IEEE R4 Student Members,Looking for information on a possible career path?The IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society is having its international symposium in Chicago from April 30 to May 2nd, 2024. On may 1st, students are invited to attend the conference for free and attend informative sessions on the industry. See the attached flyer.This meeting will provide information on the society and the conference to students looking for information on the event. Please make some time to attend, and pass on to other students who may be interested.About PSES:The IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society focuses on the theory, design, development and practical implementation of product safety engineering methodologies and techniques for equipment and devices. This includes the study and application of analysis, techniques, construction topologies, testing methodologies, conformity assessments and hazard evaluations. The Society provides a focus for cooperative activities, including the promotion of product safety engineering for the benefit of humanity.This society targets design professionals and design engineers interested in electrical product safety. The IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society addresses safety engineering for equipment and devices used in the scientific, engineering, industrial, commercial and residential arenas. It allows engineers and other technical professionals an opportunity to discuss and disseminate technical information, to enhance professional skills, and to provide outreach to engineers, students and others with an interest in the field.Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409843

Learn how to protect yourself & your business from becoming a victim of cybercrime.IEEE Chicago is a proud partner of this event & for a limited time have secured Exclusive Complimentary Admission for our network!Register before Mar 12 with code CSS24-IEEECHI to secure your Free Pass at https://cybersecuritysummit.com/register/rosemont24/?code=CSS24-IEEECHINote: Admission is for C-Suite & Senior Level Executives, Directors, Managers, and other Industry Professionals or Business Leaders. Those in Sales or Marketing and Students are not permitted.Earn up to 8 Continuing Education Credits by attending the day in full. Admission includes a catered breakfast, lunch & cocktail reception.Wei Chen Lin, Cybersecurity Advisor – Region 5 CISA/US DHS and Jay Patel, Assistant Special Agent in Charge – FBI Chicago will lead the Security Government Keynotes.Learn from additional renowned Subject Matter Experts and thought leaders from Check Point, Swimlane, Tenable, Bitdefender and many more who will discuss the latest security threats, best cyber hygiene practices, and innovative solutions to protect your business.Please share/forward this invitation with your IT Security Team and other Senior Level colleagues who would benefit from attending this event.Agenda: For vent details, visit:https://cybersecuritysummit.com/summit/rosemont24/Bldg: Grand Ballroom, 9300 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, Illinois, United States, 60018

Learn how to protect yourself & your business from becoming a victim of cybercrime. IEEE Chicago is a proud partner of this event & for a limited time have secured Exclusive Complimentary Admission for our network! Register before Mar 12 with code CSS24-IEEECHI to secure your Free Pass at https://cybersecuritysummit.com/register/rosemont24/?code=CSS24-IEEECHI Note: Admission is for C-Suite & Senior Level Executives, Directors, Managers, and other Industry Professionals or Business Leaders. Those in Sales or Marketing and Students are not permitted. Earn up to 8 Continuing Education Credits by attending the day in full. Admission includes a catered breakfast, lunch & cocktail reception. Wei Chen Lin, Cybersecurity Advisor – Region 5 CISA/US DHS and Jay Patel, Assistant Special Agent in Charge – FBI Chicago will lead the Security Government Keynotes. Learn from additional renowned Subject Matter Experts and thought leaders from Check Point, Swimlane, Tenable, Bitdefender and many more who will discuss the latest security threats, best cyber hygiene practices, and innovative solutions to protect your business. Please share/forward this invitation with your IT Security Team and other Senior Level colleagues who would benefit from attending this event. Agenda: For vent details, visit: https://cybersecuritysummit.com/summit/rosemont24/ Bldg: Grand Ballroom, 9300 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, Illinois, United States, 60018

