History of The IEE
The Society of Telegraph Engineers (STE) was formed on 17 May 1871 and published the Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers from 1872 to 1880. On 22 December 1880, the STE was renamed as the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians and, as part of this change, renamed their journal the Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians (1881–1882) and later the Journal of the Society of Telegraph-Engineers and Electricians (1883–1888). Following a meeting of its Council on 10 November 1887, it was decided to adopt the name of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). The name of the Institution of Electrical Engineers remains engraved in the marble façade of its headquarters at Savoy Place. As part of this change, their Journal was renamed Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1889 and kept this title until 1963. In 1921, the Institution was Incorporated by Royal Charter and, following mergers with the former Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) in 1988 and the former Institution of Manufacturing Engineers (IMfgE) in 1990, eventually had a worldwide membership of around 120,000. The IEE represented the engineering profession, operated Professional Networks (worldwide groups of engineers sharing common technical and professional interests), had an educational role including the accreditation of degree courses and operated schemes to provide awards scholarships, grants and prizes. It was well known for publication of the IEE Wiring Regulations which now continue to be written by the IET and published by the British Standards Institution as BS 7671.
The IET hosts the archive for the Women's Engineering Society (WES) and has also provided office space for WES since 2005.
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