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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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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. It’s much appreciated, especially by very young or shy students,” she says.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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As a full professor and deputy president of the School of engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, Metra specializes in design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems. Currently, he reviews technical documents for conferences, prizes, and international publications.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

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At the 1895 International Geographical Congress, Rebeur-Paschwitz proposed setting up a worldwide network of seismological stations. That network registered the massive Kanto earthquake in 1923 and first alerted the international community of the need to send aid. References I began my research for this piece by reading J.

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World’s First Hybrid Battery-powered Electric Motorcycle to Be Revealed

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At the EICMA event, a fully electric motorcycle showing a revolutionary power train technology concept that makes use of ultracapacitors will be unveiled to the public. The event will be in Milan, Italy. Project NAVA Racer & Its History. Pascal Boulanger, Founder of NAWA Technologies, and CTO. Ultracapacitors.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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The final event took place last November in Long Beach, Calif., A robotic avatar A robotic avatar system is similar to virtual reality, in that both allow a person located in one place to experience and interact with a different place using technology as an interface. Live commentary accompanied each competitor’s run.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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She decided to give research a try and in 2009 became an intern at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. , She left after about a year to take a similar position at the European Commission ’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. She also provides career guidance to the company’s interns and young professionals as well. “I

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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

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That includes most forklifts, golf cars and mobility vehicles for the disabled plus Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and personal submarines. IDTechEx is producing an event looking at the whole range of electric vehicles. These second generation engines retain piston-driven, internal combustion technology.

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