IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) is a Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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[edit] Vision Statement

The vision of the IES is to advance global prosperity by fostering technological innovation, enabling members' careers and promoting community worldwide. The IES promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro- and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.

[edit] Publications

[edit] Magazines

  • IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

[edit] Journals

[edit] Conferences

The Society organizes several international conferences every year such as:

  • Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
  • IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics
  • IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology
  • International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
  • IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics
  • IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems

and many more international and national events. See also IES Conference Calendar.

[edit] Technical Activities

The Society fosters several technical committees such as:

  • Building Automation, Control and Management
  • Computer and Control Systems
  • Education in Engineering and Industrial Technologies
  • Electrical Machines
  • Electronic Systems on Chip (ESOC)
  • Factory Automation
  • Industrial Agents
  • Industrial Informatics
  • Integrated Manufacturing and Service System
  • Motion Control
  • Nanotechnologies
  • Network-based Control Systems and Applications
  • Power Electronics
  • Sensor and Actuators
  • Standards Coordinating Committee

See also Technical Committees Directory.

[edit] 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)
  • 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

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