IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.
IEEE has:
- Over 427,000 members in more than 190 countries, more than 64 percent of whom are from outside the United States
- More than 145,000 Student members
- 344 Sections in ten geographic Regions worldwide
- 2,702 Chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests
- 3,700 Student Branches at colleges and universities in over 100 countries
- 3,625 Student Branch Chapters of IEEE technical Societies
- 634 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
IEEE:
- Has 39 technical Societies and seven Technical Councils representing a wide range of IEEE technical interests
- Has more than 5 million documents in the IEEE Xplore® digital library, with more than 15 million downloads each month
- Has an active portfolio of 1,032 standards and more than 1,045 projects under development
- Publishes more than 200 transactions, journals, and magazines
- Sponsors more than 2,000 conferences and events in 106 countries while contributing over 4 million total conference papers to IEEE Xplore since 1936, with more than 200,000 new papers added annually