IEEE

César Cárdenas

Mayo 2010

Profession• A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of

which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definitecompensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain.

• Skill based on theorethical knowledge

• Professional association

• Extensive period of education

• Testing of competence

• Institutional training

• Licenced practicioners

• Work autonomy

• Code of professional conduct or ethics

• Self-regulation

• Public service and altruism

• Exclusión, monopoly and legal recognition

• Control of remuneration and advertising

• High status and rewards

• Indidvidual clients

• Middle-class occupations

• Male-dominated

• Ritual

• Legitimacy

• Inaccesible body of knowledge

• Indeterminacy of knowledge

• Mobility

Career

• Individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan

– people can progress through their careerhorizontally as well as vertically

• Static societies -> dynamic societies

• Continuing Professional Education/Development.

– means by which members of professionalassociations maintain, improve and broaden theirknowledge and skills and develop the personalqualities required in their professional lives.

• Fundamentals Engineering Examination ->Profesional Engineering Examination -> renewal

– DGP, Peritos, Mentor

Professional Development• Refers to skills and knowledge attained for both

personal development and career advancement.

• Encompasses all types of facilitated learningopportunities, ranging from college degrees toformal coursework, conferences and informallearning opportunities situated in practice.

• Described as intensive and collaborative, ideallyincorporating an evaluative stage.

• There are a variety of approaches, including casestudy method, consultation, coaching, communitiesof practice, lesson study, mentoring, reflectivesupervision and technical assistance (ContinuingEducation).

Professional Associations• A.k.a. Professional body, Professional organization,

Professional society.

• Non-profit organization seeking to further a particularprofession, the interests of their members and the publicinterest.

• Learned societies for the academic disciplines underlying theirprofessions

• “A group of people in a learned occupation who are entrustedwith maintaining control or oversight of the legitimatepractice of the occupation”.

• Many professional bodies are involved in the developmentand monitoring of professional educational programs, andthe updating of skills, and thus perform professionalcertification to indicate that a person possessesqualifications in the subject area.

Professional Associations• Sometimes membership of a professional body is

synonymous with certification, though not always.

• Membership of a professional body, as a legal requirement,can in some professions form the primary formal basis forgaining entry to and setting up practice within the profession(licensure).

• Legal issues

• Standardization

• Technical meetings, publications

• Local sections, students branches.

• Beyond groups with common interest!!!

IEEE at a Glance

• IEEE is the world’s largest professional associationdedicated to advancing technological innovation andexcellence for the benefit of humanity.

• IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovationand excellence for the benefit of humanity.

• IEEE and its members inspire a global communitythrough its highly cited publications, conferences,technology standards, and professional and educationalactivities.

• It is designed to serve professionals involved in allaspects of the electrical, electronic and computingfields and related areas of science and technology thatunderlie modern civilization.

IEEE roots• 1884 electricity was just beginning to become a major force

in society.

– founding President Norvin Green of Western Union (Telegraphy).

– Tomas Alba Edison (Power).

– Alexander Graham Bell (Telephone)

• There was one major established electrical industry, the telegraph, which—beginning in the 1840s—had come to connect the world with a communications system faster than the speed of transportation.

• A second major area had only barely gotten underway—electric power and light, originating in Thomas Edison’s inventions and his pioneering Pearl Street Station in New York.

• Guglielmo Marconi’s (Wireless)

• Nikola Tesla’s AC Induction Motor, long distance ACtransmission and large-scale power plants (Westinghouse andGeneral Electric)

• John Fleming’s diode and Lee de Forest’s triode.

• The IRE was devoted to radio, and then increasingly toelectronics.

• It, too, furthered its profession by linking its members throughpublications, standards and conferences, and encouragingthem to advance their industries by promoting innovation andexcellence in the emerging new products and services.

• Television, radar, transistors, computers.

• On 1 January 1963, The AIEE and the IRE merged to form theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. At itsformation, the IEEE had 150,000 members, 140,000 of whomwere in the United States.

• IEEE’s continued leadership, the societal roles of thetechnologies under its aegis continued to spread across theworld, and reach into more and more areas of people’s lives.

• The professional groups and technical boards of thepredecessor institutions evolved into IEEE Societies.

• By the early 21st Century, IEEE served its members and theirinterests with 38 societies; 130 journals, transactions andmagazines; more 300 conferences annually; and 900 activestandards.

