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IEEE-USA Today's Engineer
January 2010 Featured
Stories
The January 2010 issue of
Today's Engineer includes features on:
Careers & Employment
 Fifth Annual
IEEE-USA Career Fly-In
IEEE-USA will be
hosting a
two-day Washington Fly-In to
promote education reform on 8-9 February
in Washington, D.C. The event will focus on
pending legislation to add engineering and
technology to the standard science
curriculum in public schools. Fly-In
participants will meet with their members of
Congress to discuss the state of science and
math education in the United States, and to
recommend ways to improve the system. All
IEEE members in the United States are
welcome and encouraged to participate.
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Two Free IEEE-USA Webinars in January
The
IEEE-USA free career webinar series
continues this Thursday (21 January), Dr. Dileep Rao will lead
Lessons from Bootstrap to Billions. Dr. Rao is a
financier, columnist, adjunct professor and
workshop leader. He has financed more than 450
businesses and real estate projects as the
vice-president of a venture development
finance institution. On 28 January, Roxanne
Rivera will lead
There's No
Crying in Business: How Women Can Succeed in
Male-Dominated Industries Overview. Rivera, author of the
new book, There's No Crying in Business, worked her way to success in the
male-dominated construction industry,
building her company from two employees and
$1,200 in the bank, to a business that had
consistent yearly revenues of approximately
$13 million and more
than 100 employees.
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IEEE-USA News
Mark Your Calendars: Engineers Week 2010
Celebrate the profession during
Engineers
Week 2010, 14-20 February. As always, a
number of high-profile events are planned
for the week in Washington, across the
country and around the world. EWeek 2010
concludes with the Discover Engineering
Family Day festival, sponsored by IEEE-USA,
on Saturday, 20 February, at the National
Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Join Us for 15th Annual SET Congressional
Visits Day
U.S. IEEE members are invited to join
with hundreds of other engineers, scientists
and technologists in Washington, D.C., on
28-29 April, to help deliver the message to
Congress that science, engineering and
technology research pays off.
Participants will receive a day of training,
followed by a day of meetings with their
Members of Congress.
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On Public Radio, IEEE-USA Highlights
Its Mission, Engineers' Support for Local
Communities
For the third consecutive year, in 2010,
IEEE-USA is highlighting engineers' support
for their local communities and is promoting
engineering awareness through its
announcements on a Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan area public radio station. From
January through December, IEEE-USA is
sponsoring 50 announcements on WAMU 88.5,
the National Public Radio news station in
the nation's capital, which underscore the
organization's mission to advance the public
good and promote the interests of U.S. IEEE
members. The promotions will be aired on
"The Kojo Nnamdi Show," as part of Kojo's
regular "Tech Tuesday" programming, from
12-2 p.m. ET; and Ira Flatow's "Science
Friday," from 2-4 p.m. ET; and in evening
public affairs programming. WAMU 88.5
reaches 800,000 total listeners in the
Washington area, including tens of thousands
of opinion leaders and decision makers. To
listen online, visit
WAMU 88.5.
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Washington, D.C., Public Radio, Metro
Transit Announcements Promote EWeek Discover
Engineering Family Day
IEEE-USA is sponsoring announcements on
Washington, D.C.'s public radio news station
and in the capital city's Metro transit
system that promote
Discover Engineering
Family Day, to be held at the National
Building Museum in Washington on Saturday,
20 February. Discover Engineering Family
Day, part of Engineers Week 2010, provides
an interactive day-long program to introduce
youngsters and their families to engineering
principles that are encountered in everyday
life. IEEE-USA's Family Day announcements
will be made in January and February on WAMU
88.5 broadcasts of "Kojo's Tech Tuesday" and
"Ira Flatow's Science Friday." IEEE-USA has
also
joined with the National Engineers Week
in January and February to place six
dioramas promoting Family Day in Metro rail
transit stations in the nation's capital.
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Conferences
2010 IEEE-USA Annual Meeting —
Nashville, Tenn.
U.S.
IEEE volunteers and members are invited to
join us in Nashville, Tenn., 4-7 March, for
the
2010 IEEE-USA Annual Meeting. This
year's meeting is themed "The Gathering
Storm: Are You Engineering the Solutions?"
Four tracks on K-12 education,
Continuing Education/Career Development, R&D
Innovation, and Exhibits/Career
Workshops/Job Fair will provide an overview
of the pressing social, economic and
political issues surrounding STEM education,
as well as training in how to take outreach
programs and ideas home. The program also
includes sessions on basic volunteer
training, interactive workshops on honing
leadership skills, exhibits on the latest
IEEE products and services, opportunities
for networking and exchange of best
practices, and the IEEE-USA awards ceremony
recognizing the best of our U.S. engineers.
IEEE Homeland Security Conference Seeks
Technical Papers
Organizers of the 2010 IEEE International
Conference on Technologies for Homeland
Security (HST 10) are
seeking technical papers, posters and
tutorials for the 10th-annual event in
Waltham, Mass., (outside Boston) 8-10
November 2010. HST 10 will bring together
leading researchers and innovators working
on technologies designed to deter and
prevent homeland attacks, protect critical
infrastructures and people, mitigate damage
and expedite recovery. Papers should focus
on technologies capable of deployment within
five years.
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Internships & Opportunities
2011 IEEE-USA Government Fellowships
Each year, IEEE-USA sponsors three
government fellowships for qualified IEEE
members. The fellows spend a year in
Washington serving as advisers to the
U.S.
Congress and to key
U.S.
Department of State decision-makers.
Known as either a Congressional Fellowship
or an Engineering & Diplomacy Fellowship,
this program links engineers with
government, providing a mechanism for IEEE's
U.S. members to learn firsthand about the
public policy process.
Application materials are now available.
The deadline for applications is 15 March 2010.
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WISE Seeks Faculty-Member-In-Residence
for Summer 2010 Program
If you are an outstanding faculty member or
policy professional, WISE needs you to
mentor and teach engineering students about
the interaction between S&T and policymaking
during the 2010 WISE Program in Washington,
D.C. The deadline for
applications is 31 January 2010.
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Featured IEEE-USA
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Call for E-Book Authors
IEEE-USA e-Books seeks authors to write
and e-book or a series of e-books on career guidance and development
topics. If you have an idea for an e-book
that will educate other IEEE members on a
particular topic of expertise, e-mail your
e-book proposal to IEEE-USA Publishing
Manager
Georgia Stelluto.
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