Events

[]IEEE Senior Member is the highest IEEE member grade for which IEEE members can apply and does not incur any additional cost or fees. The Senior Member grade is a way for the IEEE members to receive recognition for their professional experience and significant performance in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the related fields including Computer Science and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Biological and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Technical Communications, Education, Management, Law, and Policy. The advancement to Senior Member provides the IEEE members with significant and distinct benefits. These benefits include the eligibility to hold Executive IEEE Volunteer Positions and getting recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence. Newly elevated senior members will also receive an engraved senior member plaque from IEEE. We will also feature their profile in the next edition of Wavelengths. Senior Member Elevation: IEEE SEM Section Membership Committee will reprise its Senior Member Elevation event, on July 11th, 2026 between 3:00 PM and 4:30 PM (In Person). Afterwards - we will go have either high tea or a classic Florida styel "early bird" dinner. The way it works is : At least a 10 years of significant experience with BS degree needs be be established to initiate the senior membership elevation. (A Ph.D is considered to be 5 years of significant experience and a master degree is considered to be 2 years of significant experience. The remaining 5 (with PhD) to 8 (with MS degree) years of significant experience should be established from the member experience in his/her profession to initiate and submit applications for Senior Member Elevation.) Note: There is no cost to becoming a Senior Member, and this step is a necessary prelude to seeking the IEEE ‘Fellow’ level. For a complete description of the Senior Member process and its benefits, see the link at: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/grade_elevation.html To (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461460)for "Elevation" Time Slot, please(https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/461460)for the event and consider contacting existing senior members/fellows as references; also bring an electronic copy of your resume, and relevant supporting materials (list of papers published, standards work done, patents, senior/leadership positions, etc.). []Here is a link to (https://www.ieee.org/membership/senior/deadlines.html) before filing your application. Also you may seek to contact or network with other Southeastern Michigan Section members who were upgraded to senior status. You may find some of them profiled in our monthly newsletter - (https://r4.ieee.org/sem/about-sem/sem-history/wavelengths-magazine-archive/)! Networking: * We recommend that if attendees cannot join us in person doo look for the next events { most likely end of August and once again in early October}. Co-sponsored by: Sharan Kalwani Speaker(s): Mohamad Berri, Sharan Kalwani Agenda: 3:00 PM - Introductions and Elevation processing. 4:30 PM - Wrap up, Clean up, Solidify new friendships, contacts, networking and head off to get a bite to eat. Then we temporarily say 'Good bye' ALL times are in EST/EDT time zone Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562816

Bi-weekly administrative meeting for Vehicular Technology Society chapter (VT06) in Southeastern Michigan Section. Our OU # is CH04051. We invite all members of the VTS locally to participate and provide their input. Co-sponsored by: [email protected] Agenda: 09:00 PM - Meeting opens 0905 PM - Updates on topics from last meeting 0915 PM - New items from the attendess 0920PM - Wrap up and sharing notes 0930PM - Meeting ends ALL times are local EDT/EST! Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/566934

Join us for our monthly executive committee meeting from 5 - 6:30 pm. This is a great opportunity to meet like minded people, learn leadership skills, and to help steer the direction of your local IEEE chapter. Who should attend: Executive committee for the Cedar Rapids Section, and any other leaders and interested members that wish to attend. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/532692

Join the IEEE Chicago Young Professionals Affinity Group for an engaging virtual panel discussion featuring IEEE industry leaders who will share their career journeys, experiences, and practical advice for early-career professionals. Whether you are preparing to enter the workforce, navigating your first few years in industry, or exploring opportunities for long-term professional growth, this session will provide valuable insights to help you build a successful and fulfilling career. Topics will include: - Navigating career transitions and growth opportunities - Developing technical and leadership skills - Building a strong professional network - The role of mentorship and continuous learning - Overcoming challenges and achieving career success - Live Q&A with the panelists Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565315

