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Various pages were last updated on: 2025 April 10.

Multiple events have been added to the calendar. Take a look! Our monthly virtual coffee hour (now in its second year!) will be on April 11.

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Latest Posts

  • SF for Engineers
    This is a post by IEEE TC Section member Gary Lynch.   Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories Science Fiction for Engineers   Noting the high percentage of science fiction fans in the engineering community your steadfast Twin Cities ExComm has put forward the idea of a science fiction book club within our section… Read more: SF for Engineers
  • The Heir Conditioner
    Sometimes, maybe you can have too much technology? In 1944 B.F. Skinner, and his wife Yvonne, invented an “air crib” in which to raise their second daughter, Deborah. In 2004, Deborah Skinner wrote an essay “I Was Not a Lab Rat”, which was published in The Guardian, to set the record straight. Hannah Zeavin discusses the… Read more: The Heir Conditioner
  • Unit Symbols and Names
    For all who care about providing measurement units and properly writing unit symbols and names, here are a couple of guides: NIST Guide to the Use of SI Units (SP 330): https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-330 BIPM SI Brochure: https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure
  • IEEE Online Forum on Climate Change Technologies (OFCCT)
    IEEE has organized a conference on climate change technologies. It is a virtual even and will be held in two parts, November 04-07 and December 02-05. To look at the program, go here (https://ieee-ofcct.org/program/). To register for the conference, go here (https://ieee-ofcct.org/registration/).
  • AI and Knowledge Acquisition Webinar
    Dr. Carlo Sapijaszko gave a webinar talk on the “The Intersection of AI and Knowledge Acquisition” on Friday, 2024 January 11. A recording of the webinar and slides from his talk can be found on our Recordings page.

TC Section Webinar Series

Into the Pi Hole, 2023 December

Implementing ad blocking on your home network.

Register here.

Engineers Week 2023

A recording of our webinar for Engineers Week 2023 and the associated slide sets are available here.

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