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The '''IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society''' is a professional society of the [[Organization:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE).<ref>[http://ieee-ims.org/ IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society]</ref> The society's fields of interest, according to its website, include [[Metrology|metrology]], [[Engineering:Analog signal|analog]] and digital electronic instruments, systems and standards for measuring and recording electrical quantities (in both the [[Physics:Frequency|frequency]] and time domains), [[Engineering:Instrumentation|instrumentation]] and transducers for measurement of non-electrical variables, [[Calibration|calibration]] and uncertainty, instruments with [[Engineering:Automation|automated]] control and analysis functions, safety instrumentation, and [[Philosophy:Emerging technologies|new technology]] applications.

== History ==
The IRE Professional Group on Instrumentation was established on March 9, 1950, which after the merger with [[Organization:American Institute of Electrical Engineers|American Institute of Electrical Engineers]] in 1963 changed its name to the IEEE Professional Technical Group on Instrumentation and Measurement. In 1964, the group changed its name to the IEEE Group on Instrumentation and Measurement and again in 1978 to the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/IEEE_Instrumentation_and_Measurement_Society_History |title=IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society History |author=IEEE Global History Network |year=2011 |publisher=IEEE History Center |access-date=7 July 2011}}</ref>

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