Announcements

Free E-Book on Career Transitions

IEEE-USA is providing a free E-Book as a benefit to its members. Career Transitioning 101 – Book 1: First Steps covers practical and successful strategies you can use in the very early stages of the career transitioning process.
It is available to non-members for $2.99.
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Signal Processing Meeting 2/9: ADAPTING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS TO POINT CLOUD DATA

Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/249914
Abbreviated Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are now a standard tool in classification and segmentation problems for computer vision. Built into CNNs are several assumptions that exploit the structure of images and array data. Recently there has been interest in adapting these networks to …

Negotiating Conflict with Emotional Intelligence

The Rochester Section PACE and TEMS Chapter and RocAgile are jointly sponsoring an on-line meeting on Negotiating Conflict with Emotional Intelligence. To sign up, click to https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/226198
Research continues to show that not only is emotional intelligence (EI) a greater predictor of success than intellectual intelligence …

2019 Fellow in the Rochester Section

Dr. Mujdat Cetin, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to image processing for synthetic aperture radar and sensor array in 2019
Mujdat Cetin, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering, …

Senior Member Elevation

Congratulations to our newest IEEE Senior Members: Stephen McAleavey (University of Rochester), Andreas Savakis (RIT), Yu Kong (RIT), Christine Frayda (Friday Path), and Eric Brown (Sanatela Medical and SanaBit Technologies).

Work on COVID-19 Monitoring by Cristiano Tapparello

Cristiano Tapparello, research assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, who also serves as the director of software engineering for the innovative UR Health Lab led by chemical engineering alumnus Dave Mitten ’88 ’92(MD), spent some long hours back in March helping the lab develop …

Distance learning tip if you need to maintain office hours

If you need to hold office hours in these days of distancing, and your on-line meeting service has a “waiting room” feature, then you can create a recurring meeting for your office hours and send the access information to your students. Then start the meeting …

2020 IEEE Student Scholarship awarded to Madeline Loui

The winner of the IEEE Rochester Section, RES Scholarship for 2020, is Madeline Loui. Madeline is a Junior at Georgia Institute of Technology with a 4.0 GPA, who is majoring in Electrical Engineering. She began distinguishing herself with a summer internship at RIT while still …