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Engineering Technology

IEEE Technical Activities

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).

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Education Engineering Technology

Raspberry Pi Pico

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.

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Engineering Social Good Technology

Looking To Give Back?

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.