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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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The students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees. The meetings have always included onsite events for students to network with each other and to mingle with researchers over lunch. The events give the budding engineers an opportunity to talk with leaders they normally wouldn’t meet, Tricomi says.

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From Introvert to IEEE Influencer

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“But when I joined IEEE and explored public speaking and even the management of the student branch itself as chair in my final year, I got the feeling that IEEE was my place, and that it could help me grow personally as well as professionally.” For the past six years, he’s been doing all three. But Kalra’s time volunteering paid off.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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A Bright IDEA BY SARAH A. will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Bright is planning to sell its IDEA to commercial businesses only.

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Video Friday: Mini Pupper

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We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): The basic kit is $250, which includes just the custom parts, so you'll need to add your own 3D printed parts, some of the electronics, and the battery. Duco ] Thanks Sai!

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. Laser printers.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

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And I think it wasn’t sort of defined consistently always because there’s this idea that seems to be sort of bubbling to the top, bubbling to the surface, that there are these electrical properties that the body has, and they’re not just epiphenomena, and they’re not just in the nervous system. How does it heal it?

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New secret details of 2024 Tesla Model 3 Performance! Musk’s mega-fast electric car explored in Australia

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Expect much bigger brakes, better tyres and possibly some form of body kit. It slots into a groove below the door sill to hold the door in place in the event of a side impact Plus Tesla says it’s stiffened the structure, especially around suspension components. As well as additional performance – eclipsing the 3.3-second