May 24, 1953

First meeting of the IRE Professional Group on Electronic Component Parts

March 24, 1953 AdHoc Meeting of Component Parts Professional Group to discuss proposed formation of IRE Professional Group on Electronic Component Parts

May 24, 1953 First meeting of the IRE Professional Group on Electronic Component Parts

September 29, 1953 Name change to IRE Professional Group on Component Parts

January 1, 1963 The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers was born with the merger of the AIEE and IRE

March 27, 1963 Name change to IEEE Professional Technical Group on Component Parts

March 25, 1965 Name change to IEEE Group on Component Parts

May 7, 1965 Joint meeting of the IEEE Product Engineering and Production Group and the IEEE Group on Component Parts.

July 1, 1965 Approval of merger of Product Engineering and Production Group and Group on Component Parts

Group on Component Parts merged with Product Engineering and Production Group to become Parts, Materials, and Packaging Group

1978 Name change to IEEE Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology Society because of 1977 Merger of IEEE PHP and MT

January 1, 1994 Name change to Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology

June 26, 2017 Name change approved to IEEE Electronics Packaging Society

1953 – 1965

IEEE Professional Technical Group on Component Parts

August 23, 1965 First meeting of the Parts, Materials, and Packaging Group – merger of Component Parts and Product Engineering and Production Group

March 23, 1971 Name change to IEEE Parts, Hybrids, and Packaging Group

March 3, 1977 Approval of merger of IEEE Parts, Hybrids, and Packaging Group and IEEE Manufacturing Technology Group

1965 – 1977 IEEE Parts, Hybrids, and Packaging Group

2017 – Present

1977 – 2017

IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society

Nearly 70 years of research, design and development of revolutionary advances in microsystems packaging and manufacturing.