IEEE Tran - Making Centred Title page?

Question

Currently making a lab report that is required to be in IEEE format except it also needs a coverpage per the professor's instructions. If I try to make a title page using \begin{titlepage} and then \maketitle it ends up taking 2 whole pages, one of them being blank and the other having only the title at the top.

Answer 1

Sort of like this? Note, you could copy \maketitle or \titlepage from some other document class, or you could just format the page and not worry about restrictions or conventions.

\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\onecolumn
\thispagestyle{empty}\setcounter{page}{0}%
Top of page
\hrule
\vfill
{\centering\Huge Middle of Page\par}
\vfill
Bottom of Page
\twocolumn
\lipsum[1-11]
\end{document}