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Connect with Engineers Worldwide Through the IEEE App

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One of its many features is connecting members with other app users who have similar interests or affiliations, or live nearby. The app also lets members stay up to date with news, access their IEEE subscriptions, and find research papers. The app can recommend upcoming conferences and meetings based on your interests and location.

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. where he continued his networking work.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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This Engineer’s Solar Panels Are Breaking Efficiency Records

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Yifeng Chen Employer Trina Solar Title Assistant vice president of technology Member Grade Member Alma Maters Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, China, and Leibniz University Hannover, in Germany An incredulous Chen marveled at not only the technology but also the economics. student at Leibniz University Hannover , in Germany.

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IEEE President’s Note: Let’s Get Practical

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Increasing student membership IEEE has many university student members but, like other professional organizations, the majority of these student members don’t continue as higher-grade members. To do so we must engage these new members in a way that encourages them to participate in our organization.

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A Novel IEEE Workshop Showcases Jamaica’s Engineering Community

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The section held a first-of-its-kind workshop in January at the University of Technology in Kingston. Students and members met with IEEE leaders, government officials, university professors, and industry executives. Students from several local schools and universities participated in the event.

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