“My Daughter is an Engineer” program helps get girls interested in engineering
22 February 2012 – Women represent only about 20 percent of engineering students and 10 percent of profession engineers, according to statistics. The “My Daughter is an Engineer” (MDIAE) program — designed to bring mothers and daughters together to participate in engineering-based activities — is helping to change that. This K-12 outreach program, sponsored by the IEEE […]
Self-maintaining solar power systems deliver electricity in impoverished regions
25 January 2012 – Three hundred children in a remote school in Kenya now have electricity thanks to the successful installation of a portable experimental solar power system there. The design, developed as part of the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC) Reliable Electricity Solution, is engineered in a way that is self-maintaining and user intuitive. […]
IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Award recipients announced
7 December 2011- The IEEE Power & Energy Society is pleased to announce the inaugural IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative award recipients. Ninety-three (93) IEEE PES Scholarship recipients have been selected from 51 U.S. universities for the 2011-12 Academic year. These scholarships are being distributed through the IEEE Power & Energy Scholarship Fund which is […]
2011 IEEE symposium reports results from Autonomous Vehicle Challenge
26 October 2011 – Results from the VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge (VIAC) – a project in which driverless, green-energy vehicles completed a 15,000 km trip – were revealed at the 2011 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium. The VIAC, partially funded with a five-year grant from the European Research Council obtained by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems […]
E-health solution tracks patient records in rural areas
14 September 2011 – In rural, impoverished nations, medical care and disaster relief can be difficult to deliver due to a lack of technology that would allow healthcare workers to identify individuals and track patient records. To help solve this problem, the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge developed an eHealth solution called “RFID Individual Tracking and […]
IEEE Electron Devices Society “Engineers Demonstrating Science Program” launched
31 August 2011- As part of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) strategy to rejuvenate chapter activities in the United States and the rest of the world, the newly created Engineers Demonstrating Science – an Engineer Teacher Connection (IEEE EDS-ETC) program has recently launched. The goal of the program is to enable chapter members to […]
IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge delivers solar power to villages in Haiti
27 July 2011 – This year, the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC) oversaw a program in which solar-based “Sunblazer” generating stations were installed in rural Haitian villages that now deliver basic electricity to over 1,400 people. Under the program, six villages each received a 1.5 kilowatt Sunblazer station capable of charging 40 small portable batteries […]