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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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Since 2018, student membership has grown by more than 50 percent to 5,436. 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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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Kiani traveled in 2018 to Cairns, Australia, for the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics. While attending IEEE Smart Village’s Power Africa conference in 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda, she met GHE founder Paras Loomba. While in Cairns, she visited a store that sold purses and clothes made by Melamchi villagers.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. He was granted 15 patents. He founded the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives global competition in 2018 to crowdsource ideas that could improve energy access in underserved communities.

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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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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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Goldsmith Employer Princeton Title Dean of engineering and applied sciences Member Grade Fellow Alma Mater University of California, Berkeley Major Recognitions 2024 IEEE Mulligan Education Medal 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee 2020 Marconi Prize 2018 IEEE Eric E. She has been granted 38 U.S. patents for her work.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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Goldsmith Employer Princeton Title Dean of engineering and applied sciences Member Grade Fellow Alma Mater University of California, Berkeley Major Recognitions 2024 IEEE Mulligan Education Medal 2024 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee 2020 Marconi Prize 2018 IEEE Eric E. She has been granted 38 U.S. patents for her work.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s how important it is not to take physical contact for granted. In 2018, we wrote about research by Alexis E. Block and Katherine J. which is “the first fully autonomous human-sized hugging robot that recognizes and responds to the user’s intra-hug gestures.”.

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