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PitchD: Call for Contributions 2023

Are you a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Torino? Take the opportunity to participate in the new edition of PitchD seminars: the PhD’s Pitch. The seminars organized for sharing PhD knowledge at our University. Improve your public speaking skills and share your research with students, other PhD candidates and academic staff. Take the opportunity to meet people interested in your…

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Tech Talk – Open-Source Hardware for Edge-Computing Platforms based on RISC-V: what it is, why, and what’s next

29 November 2022 – 2:45 PMPolitecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Please, remember that registration is required to attend the event. Abstract Thanks to the advances in data analytics algorithms, edge-computing devices are asked to be more energy efficient and performant, still meeting the low-power constraints. On one side, scaling down the transistor size has been working well so far,…

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Tech Talk – The value of innovation and Intellectual Property

28 November 2022 – 4:30 PMPolitecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Please, remember that registration is required to attend the event. Abstract Over the last few years, generation, protection, and exploitation of Intellectual Property (IP) rights have acquired a crucial role for both the Industry and the Academia. Intellectual property not only represents a measure of the innovation potential for…

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TechTalk – TinyML and EdgeAI Systems: A Cross-Layer Approach with Software and Hardware Techniques for Energy-Efficiency and Robustness

17 October 2022 – 10:30 AMPolitecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Please, remember that registration is required to attend the event. Abstract Modern Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches, such as, the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have shown tremendous improvement over the past years to achieve a significantly high accuracy for a certain set of tasks, like image…

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Tech Talk: Introduction to DSP-based SerDes

31 May 2022 – 5.00 PMPolitecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Please, remember that registration is required to attend the event. AbstractThe ever-increasing demand for compute power and data processing in accelerators, GPUs, telecommunication networks and mobile devices is requiring wireline and radio frequency transceivers to operate at increasing bandwidths, exacerbating the channel losses. Recent advances in ADCs have enabled…

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PitchD 2022 edition: the 4th PitchD

25 May 2022 – 5.30 PM Politecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Here’s the 4th PitchD – the PhD’s pitch. Our PhD IEEE Student Members explain to students, colleagues and professors their research in-presence. Please, remember that registration is required to attend the event. Cognitive and Autonomous Software-Defined Open Optical Networks Mr. Giacomo Borraccini Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET),…

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PitchD: Call for Contributions 2022

Are you a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Torino? Take the opportunity to participate in the new edition of PitchD seminars: the PhD’s Pitch. The seminars organized for sharing PhD knowledge at our University. Improve your public speaking skills and share your research with students, other PhD candidates and academic staff. Take the opportunity to meet people interested in your…

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Tech Talk: How to feed a growing population while conserving the planet’s resources – IoT to the Rescue

10 May 2022 – 5.00 PM Politecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Please, remember that registration is required to attend the event. AbstractWorld population is growing and according to FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) the agriculture production should increase by 70% by 2050. On the other hand it is also well known that the agriculture is dramatically impacting…

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PitchD 2022 edition: the 3rd PitchD

30 March 2022 – 5.30 PM Politecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Here’s the 2nd PitchD – the PhD’s pitch. Our PhD IEEE Student Members explain to students, colleagues and professors their research in-presence. Please, remember that registration is required to attend the event. Sleep Disturbances as Markers of Neurodegeneration: a Focus on Rapid-Eye Movement Sleep Behaviour Disorder Ms. Irene…

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PitchD 2022 edition: the 2nd PitchD [IN-PRESENCE]

23 February 2022 – 5.30 PM Politecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Here’s the 2nd PitchD – the PhD’s pitch. Our PhD IEEE Student Members explain to students, colleagues and professors their research in-presence. Please register HERE. SCERPA: Enabling the Molecular Field-Coupled Nanocomputing Circuit Design Mr. Yuri Ardesi Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) – Dept. of Applied Sciences and…

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PitchD 2022 edition: the 1st PitchD [ONLINE]

26 January 2022 – 5.30 PM ONLINE EVENT YouTube Live Broadcast The event has not started yet. Come back on the day of the event to watch the event. Here’s the 1st PitchD – the PhD’s pitch. Our PhD IEEE Student Members explain to students, colleagues and professors their research. Development of low-power and low-cost electronic systems for Smart Agriculture…

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ELECTION TIME – IEEE-SB | WIE

Dear IEEE PoliTO student members, be informed that this week there will be an election of the new board of the Student Branch and the Women in Engineering Affinity Group for the year 2022. The polling will start at 6.30 PM CET immediately after the WIE Present event scheduled for the same day. Venue: Maxwell Room (Access from elevators near…

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IEEE R8 Student Paper Contest 2021

Are you a Bachelor or Master student? Do you want to publish your hard work? Now is the time to start preparing a paper to submit to SPC2021 related to your research/working topic (NO Ph.D. allowed). Let’s tell everybody your outstanding results! IEEE R8 sponsors the authors of the best five papers to have an oral presentation of the paper…

