Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest
professional organization dedicated to advancing technological innovation and
excellence for the benefit of humanity. It was formed in 1st January,1963 from the
merging of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute
of Radio Engineers (IRE).
Currently it has more than 423,000 members and more
than 2600 student branches. IEEE has 46 societies and technical councils. It offers
the platform for not only the graduates but also for the students by providing many
incentives. Such as- scholarships, section funding, awards, student travel grants,
fellowships etc. IEEE helps the students to communicate with the professionals by
joining several societies and seminars.
IEEE Jobsite is such a society which helps to create resume and apply for the jobs.
IEEE provides volunteering and networking opportunities for the members. IEEE
organizes various competitions such as- IEEEXtreme, IEEEMADC etc. An active member
can have the access of IEEE Xplore Digital Library which has over 1.2 million papers
on various topics along with more than 2000 global conferences and 300 pre-reviewed
journals.
It also offers over 500 online courses and eventually helps for the
research paper work. IEEE also provides other benefits such as- IEEE.TV, IEEE
Collabratec etc. It also offers a unique IEEE email address which is an
advertisement free mail forwarding email (Gmail) with 30 gigabytes of shared storage
(Gmail and Google Drive) and is 99.9 percent up time guaranteed by Google.