IES Timeline
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| February 21, 1951 |
| First meeting of the IRE Industrial Electronics Group |
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| May 8, 1951 |
| Name change to IRE Professional Group on Industrial Electronics (PG-IE) |
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| August 1953 |
| Published the first volume of the Transactions on Professional Group on Industrial Electronics |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| October 14, 1964 |
| Name change to Group on Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation (PG-IECI) |
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| Year 1975 |
| First IECON was held in Philadelphia. Until then there had been only a sponsored session at the Industry Aplications Society Conference |
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| March 20, 1978 |
| Name change to Industrial Electronics and Control Instrumentation Society (IECIS) |
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| June, 1982 |
| Name change to Industrial Electronics Society |
