IEEE Industrial Electronics Society History
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Society Chronology
- 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 Aplications Society Conference
- March 20, 1978 - Name change to Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation Society (IECIS)
- June, 1982 - Name change to Industrial Electronics Society
Society Presidents
Until 1971 the President position was called Chairman
- 1951 - Eugene Mittelmann
- 1952 - Eugene Mittelmann
- 1953 - Eugene Mittelmann
- 1954 - George P. Bosomworth
- 1955 - George P. Bosomworth
- 1956 - George P. Bosomworth
- 1957 - Carl E. Smith
- 1958 - William R. Thuston
- 1959 - William R. Thuston
- 1960 - J. E. Eiselein
- 1961 - J. E. Eiselein
- 1962 - J. E. Eiselein
- 1963 - J. E. Eiselein
- 1964 - E. A. Roberts
- 1965 - J. P. Lienesch
- 1966 - J. P. Lienesch
- 1967 - J. P. Liensech
- 1968 - Anthony J. Hornfeck
- 1969 - Anthony J. Hornfeck
- 1970 - J. E. Casey
- 1971 - J. E. Casey
- 1972 - R. B. Spooner
- 1973 - R. B. Spooner
- 1974 - R. Mayer
- 1975 - R. Mayer
- 1976 - R. W. Bolz
- 1977 - Harry W. Mergler
- 1978 - Harry W. Mergler
- 1979 - Harry W. Mergler
- 1980 - J. David Irwin
- 1981 - J. David Irwin
- 1982 - Gerald Cook
- 1983 - Gerald Cook
- 1984 - H. Troy Nagle, Jr.
- 1985 - H. Troy Nagle, Jr.
- 1986 - Fumio Harashima
- 1987 - Fumio Harashima
- 1988 - Fernando Aldana
- 1989 - Fernando Aldana
- 1990 - Robert A. Begun
- 1991 - Robert A. Begun
- 1992 - Hubert Y. K. Wo
- 1993 - Hubert Y. K. Wo
- 1994 - Alfred C. Weaver
- 1995 - Alfred C. Weaver
- 1996 - Russell J. Niederjohn (until 5/96), Hiro Haneda (acting as of 5/96)
- 1997 - Hiro Haneda
- 1998 - James Hung
- 1999 - James Hung
- 2000 - Ren C. Luo
- 2001 - Ren C. Luo
- 2002 - Okyay Kaynak
- 2003 - Okyay Kaynak
- 2004 - Bogdan M. Wilamowski
- 2005 - Bogdan M. Wilamowski
- 2006 - Charles W. Einolf, Jr.
- 2007 - Charles W. Einolf, Jr.
- 2008 - Kouhei Ohnishi
- 2009 - Kouhei Ohnishi
- 2010 - Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo
- 2011 - Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo
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