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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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in robotics at Heidelberg University , in Germany. The society recently launched several programs to engage them, including career fairs, travel grants, and networking opportunities with researchers. Student representatives also help organize conference workshops. The society’s approach has paid off.

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This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

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Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences. sustainable development goals.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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She also provides guidance to university students and young professionals through outreach programs at Dell such as STEM Aspire. Finding that she enjoyed the work, Zakrzewska enrolled in 2010 in a doctoral program in wireless communications at the Technical University of Denmark , in Kongens Lyngby. Zakrzewska helps judge the entries.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. Coughlin is also the founder of the Storage Networking Industry Association 's Solid State Storage Initiative, the Storage Visions Conference , and the Creative Storage Conference.

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Cybersecurity Gaps Could Put Astronauts at Grave Risk

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Gregory Falco , an assistant professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins, explored the topic in a recent paper presented at the spring 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Saadia Pekkanen is the founding director of the University of Washington’s Space Law, Data and Policy Program.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. and University College London. universities. 1970 and Ph.D.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Dennis Whyte [left], the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ CEO, Bob Mumgaard, confer in CFS’s test hall, where the startup built and tested its first magnet. national labs and universities as well as international research institutes.

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