The IEEE Global Museum program seeks to preserve key artifacts related to the history of technology and make them available for display to a wide audience. To this end, the History Center is establishing collaborations with local and national museums, private collectors, universities, corporations, and other organizations to curate traveling exhibits, from a single treasured artifact to a full collection, and install them at technology museums or IEEE conferences, facilities, and events around the world. “How Far Can You Go? Edwin Howard Armstrong and the Birth of Our Wireless World” is the pilot exhibit of the Global Museum program. The exhibit made its debut at the IEEE Board Series held at the Sheraton Hotel Times Square in New York City...

The IEEE History Program supports the training of the next generation of historians of electrotechnology. The IEEE Life Members' Fellowship in Electrical History supports either one year of full-time graduate work in the history of electrical science and technology at a college or university of recognized standing or up to one year of post-doctoral research. The Pugh Young Scholar in Residence provides graduate students in the history of electrical and computer technologies gain research experience working alongside the staff of the IEEE History Centre. It is intended for future historians and is not suitable for engineering students unless there is a strong history component to their studies.

The IEEE History Center publishes both the IEEE History Center Newsletter and books published by IEEE History Press, and provides editorial support for history content for Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Spectrum, and IEEE-USA InSight. The Newsletter is published three times per year and reports on the activities of the IEEE History Committee, the IEEE History Center, and on new resources and projects in electrical history. Through Amazon.com, IEEE History Press publishes both hard copy and Kindle editions of original works concerning the history of electrotechnology.

REACH is an educational program that Raises Educational Awareness through the Conduit of History. It provides teachers and students with educational resources that explore the relationship between technology and engineering history, and the complex relationships they have with society, politics, economics, and culture. All the program’s resources are available via the REACH website and meet both the United States and International education standards. These standards include, in the U.S., the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) C3 (College, Career, and Civics) standards and the Social Studies Common Core standards, in addition to the Next Generation Science Standards. They also meet the International Technology and Engineering Educators Associations’ (ITEEA) Standards for Technology and Engineering Literacy or STEL.

Since 1968, the IEEE History Center’s Oral History program has conducted over 900 oral history interviews with leaders and innovators within IEEE’s fields of interest, and trained hundreds of IEEE volunteers to conduct such interviews. Such planned and recorded interviews preserve the voices, memories and perspectives of people in history while generating and preserving historically interesting and original information. Many IEEE technical societies conduct their own oral history programs that focus on their society’s field of interest. The History Center’s Oral History program places particular emphasis on recording the recollections of IEEE Medal of Honor and other major award recipients, former IEEE presidents, IEEE Fellows, and senior IEEE leaders and staff members.

The Awards Subcommittee oversees the selection of the recipients of the IEEE History Committee fellowships and prizes. The 2024 recipient of the IEEE Life Member Fellowship in the History of Electrical and Computing Technology is Alex Reiss-Sorokin, Post Doctorate at Princeton University, for “Trust in Information Technology and the Implications of Technological Development". The 2024 recipient of the Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize (formerly the Life Member Paper Prize) was selected by the Society for the History of Technology is Damilola Adebayo, York University, for "Electricity, Agency, and Class in Lagos Colony, c. 1860s-1914. The 2024 recipient of the Joyce and William Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award/Book Prize is “Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology”...

So far in 2024, 14 Milestones have been dedicated in five Regions: three in Region 1 (Semiconductor Laser, Radar Beacon System, and 193-nm Photolithography); three in Region 10 (Australia’s Deep Space Station 43, Japan’s Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors, and South Korea’s CDMA Commercialization); six in Region 6 (TCP Protocol/Internet, 802 Standards Committee, Birth of Google, Alto personal computer, Laser Printer, and Ethernet); Region 8 (Cavity Magnetron in the UK); and Region 2 (the Compiler and COBOL). The History Committee has also approved 10 Milestone proposals from Japan, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and France, and will be evaluating several more Milestone proposals this year.

ETHW is the Engineering and Technology History Wiki, a partnership between the United Engineering Foundation, and the AIAA, AIChE, AIME, ASHRAE, ASCE, ASME, IEEE, SPE and SWE. In 2024, content added to the ETHW includes: 66 articles, 25 oral histories, 8 first-hand histories, one archival audiovisual recording, 813 files (images and pdf documents), and several historical newsletter issues from IEEE Women Engineering Students, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Council, and the IEEE Boston, New York, Hyderabad, Madras and Kerala Sections. For the site's infrastructure, the main content landing pages were revised for readability and browsability, and, in late September, a new technology museum feature was launched.

HISTELCON (HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference) refers to a series of historical symposia sponsored by IEEE Region 8 that aims to to serve as catalyst for exchange of ideas on engineering and technology history. Founded in 2008, HISTELCON has brought together participants with different backgrounds – engineers, historians, researchers in Science, Technology and Society, Museum curators etc. in order to help in creating a network between researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. The IEEE History Center and IEEE History Committee have usually served as technical cosponsors. Starting in 2025, the conference will become an annual event that will initially rotate between Region 8 (Germany) , Region 10 (Japan), Region 7 (Canada), and Region 9 (Latin America).

During the past year, IEEE Canada has published a special issue of IEEE Canadian Review on the History of Technology, held a special session on the History of Technology at the 2024 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) in Kingston, Ontario, and had an IEEE Milestone on Cobalt-60 Radiation Therapy for Cancer Treatment approved. IEEE Canada also added a History of Science and Technology track to the IEEE Canadian Journal on Electrical and Computer Engineering, committed to hold a History of Technology session at IEEE CCECE 2025 in Vancouver in May 2025, and signed an agreement with IEEE Region 8 to host IEEE Histelcon in Canada in 2027.

2024 is the 75th anniversary of the formation of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. Founded in 1949, AP-S is the third oldest IEEE technical society. At the 2024 IEEE AP-S/URSI conference in Florence in July, the society hosted a Plenary Session on "Celebrating 75 Years of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Looking Forward to the Next 75 Years," a “75 Years Celebratory Lunch,” an “Intersociety Collaboration Panel,” an “AP-S Diamond Jubilee Special Event,” and an “IEEE AP-S 75 Years Gala Dinner.” The society is also preparing a Special Issue of the AP Magazine devoted to the anniversary.

2024 is the 75th anniversary of the formation of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Founded in 1949, VTS is the sixth oldest IEEE technical society. It is also the occasion of the 100th Vehicular Technology Conference. At the 2024-Fall IEEE VTC in Washington, DC in October, the society will host numerous events that will celebrate these two important milestones. The IEEE History Center and VTS History Committee have collaborated in the development of interactive exhibits designed to immerse attendees in the history of their society.