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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

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She joined the center as a co-op student and retired in 2014 as chief of its electrical engineering division. Employer: Miller Engineering and Research Corp. She conducted research on radiation environments and their effects on electronic systems. She wrote its space-environment specifications. About Janet Barth.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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An active and involved volunteer Greene’s parents are not engineers. He says he picked up his love of engineering from the science fairs he participated in throughout middle school and high school in Westford, Mass. It was there that I got to explore and engage with a diversity of different engineers,” Greene says. “It

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New Award Recognizes IEEE Society’s Work in DEI

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IEEE IMS has increased its number of women leaders, conference speakers, and editors of its publications. Ferdinanda Ponci was elected in 2010 as the IEEE Women in Engineering liaison. IEEE IMS conferences have increased the number of female speakers and technical program committee chairs.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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But she discovered there were fewer women in science, technology, engineering, and math at the university than at her alma mater. In 2011 she took a position at the university as a lecturer and started her own LGBTQ+ network there so she could help create a better environment. And, she says, the workplace atmosphere wasn’t welcoming.

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Interim assessment finds Volkswagen’s “Think Blue. Factory.” program reduced resource consumption by average 24.3% since 2011

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Participants at the annual conference also discussed new targets for the future of vehicle production at Volkswagen. A team at the engine plant in Chemnitz is working on how to save power effectively at weekends and is continuously optimizing shut-down schedules. day in Wolfsburg. At the fourth "Think Blue. Earlier post.).

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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Department of Energy science and engineering research center. Instead, he became a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he taught for 33 years. I’ve prospered in that environment. He has won many awards at the conference for his papers. a nearby U.S.

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Meta’s AI Agents Learn to Move by Copying Toddlers

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In a simulated environment, a disembodied skeletal arm powered by artificial intelligence lifted a small toy elephant and rotated it in its hand. In another environment, disembodied skeletal legs used 80 muscles working through 16 joints to kick and flex, engaging in the kind of “ motor babbling ” that toddlers do as they work toward walking.