IEEE defines itself as aiming to "...foster a community dedicated to understanding and promoting effective communication in engineering, scientific, and other technical environments." It's goals are to further professionalism and its effectiveness, build better writers and speakers, and promote and facilitate leading communication theory and practice.
The IEEE was founded in March of 1957 in order to to improve engineers’ technical communication skills. Their goals are to increase the importance of written, oral, and visual communication. In order to do this, they host an event called the ProComm, a conference they host yearly. At this conference, professionals can go and host their own events, as well as learn from others. (IEEE.org).
Boundaries: IEEE's boundaries include-
- Serves Engineers, Scientists, and other "technically" oriented professionals.
- Limited to members. Each member has a different category and only gets access to what they membership option they choose to pay for.
- Affiliate members
- Full members
- Student members
Artifacts:
- The conferences, which can be found in the conference tab on the website. Held for colleagues and experts to meet and learn from one another.
- The website publication, found in the publications tab. It is a journal available online to everyone, even non-members.
- The Wiley-IEEE PCS books series. This series seems to "...address, specifically, the needs of IEEE membership, focusing on professional communication elements, techniques, concerns, and issues. It is found under the publication tab.
- The newsletter, delivered by email, dated up to 2009. They can be found online under the publication tab.
Identities:
- The leadership team
- The three types of members
- People who choose to not pay, but still use the free tools available to them on the website.
- Various membership opportunities
- Communities (shown in the community tab)
- Affinity groups
- IEEE society
- Technical Counsels
- Technical communities
- Geographic activities
- Working groups
- IEEE regions
- IEEE Collaboratec
- IEEE resource centers
- IEEE dataport