IEEE History
The IEEE formed in 1963 with the merger of the AIEE (American institute of Electrical Engineers, formed in 1884), and the IRE (Institute of Radio Engineers, formed in 1912) and it stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, an association dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity, is the world’s largest technical professional society and serve to professionals involved in all aspects of the electrical, electronic, and computing fields and related areas of science and technology that underlie modern civilization. The IEEE has: More than 423,000 members in more than 160 countries, more than 50 percent of whom are from outside the United States. More than 117,000 Student members. 334 Sections in ten geographic Regions worldwide. 2,116 Chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests. 3,005 Student Branches at colleges and universities in over 100 countries. 1,481 Student Branch chapters of IEEE technical societies. 486 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. It Has 39 Societies and seven technical councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests. More than 4 million documents in the IEEE explore Digital Library, with more than 8 million downloads each month. It Has over 1,300 active standards and more than 500 standards under development. It publishes about 200 transactions, journals, and magazines. It Sponsors more than 1,800 conferences in 95 countries while: Partnering with more than 1,300 non-IEEE entities globally, Attracting more than 485,000 conference attendees, Publishing more than 1,500 conference proceedings via IEEE explore.
IEEE Gujarat Section
IEEE Gujarat Section comes under Asia-Pacific Region, the Region 10 of IEEE. The Gujarat Section, a sub section of Bombay Section, was upgraded to full-fledged section on 15th August 1990. In 2004 Gujarat Section was adjudged the Outstanding Small Section of Region 10.
IEEE activities started in Gujarat in 1988 from Baroda (now known as Vadodara), by the first IEEE Student Branch established at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, M S University. The Vadodara sub-section was formed in the year 1988, which was later changed to the entity to Gujarat Sub-section. On 15th August 1990 the Vadodara Sub-section was then upgraded to a full-fledged Section and take its place among the 300 sections worldwide spread out over 150 countries. The IEEE Gujarat University Student Branch was the next student branch unit established in 1994. The IEEE Gujarat Section was carved out from the IEEE Bombay Section mainly for logistic reasons.
The IEEE Gujarat Section endeavors to promote awareness among students on the opportunities that exist in the field of electronics and electrical engineering. Our aim is to bridge the gap between industry and students studying in technology-related fields, while promoting and providing an intellectually stimulating university environment for the student body.
Roughly speaking membership strength of active members is around 500, among which 300 are student members belonging to various student branches. We have 1 Fellow, 25 Senior Members, 170 Members and 15 Associate Members. In 1990 there were around 100 members. These figures may not be precise, only indicative.
In past years, IEEE Gujarat Section was very active in organizing various state and national level technical events for the benefit of student of Gujarat, in particular. These include: National Workshop on Challenges in VLSI,Two-day Intensive Workshop on Embedded Systems, Half Day Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, National Symposium on Packet Data Services in CDMA
In year 2006 also we started with great zeal and enthusiasm with successful organization of the following programs: Workshop on MPEG, Two Day Intensive Workshop on VLSI Chip Design, National Seminar on Computer Vision and Image Processing, Intensive Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing
IEEE Region 10
The IEEE Region 10, or sometimes referred to the Asia Pacific Region comprises 4 Councils, 47 Sections, 6 Sub-sections, 211 Chapters and 245 student branches. It covers a geographical area stretching from South Korea and Japan in the north-east to New Zealand in the south, and Pakistan in the west. With a membership in of about 60,000, it is one of the largest and fastest growing regions in IEEE. There are 10 sections in India which comes under IEEE Region 10.