Wanda Reder, IEEE Division VII Director and member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Governing Board, has held many roles within the IEEE, including becoming the first female president of the Society in … Continue reading Wanda Reder: Strengthening the Pipeline Through Collaboration
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 … Continue reading IEEE receives ASAE Summit Award
The IEEE Power and Energy Society is supporting Africa’s power access millennium goal through its recent Power Africa Conference. The conference, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, connected engineers and technology innovators with utility and generation … Continue reading IEEE Power & Energy Society supports Power Africa Conference
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 … Continue reading Self-maintaining solar power systems deliver electricity in impoverished regions
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 … Continue reading IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Award recipients announced
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 … Continue reading IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge delivers solar power to villages in Haiti