IEEE infuriates
Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
The Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (ieee), an international professional society with 3.6 lakh members, has landed itself in a controversy by cutting off most of its services to members from countries against whom the us has slapped trade and economic embargoes.
More than 5,000 engineers, most of them its members from non-embargoed countries, in a signed petition questioned the body's decision to toe the us government line and urged the ieee executive to immediately "cease discrimination against ieee members from countries that are embargoed by the us government.' The countries concerned are Iran, Cuba, Libya and Sudan.
The members are mad about several actions ieee has taken