Green Mountain IEEE News

  • Congratulations to the Green Mountain PES Chapter, which won a 2023 IEEE PES High Performing Chapter award!
  • If you’re an IEEE member with at least 10 years of professional, consider trying to elevate to senior membership. See requirements here.
  • Interested in the history of the IEEE in Vermont? Willing to do a bit of digging to find out more? We’re looking for a section historian to gather information and help us tell the story. Contact section chair Josh Burroughs if you’re interested.
  • Check out Inspiring Technology: 34 Breakthrough, an online book highlighting key milestones from the IEEE’s 140 year history.
  • The 2023 Green Mountain IEEE Section annual awards meeting was held November 17, 2023 at the Essex. Awardees can be found here.
  • Congratulations to Joshua Burroughs and Amritanshu Pandey, elevated to IEEE Senior members in August, 2023.
  • Our executive committee online meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 11:00 AM. Email us for more information.
  • Recordings of some IEEE GM meetings are now available on our programs page.

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  • Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr March 17, 2022
    Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account was written by Volodymyr Pyliavskyi, a senior researcher at the Odessa National Telecommunications Academy in Odessa, Ukraine. “For so long I was planning […]
  • Stories of the War in Ukraine: Hanna March 17, 2022
    Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account, entitled “Real War,” was written by Hanna Porieva, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky […]
  • A Russian Perspective on the War in Ukraine March 17, 2022
    The Institute reached out to Russian IEEE members to get their views regarding the war, as citizens, engineers, and IEEE members. Here we share the thoughts of Roman L. Gorbunov, a member of the Siberia section. As our regular readers might know, we sometimes publish opinion articles. These should not be interpreted as official positions […]

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  • A New Type of Neural Network Is More Interpretable August 5, 2024
    Artificial neural networks—algorithms inspired by biological brains—are at the center of modern artificial intelligence, behind both chatbots and image generators. But with their many neurons, they can be black boxes, their inner workings uninterpretable to users. Researchers have now created a fundamentally new way to make neural networks that in some ways surpasses traditional systems. […]
  • Two Companies Plan to Fuel Cargo Ships With Ammonia August 3, 2024
    This article was updated on 5 August 2024 to correct global shipping emission data.In July, two companies announced a collaboration aimed at helping to decarbonize maritime fuel technology. The companies, Brooklyn-based Amogy and Osaka-based Yanmar, say they plan to combine their respective areas of expertise to develop power plants for ships that use Amogy’s advanced […]
  • Video Friday: UC Berkeley's Little Humanoid August 2, 2024
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDSIROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAEICSR 2024: 23–26 October […]
  • The President-Elect Candidates’ Plans to Further IEEE’s Mission August 1, 2024
    The annual IEEE election process begins this month, so be sure to check your mailbox for your ballot. To help you choose the 2025 IEEE president-elect, The Institute is publishing the official biographies and position statements of the three candidates, as approved by the IEEE Board of Directors. The candidates are IEEE Fellows Mary Ellen […]
  • The Saga of AD-X2, the Battery Additive That Roiled the NBS August 1, 2024
    Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the director of the National Bureau of Standards, and his reinstatement after more than 400 scientists threatened to resign. Who knew a little box of salt could stir up such drama?What was AD-X2?It all started in 1947 when a bulldozer operator with a 6th grade education, […]