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Merge request: IEE to merge into IET[edit]

Can IEE be merged into IET? At the moment IEE is quite a low-quality article with little useful info, and ultimately, the IEE became the IET, so having a separate article seems unnecessary. Nobody's Empire (talk) 14:29, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup[edit]

I think this article requires a cleanup, it has much potential to explain the benifit of one institution but do we need to repeat the IEE and IIE articles telling about a long pre-IET history; would one paragraph, with appropriate links, not do the same but focuses primarily on the IET alone? The listing of grades could be better presented (a table?) or even removed with a link to the website. Its very easy to get carried away in an article and pan it out with history and hard facts but little essence. Djegan 20:59, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have performed a cleanup (and removed the tag). The changes made:

Removed history of IEE and IIE (these can be found on the individual pages).
Added section on "Purpose and function" (moved from IEE page) as this pretty well describes what the IET does.
Formatted "Qualifications" section with headers.
Removed IET.tv section as this was a copy and paste from IET website

johnSLADE (talk) 19:08, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sydney office[edit]

I see that a reference to a Sydney office has recently added. As the IET's location page doesn't mention it, there might be merit in providing a link for details? David Biddulph (talk) 12:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

as far as i know, we don't have a Sydney office, all the mail and correspondance is directed to the Hon. Secretary. David for the Branch, and Myself, George (Hon Chair for YMS). NeoDeGenero (talk) 14:13, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Qualification equivalence[edit]

The important point of the Sydney Accord relevant to this article is the qualification equivalence that it endorses. In particular it equates the engineering HNC with the bachelors degree for HNCs prior to 1987. This allows engineers who achieved their HNCs prior to 1987 to obtain the Incorporated Engineer designation and membership. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.30.2.56 (talk) 19:18, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Provided office space?[edit]

"...it has also provided office space for WES since 2005."

"Provided office space for" is minor and nonencyclopedic item that does not belong here. Furthermore, this is something that could change on any day.

The Wikipedia is laced with items that are unimportant and furthermore, they could change on any day or at any instant. In contrast, there are items of some permanence. It is very unlikely that the seat of government of the United Kingdom will leave London, of that of the United States will leave Washington, D.C., or that of Japan will leave Tokyo, or that of Russia will leave Moscow.

In contrast, the headquarters of NATO could leave Brussels and be moved to a place like one of these on relatively short notice: Amsterdam, Bonn, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Luxembourg City, Manchester, Milan, Norfolk, Virginia, Oslo, Rheims, Stuttgart, Toronto, or York. 98.67.164.2 (talk) 00:16, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Largest Professional Engineering Body[edit]

How can the IET be the largest in the world with 150,000+ members, where as the IEEE has over 400,000 members? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.31.231.168 (talk) 20:59, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The IET is the largest multidisciplinary professional engineering body because it actually registers engineers through the Engineering Council. The IEEE is more a technical society and has no registration authority, and it is not as multidisciplinary as the IET, serving mainly electrical/electronics engineers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.143.50.78 (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The IEEE also serves computer scientists to a significant degree, making it multidisciplinary as well.

If registration is the point then the sentence should say so. Right now it is a verbatim copy of IET's marketing language. It needs to be clarified. --EnOreg (talk) 07:11, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the dubious marketing claim. --EnOreg (talk) 09:33, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"The prestigious IET Pinkerton Lecture is presented annually in Bangalore"?[edit]

Hi all. From what I can see here, the Pinkerton Lecture was held in Bangalore only once, in 2012. Your thoughts? Peter in Australia aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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IET Logo[edit]

It would appear that the IET currently uses multiple logos: at least two - one as displayed in this article, which appears to be the main logo of the institution, but also a different logo for the electrical section as on website https://electrical.theiet.org/.

I'm not sure how wikipedia could or should handle this, but it would seem useful if both logos and an explanation of their different usages were given in the article - at least unless and until the IET develops some kind of corporate graphical unity. Hedles (talk) 08:57, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]