The Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey was established in 1954. It is one of the 23 members of the confederation named Union of chambers of Turkish engineers and architects

Union of chambers of Turkish engineers and architects

The union of chambers of Turkish architects and engineers is a confederation of all chambers of architects and engineers in Turkey.. The union had been founded in 1954....

. (TMMOB)

Coverage

The chamber includes electronics, telecommunication

Telecommunications Engineer

Telecommunications engineering, or telecom engineering, is a major field within electronic engineering. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments...

, computer and biomedical engineers as well as electrical engineers. 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 is 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

Adana is a city in southern Turkey and a major agricultural and commercial center. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 30 kilometres inland from the Mediterranean, in south-central Anatolia...

, Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

, Antalya

Antalya

Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :...

, Bursa, Denizli

Denizli

Denizli is a growing industrial city in the Southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about a hundred meters. Denizli is located in southwestern Turkey, in the country's Aegean Region.The city...

, Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey...

, Eskişehir

Eskisehir

Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby...

, Gaziantep

Gaziantep

Gaziantep , Ottoman Turkish: Ayintab) previously and still informally called Antep; ʻayn tāb is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 185 kilometres northeast of Adana and 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria...

, Kocaeli

Izmit

İzmit is a city in Turkey, administrative center of Kocaeli Province as well as the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. The city center has a population of 294.875...

, İstanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, İzmir

Izmir

Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

, Mersin

Mersin

-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...

, Samsun

Samsun

Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:...

, and Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...

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

Objectives of EMO

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 can emphasized:

• EMO organizes trainning courses, fairs, seminars, symposiums for the members.EMO also informs members about updates of standarts, norms, regulations and technical specifications
• EMO consults with the public authority and TMMOB to prepare and change the laws and regulations concerning the activities of the Chamber. Also EMO makes press statements about professional matters.
• EMO authorizes the building projects (installations such as power, illumination
  Lighting
  Lighting or illumination is the deliberate application of light to achieve some practical or aesthetic effect. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources such as lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylight...
  
  , audio-visual
  Audio-visual
  The term Audio-Visual may refer to works with both a sound and a visual component, the production or use of such works, or to equipment used to create and present such works...
  
  etc.) EMO annually supervises earthing and elevators in the industrial plants and buildings.
• EMO serves as a expert, arbitrator, consultant etc. at courts concerning the profession.