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.
IEEE Spectrum
- Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr March 17, 2022Over 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, 2022Over 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, 2022The 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 and Keysight Team Up to Teach Kids About Electronics August 15, 2024IEEE TryEngineering has partnered with Keysight Technologies to develop lesson plans focused on electronics and power simulation. Keysight provides hardware, software, and services to a wide variety of industries, particularly in the area of electronic measurement.IEEE TryEngineering, an IEEE Educational Activities program, empowers educators to foster the next generation of technology innovators through free, online […]
- Optical Metasurfaces Shine a Light on Li-Fi, Lidar August 15, 2024A new, tunable smart surface can transform a single pulse of light into multiple beams, each aimed in different directions. The proof-of-principle development opens the door to a range of innovations in communications, imaging, sensing, and medicine.The research comes out of the Caltech lab of Harry Atwater, a professor of applied physics and materials science, […]
- NIST Announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards August 13, 2024Today, almost all data on the Internet, including bank transactions, medical records, and secure chats, is protected with an encryption scheme called RSA (named after its creators Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman). This scheme is based on a simple fact—it is virtually impossible to calculate the prime factors of a large number in a reasonable amount […]
- Level Up Your Leadership Skills with IEEE Courses August 12, 2024Author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell famously said, “The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders, and continually develops them.” Experts confirm that there are clear benefits to […]
- Amazon Vies for Nuclear-Powered Data Center August 12, 2024When Amazon Web Services paid US $650 million in March for another data center to add to its armada, the tech giant thought it was buying a steady supply of nuclear energy to power it, too. The Susquehanna Steam Electric Station outside of Berick, Pennsylvania, which generates 2.5 gigawatts of nuclear energy, sits adjacent to […]