John Vigt, IEEE President, Bruce Eisenstein, President of HKN, and Richard Gowen, President of IEEE Foundation after signing the merger agreement on 14 February 2009.

HKN Merges with IEEE!!

2012 - First Chapters Chartered outside U.S. in Hong Kong, New Delhi, and Nova Scotia
2012 - BRIDGE transitioned from a print publication to a digital Magazine
2013 - First Founders Day Celebrated
2014 - Key Chapter recognition created
2014 - First Student Governor elected to serve on HKN Board of Governors
2018 - Debut of Pathways to Industry Conference
2019 - Asad Madni Outstanding Technical Achievement & Excellence Award established
2020 - Alumni Newsletter launched

Serving Students and Alumni on every step of their career journeys!

2021 -Debut of on-line HKN Experience now known as TechX conference
2021 - Pilot of Alumni-Graduate Student Mentoring program
2022 - HKN 10th consecutive year of winning APEX Awards for the BRIDGE Magazine
2022 - Pilot of Alumni-Graduate Mentoring Program, and Graduate Student Newsletter launched
2022 - GradLab Webinar Series, HKN Connection and Career Conversations Podcasts launched
2022 - First Chapter Support Grants given
2023 - Madni Family Scholarship Program established
2024 - Frank & Shelly Chang Scholarship and Outstanding Young Scholar Award established
Lambda Iota Installation, University of Hong Kong, 13 January 2012
Dr. Ming Hsieh, inaugural winner of the Asad M. Madni Outstanding Technical Achievement and Excellence Award in 2020
Recruitment Fair at the 2022 Student Leadership Conference in Charlotte, NC
Group Photo at the 2023 Student Leadership Conference, University of Houston