IEEE Celebrates 125 Years in 2009
IEEE is commemorating its 125th Anniversary this year with a variety of activities surrounding the theme of "Celebrating 125 Years of Engineering the Future." Major anniversary events include the first IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition for college and university students worldwide; a global media roundtable and web cast addressing emerging, world changing technologies; a series of celebrations in major world cities throughout the year; and IEEE Engineering the Future Day on 13 May 2009. Learn more about these events, and ways you can participate in the celebration, on the IEEE 125th Anniversary web site.
IEEE Celebrates with Military Librarians
IEEE got a head start commemorating its 125th Anniversary at the 52nd Military Libraries Workshop in Monterey, California, USA, with cake and a champagne toast at the opening reception. Throughout 2009, IEEE invites its members, customers and colleagues to join in honoring the countless contributions that IEEE members and the technology profession have made to the global society.
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Save the Date: IEEE Customer Meeting in Germany
Don’t forget to mark your calendar for the regional IEEE Xplore® user group and customer meeting on Thursday, 26 March 2009 at Technische Universität München (TUM) in Germany. Engineers, students and technical staff who use IEEE Xplore, and who would like to provide feedback on IEEE Xplore developments should plan on attending this special meeting. If you have any questions, please contact:
In English
Ruth Wolfish
IEEE Client Services Manager
E-mail: r.wolfish@ieee.org
In German
Uwe Jungfer
SAM- STANDARDS AND MORE... GmbH & Co. KG
E-mail uwe.jungfer@standardsandmore.com
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Visit IEEE at Upcoming Conferences
Stop by the IEEE booth at the following conferences to learn more about the benefits of subscribing to IEEE information and share tips on making the most of your current subscription.
Ontario Library Association Super Conference
Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Canada
28-31 January 2009
Booth #313
Stop by to enter a special raffle for an IEEE Bluetooth headset.
DesignCon
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, USA
3-4 February 2009
Booth #821
Stop by to receive a custom IEEE drawstring backpack.
International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2009)
San Francisco Marriot Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA
8-12 February 2009
Stop by to receive a custom IEEE drawstring backpack.
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IEEE Expert Now Releases Two New Courses
Two new courses have been added to the IEEE Expert Now portfolio of continuing education.
Interconnect Technology for 32 NM and Beyond, taught by Jeff Gambino and sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society, provides an overview of advanced interconnect technologies, including dielectric materials, patterning, metallization, CMP and packaging. New processes will be discussed, such as ultra-low K dielectrics, air-gap structures, low-damage patterning methods, thin barrier and seed layers, refractory metal capping layers and novel CMP techniques. The effect of these processes on performance and reliability will be briefly described and students will gain an understanding of advanced interconnect technologies and their effect on performance and reliability.
Optical Biomedical Sensors, taught by Claire Gu and sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, provides an overview of various optical biomedical sensors, including both imaging and spectroscopic techniques, and introduce some recent developments in biomedical sensors, such as nanoparticle surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and its application in compact molecular sensors. Students will develop an understanding of various optical biomedical sensors and recent developments in biomedical sensors.
More information about these courses—and IEEE Expert Now, the online education resource that provides the latest information on emerging technologies—can be found on the IEEE Expert Now web site. Flexible pricing is now available for any size organization! Learn more
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Online Training Seminars Provide Valuable Tips for IEEE Xplore® Users
Be sure you and your colleagues attend IEEE’s online training seminar, Searching with IEEE Xplore®. The online tutorial provides existing and potential customers with free demonstrations, including tips on how to utilize all the tools available on the IEEE Xplore digital library to find the information you need quickly and easily.
Tutorials have been scheduled for the following dates in 2008:
4 February at 7 pm
9 February at 10 am
25 February at 2:30 pm
12 March at 7 pm
17 March at 10 am
25 March at 2:30 pm
The tutorial Using IEEE Standards in IEEE Xplore is available on 26 February at 10 am & 2 pm
The tutorial Using IEEE Enterprise is available on 5 March at 11 am & 2 pm
Times noted are Eastern Time (ET).
Advance registration is required for all scheduled seminars and space is limited, so please sign up early. Customized tutorials are also available; please contact training@ieee.org for more information on designing a training seminar to fit your needs.
