International Measurement Confederation


The International Measurement Confederation is a non-governmental federation of metrological organizations. It was founded in 1958 in Budapest, Hungary.

Structure

IMEKO has member organizations in the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Congo, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
IMEKO is entirely staffed by volunteers from its MOs - scientific societies or institutes of the corresponding member countries. They delegate specialists in the different fields of metrology to contribute to the work of IMEKO in the General Council, the boards and the Technical Committees. The MOs organise IMEKO events.
; General Council
; Technical Board
; Technical Committees
  • TC1 - Education and Training in Measurement and Instrumentation
  • TC2 - Photonics
  • TC3 - Measurement of Force, Mass and Torque and Gravity
  • TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities
  • TC5 - Hardness Measurement
  • TC6 - Digitalization
  • TC7 - Measurement Science
  • TC8 - Traceability in Metrology
  • TC9 - Flow Measurement
  • TC10 - Measurement for Diagnostics, Optimization & Control
  • TC11 - Measurement in Testing, Inspection and Certification
  • TC12 -Temperature and Thermal Measurements
  • TC13 - Measurements in Biology and Medicine
  • TC14 - Measurement of Geometrical Quantities
  • TC15 - Experimental Mechanics
  • TC16 - Pressure and Vacuum Measurement
  • TC17 - Measurement in Robotics
  • TC18 - Measurement of Human Functions
  • TC19 - Environmental Measurements
  • TC20 - Measurements of Energy and Related Quantities
  • TC21 - Mathematical Tools for Measurements
  • TC22 - Vibration Measurement
  • TC23 - Metrology in Food and Nutrition
  • TC24 - Chemical Measurements
  • TC25 - Quantum Measurement and Quantum Information
  • TC26 - Metrology for Cultural Heritage

    Awards

Traditionally, the following awards are bestowed at the closing ceremony of an IMEKO World Congress:
  • Distinguished Service Award is bestowed upon persons for outstanding services to IMEKO, who have been active for many years as well-known specialists in the field of measurement.
  • György Striker Junior Paper Award, a donation of the Founder and first Secretary-General of IMEKO and his wife, to be given to a junior author under 35 years of age whose paper reflects a deep understanding and knowledge of the theme of a World Congress. The sum of the award is EURO 1500.

    Publications

IMEKO sponsors four academic journals:
  • Measurement, published by Elsevier
  • Measurement: Sensors, an open access companion to Measurement, also published by Elsevier
  • Measurement: Food, a new open access companion to Measurement, also published by Elsevier
  • Measurement: Energy, a new open access companion to Measurement, also published by Elsevier
  • Measurement: Digitalization, a new open access companion to Measurement, also published by Elsevier
  • Acta IMEKO, an online-only journal
IMEKO activities are further documented in the following publications:
  • ACTA IMEKO – proceedings of the World Congresses
  • IMEKO TC Events Series – proceedings of Technical Committee events
  • IMEKO NEWSLETTER – bimonthly newsletter
  • Repository of publications – proceedings of IMEKO events
  • IMEKO's website

    International cooperation

IMEKO is one of the five Sister Federations within FIACC - Five International Associations Co-ordinating Committee, consisting of:
  • International Federation of Automatic Control
  • International Federation for Information Processing
  • International Federation of Operational Research Societies
  • International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
IMEKO also works with International Organization of Legal Metrology and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, as well as the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The way of co-operation is organising joint events, co-sponsoring events and inviting keynote speakers to each other.