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The 6th PitchD of 2021 [IN-PRESENCE]

3 November 2021 – 5.30 PM CET IN-PRESENCE EVENT Venue: Politecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room You are invited to the 6th PitchD – the PhD’s pitch. Our PhD IEEE Student Members explain to students, colleagues and professors their research in-presence. Please register below. Exploiting Programmable Hardware to Analyze the Neural Networks Reliability Mr. Corrado De Sio Dept. of Control…

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DEEP LEARNING: WHAT IS IT? (IN-PRESENCE SEMINAR)

06 October 2021 – 11.30 AM CET IEEE Student branch Polito is pleased to invite you to the first IN-PRESENCE event and SEMINAR of the year. This seminar is highly recommended for both masters and bachelors degree students that are interested in Artificial Neural Networks and is captioned: DEEP LEARNING: WHAT IS IT? The event publicity will also be handled…

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G20 Italia 2021 chaired by the Young Ambassadors Society.

Innovazione, Digitalizzazione e Futuro del lavoro Buongiorno, sono Kristjane Koleci, e rappresento l’IEEE Student Branch del Politecnico di Torino. Nel mese di giugno 2021, la nostra associazione ha effettuato alcuni sondaggi tra i membri IEEE per capire quali potessero essere, tra gli studenti di ingegneria del campo ICT, le percezioni legate allo sviluppo tecnologico, alla digitazione e al futuro del…

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Happy Pi day from IEEE-SB Polito

For the Math Enthusiasts, it’s all about Pi today! It’s 3-14 !The IEEE Student Branch Politecnico di Torino throws a “SHOUT OUT” to you on this special.We acknowledge your inputs in making the world a better place.Happy Birthday Albert EinsteinHappy Pi day to you all!

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IEEE Student Branch Boards 2021

It’s time to renew the executive committee of the IEEE student branch of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. It’s time for the board to pass the torch to a new set of motivated champs. The election of the branch has been supervised by our IEEE-SB counsellor Prof. Maurizio Martina and the IEEE-SB WIE advisor, Prof. Sabrina Grassina. They took the opportunity…

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Board 2021 – Call for nomination

Dear Member,thank you all for actively participating to the SB events and activities! But now we need you to continue the activities and follow the taken path. In January we will organize elections for the Executive Committee both of the IEEE Student Branch and of the Women in Engineering Affinity Group. Any IEEE student member can apply for one of…

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PitchD: Call for Contributions 2021

Are you a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Torino? Take the opportunity to participate in the new edition of PitchD seminars: the PhD’s Pitch. The seminars organized for sharing PhD knowledge at our University. Improve your public speaking skills and share your research with students, other PhD candidates and academic staff. Take the opportunity to meet people interested in your…

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IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award 2020

Dear IEEE Student Members of Politecnico di Torino, the election for the new board of the IEEE Student Branch are approaching and we are glad to announce that our IEEE Student Branch received the “IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award” of the IEEE R8 Section, for the second consecutive year! Our student branch has been considered as one of the…

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IEEE Day 2020

The IEEE Student Branch wishes a good IEEE day to the IEEE community of Politecnico di Torino!

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2020 IEEE Annual Election

Did you vote for the 2020 IEEE Annual Election? Balloting for the 2020 IEEE Annual Election started on 17 August and ends on 1 October, 12:00 pm ET USA/16:00 UTC. All the members are invited to play a part in choosing the future leadership of IEEE Link to access the ballotting: https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/election/index.html#ieee#sbpolito

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Back from vacation!

Dear IEEE members, September is here, and we are happy to announce the IEEE student activities are back.  We are happy to communicate that our next PitchDs will be again accepted as learning activities for the PhD students in “Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (EECE)” of Politecnico di Torino. Similarly to the pre-COVID-19 situation, the speaker will obtain 3 hard…

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We are the “Exemplary Student Branch”

Dear IEEE Student Members of Politecnico di Torino, we are glad to announce that our IEEE Student Branch received the “Exemplary Student Branch” award of the IEEE Italy Section, for the second consecutive year! This year has been for us an incredible challenge. We decided, a few months ago, to continue many of our activities remotely. We took this year…

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Happy Easter!

The IEEE Student Branch and the Women In Engineering affinity group of Politecnico di Torino wish a Happy Easter to everybody!

