more. In 2005, IEEE had close to 900 active standards, with 500 standards under development. One of the more notable IEEE standards is the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN group of standards which includes the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard and the IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking standard.
The IEEE standards development process can be broken down into seven basic steps, as follows:
1. Securing Sponsorship: An IEEE-approved organization must sponsor a standard. A sponsoring organization is in charge of coordinating and supervising the standard development from inception to completion. The professional societies within IEEE serve as the natural sponsor for many standards.
2. Requesting Project Authorization: To gain authorization for the standard a Project Authorization Request (PAR) is submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board. The New Standards Committee (NesCom) of the IEEE-SA Standards Board reviews the PAR and makes a recommendation to the Standards Board about whether to approve the PAR.
3. Assembling a Working Group: After the PAR is approved, a "working group" of individuals affected by, or interested in, the standard is organized to develop the standard. IEEE-SA rules ensure that all Working Group meetings are open and that anyone has the right to attend and contribute to the meetings
4. Drafting the Standard: The Working Group prepares a draft of the proposed standard. Generally, the draft follows the IEEE Standards Style Manual that sets “guidelines” for the clauses and format of the standards document.
5. Balloting: Once a draft of the standard is finalized in the Working Group, the draft is submitted for Balloting approval. The IEEE Standards Department sends an invitation-to-ballot to any individual who has expressed an interest in the subject matter of the standard. Anyone who responds positively to the invitation-to-ballot becomes a member of the balloting group, as long as the individual is an IEEE member or has paid a balloting fee. The IEEE requires that a proposed draft of the standard receive a response rate of 75% (i.e., at least 75% of potential ballots are returned) and that, of the responding ballots, at least 75% approve the proposed draft of the standard. If the standard is not approved, the process returns to the drafting of the standard step in order to modify the standard document to gain approval of the balloting group.
6. Review Committee: After getting 75% approval, the draft standard, along with the balloting comments, are submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board Review Committee (RevCom). The RevCom reviews the proposed draft of the standard against the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws and the stipulations set forth in the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual. The RevCom then makes a recommendation about whether to approve the submitted draft of the standard document.
7. Final Vote: Each member of the IEEE-SA Standards Board places a final vote on the submitted standard document. It takes a majority vote of the Standards Board to gain final approval of the standard. In general, if the RevCom recommends approval, the Standards Board will vote to approve the standard.
Notable IEEE Standards committees and formats

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-IEEE 488 — Standard Digital Interface for Programmable Instrumentation, IEEE-488-1978 (now 488.1).
-IEEE 610 — Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology
-IEEE 754 — floating point arithmetic specifications
-IEEE 802 — LAN/MAN
-IEEE 802.1 — Standards for LAN/MAN bridging and management and remote media access control (MAC) bridging.
-IEEE 802.2 — Standards for Logical Link Control (LLC) standards for connectivity.
-IEEE 802.3 — Ethernet Standards for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD)
-IEEE 802.4 — Standards for token passing bus access
-IEEE 802.5 — Standards for token ring access and for communications between LANs and MANs
-IEEE 802.6 — Standards for information exchange between systems.
-IEEE 802.7 — Standards for broadband LAN cabling.
-IEEE 802.8 — Fiber optic connection
-IEEE 802.9 — Standards for integrated services, like voice and data.
-IEEE 802.10 — Standards for LAN/MAN security implementations.
-IEEE 802.11 — Wireless Networking – "WiFi"
-IEEE 802.12 — Standards for demand priority access method
-IEEE 802.14 — Standards for cable television broadband communications
-IEEE 802.15.1 — Bluetooth
-IEEE 802.15.4 — Wireless Sensor/Control Networks – "ZigBee"
-IEEE 802.16 — Wireless Networking – "WiMAX"
-IEEE 829 — Software Test Documentation
-IEEE 830 — Software Requirements Specifications
-IEEE 896 — Futurebus
-IEEE 1003 — POSIX – "Unix" compatibility programming standard
-IEEE 1044 — Standard Classification for Software Anomalies
-IEEE 1059 — Software Verification And Validation Plan
-IEEE 1073 — Point of Care Medical Device Communication Standards
-IEEE 1074 — Software Development Life Cycle
-IEEE 1076 — VHDL – VHSIC Hardware Description Language
-IEEE 1149.1 — JTAG
-IEEE 1149.6 — AC-JTAG
-IEEE 1180 — Discrete cosine transform accuracy
-IEEE 1275 — Open Firmware
-IEEE 1284 — Parallel port
-IEEE P1363 — Public key cryptography
-IEEE 1394 — Serial Bus — "FireWire", "i.Link"
-IEEE P1901 — Broadband over Power Line Networks
-IEEE 1541 — Prefixes for Binary Multiples
-IEEE 1584 — Guide for Performing Arc Flash Hazard Calculations
-IEEE 1588 — Precision Time Protocol
-IEEE 1667 — Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices
-IEEE 12207 — Information Technology
-IEEE Switchgear Committee C37 series of standards for Low and High voltage equipment

Membership and member grades
Most IEEE members are electrical engineers, computer engineers, and computer scientists, but the organization's wide scope of interests has attracted engineers in other disciplines (e.g., mechanical and civil) as well as biologists, physicists, and mathematicians.

Member
Member Grade is limited to those who satisfy a set of IEEE-specified educational and/or professional requirements in IEEE-designated fields of interest. This is usually:

- A three-to-five year university-level or higher degree from an accredited institution or program and in an IEEE-designated field; or
- A three-to-five year university-level or higher degree from an accredited institution or program, plus at least three years of professional work experience engaged in teaching, creating, developing, practicing or managing in IEEE-designated fields; or
- At least six years of professional work experience which demonstrate competence in teaching, creating, developing, practicing or managing within IEEE-designated fields.