Ben Bloomberg of Argonne National Laboratory will provide a presentation on ATLAS: Argonne’s Superconducting Heavy-Ion Accelerator. The Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Argonne National Laboratory, and the world’s first superconducting accelerator for projectiles heavier than the electron. The presentation will provide an overview of the history and operating principles of the accelerator. Technological considerations pertaining to control, maintenance and ongoing development of the apparatus will also be covered. Attendees will receive 1-PDH credit upon request. Speaker(s): Ben Bloomberg Agenda: 12:00 PM Presentation 12:50 PM Questions 1:00 PM Adjourn Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/566957

Monthly IEEE Nebraska Section ExCom Meeting. Agenda will be emailed out before the meeting each month. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/536162

Monthly IEEE Nebraska Section ExCom Meeting. Agenda will be emailed out before the meeting each month. Co-sponsored by: Nick McIntosh Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/535323

[]Inspired by the recent Netflix series: "3 Body Problem", we present a series of 3 documentary sessions featuring the Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin. The series is titled "Rendezvous with the Future" in which he shares thoughts on 3 topics: - First Contact : "Contact with an alien civilization has many possibilities. It might have a good outcome. Equally it might have terrible consequences. Any child knows not to open the door to strangers. They know not to greet strangers casually. This is a matter of common sense." — Liu Cixin - Voyage to the Stars: "I think if humans want to survive, our only choice is to expand our living space in the universe. Like H.G. Wells once said: Human beings will either fill the universe or perish completely. There is no other choice." — Liu Cixin - Becoming a SuperCivilization: "The characteristics of a supercivilization are that it uses technology to enhance its evolution to become a more powerful species. Second, the energy that a supercivilization can use must be really huge. Third, it must have gone a long way on this path of understanding the laws of the universe. But a technologically advanced supercivilization cannot be a civilization with only ideas. It must have left its own mark on the universe. It must have spread to places of considerable distance." - Liu Cixin Each episode is approximately 50 minutes long and will be followed by a 30~40 minutes group discussion period. NOTE: You will need to register for each event separately, and will (https://www.webex.com/downloads.html)on your phone/tablet or laptop/desktop computer. This specific vtool URL enrolls you in the "First Contact" session. More to come.....Parts 2 and 3 Come join us for this FREE Discussion: engage with our presenters/moderators and join in the discussions and networking sessions embedded in the schedule. We look forward to greeting you all and engaging in both serious discussions and flights of fancy. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Southeastern Michigan Membership Development Committee Agenda: 7:00 pm Sign-in - Networking 7:05 pm Start of Documentary: “First Contact” 8:00 pm End of Documentary 8:05 pm Roundtable Open Discussion. Followed by Wrap up & conclusion of conference. (We look forward to seeing you all here at the next documentary to expand the discussion.) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565837

[]Recently as part of an innovative and fresh approach, i.e. a non-traditional meeting event: we presented video documentaries. This was very warmly received. So we decided to continue the good work. We proudly present the Documentary: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "TESLA: Visionary or Madman?" Summary: Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Regarded by many historians as an eccentric genius, Tesla gained international fame for his invention of a system of alternating current that made possible the distribution of electricity over vast distances and is the basis for the electrical grid that powers 21st century life. But the visionary Tesla imagined much more — robots, radio, radar, remote control, the wireless transmission of messages and pictures, and harnessing the wind and sun to provide free energy to all. A showman, he dazzled his scientific peers who flocked to see him demonstrate his inventions and send thousands of volts of electricity pulsing through his body. His fertile but undisciplined imagination was the source of his genius but also his downfall, as the image of Tesla as a “mad scientist” came to overshadow his reputation as a brilliant innovator. Even before his death in 1943, he was largely forgotten, his name obscured by Thomas Edison — his hero, one-time employer, and rival. But it is his exhilarating sense of the future that has inspired renewed interest in the man, as his once scoffed-at vision of a world connected by wireless technology has become a reality. WEBEX client will be needed. Link will be sent 1 hour before AFTER the movie - we can have a brief discussion session. NOTE: You must supply your own soda pop and popcorn! :-) Trivia may also follow, so bring your Jeopardy hats too Agenda: 7:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Business update; 7:05 PM - Documentary Start; 8:00 PM - End of Documentary; Start of Q & A; Group Discussion 8:15 PM - Wrap Up (ALL times are shown in EST/EDT!) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565834

