The Institution of Electrical Engineers (I.E.E.) was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers.

The I.E.E. was founded in 1871 as the Society of Telegraph Engineers, changed its name in 1880 to the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians and changed it again to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1889.

It was Incorporated by a Royal Charter in 1921.

In 2006, the I.E.E. merged with the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (I.I.E.) to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology (I.E.T.). Before the merger, the I.E.E. was the largest professional engineering society in Europe, with a worldwide membership of around 120,000. For more click here.

IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)
The IEC is the international organization for the preparation of safety standards and other standards in the area of electrical engineering. International orientation on the focus of its activities is a stated objective of electrotechnical standardization. Considerably more than 50 % of the production of the German electrotechnical industry is exported – international standardization is, therefore, a basis for economic success.