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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. An active and involved volunteer Greene’s parents are not engineers. It was there that I got to explore and engage with a diversity of different engineers,” Greene says. “It Now a Ph.D.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. In engineering, she focuses on developing methods to analyze remote sensing data. “I She then pursued a Ph.D.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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The lack of an engineering mentor while growing up didn’t hinder Anna Zakrzewska from having a successful career in telecommunications. She is a senior principal engineer at Dell Technologies in Dublin. None of my family members or family friends were engineers,” she says. Zakrzewska helps judge the entries.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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AI and DEI Spotlighted at IEEE’s Futurist Summit

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This year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony , held on 2 and 3 May in Boston, celebrated pioneers in engineering who have developed technologies that changed people’s lives, such as the Internet and GPS. Most said they were inspired to become engineers by a parent. Mulligan Jr.

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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But she didn’t know what subject she wanted to pursue until she began her undergraduate studies in physics at McMaster University , in Hamilton, Ont., While conducting research in optics for her doctorate at the University of Rochester , in New York, Strickland worked with French physicist Gérard Mourou , a laser pioneer and Nobel laureate.

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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

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With the new facility, Ford expects to have one of the largest automotive manufacturer research centers in Silicon Valley by the end of the year, with 125 researchers, engineers and scientists. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from its Haas School of Business. Maciuca holds a Ph.D.

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