Brief History of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) and some of its Predecessors
| 20 Sept. 1920 | 1st official meeting of a committee in the field of research on electrical insulation at Western Electric’s Engineering Building in Manhattan, NY (Chair Frank B. Jewett, later Founding President of Bell Labs) |
| 1923 | 2nd official meeting of the AIEE Research Committee in Swampscott, MA (Chair John B. Whitehead who is also chair of the Committee on Electrical Insulation, NRC Division of Engineering) |
| Nov. 1928 | 1st official NRC Conference on Electrical Insulation (CEI) at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD (Chair John B. Whitehead) |
| 1-3 Nov. 1950 | 30th Anniversary of the NRC Conference on Electrical Insulation (CEI) at Pocono Manor Inn in Pocono, PA (Chair Charles F. Hill) |
| 3-5 Sept. 1958 | 1st Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) at Pick-Carter & Statler Hilton in Cleveland, OH (Chair Joseph R. Perkins), co-sponsored by AIEE and NEMA, an offspring/secession from the NRC CEI targeted to applied topics and industry-relevant audiences |
| 16-19 Sept. 1963 | 5th Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) at Conrad Hilton in Chicago, IL (Chair Edward H. DaCosta), co-sponsors are IEEE (formed from AIEE and IRE) and NEMA; EIC is incubator for the new PTG |
| 19 Sept. 1963 | 1st meeting of the new IEEE Professional Technical Group (PTG) on Electrical Insulation at the EIC in Chicago (Chair Joseph R. Perkins) |
| 1 July 1964 | PTG on Electrical Insulation renamed as IEEE Electrical Insulation Group (EIG) (G-32) (President Ken Matthes) first tasks are writing Constitution and Bylaws and publishing Transactions and Newsletters |
| 3-5 Oct. 1966 | NRC CEI changes name to NRC Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP) (at Pocono Manor Inn, PA) |
| Jan. 1978 | EIG (President Ray Bartnikas) is now the IEEE Electrical Insulation Society (EIS) (S-32) after tremendous growth in membership |
| Jan. 1981 | CEIDP (Chair Eric O. Forster) moves from NRC (NAS) to IEEE (EIS) |
| July 1981 | 7th International Conference on (Conduction and Breakdown) in Dielectric Liquids (ICDL) (Chair Werner F. Schmidt) held in West-Berlin, Germany, est. 1958 by ECS, now fully sponsored by IEEE EIS |
| July 1983 | 1st International Conference on (Conduction and Breakdown) in Solid Dielectrics (ICSD) (Chair Christian Mayoux) held in Toulouse, France, initiated and fully sponsored by IEEE EIS |
| Jan. 1985 | EIS (President John A. Tanaka) changes its name to IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) (S-32) |
| Sept. 1985 | 5th International Symposium on Electrets (ISE) (Chair Gerhard M. Sessler) held in Heidelberg, Germany, est. 1967 by Electrochemical Society (ECS) in Chicago, IL, now fully sponsored by IEEE DEIS |
| Oct. (2020) 2023 | Centennial of the Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP) in East Rutherford, NJ and Manhattan, NY, USA |