IEEE Twin Cities SectionMinnesota library book is returned after 100 years.
“There’s been a time or two when something has come back and maybe it has been checked out for 20 or 30 years, but nothing where it looks like it has been out for some 100 years,” [a library staff member] said to MPR.
If you have a hankering to learn the overall organizational structure of the IEEE, you can look it up here.
IEEE members get discounts on a variety of products. Check them out here.
A message from the IEEE Technical Activities VP, John Verboncoeur, can be found here.
Except: “Our strategic priorities for 2023 include participation in the IEEE-wide efforts in Climate Change and Sustainable Technologies, imagining future products and services and new audiences, providing value to and growing existing audiences, and building on our diverse and inclusive community including implementation of the new IEEE Fellows process. We also take a look at exemplars for leveraging cross-cutting technology areas via collaboration among TA entities, increasingly important for addressing the technology grand challenge problems of our time. Lastly, we will take a look at the TA Tech Talk series.”
Technical Activities Operations also hosted a talk on farm technology (Not Your Grandfather’s Tractor).
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Research Center and HP have produced a report on a Workforce Skills Communication Gap.
From the Executive Summary: “The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine whether, or to what extent, institutions are using workforce trends to align and measure learning outcomes and help students communicate their level of workplace skill proficiencies to potential employers. If students can’t effectively communicate their level of workforce skill development across different areas and articulate their strengths using language that aligns with employers’ and industry experts’ expectations, a perceived skills gap will continue to exist.”
An overview of the research can be found here and there is a playbook here.
Today there was a talk hosted by the IEEE Madison and SE Michigan CS and YP groups which provided an overview of the Raspberry Pi Pico Hardware and Software.
From the vendor: “The Raspberry Pi Pico series is a range of tiny, fast, and versatile boards built using RP2040, the flagship microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the UK”.
From the vendor: “Designed by Raspberry Pi, RP2040 features a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264kB internal RAM and support for up to 16MB of off-chip flash. A wide range of flexible I/O options includes I2C, SPI, and – uniquely – Programmable I/O (PIO).”
The Pico boards are available for as low as $4.00
The presentation material, reference links, and some programming material can be found here.
I listened to a career happiness webinar put on by the IEEE. It was pretty good. The tldr is that we should know what we want to be when we grow up and then make appropriate trade-offs. The focusing that the speaker provided was helpful (even if we may have heard it before).
You can find the recordings of this two-part webinar at the links below:
Just saw information about this free webinar from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). It’s short notice but if you are checking this blog and are interested, you may be able to catch it.
Description: Research has shown that engineering students that struggle with their mental health are less likely to seek needed help than students with similar challenges in other fields. Stigma, a strong feeling of disapproval, of mental health conditions (MHCs) is a society-wide issue that tends to conflict with help-seeking attitudes of those having MHCs.
Professional spaces, like those in engineering can enhance such societal prejudice based on the conceptions of what is believed to be acceptable traits of engineering students and professionals. In order to put mental health and wellbeing at the center of new systems of care it is necessary to unpack how stigma shapes the experiences of engineering students and professionals living with MHCs.
This webinar is part of a larger series on building community and reflecting to re-envision in engineering education. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EEC-1733004.
The slides from this webinar are available here.
The recording of this webinar is available here.
How about visiting some classrooms around the globe to share your technical and professional knowledge?
Share your story and technical expertise with pre-university students. Your visit could be a career QA session, a presentation on a particular technical topic, technical mentoring to support a hands-on activity challenge, judge a competition, etc. Join the programs and Share. Give Back. Inspire.
Learn more about classroom visits in IEEE’s TRYEngineering program. I think it will be interesting and fulfilling so I signed up.
Enter the World Standards Day Photo Contest to highlight how technology, driven by global standards, can help protect and preserve our planet. You could win a $500 prize.
Learn more here: “Framing the Future of Technology for Good” Photo Contest
The contest is open from 14 October 2023 at 8:00 AM ET through 14 December 2023 at 11:59 PM ET.