The IEEE (Eye-triple-E) is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 360,000 individual members in approximately 175 countries. The full name is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., although the organization is most popularly known and referred to by the letters I-E-E-E .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.The Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest technical society of any discipline. The IEEE originally came into existence in 1884 as the brain-child of a few scientists pursuing the realms of the newly born world of electrical engineering.
Today the institute boasts of over 320,000 members worldwide hailing from over 152 countries around the globe. The institute strives to encourage, organize, and sponsor technical activities all over the world. The main objective is to advance the theory and practice in the fields of electronics, electrical engineering, and computer science and engineering . The IEEE sponsors technical conferences and local branch activities relating to the progress of sciences related to electrical engineering in general. It makes available to members, educational programs concerning the latest developments in the field, helping them keep themselves abreast with today's and tomorrow's technology, that will hopefully mould the lives of us all. Today nearly a quarter of all the technical papers in the world, relating to electrical, electronics, and computer engineering, are published by the IEEE.
Through its technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE
produces 30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology,
holds annually more than 300 major conferences and
has more than 800 active standards with 700 under development.
Through its global membership, the IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics among others. Members rely on the IEEE as a source of technical and professional information, resources and services. To foster an interest in the engineering profession, the IEEE also serves student members in colleges and universities around the world. Other important constituencies include prospective members and organizations that purchase IEEE products and participate in conferences or other IEEE programs.
.: IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer Society is the world's oldest and largest membership association of computer professionals. The largest of the 38 societies that make up the IEEE, the Computer Society is also the leading provider of technical information and services to the computing industry. For more than 50 years, the Computer Society has provided opportunities for professionals to exchange insights and ideas, to solve problems, and to learn what the future of the industry may hold. Membership in the Computer Society is open to anyone with a serious interest in the computing field. More information about the Computer Society's programs, publications, and services is available at http://www.computer.org/.
.: IEEE Vision and Mission
To advance global prosperity by fostering technological innovation, enabling members' careers and promoting community world-wide. The IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.
.: IEEE Code of Ethics
We, the members of the IEEE ,
in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and agree:
1. to accept responsibility in making engineering decisions consistent with the safety, health and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;
2. to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest whenever possible, and to disclose them to affected parties when they do exist;
3. to be honest and realistic in stating claims or estimates based on available data;
4. to reject bribery in all its forms;
5. to improve the understanding of technology, its appropriate application, and potential consequences;
6. to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
7. to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct errors, and to credit properly the contributions of others;
8. to treat fairly all persons regardless of such factors as race, religion, gender, disability, age, or national origin;
9. to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action;
10. to assist colleagues and co-workers in their professional development and to support them in following this code of ethics.
Approved by the IEEE Board of Directors
August 1990
.: IEEE Geographical Regions
Share technical, professional and personal interests with others in IEEE's worldwide member community! Members of the IEEE automatically become members of their local IEEE Section. As of January 2004, there are 304 local Sections and 1,384 technical Chapters spread through ten regions of the world .Wherever you live, there's a good chance that there is an IEEE meeting near you.
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