• Since that time, computers evolved from massive mainframesto desktop appliances to portable devices, all part of a globalnetwork connected by satellites and then by fiber optics.

• IEEE’s fields of interest expanded well beyondelectrical/electronic engineering and computing into areassuch as micro- and nanotechnology, ultrasonics,bioengineering, robotics, electronic materials, and manyothers.

• Electronics became ubiquitous—from jet cockpits to industrialrobots to medical imaging. As technologies and the industries thatdeveloped them increasingly transcended national boundaries,

• IEEE kept pace, becoming a truly global institution which used theinnovations of the practitioners it represented in order to enhanceits own excellence in delivering products and services to members,industries, and the public at large. Publications and educationalprograms were delivered online, as were member services such asrenewal and elections.

• By 2010, IEEE had over 395,000 members in 160 countries.Through its worldwide network of geographical units,publications, web services, and conferences, IEEE remains theworld's largest technical professional association.

• IEEE will be essential to the global technical community and totechnical professionals everywhere, and be universally recognizedfor the contributions of technology and of technical professionals inimproving global conditions.

• Core values are the essential and enduring principles that guide IEEE.

• Service to humanity: leveraging technology and engineering to benefit humanwelfare; promoting public awareness and understanding of the engineeringprofession.

• Global focus: supporting and embracing the global nature of and need fortechnical work and engineering solutions.

• Trust and respect: promoting a culture where contributions at all levels arevalued; encouraging member driven, volunteer-led, knowledge-basedprojects; building effective volunteer/staff partnerships.

• Growth and nurturing of the profession: encouraging education as afundamental activity of engineers, scientists, and technologists at all levels andat all times; ensuring a pipeline of students to preserve the profession.

• Collaboration and community building: cultivating active, vibrant, and honestexchange among cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary global communities oftechnical professionals.

• Professionalism: creating a world in which engineers and scientists arerespected for their exemplary ethical behavior and volunteerism.

• Intellectual activity: forward-thinking; nurturing new and existing science andtechnology.

• Peer-reviewed: using unbiased information to enhance the quality of life forall people.

Vision

• Be essential to the global technical communityand to technical professionals everywhere,and be universally recognized for thecontributions of technology and of technicalprofessionals in improving global conditions.

• Vivid descriptions are descriptions of what it will be like to achieve the bigaudacious goal.

• The IEEE community and its technologies will positively impact globalprosperity and quality of life.

• Governments will increasingly seek IEEE’s input as an unbiased source oftechnical information.

• Industry will recognize and value IEEE thereby strongly supportingprofessionals’ participation in IEEE.

• Communities around the world will universally recognize and appreciatethe profession and IEEE's role.

• Technological literacy will prevail among all educated citizens.

• IEEE members will have productive, distinguished, and rewarding careers.Increasing numbers of students will choose careers in IEEE fields ofinterest.

• IEEE will be recognized as a global force in shaping education and curriculain IEEE fields of interest.

• IEEE will be a center of excellence in technology information and a globalforce in intellectual property rights management.

• IEEE members will universally find value in active engagement andinvolvement in the organization.

IEEE 3-5 year goals1. Industry professionals and their employers will value IEEE as

a major resource to achieve success.

2. IEEE will improve the professional competencies of studentsand professionals through education.

3. IEEE will increasingly be valued by the global community as acatalyst for a balanced dialogue on technology-related issues.

4. The public will increasingly value the role of IEEE andtechnical professionals in enhancing the quality of life andthe environment.

5. IEEE members will increasingly find value and enjoymentthrough their involvement in the organization.

6. IEEE will operate as a model global association, with alignedpurpose, energy, and infrastructure that facilitates thedevelopment and execution of coordinated strategy.

IEEE Quick Facts• more than 395,000 members in more than 160 countries; 45

percent of whom are from outside the United States

• more than 90,000 student members

• 331 sections in ten geographic regions worldwide

• 1,952 chapters that unite local members with similar technicalinterests

• 1,855 student branches in 80 countries

• 483 student branch chapters at colleges and universities

• 338 affinity groups - IEEE Affinity Groups are non-technicalsub-units of one or more Sections or a Council. The AffinityGroup patent entities are the IEEE-USA Consultants' Network,Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering(WIE) and Life Members (LM)

• *Data current as of 31 Dec 2009.

