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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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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 students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees.

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Ford Reaches Definitive Agreement to Sell Volvo Cars and Related Assets to Geely

Green Car Congress

At the press conference Sunday afternoon (CET). As part of the sale, Ford also has committed to provide engineering support, information technology, access to tooling for common components, and other selected services for a transition period to ensure a smooth separation process. I want to make a personal statement.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

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. I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained. Martin had been working on LEVs in STEM programs and the EV Challenge.

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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. Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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During the summer break, I dusted myself off, cut down my hours from full time to part time at my job, and decided I wasn’t going to let anybody but me decide whether I should be an engineer or not.” She has been granted 38 U.S. As a society, we need to ensure that every person can achieve their full potential,” she says.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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She has been granted several patents, which have been commercialized. She signed up, she says, so she could publish a paper in one of IEEE’s conference proceedings. The views expressed in this interview are Anna Zakrzewska’s personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization mentioned.

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