IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.
IEEE, pronounced “Eye-triple-E,” stands for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The association is chartered under this name and it is the full legal name. To learn more about the association’s name, for more information please read the History of IEEE.
IEEE Quick Facts:
IEEE has:
- Over 460,000 members in more than 190 countries, more than 66 percent of whom are from outside the United States
- More than 171,000 Student members
- 344 Sections in ten geographic Regions worldwide
- 2,709 Chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests
- 3,635 Student Branches at colleges and universities in over 100 countries
- 4,194 Student Branch Chapters of IEEE technical Societies
- 639 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), and Life Members (LM).
IEEE:
- Has 39 technical Societies and eight Technical Councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests
- Has more than 6 million documents in the IEEE Xplore® digital library
- Has an active portfolio of nearly 1,144 standards and more than 1,018 projects under development
- Publishes approximately 200 transactions, journals, and magazines
- Sponsors more than 2,000 conferences and events in 190 countries while contributing over 4 million total conference papers to IEEE Xplore since 1936, with as many as 200,000 new papers added annually.
*Last updated February 2024
