About IEEE CTU Student Branch
A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E).
IEEE has:
- More than 375,000 members in more than 160 countries; 45 percent of whom are
from outside the United States
- More than 80,000 student members
- 329 sections in ten geographic regions worldwide
- 1,860 chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests
- 1,789 student branches in 80 countries
- 483 student branch chapters at colleges and universities
- 390 affinity groups -- IEEE Affinity Groups are non-technical sub-units of
one or more Sections or a Council. The Affinity Group patent entities are
Consultants' Network, Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering
(WIE) and Life Members (LM)
*Data current as of 31 Dec 2008
IEEE Numbers
- Has a total of 45 societies and councils -- 38 societies and 7 technical councils representing the wide range of technical interests
- Has more than 2 million documents in the IEEE/IET Electronic Library
- Has nearly 1,300 standards and projects under development
- Publishes a total of 144 transactions, journals and magazines
- Sponsors more than 900 conferences annually
CTU Students at the Colorado Springs Engineerng Summit in March
2013.