• 38 societies and 7 technical councils representingthe wide range of technical interests

• has more than 2.5 million documents in the IEEEXplore Digital Library with more than 7 milliondownloads each month

• has 1,300 standards and projects underdevelopment

• publishes 148 transactions, journals andmagazines

• sponsors over 1,100 conferences in 73 countries

Membership

• There are more than 395,000 IEEE members inover 160 countries around the world. IEEEmembers are engineers, scientists and alliedprofessionals whose technical interests arerooted in electrical and computer sciences,engineering and related disciplines.

The highest grade of membership – IEEE Fellow –is attained through nomination by peers andapproval by the IEEE Board of Directors fordistinction in the profession.

Publications

• IEEE publishes nearly a third of the world’s technicalliterature in electrical engineering, computer scienceand electronics. This includes 140 transactions,journals and magazines published annually. Incooperation with John Wiley and Sons, Inc., IEEE alsoproduces technical books, monographs, guides andtextbooks. All IEEE content since 1988 plus selectcontent dating back to 1950 is available in digitalformat.

• IEEE journals are consistently among the most highlycited in electrical and electronics engineering,telecommunications and other technical fields.

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Conferences

• Each year, over 100,000 technicalprofessionals attend the more than 900conferences sponsored or co-sponsoredby the IEEE.

• From microelectronics and microwavesto sensors and security, IEEE conferencescover relevant topics that showcase thedepth and breadth of members’ technicalfields.

Standards

• IEEE is a leading developer of internationalstandards that underpin many of today'stelecommunications, information technologyand power generation products and services.

• Often the central source for standardization ina broad range of emerging technologies, theIEEE Standards Association has a portfolio ofmore than 900 active standards and morethan 400 standards in development. Thisincludes the prominent IEEE 802® standardsfor wireless networking.

Education and Careers

• By awarding continuing education units andprofessional development hours, the IEEE helps itsmembers meet their continuing educationrequirements, and develops products and services insupport of these efforts.

• The IEEE is an authorized provider of continuingeducation units through the InternationalAssociation of Continuing Education and Training.

• At the pre-college level, the IEEE works with industry,universities and government to raise students’literacy in science, math, engineering andtechnology.

Grants• The IEEE Foundation relies on donations to award

grants to new and innovative projects that support avariety of educational, humanitarian, historicalpreservation, and peer recognition programs of IEEEsuch as:

– develop educational and public-informationprograms

– sustain historical research services;

– subsidize workshops that facilitate the exchangeof electronic information;

– propel technological innovation; and

– increase public awareness about the vast impactof engineering on society.

Awards• Accomplishments in IEEE technical fields are

recognized with annual awards for outstandingcontributions to technology, society and theengineering profession.

• The IEEE Medal of Honor, the IEEE's highest award,recognizes an individual for an exceptionalcontribution or extraordinary career in the IEEE fieldsof interest. Past recipients have included suchvisionaries as:

• • Guglielmo Marconi (1920, for radio telegraphy)• William Shockley (1980, for junction, analog andjunction field-effect transistors)• Andrew S. Grove (2000, for pioneering research inmetal oxide semiconductor devices and technology)

Emerging Fields

• Biometrics

• Digital Rights Management (DRM)

• Display Technologies

• Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare

• Earth Observations

• Electric Ship

• Electronic Health Records

• Electronics Recycling

• Fingerprinting

• Hydrogen Economy and Alternative Fuels

• Organic Electronics

• Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)

• Portable InformationDevices

• Remote Sensing

• RFID

• Smart Grids

• Terabit Networks

• Wind Power

• Wireless Fidelity - WiFi

Technology Working Groups

• Cloud Computing

• Healthcare and BioScience

• Networked Multimedia

• Next Generation Computer Architecture

• Smart Grid

IEEE Future Directions Committee

• The primary working objective of the IEEE FutureDirections Committee:

• Incubates emerging technologies and new applicationsof current technologies.

• Identifies opportunities to engage the engineeringcommunity and the general public.

• Works with IEEE members and staff to focus onemerging technologies through technical, professional,and educational activities.

• Serves as a catalyst for new conferences, publications,standards, educational products, forums, white papers,grants and projects to support new technologies.