Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Type	Professional Organization
Founded	January 1, 1963
Origins	Merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers
Key people	Dr. Lewis M. Terman (current president)
Area served	Worldwide
Focus	Electrical, electronics, and information technology[1]
Method	Industry standards, Conferences, Publications
Revenue	330,000,000 USD
Members	365,000+
Website	www.ieee.org

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. Not to be confused with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, I-triple-E). ... Image File history File links IEEE_logo. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ... For the tax agency in Ireland of the same name, see Revenue Commissioners. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1920 × 2560 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1920 × 2560 pixel, file size: 1. ... 3 Park Avenue, from the northeast 3 Park Avenue is an office building located on Park Avenue in New York City, built by Cohen Brothers Realty. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... A professional body or professional organization is an organisation, usually non-profit, that exists to further a particular profession, to protect both the public interest and the interests of professionals. ...

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). This article is about the state. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ... Following several attempts to form a technical organization of wireless practitioners in 1908-1912, the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was finally established in 1912 in New York. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The American Institute of Electrical Engineers was a United States based organization of electrical engineers that existed between 1884 and 1963 (when it merged with the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE)). The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

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. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers was a United States based organization of electrical engineers that existed between 1884 and 1963 (when it merged with the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE)). The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and... Telegraph and Telegram redirect here. ... In telecommunication, Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances. ... Following several attempts to form a technical organization of wireless practitioners in 1908-1912, the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was finally established in 1912 in New York. ... Surface mount electronic components Electronics is the study of the flow of charge through various materials and devices such as semiconductors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, nano-structures and vacuum tubes. ...

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). Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 - March 13, 1937) was an engineer who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, Britain and France. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor and innovator who is credited with the invention of the telephone. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Marconi Wireless Station in Somerset, New Jersey in 1921 Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Lee De Forest, (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Frederick Emmons Terman (born June 7, 1900 in English, Indiana; died December 19, 1982) is widely credited (together with William Shockley) with being the father of Silicon Valley. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... William Reddington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ... An American Physicist and Electrical Engineer, credited (along with Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

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 . Electrical Engineers design power systems. ... Copy of the original phone of Alexander Graham Bell at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the assisted transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... Computer engineering (or Computer Systems Engineering) encompasses broad areas of both electrical engineering and computer science[1]. Computer engineers are electrical engineers that have additional training in the areas of software design and hardware-software integration. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... Nature, Science and PNAS In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. ... Medicament assisted rehabilitation conference in Oslo An academic conference is a conference for researchers (not always academics) to present and discuss their work. ... Standards Organizations are bodies, organizations and institutions that produce, and in some cases measure, standards. ... The word standard has several meanings: Originally, standard referred to a conspicuous object used as a rallying point in battle. ... For delivered electrical power, see Electrical power industry. ... Health Sciences are the group of disciplines of applied science dealing with human and animal health. ... Information and communication technology spending in 2005 Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ... Information Security Components: whereas information is transmitted, stored, encrypted, or processed, its value derives from three main attributes or qualities, i. ... Nanotechnology refers broadly to a field of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale, generally 100 nanometers or smaller, and the fabrication of devices with critical dimensions that lie within that size range. ... Accreditation is a process by which a facilitys services and operations are examined by a third-party accrediting agency to determine if applicable standards are met. ... Prediction of direction of field (B), given that the current I flows in the direction of the thumb. ...

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. For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... An organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established in 1963 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged to create the IEEE. At the time of the merger, the AIEE’s Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing (established...

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. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is a leading developer of global industry standards in a broad-range of industries, including: Power and Energy Biomedical and Healthcare Information Technology Telecommunications Transportation Nanotechnology Information Assurance IEEE-SA has developed standards for over a century, through a...

The current (2008) president of IEEE is Lewis M. Terman. The current (2007) president of IEEE-USA is John W. Meredith.

