Green Mountain IEEE News

  • Nominations are now open here for the 2024 IEEE Green Mountain Section awards. The deadline is Friday, October 21. The awards meeting will be held November 15 at the Doubletree, South Burlington.
  • 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.
  • 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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  • IEEE Medal of Honor Prize Increased to $2 Million September 26, 2024
    For more than a century, IEEE has awarded its Medal of Honor to recognize the extraordinary work of individuals whose technical achievements have had world-changing impact. To better demonstrate how these technology, engineering, and science innovators have changed our society globally, IEEE announced that starting next year, the IEEE Medal of Honor monetary prize will […]
  • Build a No-Fuss Particle Detector September 26, 2024
    There’s nothing like particle physics to make you aware that we exist in an endless three-dimensional pinball game. All around us, subatomic particles arc, collide, and barrel along with merry abandon. Some originate within our own bodies, others come from the far ends of the cosmos. But detecting this invisible tumult requires equipment, which can […]
  • Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs September 26, 2024
    When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we do—that’s how (most of us) are built, and that’s the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things about robots is […]
  • Forums, Competitions, Challenges: Inspiring Creativity in Robotics September 25, 2024
    This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total of eight intense competitions to inspire creativity and innovation along with 13 forums dedicated to diverse segments of robotics and artificial intelligence will be part of the 36th edition of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and […]
  • IEEE’s Disaster Relief Program Adds to Its Mobile Response Fleet September 24, 2024
    The IEEE MOVE (Mobile Outreach using Volunteer Engagement) program was launched in 2016 to provide U.S. communities with power and communications capabilities in areas affected by widespread outages due to natural disasters. IEEE MOVE volunteers often collaborate with the American Red Cross.During the past eight years, the initiative has expanded from one truck based in […]