History
The journal was originally established in 1872, as
- Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers (1872–1880)
Then underwent a series of name changes
- Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians (1881–1882)
- Journal of the Society of Telegraph-Engineers and Electricians (1883–1888)
Until in 1889 it settled into
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1889–1940)
The journal remained under that name for over 50 years.
From 1926 to 1940, a new journal was started
- Institution of Electrical Engineers - Proceedings of the Wireless Section of the Institution (1926–1940)
In 1941, the journals were reorganized in distinct parts. From 1941 to 1948 those were
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part I: General
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part II: Power Engineering
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part IIA: Automatic Regulators and Servo Mechanisms
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part III: Communication Engineering
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part III: Radio and Communication Engineering
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part IIIA: Radiocommunication
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part IIIA: Radiolocation
In 1949, until 1954, the publications were reorganized into
- Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
and
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part I: General
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part IA: Electric Railway Traction
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part II: Power Engineering
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part IIA: Insulating Materials
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part III: Radio and Communication Engineering
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part IIIA: Television
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part IV: Institution Monographs
Which in 1955 were renamed
- Journal of the IEE (1955–1963)
and
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part A: Power Engineering
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part B: Electronic and Communication Engineering
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part B: Radio and Electronic Engineering
- Proceedings of the IEE - Part C: Monographs
These merged into a single journal in 1963, which remained until 1979.
- Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1963–1979)
In 1964, Journal of the IEE became
which in 1988 became
The proceedings were renamed in 1980 as IEE Proceedings. From 1980 until 1993, the IEE Proceedings had lettered parts
- IEE Proceedings A (Physical Science, Measurement and Instrumentation, Management and Education)
- IEE Proceedings A (Physical Science, Measurement and Instrumentation, Management and Education, Reviews)
- IEE Proceedings A (Science, Measurement and Technology)
- IEE Proceedings B (Electric Power Applications)
- IEE Proceedings C (Generation, Transmission and Distribution)
- IEE Proceedings D (Control Theory and Applications)
- IEE Proceedings E (Computers and Digital Techniques)
- IEE Proceedings F (Communications, Radar and Signal Processing)
- IEE Proceedings F (Radar and Signal Processing)
- IEE Proceedings G (Circuits, Devices and Systems)
- IEE Proceedings G (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
- IEE Proceedings H (Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation)
- IEE Proceedings H (Microwaves, Optics and Antennas)
- IEE Proceedings I (Communications, Speech and Vision)
- IEE Proceedings I (Solid-State and Electron Devices)
- IEE Proceedings J (Optoelectronics)
and were reorganized in 1994 until 2006
- IEE Proceedings - Circuits, Devices and Systems
- IEE Proceedings - Communications
- IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques
- IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications
- IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications
- IEE Proceedings - Generation, Transmission and Distribution
- IEE Proceedings - Information Security
- IEE Proceedings - Intelligent Transport Systems
- IEE Proceedings - Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
- IEE Proceedings - Nanobiotechnology
- IEE Proceedings - Optoelectronics
- IEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar and Navigation
- IEE Proceedings - Science, Measurement and Technology
- IEE Proceedings - Software
- IEE Proceedings - Systems Biology
- IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing
After 2006, the IEE merged with the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and its journals were reorganized into various IET publications.
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Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz respectively. Different sources define different frequency ranges as microwaves; the above broad definition includes UHF, SHF and EHF bands. A more common definition in radio-frequency engineering is the range between 1 and 100 GHz. In all cases, microwaves include the entire SHF band at minimum. Frequencies in the microwave range are often referred to by their IEEE radar band designations: S, C, X, Ku, K, or Ka band, or by similar NATO or EU designations.
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution. The IET was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), dating back to 1871, and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) dating back to 1884. Its worldwide membership is currently in excess of 158,000 in 153 countries. The IET's main offices are in Savoy Place in London, England, and at Michael Faraday House in Stevenage, England.
Inspec is a major indexing database of scientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and formerly by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), one of the IET's forerunners.
Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden, is a British electronic engineer and academic. He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Surrey University (2005–2015) and of the University of Southampton (2015–2019). He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015 and is currently chairman of the ERA Foundation.
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The IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize is a global engineering research prize awarded annually to an innovative researcher by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. It was named after an engineer, Arthur Frank Harvey.
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho from the Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions on characterization and design of nonlinear RF circuits.
Stepan Lucyszyn FIEEE is a British engineer, inventor and technologist, and has been a Professor of Millimetre-wave Systems at Imperial College London, England, since 2016. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014. Lucyszyn's research has mainly focused on monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), radio frequency microelectromechnical systems, wireless power transfer (WPT), thermal infrared technologies and additive manufacturing.
Elizabeth Laverick was a British engineer who became technical director of Elliott Automation Radar Systems. Laverick was the first female deputy secretary of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and president of the Women's Engineering Society. She was the first woman to receive a PhD in a scientific curriculum at Durham University, and was appointed an OBE in 1993.
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