The Society focuses on the science of developing and using electrical and electronic instruments for the purpose of measuring, monitoring or recording various physical phenomena that may or may not be of an electrical nature. This includes analog and digital electronic instruments, systems and standards for measuring and recording electrical quantities in the frequency domain (including DC) and the time domain, and transducers to give access to non-electrical quantities. Instruments with automated control and analysis functions are part of the field of interest.

The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society has 17 chapters and members in 70 countries worldwide. Their 5 conferences include the Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference and the Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurement.

Society membership includes:

- IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine
   (print & electronic)
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and
   Measurement (electronic)
- IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
   (electronic)