Criticism

A number of Open Source software proponents, such as Richard Stallman^[1] and Daniel J. Bernstein^[2], have criticized IEEE's copyright policy. When publishing with the IEEE, the author is forced to transfer his copyright^[3] to the IEEE who then sells the paper in journals as well as online without paying anything to the authors or the reviewers. The commercialization of IEEE in the last 50 years is also well known. Attendance fees to conference meetings are also notoriously very high. On the other hand, many IEEE Conferences have already published auto-generated papers without any kind of review (like the IEEE Conferences that were organized by Nagib Callaos; Conferences with the support of IEEE Chapter of Venezuela). Also, IEEE has put in black list authors from Arabic Countries http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20040316/05/ Prof. Gevers (Belgium) organized a petition against this racistic policy of IEEE in 2003. Gevers collected more than 5000 signatures. However, the IEEE stopped the petition elevating Prof. Gevers in the IEEE Fellow Rank. In several IEEE Advertizing brochures and pages of several IEEE Transactions, people of IEEE claim that Culomb, Faraday, Ohm, Maxwell, etc... were members of IEEE. This way of IEEE promotion is considered unacceptable! This has prompted the appearance of new, more open scientific publishers ^[4][5]. Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated rms,[1] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[2] and software developer. ... Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. ...

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.^[6]. A peer-reviewed journal is an academic periodical that has some sort of peer review process to ensure its accuracy. ...

The content in these journals as well as the content from several hundred annual conferences are available in the IEEE's online digital library ^[7]

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 ,^[8] the Education Partners Program,^[9] Standards in Education^[10] and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).^[11]

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^[12] 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).

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 word standard has several meanings: Originally, standard referred to a conspicuous object used as a rallying point in battle. ... The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is a leading developer of global industry standards in a broad-range of industries, including: Power and Energy Biomedical and Healthcare Information Technology Telecommunications Transportation Nanotechnology Information Assurance IEEE-SA has developed standards for over a century, through a... Information and communication technology spending in 2005 Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ... IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards about local area networks and metropolitan area networks. ... Lan can stand for several things: A local area network Lan (airline) formerly LanChile Lan Peru Län, a kind of administrative division used in Sweden Lan Mandragoran, a fictional character in the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. ... Metropolitan area networks, or MANs, are large computer networks usually spanning a city. ... IEEE 802. ... Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ... IEEE 802. ...

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. In some cases external members are invited to vote. 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.

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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 P1619 - Security in Storage Working Group (SISWG)
• 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

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ZigBee is a proprietary set of high level communication protocols designed to use small, low power digital radios based on the IEEE 802. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... The IEEE 802. ... Official WiMax logo WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances in a variety of ways, from point-to-point links to full mobile cellular type access. ... IEEE 829-1998, also known as the 829 Standard for Software Test Documentation is an IEEE standard that specifies the form of a set of documents for use in eight defined stages of software testing, each stage potentially producing its own separate type of document. ... Futurebus (IEEE 896) is a computer bus standard, intended to replace all local bus connections in a computer, including the CPU, memory, plug-in cards and even, to some extent, LAN links between machines. ... The Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is the collective name of a family of standards for computer operating systems to qualify for the name Unix. The SUS is developed and maintained by the Austin Group, based on earlier work by the IEEE and The Open Group. ... POSIX or Portable Operating System Interface[1] is the collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define the application programming interface (API) for software compatible with variants of the Unix operating system. ... ISO/IEEE 11073 Point of Care Medical Device Communication Standards is a family of ISO, IEEE, and CEN joint standards addressing the interoperability of medical devices. ... The IEEE Standard 1076 defines the VHSIC Hardware Description Language or VHDL. It was originally developed by CLSI under contract F33615-83-C-1003 from the United States Airforce in 1983. ... VHDL, or VHSIC Hardware Description Language, is commonly used as a design-entry language for field-programmable gate arrays and application-specific integrated circuits in electronic design automation of digital circuits. ... A VHSIC is a Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit, a type of digital logic circuit. ... In electronics, a hardware description language or HDL is any language from a class of computer languages for formal description of electronic circuits. ... JTAG, an acronym for Joint Test Action Group, is the usual name used for the IEEE 1149. ... JTAG, an acronym for Joint Test Action Group, is the usual name used for the IEEE 1149. ... JTAG, an acronym for Joint Test Action Group, is the usual name used for the IEEE 1149. ... 2-D DCT compared to the DFT The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is a Fourier-related transform similar to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), but using only real numbers. ... Open Firmware is a hardware-independent firmware (computer software which loads the operating system), developed by Sun Microsystems, and used in modern Apple Macintosh computers, Sun Microsystems SPARC based workstations and servers, and PegasosPPC systems, among others. ... Open Firmware (also, OpenBoot) is a hardware-independent firmware (computer software which loads the operating system), developed by Mitch Bradley at Sun Microsystems, and used in post-NuBus PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh computers, Sun Microsystems SPARC based workstations and servers, IBM POWER systems, Pegasos systems, and the laptop designed by... Categories: Stub | Computer buses | IEEE standards ... This article is about the Centronics style port. ... IEEE P1363 is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standardization project for public key cryptography. ... Public key cryptography is a form of cryptography which generally allows users to communicate securely without having prior access to a shared secret key, by using a pair of cryptographic keys, designated as public key and private key, which are related mathematically. ... The 6-pin and 4-pin FireWire 400 Connectors The alternative ethernet-style cabling used by 1394c FireWire is Apple Inc. ... The 6-pin and 4-pin FireWire 400 Connectors The alternative ethernet-style cabling used by 1394c FireWire is Apple Inc. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... IEEE P1901 Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Specifications The project will develop a standard for high speed (>100 Mbps at the physical layer) communication devices via alternating current electric power lines, so called Broadband over Power Line (BPL) devices. ... For other uses, see Power band. ... IEEE 1541 is a standard issued by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) concerning the use of prefixes for binary multiples of units of measurement related to digital electronics and computing. ... // In computing, binary prefixes can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten (such as computer memory sizes). ... IEEE Std 1584-2002 (Guide for Performing Arc-Flash Hazard Calculations) is a standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that provides a method of calculating the incident energy of Arc Flash event. ... An arc flash (or arc blast) event is a type of electrical explosion that results from a fault in a high-current low- or medium-voltage electrical system. ... The Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is a protocol defined in the IEEE 1588 – 2002 standard that allows precise synchronization of networks (e. ... IEEE P1619 is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standardization project for encryption of the stored data. ... IEEE/EIA 12207. ... Information and communication technology spending in 2005 Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ...

