“I said, why don’t you become a liaison between the Air Force and NASA? Well, he did more than become a liaison…he actually became an astronaut!”Arthur Winston, 2004 IEEE President, on Buzz Aldrin, 2009
"The conception that society has about the intellectual differences between men and women, is beginning to disappear. We’re just part of a process, and it’ll take another generation to erase it."Thelma Estrin, WEIZAC computer engineer, 2002
"People in the home really watch television. They really listen to radio in the car."Robert Briskman, Sirius XM co-founder, 2018
"These [radio] inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae"Edwin Howard Armstrong, FM Radio pioneer
IEEE Members Make History
We preserve and promote it.
Engineering & Technology History Wiki (ETHW)
The world’s premiere website for the history of technology, ETHW is a place where both historians of technology and practitioners can share their stories, and where IEEE organizational units can recount their history and archive their records.
IEEE Milestones
IEEE’s Milestones Program recognizes significant achievements in the history of electrical engineering and computing and when and where they took place.
IEEE REACH
Provides K-12 teachers with free resources for the classroom to raise awareness of engineering and technology and technological literacy through the lens of history.
IEEE Oral History
The IEEE History Center conducts life story interviews with leading engineers, scientists and technologists, and trains IEEE volunteers to conduct peer-to-peer interviews.
Fellowships & Prizes
The IEEE History Committee supports historical research through a fellowship, visiting scholarship, and book and paper prizes.
Get Involved
Help us build a rich historical record of the development of IEEE, its members’ careers, and the related technologies and professions.