Associate Member
Associates are members of the IEEE who do not qualify for Member Grade. They receive all rights and privileges of Members, but they generally cannot participate in the governance of IEEE (e.g., vote in IEEE elections, or hold offices that are restricted to Member Grade and above).

Student Member
Full time students in one of the IEEE disciplines can obtain special reduced dues and are entitled to all of the IEEE Member benefits, excluding the right to vote and hold office. Full time students who already satisfy the requirements for being a member (Graduate Student Members) are entitled also to these rights, while retaining the discounted dues.

Senior Member
The grade of Senior Member is the highest which can be obtained by application. The candidate must have been an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive, or originator in IEEE-designated fields for a total of 10 years, and have demonstrated exceptional performance over the last five.

Fellow Grade
The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession, and is conferred by invitation of the Board of Directors to members of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, and who have made important individual contributions to one or more of these fields. Every year, less than 1 member in a thousand can be promoted to Fellow. On January 1, 2007 there were 5,777 IEEE Fellows [14] These members include Fellow candidates that are selected by the IEEE Fellow committee [15] In 2007, 268 "Senior Members" were promoted to Fellows [16]

Non-members

Affiliate
Society Affiliates are non-members that subscribe solely to one of the technical societies of IEEE. As such, they are not entitled to any IEEE benefits or services that are reserved to IEEE members.

IEEE Awards and Honors
Major Medals
-IEEE Medal of Honor
-IEEE Edison Medal
-IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
-IEEE John von Neumann Medal
-IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
-IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
-IEEE Benjamin G. Lamme Medal
-IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal

Field Awards
-IEEE SA International Award
-IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award
-IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (no longer active)
-IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award
-IEEE Nikola Tesla Award
-IEEE Internet Award
-IEEE Long Island Section Awards & Region 1 Awards [2]
-IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
-IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal

IEEE Societies
In 2007 there were the following societies [17]:
-IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
-IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society
-IEEE Broadcast Technology Society
-IEEE Circuits & 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
-IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
-IEEE Electron Devices Society
-IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
-IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society
-IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
-IEEE Industry Applications Society
-IEEE Information Theory Society
-IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society
-IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
-IEEE Laser & Electro-Optics Society
-IEEE Magnetics Society
-IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society
-IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society
-IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
-IEEE Power Electronics Society
-IEEE Power Engineering Society
-IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society
-IEEE Professional Communication Society
-IEEE Reliability Society
-IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
-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 Vehicular Technology Society

See also
IEEE Computer Society Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) Program

References
1. ^ About IEEE
2. ^ IEEE's online digital library
3. ^ http://www.ieee.org/web/education/Expert_Now_IEEE/index.html
4. ^ http://www.ieee.org/web/education/partners/eduPartners.html
5. ^ http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/education/setf/index.html
6. ^ http://www.ieee.org/web/education/ceus/index.html
7. ^ http://www.tryengineering.org/
8. ^ Richard Stallman's Personal Home Page, section "Long-term action items". Richard Stallman.
9. ^ Don't Publish with IEEE!. D.J. Bernstein. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
10. ^ IEEE copyright transfer form. IEEE.
11. ^ Public Library of Science. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
12. ^ The Insight Journal. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
13. ^ Impact factors of IEEE publications. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
14. ^http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/membership/fellows/fellow_stats_summary_years_2006-2007.xls
15. ^ http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/committee.html
16. ^ http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/new_fellows.html
17. ^ http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/societies/index.html
The Standards & the IEEE Standards Development Process section is based on information originally obtained from the IEEE and IEEE-SA websites, and the Appendix of the article "The Role of Market-Based and Committee-Based Standards," by Sanjiv Patel, Babson College 2002.

External links
-IEEE Global Website
-IEEE Standard Association
-IEEE Xplore — over a million online documents
-Organization of the IEEE
-IEEE Students
-IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD)
-www.tryengineering.org - IEEE website for students age 8-18, and their parents, teachers, and guidance counselors.
-IEEE Virtual Museum A virtual museum that illustrates many of the basic electrical engineering and electricity concepts through examples, figures, and interviews
-The IEEE-USA Entrepreneurs Village, established to support those people who create entrepreneurial businesses based on technology.
-IEEE Components Packaging and Manufacturing and Technology Society
-IEEE Richmond Section Blog
-University of Western Australia IEEE Student Branch
-IEEE PHEV info
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Aerospace and Electronic Systems • Antennas and Propagation • Broadcast Technology • Circuits and Systems • Communications • Components Packaging and Manufacturing and Technology • Computational Intelligence • Computer • Consumer Electronics • Control Systems • Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation • Education • Electromagnetic Compatibility • Electron Devices • Engineering Management • Engineering in Medicine and Biology • Geoscience and Remote Sensing • Industrial Electronics • Industry Applications • Information Theory • Intelligent Transportation Systems • Instrumentation and Measurement • Lasers and Electro-Optics • Magnetics • Microwave Theory and Techniques • Nuclear and Plasma Sciences • Oceanic Engineering • Power Electronics • Power Engineering • Product Safety Engineering • Professional Communication • Reliability • Robotics and Automation • Signal Processing • Social Implications of Technology • Systems, Man and Cybernetics • Ultrasonics, Ferroelectronics and Frequency Control • Vehicular Technology
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