IEEE receives ASAE Summit Award
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92sqFd-X2fQ IEEE has received the 2012 Summit Award—the highest recognition bestowed by the American Society of Association Executives—for the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC). The IEEE HTC is now merged with Engineering for Change, which seeks to develop technical, locally appropriate, and sustainable solutions to humanitarian challenges. The IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Nuclear and […]
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 […]