Learn how to protect yourself & your business from becoming a victim of cybercrime.IEEE Chicago is a proud partner of this event & for a limited time have secured Exclusive Complimentary Admission for our network!Register before Mar 12 with code CSS24-IEEECHI to secure your Free Pass at https://cybersecuritysummit.com/register/rosemont24/?code=CSS24-IEEECHINote: Admission is for C-Suite & Senior Level Executives, Directors, Managers, and other Industry Professionals or Business Leaders. Those in Sales or Marketing and Students are not permitted.Earn up to 8 Continuing Education Credits by attending the day in full. Admission includes a catered breakfast, lunch & cocktail reception.Wei Chen Lin, Cybersecurity Advisor – Region 5 CISA/US DHS and Jay Patel, Assistant Special Agent in Charge – FBI Chicago will lead the Security Government Keynotes.Learn from additional renowned Subject Matter Experts and thought leaders from Check Point, Swimlane, Tenable, Bitdefender and many more who will discuss the latest security threats, best cyber hygiene practices, and innovative solutions to protect your business.Please share/forward this invitation with your IT Security Team and other Senior Level colleagues who would benefit from attending this event.Agenda: For vent details, visit:https://cybersecuritysummit.com/summit/rosemont24/Bldg: Grand Ballroom, 9300 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, Illinois, United States, 60018

Learn how to protect yourself & your business from becoming a victim of cybercrime. IEEE Chicago is a proud partner of this event & for a limited time have secured Exclusive Complimentary Admission for our network! Register before Mar 12 with code CSS24-IEEECHI to secure your Free Pass at https://cybersecuritysummit.com/register/rosemont24/?code=CSS24-IEEECHI Note: Admission is for C-Suite & Senior Level Executives, Directors, Managers, and other Industry Professionals or Business Leaders. Those in Sales or Marketing and Students are not permitted. Earn up to 8 Continuing Education Credits by attending the day in full. Admission includes a catered breakfast, lunch & cocktail reception. Wei Chen Lin, Cybersecurity Advisor – Region 5 CISA/US DHS and Jay Patel, Assistant Special Agent in Charge – FBI Chicago will lead the Security Government Keynotes. Learn from additional renowned Subject Matter Experts and thought leaders from Check Point, Swimlane, Tenable, Bitdefender and many more who will discuss the latest security threats, best cyber hygiene practices, and innovative solutions to protect your business. Please share/forward this invitation with your IT Security Team and other Senior Level colleagues who would benefit from attending this event. Agenda: For vent details, visit: https://cybersecuritysummit.com/summit/rosemont24/ Bldg: Grand Ballroom, 9300 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, Illinois, United States, 60018

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that enables secure, transparent, and immutable recording of transactions across a network of computers. At its core, a blockchain consists of a chain of blocks, where each block contains a list of transactions. It requires network consensus to ensure validity. Once consensus is met, a block can be added to the ledger as an immutable record of transaction. This rather simple concept has already changed our transactional landscape a great deal since it emerged in popularity. Conceptually, blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt traditional systems, increase efficiency, transparency, and trust, and empower individuals and organizations across various domains. But, how did we get here? How is the history of Blockchain tied to Engineering and Technology? Is Blockchain only significant in the Data sciences and Computer Sciences Industries? Speaker(s): Amber Orr, P.E., SMIEEE Agenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession. For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: (https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/) Thank you to IEEE Blockchain Technical Community for supporting this event! (https://newsletter.smartbrief.com/rest/sign-up/2479DAB0-4089-43E7-925D-86AE0C1E6244?campaign=e0d52cef) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409058

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that enables secure, transparent, and immutable recording of transactions across a network of computers. At its core, a blockchain consists of a chain of blocks, where each block contains a list of transactions. It requires network consensus to ensure validity. Once consensus is met, a block can be added to the ledger as an immutable record of transaction.This rather simple concept has already changed our transactional landscape a great deal since it emerged in popularity. Conceptually, blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt traditional systems, increase efficiency, transparency, and trust, and empower individuals and organizations across various domains.But, how did we get here? How is the history of Blockchain tied to Engineering and Technology? Is Blockchain only significant in the Data sciences and Computer Sciences Industries?Speaker(s): Amber Orr, P.E., SMIEEEAgenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession.For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: (https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/)Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409058

The seminar will be conducted in person and (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://umich.zoom.us/j/99294143245?pwd=K254N2FsVWg0ZmE1OTJ4alpCeDRLZz09__;!!HXCxUKc!3TbAMWNudp8umnICb0HzfZnVYrDa-PTZfZEWApjn97Ue31F4voSNNIyqFeKwVqy1gedHpYU6CLkngQLj$).Passcode: MIPSEThe next MIPSE Seminar will be delivered by Prof. Paul Cassak of West Virginia University on Wednesday, March 20 at 3:30 pm in EECS 1005. In his seminar titled “Quantifying Dynamics of Plasmas Out of Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium”, Prof. Cassak will describe a new formalism developed for fluid descriptions of plasma transport when the system is not in local thermodynamic equilibrium. This new approach is based on higher order moments in addition to density, momentum and energy. It will be applied to examples derived from magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence. Please see attached flyer or (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2324.php__;!!HXCxUKc!0OFJhkL527fxBOLomwDx9qUu50ZXxMj-_Czb0iKxkzCi9-rNtUaNLUTQo80MRLxDe8sA-8SRyG2cPqvt$) for details.Speaker(s): Prof. Paul Cassak, Room: 1005 EECS, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/413060