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First PitchD ONLINE

Notwithstanding the quarantine and the social restrictions, yesterday we had the third PitchD of the year. We are happy many students, researchers and professors came to listen to the speakers. Fabio and Umberto did a very high quality and professional work. We really thank them for their talks, especially in this period of emergency, and we wish them all the…

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Coronavirus – 3rd PitchD is postponed

IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION Following the official communication of the Politecnico di Torino Rector to suspend all the teaching activities in the university, due to some cases of Coronavirus infection emerged in Piemonte, we decided to postpone the 3rd PitchD to a later date. The 3rd PitchD of 2020 WILL NOT be held on 26th February 2020. We will communicate the new…

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PitchD 2020 edition: the second PitchD

29 January 2020 – 5.30 PM Politecnico di Torino – Maxwell Room Here’s the second PitchD – the PhD’s pitch of the new 2020 edition. Our PhD IEEE Student Members explain to students, colleagues and professors their research. For the second event, two PhD students with an electronics background will show insight into their work. Join us to listen to…

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The Women in Engineering, presentation’s done

The Women In Engineering Student Branch Affinity Group has been officially presented. The event of the WIE affinity group was a great achievement! Thanks to all the people who attended the discussion, it was an honour to have you among our audience. Thanks to our guests: Tiziana Tambosso, Dajana Cassioli, Manuela Appendino and Sabrina Grassini, who is also the advisor…

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PitchD: Call for Contributions 2020

Are you a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Torino? Take the opportunity to participate in the new edition of PitchD seminars: the PhD’s Pitch. The seminars organized for sharing PhD knowledge at our University. Improve your public speaking skills and share your research with students, other PhD candidates and academic staff. Take the opportunity to meet people interested in your…

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New board of the IEEE Student Branch

It’s time to renew the executive committee of the IEEE student branch. It’s time for the board to pass the torch to new and motivated people. The election has been supervised by our IEEE-SB counsellor Prof. Maurizio Martina. He took the opportunity to thank all the former members of the board for the great work they did in these last…

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The IEEE Student Branch met Federico Faggin

On October 15th, the IEEE student branch had the honour of meeting Federico Faggin during the TOP EXPERIENCES talk entitled: “Intuire, creare, autorizzarsi a nuove comprensioni: dall’invenzione del primo processore alla nuova scienza della consapevolezza”. Federico Faggin designed the Intel 4004 processor and is the creator of Silicon Gate Technology (SGT). He participated in the development of Intel 8080 and…

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The IEEE is celebrating!

It was back in 1884 when for the first time engineers from all over the world gathered to share their technical ideas, founding the AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers), which in 1963 became our IEEE. In 1884 among the founders there were scientists like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison and their mind still lives in our community, inspiring all…

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Call for Nomination!

Dear Member, thank you all for actively participating to the SB events and activities! But now we need your to continue the activities and follow the taken path. Actually, in October we will organize elections for the Executive Committee both of the IEEE Student Branch and of the newly born Women in Engineering Affinity Group. Any IEEE student member can…

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We are the “Exemplary Student Branch”

We are glad to announce to all of you that our student branch has received the 2019 Exemplary Student Branch Award from the IEEE Italy Section. We are very happy about this milestone, that recognizes the efforts of both the board and the members of our student branch. Umberto Garlando (PhD candidate in electronics and Student Branch’s secretary) received the award during…

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IEEE Women in Engineering is landing in the Politecnico di Torino

We are pleased that we have received approval to form the IEEE Politecnico di Torino Women in Engineering Student Branch Affinity Group in the Italy Section. IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is a global network of IEEE members and volunteers dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists, and inspiring girls around the world to follow their academic interests in a…

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The Student Branch goes live on Radio

Our member Umberto and Leonardo went on line to the official Politecnico di Torino web radio OndeQuadre in the show Non Solo Poli. If you lose it, you can listen to the podcast (in italian): on their website or on Spotify.

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The Student Branch is now on YouTube!

We are pleased to announce you that the PoliTO IEEE Student Branch YouTube channel is born! The channel will be the official showcase for the Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch where all the video will be loaded. On our channel you will find all the PitchD – the PhD’s pitch recorded presentations, all in HD and subtitled (in English). Subscribe…

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IEEE Student Branch will be at Politecnico di Torino Open Days

In the framework of the event Orientati al Futuro on 8 and 9 April 2019, Politecnico di Torino will organize the traditional Salone dell’Orientamento at the main campus in Piazzale Duca d’Aosta (in front of the main entrance) from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. This traditional Open Day for prospective students last two days and is intended for students who…

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New initiative: PitchD – the PhD’s pitch

A brand new series of seminars is about to start, and one of the speakers could be you! The initiative is named ‘PitchD – the PhD’s pitch‘ and is addressed to all PoliTo PhD candidates. It consists of series of seminars in which PhD students will present their research work, mainly from a scientific point of view, but also giving…

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Maria-Alexandra Paun Visit

We are very grateful for Dr. Maria-Alexandra Paun visit to our University and we were very happy about hosting her. The members enjoyed very much her talk on analysis and modelling of medical electronic devices using three-dimensional simulations, interacting actively. During the visit, the Student Branch Committee and Dr. Maria-Alexandra Paun discussed the opportunity to organize joint events with EPFL….

