It is registered under the Securities and Exchange Commission as a non-stock and non-profit organization.
ICpEP is also the official computer engineering organization for academic community and industry practitioners in the Philippines.
But after years of being active and conducting conventions, seminars, and symposia to fellow computer engineers and students, PhICEs became inactive.
[4][5] In 2008, several computer engineers tried to revive the professional organization after it's been inactive for years.
The first group of student chapters started in 2008, it was founded by 11 schools, namely, Adamson University, Asia Pacific College, Central Colleges of the Philippines, De La Salle University, Far Eastern University Institute of Technology, Mapua Institute of Technology, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Manila, STI College-Recto, Technological Institute of the Philippines-Manila, and Technological Institute of the Philippines-Quezon City.