In 2007, IEEE-USA President John Meredith chartered the IEEE-USA History Project in anticipation of IEEE’s upcoming 125th Anniversary Celebration in 2009. His goals were to raise awareness of IEEE-USA and its contributions as part of the anniversary celebration and to build and maintain an accessible digital archive of historical IEEE-USA documents that would preserve and reinforce that awareness over subsequent years. Documents are regularly added that record the on-going efforts by IEEE-USA, and the work of its precursors, the IEEE United States Activities Board (USAB) and the IEEE United States Activities Committee (USAC), to advance the public good as a voice for sound technology policies and to serve the career and professional needs of IEEE’s U.S. members.
History of IEEE-USA: 1973-2009
- An Overview of Four Decades (PDF)
- Power Point Slides Presented at IEEE 2009 History Conference on the History of Technical Societies (PPT)
IEEE-USA’s Leaders (1973 to date)
- IEEE USAC-USAB Chairs (1973-1997) (PDF)
- IEEE-USA Presidents (1998-present) (PDF)
- IEEE-USA Staff Executives (1973 – Present) (PDF)
- IEEE-USA Board of Directors (Pictures) – [1998] [1999] [2000] [2001] [2002] [2003] [2004] [2005] [2006] [2007] [2008] [2009][2010] [2011] [2012] [2013] [2014] [2015] [2016] [2017] [2018] [2019] [2020] [2021]
Formation and The First Ten Years (1973-1983)
- Blueprint for Change (IEEE Spectrum Special Report on Constitutional Referendum, June 1972) (PDF)
- IEEE’s Professional Programs in the U.S. (Special Report, June 1974) (PDF)
- IEEE Professional News (Feb. 1974) (PDF)
- How USAB Helped Members in 1976 (IEEE Spectrum Special Report, December 1976) (PDF)
- Annual Reports [1981] [1982] [1983]
- The History of IEEE-USA: The First Ten Years (1973-1983)
- IEEE Impact Decennium Issue (1983) (PDF)
- John Guarrera on the Early Years of IEEE-USA (PDF)
- Tracing the Roots of IEEE-USA: From a Small Beginning to a Big Outcome by Saj Durrani (PDF)
- IEEE-USAC’s Role in the IEEE Amicus Brief Filing in the Bay Area Rapid Transition (BART) Case (PDF)
Growth and Maturity (1984-1999)
- Annual Reports [1984] [1985] [1986] [1987] [1988] [1989] [1990] [1991] [1992] [1993] [1994] [1995] [1996] [1997] [1998] [1999]