Story of a Women Engineer’s Journey with Life Lessons and the Role Her Mentors Played in Her Success This is a very personal story of one woman’s journey to become a successful engineer. It details each major step leading to her engineering career from childhood to retirement and beyond. Along the way, each of her major mentors are honored and more than a dozen life lessons are expounded upon. This presentation should be especially helpful to young women. Co-sponsored by: Society of Women Engineers, Detroit Speaker(s): Janice, Janice Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/564932

IEEE-USA will be streaming this presentation on our social channels. The webinar will be recorded. --------------------------------------------------------------- Battling Burnout: How to Stay Effective When the Demands Don’t Stop is a practical, research-informed professional development workshop for high performers, leadership teams, and career-serious professionals. Led by David Sandhu, a former rocket scientist turned leadership speaker, the session helps participants understand how burnout builds gradually and gives them a clear framework for sustaining high performance without running themselves into the ground. Participants learn how to recover from stress, understand their real capacity, make better trade-offs under pressure, set boundaries without damaging their reputation, align their time with what matters most, and protect their energy and identity long term. Speaker(s): David Sandhu 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/) (https://newsletter.smartbrief.com/rest/sign-up/2479DAB0-4089-43E7-925D-86AE0C1E6244?campaign=e0d52cef) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562454

[]Inspired by the recent Netflix series: "3 Body Problem", we present a series of 3 documentary sessions featuring the Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin. The series is titled "Rendezvous with the Future" in which he shares thoughts on 3 topics: - First Contact : "Contact with an alien civilization has many possibilities. It might have a good outcome. Equally it might have terrible consequences. Any child knows not to open the door to strangers. They know not to greet strangers casually. This is a matter of common sense." — Liu Cixin - Voyage to the Stars: "I think if humans want to survive, our only choice is to expand our living space in the universe. Like H.G. Wells once said: Human beings will either fill the universe or perish completely. There is no other choice." — Liu Cixin - Becoming a SuperCivilization: "The characteristics of a supercivilization are that it uses technology to enhance its evolution to become a more powerful species. Second, the energy that a supercivilization can use must be really huge. Third, it must have gone a long way on this path of understanding the laws of the universe. But a technologically advanced supercivilization cannot be a civilization with only ideas. It must have left its own mark on the universe. It must have spread to places of considerable distance." - Liu Cixin Each episode is approximately 50 minutes long and will be followed by a 30~40 minutes group discussion period. NOTE: You will need to register for each event separately, and will(https://www.webex.com/downloads.html)on your phone/tablet or laptop/desktop computer. This specific vtool URL enrolls you in the "Voyage to the Stars" session. There is a part 3 to this series Come join us for this FREE Conference: engage with our presenters/moderators and join in the discussions and networking sessions embedded in the schedule. We look forward to greeting you all and engaging in both serious discussions and flights of fancy. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Southeastern Michigan Membership Development Committee Agenda: 7:00 pm Sign-in - Networking 7:05 pm Start of Documentary: “Voyage to the Stars” 8:00 pm End of Documentary 8:05 Roundtable Open Discussion. Followed by Wrap up & conclusion of conference. (We look forward to seeing you all here at the next documentary to expand the discussion.) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565838

This session explores how to make autonomous AI agents trustworthy at scale. Using a fraud investigation scenario built on Apache Kafka, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and an LLM-based reasoning agent, the talk shows how governance can be engineered into both the real-time data layer and the tool boundary that controls agent actions. Attendees will learn - Why the trust boundary in an agentic system belongs in the server, not only in the prompt - How MCP can be used as a typed, auditable governance contract - Engineering patterns behind shadow mode, approval-gated tools, and multi-model routing - How these concepts come together in a working open-source reference implementation they can explore afterward This session is designed for engineers, architects, product leaders, researchers, students, and anyone interested in building trustworthy AI-agent systems. Co-sponsored by: Central Indiana IEEE Computer Society Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/563554