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Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings!

The Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch would like to say Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings to all of our members and followers. See you in the new year for new exiting event. Stay Tuned, and continue to follow us!

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Maria-Alexandra Paun, IEEE Switzerland Chair, on the IEEE

The Student Branch is preparing new exciting events for the coming year. Doing that we encounter Dr. Maria-Alexandra Paun, the Chair of the IEEE Switzerland Section. We met her at the EPFL campus, in Lausanne. We decided to ask her some interesting questions to understand better what really means IEEE in her opinion. Dr Maria-Alexandra Paun is currently a researcher…

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Welcoming Benedetto Vigna!

It was an honour for us to welcome Benedetto Vigna, STMicroelectronics President, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group. He presented to the large and interested Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch audience his Distinguish Lecture on Innovation in Big Companies. He teach us that the innovation starts with a good idea, but it can only go forward if the corresponding product roadmap…

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Federico Faggin: a nobody who created the CPU

On September 26, in Pisa, Federico Faggin was awarded of the IEEE Italy Section Honorary Award 2018. Federico Faggin, is widely known (but sometimes forgotten) for designing the first commercial microprocessor. He led the 4004 project and the design group during the first five years of Intel’s microprocessor effort. Most importantly, Faggin created in 1968, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor,…

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The IEEE Day has arrived!

It was back in 1884 when for the first time engineers from all over the world gathered to share their technical ideas, founding the AIEE (American Institute of Electrical Engineers), which in 1963 became our IEEE. In 1884 among the founders there were scientists like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison and their mind still lives in our community, inspiring all…

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An important award for our IEEE Student Branch!

The Politecnico di Torino Student IEEE Branch has been awarded the prize as ‘Most Improved Student Branch’ of the IEEE Italy Section. The award acknowledges and gratifies the efforts made in the last year to establish, also in our university, an association that groups all the students enrolled in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). Vincenzo Randazzo (Ph.D….

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IEEEmadC 2018 Idea Stage

Think you can code? IEEEmadC The prizes are now officially announced; do you want to win the 1st prize? It’s time to submit an outstanding idea! The IEEEmadC (Mobile Application Development Contest) is back and waiting for your ideas! IEEEmadC is an open challenge and a global opportunity for any student, who has passion to change people lives and shape…

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2018 IEEE Annual Election

The 15th of August balloting for the 2018 IEEE Annual Election has begun, and we hope all the member will take the time to exercise their vote and help choose the future direction of IEEE as an organisation. The Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch wishes the best of luck to all the candidates, Life Fellow Toshio Fukuda, Fellow Vincenzo…

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IEEE SB PoliTO at ISCAS2018

The IEEE Politecnico di Torino Student Branch participated actively at the ISCAS 2018 conference, held in Florence at the end of May. The International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society and the world’s premier networking and exchange forum for researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design…

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May has been a busy month for the IEEE SB PoliTo!

May has been a busy month. The Student Branch proposed a seminar on the MEMS technology, featuring speaker from Politecnico di Torino, which exposed their work in this endearing topic. The visit of Dr. Ghanshyam Singh, IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer, was a great occasion to show us the world of the photonic integrated devices: the technology for next generation telecom networks….

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Young Professional Demo competition @ RTSI 2018

The IEEE Young Professional (YP) is a program focused on helping young people evaluate their career goals, polish their professional image and create the building blocks of a lifelong and diverse professional network. This year, the 4th RTSI forum includes a YP competition that consists of presenting a Poster and a Demo related to the YP research activities. This competition can…

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Join IEEE Women in Engineering in the International Womens Day

The Politecnico di Torino Student Branch celebrates the International Women’s Day promoting the WIE. IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is one of the largest international professional organizations dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists and inspiring girls around the world to follow their academic interests to a career in engineering. Visit the WIE site

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IEEE Italy Section ABB Award 2018

Master Thesis Award and the PhD Thesis Award on New Challenges for Energy and Industry are announced by the IEEE Italy Section together with its Chapters and WIE Affinity Group. Join it! The IEEE PoliTO Student Branch wishes all the participants the best of luck!

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The Student Branch is on LINKEDIN

Now, it is possible to found Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch also on Linkedin. Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch is pleased to announce the launch of the brand-new Linkedin page. Please, follow us!

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PhD Presentation Day

The PhD Presentation Day was a successful event. Several speakers shared their experience with the students. We hope that the PhD community of Politecnico di Torino continues to grow in the following years. The Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch wants to thank all the people that attended the event and particularly the speakers for their very useful contribution.

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IEEE Day 2017

“Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow”. The Politecnico di Torino IEEE Student Branch celebrates the IEEE Day 2017, celebrating the first time in history when engineers worldwide and IEEE members gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884. Do not hesitate; share your excitement, visions, and joy with engineers worldwide.

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