In addition to the Group-level and Technical-Group-level Meetings described in the preceding section. Institute-level Meetings are held as follows:

Conferences of IEICE

Conferences are held twice a year and called General and Society Conferences. Statistics in the past five years are shown below:

Open Lectures

Open lectures by leading scientists and engineers are held occasionally on new technical topics and recent technical trends.

Courses, Symposia and Technical Visits

Courses are prepared for members who want to study more about specific technical fields, in most cases in established disciplines. In addition, the Institute also sponsors symposia on new topics, as well as technical visits.

Continuing Education Courses

In addition to the spontaneous courses (above), the IEICE offers Continuing Education Courses to those members (mostly already in business) who want to enlarge their knowledge in new technology areas. Five courses are opened twice a year (Spring Courses and Fall Courses); the subjects in 2000 are Communication Network, System LSI, Network Computing, Communication Protocols and Object Oriented Technologies.
These courses are opend for 20 years continuously, not only to IEICE full members but also to nonmembers in business.

Joint Events with Other Academic Institutions

The largest joint event is the Joint Convention of Five Institutions in Electrical Information Engineering Areas, jointly sponsored by IEICE, IEE (Inst. Electrical Eng.), ITE (Inst. Television Eng.), IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) and IEIJ (Illuminating Eng. Inst. of Japan) which is held every year in the fall.

Standards Committee

The standardizatlon activities of IEICE are performed by the Standards Committee. under which 9 Technical Subcommittees exist. The Standards Committee works for the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and makes recommendations, for Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS).

International Cooperation

The Institute is enhancing its efforts for international cooperation with academic institutions abroad by cooperating for or cosponsoring a number of international conferences every year and by holding lectures and seminars by foreign scientists. Such activities are managed by the International Relations Committee.

Student Activities

Student Meetings are held to allow the Student Members to know the Institute better and to establish closer relations between them. Student Journals are published every year.

Awards

The Institute honors every year those people with distinguished merits and achievements, as well as the authors of excellent papers and books. The principal awards are the Distinguished Services Award, the Achievement Award, the Inose Award, the Excellent Paper Award, and the Young Engineer Award.