Dr. Eli Fromm, IEEE Life Fellow, Fellow of the American Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering and Member of the National Academy of Engineering, died on January 20, 2025. He was a celebrated bioengineering researcher, innovative engineering education reformer, former vice president and vice provost at Drexel University, where he was the Roy A. Brothers ...
By Edward J. Joyce, Life Senior Member, former software engineering manager, now retired One fine spring day, I went into a 9 a.m. meeting at my company with a senior vice president whom I had neither met nor spoken to previously. I expected a reorganization announcement, something I had seen routinely during my 22 years ...
Region 7 launched its Group Mentoring Initiative pilot at the IEEE Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC-24) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on November 1, 2024. The late Terry Branch, former R7 Life Member Coordinator, had planned this event prior to his death. About 200 people participated in the event: 150 students from three Ottawa IEEE Student ...
Life Members Mike Andrews and Kirpal Khalsa co-hosted the second AgeTech webinar on Feb. 27th which included an update on the IEEE AgeTech Initiative as well as live break-out sessions for the three working groups of this initiative. “We as technical professionals have a voice and a sensitivity to our surroundings and the people we ...
On December 15, 2024, members of the Delhi Life Member Affinity Group visited Rashtrapati Bhawan, the official residence of the President of India in New Delhi. The residence dates from the British Raj and was formerly called Viceroy’s House and Government House. The residence features a 340-room main building on 130-hectare (320-acre) grounds. The group ...
