Santa Clara University

BACKGROUND

The IEEE (Eye-Triple-E) is a non-profit organization, technical professional association of more than 365,000 members in approximately 150 countries.  Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace engineering and consumer electronics, among others. 

VISION & MISSION

The IEEE's vision is to advance global prospreity by fostering technological innovation, enabling members' careers and promoting community world-wide.  Its mission is to promote the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.

FACTS

IEEE has......

• Over 300 student branch chapters with more than 68,000 student members
• 27,000 society affiliates
• 307 sections
• 1,446 chapters
• 39 societies and 3 technical councils
• 1.1 milliondocuments in the IEEE/IEE electronic library
• 128 publications of transactions, journals, and magazines
• 300 conferences that it sponsors annually
• A standards Association that has more than 8,350 individual and almost 60 corporate members