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Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities

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Since last September, Ive been spending seven hours a day, five days a week happily researching the history of women in electrical engineering. So far Ive uncovered the names of more than 200 women who contributed to electrical engineering, the first step in an eventual book project. I could keep going. Who exactly are we?

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A Guide to IEEE Education Week’s Events

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Here are some of the offerings: On 7 April, the keynote presentation by Kathleen Kramer, 2025 IEEE president and CEO , kicks off the week. The Inspiring Tomorrows Engineers with TryEngineering eBooks webinar on 8 April is designed to provide insights from the publication series on how to explain complex concepts to school-age children.

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IEEE-HKN Marks 120th Anniversary With Hackathon

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Organized by a group of 10 HKN students and led by recent graduate Christian Winingar from the Gamma Theta chapter at Missouri University of Science and Technolog y , in Rolla, the hackathon required more than seven months of planning. The students worked together to face obstacles, using mathematical and engineering principles.

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Bell Labs Turns 100, Plans to Leave Its Old Headquarters

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The team has developed a real-time technique for monitoring mild changes in cable length, so sensitive that the lab-based demo was able to pick up tiny vibrations from the presenters speaking voice. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a keynote that The current administration seems to be trying to destroy university R&D.

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Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

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But if they succeed, it will mark a bold feat of engineering to boost clean energy and fight climate. Azerbaijans Pivot From Oil to Solar and Wind Of the six countries that make up the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan boasts the largest potential for generating exportable renewable energy for Europe, a fact that presents some measure of irony.

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UK Greenlights Amazon Kuiper, Starlink Faces New Rival

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Scott Palo , professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says that establishing an inter-satellite optical communications network is one of the biggest challenges in satellite-based wireless and broadband networks. Kuipers Satellite Catch-up To be fair, Kuiper Systems hasnt exactly been sitting idle.

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Henry Samueli and the Rise of Digital Broadband

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Eight years ago, Samueli, then a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who had been pushing the state of the art of digital broadband communications for more than a decade, joined with his Ph.D. The teacher predicted that Samueli would be a successful electrical engineer someday. Samueli jumped at the chance.

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