The following information can also be found at the National IEEE website.

The IEEE (Eye-triple-E) is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 375,000 individual members in 160 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.

Through its technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE:

• has more than 375,000 members in more than 160 countries; 45 percent of whom are from outside the United States
• has more than 80,000 student members
• has 329 sections in ten geographic regions worldwide
• has 1,860 chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests
• has 1,789 student branches in 80 countries
• has 483 student branch chapters at colleges and universities
• 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