IEEE, an association dedicated to advancing innovation and technological 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.
IEEE has:
- More than 423,000 members in more than 160 countries, more than 50 percent of whom are from outside the United States
- More than 117,000 Student members
- 334 Sections in ten geographic Regions worldwide
- 2,116 Chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests
- 3,005 Student Branches at colleges and universities in over 100 countries
- 1,481 Student Branch chapters of IEEE technical societies
- 486 affinity groups; IEEE affinity groups are non-technical sub-units of one or more Sections or a Council. The affinity group patent entities are the IEEE-USA Consultants’ Network, Young Professionals (YP), Women in Engineering (WIE), Life Members (LM), and IEEE Entrepreneurship
- Has 39 Societies and seven technical councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests
- More than 4 million documents in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, with more than 8 million downloads each month
- Has over 1,300 active standards and more than 500 standards under development
- Publishes approximately 200 transactions, journals, and magazines
- Sponsors more than 1,800 conferences in 95 countries while:
- Partnering with more than 1,300 non-IEEE entities globally
- Attracting more than 485,000 conference attendees
- Publishing more than 1,500 conference proceedings via IEEE Xplore