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IEEE Helps Makes Event for Future Women Engineers a Success
Building on its success in attracting young women to engineering, California State University, Long Beach’s (CSULB) College of Engineering recently hosted its eighth annual engineering education conference, “Women Engineers @ the Beach.” More than 250 elementary and middle school girls in attendance learned about the variety of disciplines involved in engineering and related sciences. George Plosker, IEEE Client Services Manager, spoke about how IEEE can help young women build a career on making a contribution for the benefit of humanity. George also elaborated on IEEE’s initiatives to support women in engineering, inviting them to become involved in IEEE Women in Engineering and learn more about the engineering profession. See photos
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IEEE Members Receive White House Award for Early Career Scientists and Engineers
Several IEEE Members were among the 67 researchers honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) last month. The PECASE is the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the start of their career. Established in 1996, the award honors the most promising researchers in the Nation within their fields. Nine federal departments and agencies annually nominate scientists and engineers who are at the start of their independent careers and whose work shows exceptional promise for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge. See the full list of award winners
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Special Issue of Proceeding of the IEEE Looks at Aviation Information Systems
The December issue of Proceedings of the IEEE, edited by IEEE Members Jason Rife, Claire Tomlin and Per Enge, focuses on three significant technologies for restructuring air traffic management: bounded-error navigation, aviation communications networks, and automated algorithms to increase air traffic capacity. Featured papers in this special issue focus on advances in the field of satellite navigation, the roles that aviation networks will play in modernizing air traffic management, and several strategies aimed at revolutionizing air traffic management for the high-capacity airspace of the future. View Proceedings of IEEE
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Call for 2009 IEEE Educational Activities Board Award Nominations
The IEEE Educational Activities Board is seeking nominations to recognize and honor individuals, companies and IEEE Sections for their contributions to engineering and technical education. Nominations are being sought for the following awards:
- IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Accreditation Activities
- IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education
- IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Informal Education
- IEEE EAB Major Educational Innovation Award
- IEEE EAB Pre-University Educator Award
- IEEE EAB Meritorious Service Citation
- IEEE EAB Employer Professional Development Award
- Society/Council Professional Development Award
The deadline for nominations is 30 April 2009. For complete award descriptions, honorarium details and nomination packets, visit the Awards web site
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Call for Proposals: IEEE Real-World Engineering Projects
IEEE is developing curricula for use with first-year students studying electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering and biomedical engineering technology. The program seeks high quality, hands-on, team-based projects that focus on real-world problems whose solutions benefit society. The projects are expected to make the related IEEE fields of interest more relevant to first-year students, and to illustrate how the work of engineers and computer scientists directly impacts society. Completed projects will be disseminated by IEEE for use by faculty in the development of first-year courses. Initial abstracts are due by 31 March 2009. Complete details regarding the call for proposals are available on the IEEE Real-World Engineering Projects web site
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Endorses Two IEEE Computer Society Programs
Top-ranked engineering college Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has announced the endorsement of the IEEE Computer Society’s Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) programs, which promote a consistent view of software engineering worldwide by establishing industry standards and sharing best practices. Rose-Hulman is an early adopter of the CSDA program, helping to endorse, fund and facilitate the CSDA as an exit exam for its graduates to help prepare them for their professional careers. “This examination verifies, for Rose-Hulman and for employers, that our students did succeed in learning major content of this body of knowledge, and thus that they stand out as qualified bachelor’s-level software engineers,” said Cary Laxer, chair of Rose-Hulman’s Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Learn more
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In Brief: Now Available in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library
More than 135 journal issues, conference proceedings and standards have been added to the IEEE Xplore digital library in January. Some of the highlights include:
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, February 2009
Features articles on marketing–manufacturing integration across stages of new product development; complementarities between advanced manufacturing technologies; managing ERP implementation failure; and program risk contingency budget planning.
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, January 2009
Highlights include electrode–molecule interface effects on molecular conductance; carbon nanotube quantum capacitance; alternate state variables for emerging nanoelectronic devices; and nanoscale PtSi tips for conducting probe technologies.
IEEE Communications Letters, January 2009
Contains articles on an improved conditional maximum-likelihood detector; resource allocation for non-real-time services; energy spaced placement for bidirectional data flows in wireless sensor network; and network coding for undirected information exchange.
2008 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 17-20 December
Conference Proceedings
2009 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 5-8 January
Conference Proceedings
View the full list of additions
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