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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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When Tushar Sharma was a young boy growing up in Jamnapaar, India, a densely populated area outside of Delhi, he never imagined that someday he would meet the country’s prime minister. India has to become a self-sustaining R&D hub.” He learned how to set up antennas and radios to track celestial events.

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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. New chapters in Ecuador, Hungary, and India Several chapters have been established in recent months.

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Inspire Kids to Study STEM with These Educational Resources

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The Economic Times reported that India experienced a 44 percent increase in STEM jobs from 2016 to 2019. To help increase the number of qualified professionals, IEEE has created the IEEE Pre-University Volunteer STEM Portal. The events have collectively impacted more than 9,300 students, nearly 1,230 parents and about 560 teachers.

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From Introvert to IEEE Influencer

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In addition, he is the new editor of the IEEE IC Vaani , the India Council newsletter. Kalra says he found his voice in 2016 after becoming a member of the IEEE student branch at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in Dwarka, Delhi. Kalra left Wipro in 2021 to join a cloud computing organization in India.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law.

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Letting in the Light

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TEVA chapter member Mark Smith gives technician training class in India. All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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Arti Agrawal , who is gay, didn’t have access to LGBTQ+ support groups when growing up in India, where homosexuality was a crime until 2018. She went on to form her own groups and lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the universities she worked for in London and Sydney. The society itself was very homophobic,” she says. “I

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