History of The Society
- February 21, 1951 - First meeting of the IRE Industrial Electronics Group
- May 8, 1951 - Name change to IRE Professional Group on Industrial Electronics (PG-IE)
- August 1953 - Published the first volume of the Transactions on Professional Group on Industrial Electronics
- August 21, 1963 - IRE merged with AIEE and become IEEE. The PG-IE approved the merger of IRE's PG-IE and AIEE's group on control instrumentation (GCI)
- August 22, 1963 - The merger of the PG-IE and the GCI into Professional Group on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation (PG-IECI) was approved by the IEEE Executive Committee
- October 14, 1964 - Name change to Group on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation (PG-IECI)
- Year 1975 - First IECON was held in Philadelphia. Until then there had been only a sponsored session at the Industry Applications Society Conference
- March 20, 1978 - Name change to Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation Society (IECIS)
- June, 1982 - Name change to Industrial Electronics Society
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