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