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The original American Institute of Electrical Engineers bookplate at Harvard University Trust. The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and innovators in the then new field of electrical engineering, among them Nikola Tesla, Thomas Alva Edison, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and Edward Weston.
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Although the AIEE was initially larger, the IRE attracted more students and was larger by the mid-1950s. The AIEE and IRE merged in 1963. [7] The IEEE is headquartered in New York City, but most business is done at the IEEE Operations Center [8] in Piscataway, New Jersey, opened in 1975. [citation needed]
1884 – First AIEE Technical Meeting; 1885 – Galileo Ferraris's Rotating Fields and Early Induction Motors; 1886 – Alternating Current Electrification, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by William Stanley, Jr. 1886 – First Generation and Experimental Proof of Electromagnetic Waves; 1886–1888 – Electric Lighting of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States [1] and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. [2]
The medal continued to be awarded as the IEEE Lamme Medal by the board of directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), after the AIEE organization merged into the IEEE in 1963. The scope was also extended to 'meritorious achievement in the development of electrical or electronic power apparatus or systems.'
IEEE Computer Society (commonly known as the Computer Society or CS) is a technical society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) dedicated to computing, namely the major areas of hardware, software, standards and people, [2] "advancing the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing science and technology."
Charles LeGeyt Fortescue (1876–1936) was an electrical engineer.He was born in York Factory, in what is now Manitoba where the Hayes River enters Hudson Bay.He was the son of a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading factor and was among the first graduates of the Queen's University electrical engineering program in 1898.