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2012 Annual Report

Building Global Communities That Connect Ideas With Innovations

2012 IEEE President and CEO Gordon Day IEEE Executive Director and COO E. James Prendergast

Message from the IEEE President
and the Executive Director

In our 50th year since the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) that created the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE became a stronger and more global organization, and a more vigorous advocate for technology in the service of humanity.

In 1963, the newly formed IEEE had about 155,000 members, 9 percent of them outside of the United States. At the end of 2012, we had nearly 430,000 members, 52 percent of them in 190 countries outside of the United States. About 9,400 of today’s members have maintained their membership continuously since 1963. The loyalty and diversity of our members are among our greatest assets.

Who We Are

IEEE was able to grow membership in a number of geographic regions. Many of the largest membership gains came in Asia and the Pacific Rim.

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Message from the IEEE President
and the Executive Director

In our 50th year since the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) that created the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE became a stronger and more global organization, and a more vigorous advocate for technology in the service of humanity.

In 1963, the newly formed IEEE had about 155,000 members, 9 percent of them outside of the United States. At the end of 2012, we had nearly 430,000 members, 52 percent of them in 190 countries outside of the United States. About 9,400 of today’s members have maintained their membership continuously since 1963. The loyalty and diversity of our members are among our greatest assets.

We accelerated our global activities in 2012. In Asia, we moved our offices in Tokyo and Bangalore to new, larger facilities and broadened the geographic responsibility of our Singapore office. We introduced a Chinese edition of IEEE Spectrum, the first non-English edition of our award-winning magazine. In Europe, we set the stage for stronger member engagement in the development of standards and public policy, which included joining other dignitaries at the 4th European Innovation Summit held in the European Parliament in Brussels to discuss The Role of Science and Technology in Support of Innovation. A new partnership with UNESCO on engineering education in Africa strengthens our efforts to assist in building engineering capacity on the continent.

We installed the first four IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu honorary society chapters outside of the United States, in Hong Kong, India, Qatar, and Canada. Members elected the first IEEE president from outside of North America, J. Roberto Boisson de Marca from Brazil, who will serve as IEEE president in 2014. And for the first time, we offered an IEEE-sponsored insurance product to members outside of North America.

The growing strength of our organization is evident in the expansion of our products and services, in major upgrades to our infrastructure, and in the health of our financial position.

We acted on our commitment to provide open access publishing options to those authors who wish, or are required, to publish in open access publications. We created a new multidisciplinary, open access, online journal, IEEE Access, which was launched in 2013. We expanded our portfolio of topical open access journals and created an open access option for our traditional journals.

We strengthened our commitment to emerging technologies, notably in the areas of life sciences, smart grid, electric transportation, and cloud computing. For each of these areas we have created an IEEE Virtual Community and a web portal that directly provides access to topical resources throughout IEEE.

The new IEEE Business Platform, a major and long awaited upgrade of our IT systems to support our operations, was brought online seamlessly and now provides greater reliability, efficiency, and simplicity. New features were added to IEEE Xplore, our digital library, and the conversion of Xplore content to HTML is proceeding steadily, with more than 100,000 articles now accessible in the new format. Two new journals and two new magazines joined our growing publications portfolio, and our publication metrics, including time to publish and publication costs, are steadily improving.

Overall, IEEE operations continue to perform well and support our commitment to provide the best service possible to our members and customers. Total revenue grew 5.6 percent in 2012 compared to 2011, and for the first time exceeded US$400 million.

The voices of IEEE members, long heard in the United States as advocates for the role of technology in improving quality of life and economic prosperity, are increasingly being heard elsewhere. In 2012, IEEE brought together 50 engineering societies, headquartered in 30 countries, in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. The IEEE Standards Association joined OpenStand, a statement of principles for the development of modern international technical standards. Contacts between IEEE leaders and policy makers around the world are frequent, and the reliable, objective information we provide is sought and welcomed. This past year, IEEE twice responded to requests from the European Commission to provide technical experts to serve on high-level advisory groups.

2012 was a very good year. But along with our accomplishments, we will also remember the unprecedented challenges posed by Hurricane Sandy, which not only disrupted our operations for nearly two weeks, but also dramatically affected the lives of many of our members and professional staff in the eastern United States. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sympathy to those who suffered losses and our thanks to those whose extraordinary efforts minimized disruption to the services we provide.

Sincerely,

2012 IEEE President and CEO Gordon Day
Gordon Day's Signature
Gordon W. Day
2012 IEEE President and CEO
IEEE Executive Director and COO E. James Prendergast
James Prendergast's Signature
E. James Prendergast
IEEE Executive Director and COO

Who We Are

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IEEE Society Membership

4,994
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
8,574
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society
1,906
IEEE Broadcast Technology Society
10,201
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
50,702
IEEE Communications Society
2,621
IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society
7,019
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
67,848
IEEE Computer Society
3,487
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
9,666
IEEE Control Systems Society
2,249
IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society
3,666
IEEE Education Society
4,186
IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
10,882
IEEE Electron Devices Society
9,400
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
3,631
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
5,913
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
10,508
IEEE Industry Applications Society
3,490
IEEE Information Theory Society
4,365
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurements Society
1,302
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
3,302
IEEE Magnetics Society
11,939
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
3,360
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
1,997
IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
6,404
IEEE Photonics Society
30,479
IEEE Power & Energy Society
7,813
IEEE Power Electronics Society
873
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society
1,024
IEEE Professional Communication Society
2,026
IEEE Reliability Society
11,701
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
16,957
IEEE Signal Processing Society
1,806
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
10,126
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
4,742
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
2,205
IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
4,767
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
TOTAL: 348,131 Society Memberships*
* 49 percent of IEEE members belonged to one or more societies in 2012.

In 2012, IEEE membership reached
an all-time high at more than 429,000.

That's a 3.1% increase over 2011.

IEEE grew membership in a number of geographic regions.

Over the past decade, some of the largest membership gains came from Asia and the Pacific Rim.

China, India, and Taiwan

Member Workforce

Member Workforce
A
43.1%
Private Industry
B
28.0%
Educational Institution (public or private)
C
9.4%
Public/Government
D
6.1%
Self-employed
E
2.7%
Unemployed
F
3.3%
Retired
G
7.3%
Other