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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The project in Nepal was supported by funds Kiani raised through the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. TryEngineering offers hundreds of lesson plans, hands-on activities, and other resources.

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

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He was an active volunteer for TryEngineering , a website that provides teachers, parents, and students with engineering resources. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids. He and his family lived there for two years.

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