IES 60th Anniversary in 2011

In 2011 the Industrial Electronics Society (IES) will be celebrating their 60th Anniversary and the following milestones:

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)

Year 1951

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