it was the first issue of Electrical Design News, the original name, was published in May 1956 by Rogers Corporation of Englewood, Colorado.

In doing so, Cahners folded EEE's best features into EDN,[5][failed verification] and renamed the magazine EDN/EEE.

On April 9, 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 Japan by ITmedia, Inc. which licenses content from AspenCore Media.

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.