Cover of EDN magazine
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Editor | Susan Rambo |
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Categories | Trade magazine |
Year founded | May 1956 | (as Electrical Design News)
Final issue | June 2013 | (print)
Company | AspenCore Media |
Country | United States |
Based in | San Francisco, California |
Language | English |
Website | edn |
ISSN | 0012-7515 |
EDN ( ISSN 0012-7515) is an electronics industry website and formerly a magazine owned by AspenCore Media an Arrow Electronics company. The current Executive Editor is Susan Rambo with editorial offices in San Francisco and New York City. EDN magazine was published monthly, in April 2013 EDN announced that the print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue.
Acquisition of EEE magazine
Taking EDN Worldwide - Roy Forsberg later on became Editor in Chief of EDN magazine - Roy was later promoted to Publisher and Jon Titus PhD was named Editor in Chief - Roy and Jon established EDN Europe -EDN Asia and EDN China creating one of the largest global circulations for a design engineering magazine. EDN's 25th Anniversary Issue was a 425 page folio.
Reed Limited acquires remaining interest in Cahners
Reed sells EDN to Canon Communications LLC
On 9 April 2013 UBM announced that EDN's print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue and that the online EDN.com community would continue.
EDN is also published in China and Taiwan and in Europe and Japan through partner publishers who license content from UBM Canon.
The website - EDN Network - caters to the needs of the working electrical engineer and cover new technologies and electronic component products at an engineering level. Columns discuss everything from managing engineers and engineering projects to technical issues faced in the design of electronic components, systems, and developing technologies.
The Design Ideas section features several user-submitted designs that are innovative or novel solutions to constrained design problems. Every issue features a column called "Prying Eyes" which disassembles a popular or intriguing consumer product and investigates the technologies that enable it.
In May 2006, EDN won three awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. The Best Regular Department of the Year award went to Prying Eyes.