IEEE's two predecessor
AIEE
(
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
) was founded in 1884,
IRE
(Institute of Radio Engineers) was founded in 1912. AIEE interest primarily wired communication (telegraph and telephone), lighting and power systems. IRE concerned mostly radio engineering, which consists of two smaller organizations, wireless radio and telegraph Engineers Association and the Association. With the 1930's rise of electronics, electrical engineering probably also became a member of the IRE, but the
tube
application of technology has become so widespread that the field of IRE and AIEE boundary change
IEEE headquarters in New York, 3 Park Avenue 17th floor
More and more blurred.
World War II,
later, the leaders of the two organizations increasingly competitive firm in 1961, the two organizations decided to merge the two finally merged IEEE 1963 Nian 1 1st.
IEEE headquarters in New York, 3 Park Avenue 17th floor
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) on January 1, 1963 by the merger of AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers) and the IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers US) from, the United States is the largest professional society. IEEE is a
non-profit
Institute of Technology, has nearly 175 countries around the world more than three hundred and sixty thousand members. In electrical and electronic engineering, and computer technology in the field of control, IEEE published literature accounted for nearly thirty percent worldwide. IEEE 300 items will be organized or co-annual technical conference.
IEEE is a non-profit Institute of Technology, the organization is a major international authority on computer, telecommunications, biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics products, and other academic areas. In electrical and electronic engineering, and computer technology in the field of control, IEEE published literature accounted for nearly one-third of the world.
IEEE has been working to promote the development and progress of electrical technology in the theoretical aspects and applications. As a catalyst for technology innovation, IEEE through in the broad areas of event planning and support service needs of its members.
As the world's largest professional academic organization, IEEE play an important role in academic research but also attaches great importance to the development of standards. IEEE specially equipped IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA, IEEE Standard Association), responsible for standardization. Under the IEEE-SA Standards Board, the standard Bureau has set up two sub-committees, namely the new standard-setting committees (New Standards Committees) and the Standards Review Committee (Standards Review Committees). IEEE standards include a plurality of field of electrical and electronic equipment, test methods, the original device, symbols, definitions and test methods.
IEEE standardization presided over the existing 42 professional societies or committees. To qualify presided over the standardization work, every professional societies must submit a document to the IEEE-SA, a description of the selected candidate recommendations to learn the process of IEEE-SA and methods used to supervise the working group. There are currently 25 Society is actively involved in the development of standards, each will learn to set up several committees to develop practical standards according to their own fields. For example, we are familiar with IEEE 802.11,802.16,802.20 series of standards, is 802 Committee of the IEEE Computer Society professional responsible under the auspices of. Also known as IEEE 802 LAN / MAN Standards Committee (LMSC, LAN / MAN Standards Committee), working on physical layer and MAC layer specifications of LAN and MAN.