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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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Since 2018, student membership has grown by more than 50 percent to 5,436. The society recently launched several programs to engage them, including career fairs, travel grants, and networking opportunities with researchers. Job fairs and travel grants Several new initiatives have been rolled out at the society’s flagship conferences.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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To improve his chances, he worked as an intern for two of them. They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I The grant provided the seed money to launch their startup that year: Green Village Electricity Projects of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s how important it is not to take physical contact for granted. Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person.

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Tesla’s biggest investor: it’s a family business masquerading as a public company

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The Indonesian-born Chinese American businessman is better known for founding SHI International Corp, a large private IT company that made him a billionaire. Tesla is a family business masquerading as a public company to benefit only one person with his few friends and family. He is also involved in academia and philanthropy.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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Goldsmith Employer Princeton Title Dean of engineering and applied sciences Member Grade Fellow Alma Mater University of California, Berkeley Major Recognitions 2024 IEEE Mulligan Education Medal 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee 2020 Marconi Prize 2018 IEEE Eric E. She has been granted 38 U.S. patents for her work.

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BMW to introduce BMW 530e iPerformance plug-in hybrid at Detroit show

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BMW will stage the world premiere of the new BMW 5 Series Sedan and the US premiere of the BMW Concept X2 at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in January in Detroit. The 2018 BMW 5 Series iPerformance will be available at US dealers in spring 2017. BMW ConnectedDrive will be showcasing a selection of new services.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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Goldsmith Employer Princeton Title Dean of engineering and applied sciences Member Grade Fellow Alma Mater University of California, Berkeley Major Recognitions 2024 IEEE Mulligan Education Medal 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee 2020 Marconi Prize 2018 IEEE Eric E. She has been granted 38 U.S. patents for her work.

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