Happy New Year's greetings and warm wishes from the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, literally the southernmost place on the Earth! I am looking forward to another great year for the IEEE Chicago. Here below, I attempted to outline my [...]
The Chicago Section’s PACE Chair, Elsa Madrigal, and WIE Chair, Nina Rouhanizadeh, arranged a tour of Panduit’s Jack E. Caveney Innovation Center (JECIC). Panduit Corp. is a leading global provider of innovative electrical and network infrastructure solutions. The JECIC [...]
On December 10, 2019, the IEEE Chicago Section held its annual awards dinner. Megan Czach, the new Awards Chair, made the arrangements. The 39 attendees included ExCom members, award winners, and their guests. The award winners are listed below. [...]
Polished Pebbles partnered with IEEE to host a special hands-on workshop, “ Mommy, Me, and Technology” on Saturday, November 23rd. Polished Pebbles is a non-profit organization focused on the empowerment, mentorship and development of girls in the Greater Chicago [...]
On November 8th, members of the IEEE Chicago Section manned a table at the Wheaton STEM Expo 2019. The first photo shows UIC student branch member Stephany Pham showing Connie Kelly, the section’s Educational Activities Chair, how electricity works. [...]
November 21, 2019 Welcome to the inaugural Joint Annual Meeting of the IEEE Magnetics Society and IEEE Nanotechnology Council Chicago Chapters. The meeting will convene local academics, professionals and students with broad interests in magnetics, and nanotechnology. The meeting [...]
The Chicago chapter of the Power & Energy Society and the Chicago Section’s Young Professionals Affinity Group held an event on October 10th at MxD. MxD is a manufacturing hub headquartered in Chicago that aims to drive the digital future [...]
The slate for the 2020 IEEE Chicago Section Officers has been announced: Chair: Valentine Novosad Vice Chair: Sachin Kumar Treasurer: Brook Abegaz Secretary: Dana Al-Qadi Val is currently the section’s Vice Chair and the Chair of IEEE Chicago Magnetics [...]
On Friday September 20th, a sold-out crowd attended the IEEE Women in Engineering AI Leadership Summit in Naperville, IL. The program started with Anne Lee, a Bell Labs Fellow, providing an overview of Artificial Intelligence. Thereafter, attendees learned how [...]
IEEE Day may be ten years old, but IEEE is over 100! In 1884 a group of engineers met to share ideas and the forerunner of IEEE was born. For the past ten years, IEEE members worldwide have met [...]