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. There are several membership grades. In order to qualify for membership, an individual must meet certain academic or experience requirements. Affiliate membership is available to those who don't meet such requirements. Student memberships are available with a reduced membership fee. Students and affiliate have all the privileges of members, except the right to vote and hold certain offices. Upon meeting certain additional requirements, a member can apply automatically for senior membership. Finally, a member felt to have made a significant contribution to electrical engineering may be nominated an "IEEE Fellow", a distinctive award. Some societies allow "affiliate" members, i.e. members of the society that are not members of IEEE itself. Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. ... The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. ... A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ...

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

The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the IEEE, and has been awarded once each year since 1917, when its first recipient was Major Edwin H. Armstrong. ... The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the IEEE for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts. ... Richard W. Hamming Medal is an award given annually by IEEE for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology. The medal is named after mathematician Richard W. Hamming Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients 2004 - Jack K. Wolf 2003 - Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux 2002 - Peter Elias 2001 - A. G... The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology. ... The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal was instituted by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1976, commemorating the centennial of the invention of the telephone. ... Simon Ramo The IEEE Simon Ramo Medal is an award for exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science, and was etablished by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1982. ... The IEEE Benjamin Lamme Medal was established in 1924 by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE later, IEEE) to recognize members of the AIEE for meritorious achievement in the development of electrical apparatus or machinery. ...

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

The IEEE Standard Association Award is presented annually to an IEEE-SA individual member (who is also an IEEE member) who has made an extraordinary contribution to establishing the IEEE-SA as a world-class leader in standardization. ... The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award is an award given each year to a small team or to an individual that has made outstanding contributions to information storage systems. ... The IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was established in 1919 by the Institute of Radio Engineers (now the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. ... The IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award is given to an individual who has made major contributions to the development of standards in the field of electrical and electronics engineering. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ...

IEEE Societies

In 2007 there were the following societies ^[13]:

• 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

The IEEE Communications Society is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). ... An organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established in 1963 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged to create the IEEE. At the time of the merger, the AIEE’s Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing (established... The Industrial Electronics Society (IES) is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). ... The logo of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) is a transnational group of about 3000 professional engineers and scientists. ... The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) got its start in 1949 as the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Committee on Vehicular and Railroad Radio. ...

Sponsored activities

The IEEE sponsors or is associated with a number of technical conferences each year. IEEE ICME (International Conference Multimedia Expo) is the annual multimedia conference.

See also

• IEEE Computer Society Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) Program

CSDP stands for Certified Software Development Professional Program. ...

References

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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