The Canadian Society of Electrical Engineering was formed in 1976 as a constituent society of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) following a six year period where a group of Canadian electrical engineers including Gordon Slemon, George Sinclair, Ceorge Walker, Tom Pavlasek, and Chuck Campling attempted to pull together the disparate forces of the EIC, IEEE Region 7, and the IEE Canadian branches to form a single Canadian technical society.

This society created an annual conference, now known as the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, which was the brain-child of Vijay Bhargava who for many years was responsible for annual surpluses that were applied to finance the second most significant acomplishment of this relativly small fledgling society - the journal.

The Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering started publication in January 1976 (the title was changed in 1988 from the original "Canadian Electrical Engineering Journal") and provides a medium for communicating technical information of particular interest to Canadians, while also serving as a forum to make Canadian electrical engineering achievements known to a worldwide readership. More information can be found on the Journal web site.