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 […]
IEEE Spectrum news
- Transistor-like Qubits Hit Key Benchmark September 11, 2024A team in Australia has recently demonstrated a key advance in metal-oxide-semiconductor-based (or MOS-based) quantum computers. They showed that their two-qubit gates—logical operations that involve more than one quantum bit, or qubit—perform without errors 99 percent of the time. This number is important, because it is the baseline necessary to perform error correction, which is […]
- Where VR Gaming Took a Wrong Turn September 10, 2024This article is based on the authors’ new book, Fantasies of Virtual Reality (The MIT Press). In 2017 Mark Zuckerberg stated a bold goal: He wanted one billion people to try virtual reality (VR) by 2027. While he still has a few years to pull it off, the target remains impossibly farfetched. The most recent […]
- Meet the Teens Whose Tech Reduces Drownings and Fights Air Pollution September 9, 2024Drowning is the third leading cause of accidental deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization. The deaths disproportionately impact low- and middle-income communities, whose beaches tend to lack lifeguards because of limited funds. Last year 104 drownings of the 120 reported in the United States occurred on unstaffed beaches. That fueled Angelina Kim’s drone […]
- Will the "AI Scientist" Bring Anything to Science? September 9, 2024When an international team of researchers set out to create an “AI scientist” to handle the whole scientific process, they didn’t know how far they’d get. Would the system they created really be capable of generating interesting hypotheses, running experiments, evaluating the results, and writing up papers? What they ended up with, says researcher Cong […]
- Greener Steel Production Requires More Electrochemical Engineers September 8, 2024In the 1800s, aluminum was considered more valuable than gold or silver because it was so expensive to produce the metal in any quantity. Thanks to the Hall-Héroult smelting process, which pioneered the electrochemical reduction of aluminum oxide in 1886, electrochemistry advancements made aluminum more available and affordable, rapidly transforming it into a core material […]