The seminar will be conducted in person and (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://umich.zoom.us/j/99294143245?pwd=K254N2FsVWg0ZmE1OTJ4alpCeDRLZz09__;!!HXCxUKc!3TbAMWNudp8umnICb0HzfZnVYrDa-PTZfZEWApjn97Ue31F4voSNNIyqFeKwVqy1gedHpYU6CLkngQLj$). Passcode: MIPSE The next MIPSE Seminar will be delivered by Prof. Paul Cassak of West Virginia University on Wednesday, March 20 at 3:30 pm in EECS 1005. In his seminar titled “Quantifying Dynamics of Plasmas Out of Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium”, Prof. Cassak will describe a new formalism developed for fluid descriptions of plasma transport when the system is not in local thermodynamic equilibrium. This new approach is based on higher order moments in addition to density, momentum and energy. It will be applied to examples derived from magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence. Please see attached flyer or (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2324.php__;!!HXCxUKc!0OFJhkL527fxBOLomwDx9qUu50ZXxMj-_Czb0iKxkzCi9-rNtUaNLUTQo80MRLxDe8sA-8SRyG2cPqvt$) for details. Speaker(s): Prof. Paul Cassak, Room: 1005 EECS, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/413060

Engineering Society of Detroit53rd Gold Award RECEPTION & RECOGNITION 2024March 20, 2024Tapestry, 24580 Evergreen Road, Southfield, MI 480755:30 p.m. Strolling Reception6:45 p.m. Awards ProgramJoin the ESD Affiliated Technical Societies as we come together to honor and recognize our leaders – engineers, scientists and technical professionals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding achievement and service within their respective societies. Hosted by The Engineering Society of Detroit and its Affiliate Council, the event will feature a presentation by this year’s Gold Award winner. This award is given annually to an individual who is collectively upheld by the council for his or her outstanding contributions to the fields of science and engineering.[]Bldg: Tapestry, 24580 Evergreen Road, Southfield, Michigan, United States, 48075

Engineering Society of Detroit 53rd Gold Award RECEPTION & RECOGNITION 2024 March 20, 2024 Tapestry, 24580 Evergreen Road, Southfield, MI 48075 5:30 p.m. Strolling Reception 6:45 p.m. Awards Program Join the ESD Affiliated Technical Societies as we come together to honor and recognize our leaders – engineers, scientists and technical professionals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding achievement and service within their respective societies. Hosted by The Engineering Society of Detroit and its Affiliate Council, the event will feature a presentation by this year’s Gold Award winner. This award is given annually to an individual who is collectively upheld by the council for his or her outstanding contributions to the fields of science and engineering. [] Bldg: Tapestry, 24580 Evergreen Road, Southfield, Michigan, United States, 48075

LIVE Presentation in Chicago(Swag, Snacks, and More for Live Attendees)IEEE Computer Society Chicago and IEEE Chicago are proud to co-host this ACM Distinguished Speaker Program hosted by ACM Chicago which will be held in-person and also online.ACM Distinguished Speaker Program: "Analytical Models for Generating NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket Pools: Injecting Computation into March Madness".Each year, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament attracts popular attention, including bracket challenges where fans seek to pick the winners of the tournament’s games. However, the quantity and unpredictable nature of games suggest a single bracket will likely select some winning teams incorrectly even if created with insightful and sophisticated methods. Hence, a participant may wish to create a pool of brackets that likely contains at least one high-scoring bracket.We propose several computational models to estimate the probability mass function of all possible tournament outcomes based on past tournament data. Bracket pools are then generated for recent tournaments using these models. The generated brackets are assessed by the ESPN scoring system and compared to those produced by a traditional pick favorite approach as well as the highest scoring brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge for various years.The results suggest that given a sufficiently large pool of brackets, such models are effective in capturing high scoring brackets with high frequency. More information on this and related research can be found at http://bracketodds.cs.illinois.edu/LocationLoyola University, Lake Shore Campus, is in the East Rogers Park area of Chicago. The talk will be held in Dumbach Hall, Room DU-117.Dumbach Hall is labelled 16 on the Campus Map.(https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/pdfs-campusmaps/lsc.pdf)(https://www.luc.edu/campustransportation/generalinformation/visitorsandguests/)(http://tinyurl.com/tzadhu5z)Co-sponsored by: ACM ChicagoSpeaker(s): Sheldon H. Jacobson, Agenda: Agenda:(Times are Central Daylight Time)5:30 pm - Networking/Social Hour6:00pm - Brief intros6:05pm - Talk by Sheldon Jacobson7:45 pm – Q&A7:00 pm - endRoom: Room DU-117, Bldg: Dumbach Hall, 1032 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, Illinois, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/408425

