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The '''Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers''' or '''IEEE''' (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international [[non-profit]], [[professional body|professional organization]] for the advancement of technology related to electricity.  It is the largest technical professional organization in the world (in number of members), with more than 360,000 members in around 175 countries (as of [[2005]]).

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Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include [[Elihu Thomson]] (AIEE, [[1889]]-[[1890]]), [[Alexander Graham Bell]] (AIEE, [[1891]]-[[1892]]), [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] (AIEE, [[1901]]-[[1902]]), [[Lee De Forest]] (IRE, [[1930]]), Frederick E. Terman (IRE, [[1941]]), William R. Hewlett (IRE, [[1954]]), Ernst Weber (IRE, [[1959]]; IEEE, [[1963]]), and [[Ivan Getting]] (IEEE, [[1978]]).  The current (2005) president of IEEE is 
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The current president of IEEE-USA is [[Gerard A. Alphonse]].

==History==

The major interests of the AIEE were wire communications ([[telegraph]] and [[telephony]]) and light and power systems. The IRE concerned mostly [[radio]] engineering, and was formed from two smaller organizations, the Society of Wireless and Telegraph Engineers and the Wireless Institute. With the rise of [[electronics]] in the 1930s, electronics engineers usually became members of the IRE, but the applications of electron tube te(contracted; show full)[[nl:IEEE]]
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