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Memberships


IEEE members include people from diverse backgrounds; students, engineers, scientists and professionals in the engineering discipline.
The highest grade of membership – IEEE Fellow – is attained through nomination by peers and approval by the IEEE Board of Directors for remarkable contribution to the cause of IEEE.
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 Publications

IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical engineering and computer science fields, publishing 144 transactions, journals and magazines annually.
These journals are consistently among the most highly cited in electrical and electronics engineering, telecommunications and other technical fields.
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Digital Library

IEEE contains an IEEE Xplore® digital library that holds more than 2 million documents from IEEE and IEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings and active IEEE standards.
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Conferences

IEEE sponsored or cosponsors more than 900 conferences every year which are attended by over 100,000 technical professionals worldwide.
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Standards

The IEEE is a leading developer of international standards in today's telecommunications, information technology and power generation products and services.
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.
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 Education Offerings

The IEEE offers various products and services for its members to help them in their education. These products and services are in the form of a Continuing Education Units (CEU) program and IEEE online Professional Development hours.
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.
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Grants

The IEEE Foundation provides approximately US$2 million each year to IEEE-related programs worldwide through the IEEE Foundation General Fund and over 80 smaller special-purpose funds.

This support helps

  • develop educational and public-information programs;
  • sustain historical research services;
  • support workshops that facilitate the exchange of electronic information;
  • propel technological innovation; and
  • increase public awareness about the vast impact of engineering on society.


 


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Awards

Accomplishments in IEEE technical fields are recognized with annual awards for outstanding contributions to technology, society and the engineering profession.
The IEEE Medal of Honor, the IEEE's highest award, recognizes an individual for an exceptional contribution or extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest. Past recipients have included such visionaries as:
• Guglielmo Marconi (1920, for radio telegraphy)
• William Shockley (1980, for junction, analog and junction field-effect transistors)
• Andrew S. Grove (2000, for pioneering research in metal oxide semiconductor devices and technology)


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IEEE BACKGROUND

IEEE, an association dedicated to the fostering of technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, 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.
The primary plan enacted by the IEEE ever since it’s interception in 1884, can be briefly summarised as below:

 

  • Locating permanent headquarters for the organization
  • Providing mechanisms for contact with a far-flung membership and with students, and
  •  Fostering new technical interests through committees established to meet the challenge of increasing specialization

From its earliest origins, the IEEE has advanced the theory and application of electro technology and allied sciences, served as a catalyst for technological innovation and supported the needs of its members through a wide variety of programs and services.