LIVE Presentation in Chicago (Swag, Snacks, and More for Live Attendees) IEEE Computer Society Chicago and IEEE Chicago are proud to co-host this ACM Distinguished Speaker Program hosted by ACM Chicago which will be held in-person and also online. ACM Distinguished Speaker Program: "Analytical Models for Generating NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket Pools: Injecting Computation into March Madness". Each year, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament attracts popular attention, including bracket challenges where fans seek to pick the winners of the tournament’s games. However, the quantity and unpredictable nature of games suggest a single bracket will likely select some winning teams incorrectly even if created with insightful and sophisticated methods. Hence, a participant may wish to create a pool of brackets that likely contains at least one high-scoring bracket. We propose several computational models to estimate the probability mass function of all possible tournament outcomes based on past tournament data. Bracket pools are then generated for recent tournaments using these models. The generated brackets are assessed by the ESPN scoring system and compared to those produced by a traditional pick favorite approach as well as the highest scoring brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge for various years. The results suggest that given a sufficiently large pool of brackets, such models are effective in capturing high scoring brackets with high frequency. More information on this and related research can be found at http://bracketodds.cs.illinois.edu/ Location Loyola University, Lake Shore Campus, is in the East Rogers Park area of Chicago. The talk will be held in Dumbach Hall, Room DU-117. Dumbach Hall is labelled 16 on the Campus Map. (https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/pdfs-campusmaps/lsc.pdf) (https://www.luc.edu/campustransportation/generalinformation/visitorsandguests/) (http://tinyurl.com/tzadhu5z) Register for the event at https://www.meetup.com/acm-chicago/events/299322518/ if you will be attending in person. For those attending online, register at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FMBb9w3WSiKEJjIO27DPTA Co-sponsored by: ACM Chicago Speaker(s): Sheldon H. Jacobson, Agenda: Agenda: (Times are Central Daylight Time) 5:30 pm - Networking/Social Hour 6:00pm - Brief intros 6:05pm - Talk by Sheldon Jacobson 7:45 pm – Q&A 7:00 pm - end Room: Room DU-117, Bldg: Dumbach Hall, 1032 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, Illinois, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/408425

This free, optional training event is available to all volunteers within the IEEE Central Illinois Section (CILS) and surrounding areas.This session will offer general tips and assistance for anyone needing to...- Run an IEEE Student Branch or Chapter- Create or organized events- Add/modify officers- Request email or web services- Report past and future meeting- Contact other IEEE members- Print/share flyers...and similar tasks.Agenda: Brief Introduction to the IEEE-CILSHow to use the IEEE WebsiteImportant IEEE web services and URLsUsing IEEE Collabratec to find events and volunteersVolunteer Tools (vTools)Q&AOpen FloorVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/410140

This free, optional training event is available to all volunteers within the IEEE Central Illinois Section (CILS) and surrounding areas. This session will offer general tips and assistance for anyone needing to... - Run an IEEE Student Branch or Chapter - Create or organize IEEE events - Add/modify officers - Request IEEE email or web services - Report past and future meeting - Contact other IEEE members - Print/share flyers ...or perform similar tasks. Agenda: Brief Introduction to the IEEE-CILS How to use the IEEE Website Important IEEE web services and URLs Using IEEE Collabratec to find events and volunteers Volunteer Tools (vTools) Q&A Open Floor Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/410140