The Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey ( tr, Elektrik Mühendisleri Odası) was established in 1954. It is one of the 23 members of the confederation named

Union of chambers of Turkish engineers and architects The Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects ( tr, Türk Mühendis ve Mimar Odaları Birliği, TMMOB for short) is a confederation of all chambers of architects and engineers in Turkey. The union was "established in 1954 by the Law 7 ...

Coverage

The chamber used to include

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

telecommunication Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

, computer and biomedical engineers as well as

electrical engineers Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the ...

. However as of 2012, computer engineers issued from the chamber. (''see''

Chamber of Computer Engineers of Turkey Chamber of Computer Engineers of Turkey ( tr, Bilgisayar Mühendisleri Odası, abbreviated BMO) was founded on 2 June 2012. Formerly, the computer engineers in Turkey were the members of Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey. But, on 9 Marc ...

) According to law, all engineers in these fields are required to join the chamber after they complete their engineering education. The total number of chamber members was around 42 000 as of 2009.

Organization

The center of the chamber is in Ankara. But there are 14 branch offices all over Turkey; namely in

Adana Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million. Adana lies in the heart of Cilicia, wh ...

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

Antalya la, Attalensis grc, Ἀτταλειώτης , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 07xxx , area_code = (+90) 242 , registration_plate = 07 , blank_name = Licence plate ...

, Bursa, Denizli,

Diyarbakır Diyarbakır (; ; ; ) is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, ...

Eskişehir Eskişehir ( , ; from "old" and "city") is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 898,369 with a metropolitan population of 797,708. The city is located on the banks of the ...

Gaziantep Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approxi ...

, Kocaeli,

İstanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_in ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

, Mersin,

Samsun Samsun, historically known as Sampsounta ( gr, Σαμψούντα) and Amisos (Ancient Greek: Αμισός), is a city on the north coast of Turkey and is a major Black Sea port. In 2021, Samsun recorded a population of 710,000 people. The cit ...

, and

Trabzon Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the B ...

. All branch offices have several sub offices in other cities.

Objectives

Among the many objectives of the chamber, some of which are carried out with the collaboration of the universities and municipalities, the following can be emphasized: * Organization of training courses, fairs, seminars, symposiums for the members. EMO also informs members about updates of standards, norms, regulations and technical specifications * Consultation with the public authority and Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects to prepare and change the laws and regulations concerning the activities of the chamber; preparation of press statements about professional matters. * Authorization of building projects (installations such as

power Power most often refers to: * Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work" ** Engine power, the power put out by an engine ** Electric power * Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events ** Abusive power Power may a ...

, illumination, audio-visual etc.) EMO annually supervises earthing and elevators in the industrial plants and buildings. * Serveing as an expert, arbitrator, consultant, etc. at courts concerning the profession.

References and notes

{{authority control Engineering societies based in Turkey 1954 establishments in Turkey Organizations based in Ankara