Upcoming Virtual Events in Region 9
- Meeting to define the team's plans for 2025 07/12/2024In this meeting, we will define our plans and goals for the upcoming year. We will better outline the roles of each board member and the types of activities we will carry out. Additionally, we will draft plans to establish partnerships, whether with companies or through collaborative events with other chapters. We will also discuss […]
- Pre and Registration Grant Writing Workshop for Startups 03/12/2024Is your startup looking for non-dilutive funding (grants) to boost its growth? This workshop will give you the practical tools to write effective grant proposals that maximize your chances of obtaining resources.Requirements to participate To ensure that you get the most out of the workshop, your team must have: A legally incorporated startup or in […]
- Seminar: Stability Modelling and Analysis of Converter Driven Power System 07/11/2024Prof. Bikash Pal Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London Abstract The talk will focus on an analytical framework in impedance domain to quantify the interaction between the new plant and the rest of the network for setting additional grid connection study specifications which will include detail technical study to check and mitigate the […]
IEEE Spectrum
- Brain Stimulation Helps People Walk After Spinal InjuryA team of Swiss researchers has improved the walking ability of two people with long-standing spinal cord injuries (SCI) using deep brain stimulation (DBS), which excites neurons with surgically implanted electrodes in the brain.Investigators targeted a surprising brain region: the lateral hypothalamus, which is associated with a variety of basic functions, though not especially with […]
- Scary Stories: Establishing a Field Amid SkepticismIn the spirit of the Halloween season, IEEE Spectrum presents a pair of stories that—although grounded in scientific truth rather than the macabre—were no less harrowing for those who lived them. In today’s installment, Robert Langer had to push back against his field’s conventional wisdom to pioneer a drug-delivery mechanism vital to modern medicine.Nicknamed the […]
- For this Stanford Engineer, Frugal Invention Is a CallingManu Prakash spoke with IEEE Spectrum shortly after returning to Stanford University from a month aboard a research vessel off the coast of California, where he was testing tools to monitor oceanic carbon sequestration. The associate professor conducts fieldwork around the world to better understand the problems he’s working on, as well as the communities […]
- Gandhi Inspired a New Kind of EngineeringThis article is part of our special report, “Reinventing Invention: Stories from Innovation’s Edge.” The teachings of Mahatma Gandhi were arguably India’s greatest contribution to the 20th century. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar has borrowed some of that wisdom to devise a frugal new form of innovation he calls “Gandhian engineering.” Coming from humble beginnings, Mashelkar is […]
- Crop Parasites Can Be Deterred by “Electric Fences”Imagine you’re a baby cocoa plant, just unfurling your first tentative roots into the fertile, welcoming soil. Somewhere nearby, a predator stirs. It has no ears to hear you, no eyes to see you. But it knows where you are, thanks in part to the weak electric field emitted by your roots. It is microscopic, […]