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Free Webinar: Choosing a CSR Program

Are you interested in making a difference in the future of STEM? TryEngineering Together makes it easy for employees to make a difference in the lives of young students by providing mentoring online. IEEE and Cricket Media designed this program to pair 3rd-5th grade classrooms with corporate sponsors. It provides classrooms in under resourced areas with compelling STEM articles and exciting content designed to spark the interest of young students and to build their confidence.

Join us for this complimentary webinar, Choosing a CSR Program: Why The Aerospace Corporation Chose Online STEM Mentoring. You’ll learn how The Aerospace Corporation uses ongoing online mentoring to directly engage their employees with local elementary students. You’ll also hear from a teacher, who will talk about how her students have benefited.

Do you want an impactful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program that your employees will enjoy? Then save your seat in this webinar to learn how your company can get involved!

 

Key Take-Aways from the Webinar:

  • Why The Aerospace Corporation chose eMentoring to inspire and nurture the next generation of engineers and scientists
  • How STEM eMentoring helps break through barriers that limit traditional mentoring
  • The results of eMentoring: hear directly from an active eMentor at The Aerospace Corporation and from a teacher who will share what the program means to her students
  • How you and your company can get involved in STEM eMentoring

 

Interested in becoming a Corporate Sponsor or a STEM eMentor? Check out the website to learn more.

 

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Free Webinar: IEEE Introduction to EDGE Computing

Registration is now open to attend the free webinar “IEEE Introduction to EDGE Computing.”

Edge computing allows smart applications and devices to respond to data almost instantaneously, as it’s being created, eliminating lag time, which is critical for technologies like self-driving cars.  Learn about this transformative concept in cloud computing and how it will impact technologies far and wide from some of the leading voices in the field.

Our Presenters:

Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya) is an experimental computer scientist, a founding pioneer in edge computing, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and Internet of Things. He is the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).[1] He is an ACM[2] and IEEE[3] fellow.   In his research career, Satya has focused on the performance, scalability, availability and trust challenges in computing systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the Internet. He has pioneered many advances in edge computing, distributed systems, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

 

Dr. Weisong Shi is a Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellow and a Professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University. There he directs the Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory, Connected and Autonomous Driving Laboratory. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Scientist of ACM. He was the founding steering committee chair of ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), the author of the first Edge Computing book.

 

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Free Webinar: Modernizing the Smart Grid

The past two decades have seen rapid advancements in policy, technology and standards focused on modernizing the grid. The most important advancement, however, may well be in how the power industry’s thinking has evolved. Today, a holistic view of grid modernization’s ultimate goals and how to achieve them is taking hold. Join this webinar to learn about the smart grid, including the power industry’s shift to holistic solutions, new methods of distribution and the modern market orientation of the power industry. Attendees will also learn about IEEE smart grid course offerings.

Key Take-Aways

  • Understand grid modernization and the power industry’s shift from simply adding devices and systems to holistic solutions
  • Learn about optimal smart grid operations
  • Discover exciting smart grid course modules offered by IEEE

Speaker

John D McDonald, Smart Grid Business Development Leader, IEEE

John McDonald is the Smart Grid Business Development Leader for GE Power’s Grid Solutions business. John brings his 44 years of full-time work experience in electric power system automation to this course. John is a Life Fellow of IEEE, which he joined in 1971 as an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at Purdue University. John was the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) President in 2006-2007, and has written 100 articles and papers and co-authored five books.

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