March 2023 Newsletter
Upcoming Events in our Section Other upcoming events of interest FutureCity competition results The Future City Program combines an engineering challenge with a “hands-on” application as sixth through eighth grade… Read more
Picnic pictures
We had a great turnout at the yesterday’s section picnic. Thank you to everyone that turned out, and a huge thank you to the students who catered the picnic. Here… Read more
Come join us at the Annual Fall Picnic – Sept 16
Free IEEE Boise Section fall picnic catered by BSU and NNU student branches. Family and friends are welcome. Hope to see you there! Registration is not required for this event…. Read more
Feb. 2022 Newsletter
Upcoming Events in our Section Crystalline Solar Cells with Atypical Architecture for Wide-Ranging Deployment. Joint EDS-SSCS presentation by IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer, Dr Nazek El-Atab of King Abdullah University of… Read more
Jan. 2022 Newsletter
FutureCity competition – judges needed on Jan 29th! The IEEE Boise Section and the IEEE Boise SSCS Chapter are proud to be sponsors of the Idaho Regional Future City Competition… Read more
Dec. 2021 Newsletter
2022 Boise Section Officer Election results The election results are in. The 2022 officers are: Chair – Randy RannowVice Chair – Nader RaflaSecretary – Patrick MiesenTreasurer – Sean Collison Thank… Read more
IEEEXtreme – Boise Section results
In the 24-hour IEEEXtreme programming competition that was held on October 22-23, 2021, the Nighthawks from NNU took first place in the Boise section and 8th place among the 20 teams in Region… Read more
Oct. 2021 Newsletter
Reminder: two talks on Thursday, Oct 14th Making Qubits: Diamond, Photonics, Superconductors, and More, by Dr. Russ Renzas, Oct 14, 2021, 12pm MDT. Sponsored by Boise Computer Society and Boise… Read more
Section Fall 2021 Picnic Pictures
Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the section picnic last Friday. And a huge thank you to the IEEE BSU Student Branch for organizing and cooking at the… Read more
Sept. 2021 Newsletter
Section Picnic this Friday Sept. 17th Free IEEE Boise Section fall picnic catered by BSU and NNU student branches. Family and friends are welcome. Hope to see you there! Date:… Read more
July 2021 Newsletter
IEEE-Boise Section Newsletter July 2021 From the Chair (Randy Rannow, pi-boson@ieee.org) Thank you for your membership in IEEE. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a member of the… Read more
Trapping and slowing down photons using black holes in silicon for datacom, sensing, and energy conversion (May 26)
Talk by Dr. Saif Islam, co-hosted by Boise EDS and SSCS chapters, May 26, 12pm. See attached file for abstract and speaker bio. Register and find out more at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/272705… Read more
Reliability and Resilience in Low-Carbon Power Systems (May 20)
Virtual distinguished lecture by Prof. Pierluigi Mancarella. May 20, 3:30pm MDT. Co-hosted by IEEE-Boise PES chapter. For more details visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/270841 .
May 2021 Newsletter
IEEE-Boise Section Newsletter May 2021 From the Chair (Randy Rannow, pi-boson@ieee.org) Thank you for your membership in IEEE. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a member of the… Read more
April 2021 Newsletter
IEEE-Boise Section Newsletter April 2021 From the Chair (Randy Rannow) Thank you for your membership in IEEE. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a member of the IEEE-Boise… Read more
March 2021 Newsletter
From the Chair (Randy Rannow) Thank you for your membership in IEEE. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a member of the IEEE-Boise section. Previous newsletters are on… Read more
IEEE-Boise Computer Society Talk: Getting Started with Cybersecurity Science (April 7)
This talk offers an introduction for students and practitioners to the application of the scientific method to cybersecurity tools and systems. Speaker: Josiah Dykstra, Technical Fellow from NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration… Read more
IEEE WMED 2021 – Registration Open (VIRTUAL) and Call for Posters
On behalf of the 2021 WMED Organizing Committee, we are pleased to announce the Opening of Registration and Call for Posters for the 18th annual IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices. The workshop will… Read more
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SUSTECH – Green Economy and Cybersecurity (Feb 23)
SusTech 2021 is hosting talks on Sustainability leading up to the conference in April 2021. “Green Economy and Why Cyber Security is so Important – An overview of NIST 800.53… Read more
IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED-2021
WMED 2021 will be held Friday, April 23rd. It will be held virtually due to the pandemic. For more information, see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-ieee-workshop-on-microelectronics-and-electron-devices-wmed-2021-tickets-91341096679 .
Engineering Applications During COVID-19 Online Conference – March 1st
The conference studies the impacts of COVID 19 on Energy, Water and Transportation and also presents new relate engineering applications. For more details, see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/engineering-applications-during-covid-19-online-conference-tickets-140276357361.
IEEE WIE Event – An Engineer’s Exploration of Voting Technology – Feb. 17
IEEE Boise Section is excited to host Professor Elisa Barney Smith, Professor and Associate Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University who will be presenting a… Read more
Engineering Week volunteers
Please email Lynn Olson @ lynnolson1@boisestate.edu if you are interested in volunteering to interview or forward to others that would like this opportunity to meet with the top engineering students in the… Read more
Feb. 17th talk – Dark, Deep and Political on the Internet
The IEEE Computer Society Phoenix Chapter is hosting a talk by Bill Curd of SYNESYS GROUP on Wednesday, Feb. 17th (rescheduled from Feb. 10th), at 7pm-9pm MST. He will discuss… Read more
Jan. 26th talk by HP Chief Engineer Chandrakant Patel
Date: Tuesday, January 26th 2021, 6pm PT (Pacific Timezone), 7pm Mountain Timezone) HOST: IEEE Santa Clara Valley SectionSPEAKER: Chandrakant Patel, Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow, HP, https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandrakant-d-patel-pe-80a5171 TITLE: Exciting Cyber Physical… Read more
Idaho Regional Future City Competition
The IEEE-Boise section and the IEEE-Boise PES Chapter are proud to be sponsors again for the 17th Idaho regional Future City Competition. This year we sponsored the “Best Communications Infrastructure”… Read more
January 2021 newsletter
The January 2021 newsletter has news about upcoming events, STEM competitions, the 2021 section OpCom officers, and more. You can read it online here.
Sawtooth and the Collaborative Computing Center – what makes it all work?
The IEEE-Boise Computer Society chapter and IEEE-Boise Power and Energy Society chapter will be hosting a virtual talk by Eric Whiting, who will share insights into the compute, electrical, and… Read more
Multiscale Fluid Transport in Nanoporous Media: Computational Models and Deployment on the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
The IEEE-Boise Computer Society chapter will be hosting a virtual talk by Dr. Yidong Xia of the Energy and Environment Science & Technology Directorate, Idaho National Laboratory, at noon on… Read more