Editing Institution of Engineering and Technology (section)

==History of the IEE==
{{main|Institution of Electrical Engineers}}

The Society of Telegraph Engineers (STE) was formed on 17 May 1871, and it published the ''Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers'' from 1872 through 1880. [[Carl Wilhelm Siemens]] was first President of IEE in 1872. On 22 December 1880, the STE was renamed as the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians and, as part of this change, it renamed its journal the ''Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians'' (1881–1
82) 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). As part of this change, its Journal was renamed ''Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers'' in 1889, and it kept this title through 1963. In 1921, the Institution was Incorporated by royal charter and, following mergers with the [[Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers]] (IERE) in 1988 and the Institution of Manufacturing Engineers (IMfgE) in 1990, it 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 to be published by the [[British Standards Institution]] as [[BS 7671]].