IEEE Young Professionals

Manuals

How to Organise a Student and Young Professional Congress

August 23, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Today’s article comes to us from Region 8 and focuses on the organisation of student/young professional congresses. This thorough manual was put together by the wonderful volunteers of this region. The Student and Young Professional Congress (SYP Congress) is an event that takes place every two years in Region 8. It gathers both student and […]

Technology

Tech Update: Bacteria eating and breathing electricity

August 18, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

How do we use bacteria that can eat and breathe electricity using renewable resources to produce something we can use? This could potentially be very powerful here in Australia as we have abundance of land, sun and wind but in areas that aren’t populated” says Dr Ashley Franks. Dr. Ashley Franks is a researcher at […]

Continuing Education

5 ways to improve your Linkedin Profile – An IEEE volunteer perspective

August 17, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Today’s article is brought to us by Nivas Ravichandran. Nivas is a recent graduate of B.E Electronics and Communication Engineering and is associated with Frilp as the Growth Specialist. He has proved to be an active IEEE Volunteer from 2010 and has organised more than a 100+ events under IEEE. He also holds responsibilities like Electronics […]

Member Profiles

Engineering, Ethics, Society and the IEEE Young Professionals

August 5, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Ever thought about the ethical impacts of a technology? Ever wondered why some promising technologies fail? How do we understand the ties of technology to society and how do we ensure the society is benefited? We interviewed Dr. Greg Adamson, the Associate Associate Director Operational Assurance at ANZ and President IEEE SSIT (Society on Social […]

Uncategorized

NASA and IEEE Young Professionals

August 3, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

As an initiative taken by IEEE Southern Alberta section and Astronomy Teacher Training Institute (ATTI), a solar evening was held at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada on 4th February’ 15. Dr. Philip Scherrer, Professor, Stanford University and Dr. Deborah Scherrer, Director, Stanford Solar Center were the guest speakers at the event. The main focus […]

Uncategorized

Technology and Engineering Management

July 29, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

The Society has gone through a major change this year, beginning from its conversion from a council to a society, and has undergone a major review of its services and products offered to the members. Based on this review last year, a need for programs targeted towards our Young Professional members was recognized and work […]

GOLDRush

The Nepal Earthquakes: Engineering, Volunteering and Technology

July 27, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

It’s 11:56am on Saturday 25th April 2015, when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal from within and brought the landmark Dharahara Tower to rubble within seconds. So many of us, oblivious to the aftermath of such a powerful earthquake went about our daily lives, giving no thought to one of nature’s most disastrous events, killing […]

Humanitarian

The Nepal Earthquakes: Engineering, Volunteering and Technology

July 22, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: Startup Weekend in Chennai

July 1, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over […]

Inspiration

Who am I? Qualcomm, Motorola, IEEE and San Diego

June 14, 2015 By Eddie Custovic

Today we have the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Xun Luo, a research staff member at Qualcomm Inc, an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, and a distinguished guest professor at Tianjin University of Technology, China. Dr. Luo is also a Program Evaluator for the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. In […]