During the IEEE workshop on Power Electronics held at Jordan University during 18-20 May 1999, discussion took place about forming a section for IEEE in Jordan.
A committee was formed to apply for formation of such section. The committee was formed by

1) Professor Omar Asfar
2) Professor Mohammed Zeki Khedher
3) Dr. Abdullah Mehdi
4) Dr. Mohammed Abderrazaq
5) Dr Kamel Al-Tallaq

The committee communicated with IEEE headquarter and started the procedure for applying for section establishment. Signature of 52 IEEE members were collected and formal application was sent to the headquarter.

On 12 November 1999 the section was officially formed by the headquarter
and Professor Mohammed Zeki Khedher was named as the Interim chairman. The
Geocode for the section is R80079.

The news was mentioned in REGION 8 NEWS BULLETIN - JANUARY 2000.

A bank account was established and preparations took place for performing
the first executive committee. Seed money for the section was received from
the headquarter and first general meeting took place on 29th April 2000.

The first executive committee was established as follows:

Prof. Omar Asfar                      Chairman
Dr. Mohammaed Abdelrazzaq   Treasurer
Dr. Gheith Abandah                 Secretary

The current executive committe is composed of:

Since the establishment of the IEEE Jordan Section, we are  trying to extend its activities to various sectors of engineering enterprises. We do have ambitious objectives and we are trying our best to meet these objectives.  IEEE membership in Jordan is unique. The ratio of IEEE students to full members is the highest in the whole world for any country. Student branches are active in all the universities.  The students hold activities in close contact with the IEEE Jordan section. Jordan is also known by its large number of public and private universities. It is the highest in the whole region compared to the number of population. Nearly all these universities have electrical, electronic or computer engineering as well as computer science and information technology departments and in some of them information technology colleges. The Jordanian engineers in general do not work after graduation in Jordan only but spread all over the Arab countries and specially in the Gulf countries, USA, Canada and Western Europe.

The latest number of members of all grade is as follow