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Introduction - IEEE UCSI University Student Branch (ieee.

org)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association with
its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey. It
was formed in 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
and the Institute of Radio Engineers. Today, it is the world's largest association of technical
professionals with more than 420,000 members in over 160 countries around the world. Its
objectives are the educational and technical advancement of electrical and electronic
engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering and allied disciplines

Facts of IEEE including More than 417,000 members in more than 160 countries, more than
50 percent of whom are from outside the United States, IEEE has more than 120,000 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

Other than that, IEEE also has 39 technical Societies and seven technical councils
representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests; more than 4 million documents in the
IEEE Xplore® Digital Library; with more than 8 million downloads each month; has over 1,300
active standards and more than 600 standards under development; Publishes approximately
200 transactions, journals, and magazines, Sponsors more than 1,800 conferences in 98
countries while partnering with more than 1,400 non-IEEE entities globally Attracting more
than 484,000 conference attendees, publishing more than 1,700 conference proceedings via
IEEE Xplore
Sub Introduction – Pathway to IEEE-HKN (hkn.ieee.org)
IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) is the honor society of IEEE (Institute of Electrical &
Electronic Engineers, United States) and is dedicated to encouraging and recognizing
excellence in the IEEE-designated fields of interest. Through a variety of service programs
and leadership training, our members develop lifelong skills that earn them prominent
positions in industry, academia, and the community.

Founded more than 100 years ago, in 1904 by Maurice L. Carr at the University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) was originally established to to acknowledge
ingenuity and innovation in electrical engineering students, and to help electrical engineering
graduates find employment and gain footholds in their careers. The intention of the founding
members of HKN was to recognize and prepare the future leaders of the profession. The
Greek letters ΗΚΝ were chosen from the first, fourth, and last letter of the Greek word for
electron: ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝ. In 1927, the HKN Shield and coat-of-arms were adopted, incorporating
the Wheatstone bridge (and its ability to provide extremely accurate measurements).

IEEE-HKN today is still dedicated to fostering scholarship, leadership, and service in both
engineering students and professional members. In line with IEEE-HKN’s objective to inspire
engineering excellence by providing our members a platform to develop themselves to be
competent engineering professionals as we believe every member has the capabilities to be
successful.

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