[]Over the course of a little less than twenty years, inventor Frank J. Sprague (1857-1934) achieved an astonishing series of technological breakthroughs--from pioneering work in self-governing motors to developing the first full-scale operational electric railway system--all while commercializing his inventions and promoting them (and himself as their inventor) to financial backers and the public. Agenda: 7:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update; (on your own) Pizza, Popcorn and Soda Pop 7:05 PM - Documentary Start 8:30 PM - End of Documentary; Start of Q & A; Group Discussion 8:45 PM - Wrap Up ALL times are in EDT/EST! Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565836

Workshop Overview The Introduction to Project Management seminar is intended for engineers, technical leads, project leaders, and functional managers who want to learn the basic fundamentals of project management, in order to help themselves and their groups accomplish their endeavors, whether at work, at home, or in the community. Participants will learn basic project management techniques, and most importantly, how to apply them in real life without excessive paperwork or overhead! The workshop will include templates and checklists to take away, and examples of how to apply project management techniques to engineering, personal projects and some project management personal/human touch tips. Speaker(s): Sharan Kalwani, , , Agenda: 9:00 AM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update 10:15 AM - Skills Talk: Part 1 11:00 AM - Break 11:15 AM - Skills Talk: Part 2 12:00 Noon - Break & Lunch 12:45 PM - Skills Talk: Part 3 plus Exercises 2:25 PM - Q&A and Formal Conclusion Certificate, CEUs (or PDH) are available by prior request. Please indicate this at the time of registration *and* email the sponsors in advance. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/559506

Have any unsolved issues with technology infrastructure, the combination of systems (including computer hardware and software, as well as facilities where they are installed, and the land in which those facilities are located) and organizations that make technology work? Find insight here: Fields in and outside of science and engineering are welcome, as everyone on Earth is affected by infrastructure. This will be a long talk with summary of the topic followed by a few papers case studies then a long Q&A section. Please note: this meeting will be recorded so that it can be posted for the general public later. Ask your questions or give your comments from multiple topics in infrastructure, including of course data centers for artificial intelligence companies, the trade of rare-earth minerals that are used in computer hardware, and any other topics that appear in these case studies. Google Meet Live Stream link: https://meet.google.com/cim-mieu-ups Speaker(s): Sharan Kalwani, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565509

[]Inspired by the recent Netflix series: "3 Body Problem", we present a series of 3 documentary sessions featuring the Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin. The series is titled "Rendezvous with the Future" in which he shares thoughts on 3 topics: - First Contact : "Contact with an alien civilization has many possibilities. It might have a good outcome. Equally it might have terrible consequences. Any child knows not to open the door to strangers. They know not to greet strangers casually. This is a matter of common sense." — Liu Cixin - Voyage to the Stars: "I think if humans want to survive, our only choice is to expand our living space in the universe. Like H.G. Wells once said: Human beings will either fill the universe or perish completely. There is no other choice." — Liu Cixin - Becoming a SuperCivilization: "The characteristics of a supercivilization are that it uses technology to enhance its evolution to become a more powerful species. Second, the energy that a supercivilization can use must be really huge. Third, it must have gone a long way on this path of understanding the laws of the universe. But a technologically advanced supercivilization cannot be a civilization with only ideas. It must have left its own mark on the universe. It must have spread to places of considerable distance." - Liu Cixin Each episode is approximately 50 minutes long and will be followed by a 30~40 minutes group discussion period. NOTE: You will need to register for each event separately, and will need (https://www.webex.com/downloads.html) on your phone/tablet or laptop/desktop computer. This specific vtool URL enrolls you in the "Becoming a SuperCivilization" session. Come join us for this FREE Conference: engage with our presenters/moderators and join in the discussions and networking sessions embedded in the schedule. We look forward to greeting you all and engaging in both serious discussions and flights of fancy. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Southeastern Michigan Membership Development Committee Agenda: 7:00 pm Sign-in - Networking 7:05 pm Start of Documentary: “Becoming a SuperCivilization” 8:00 End of Documentary 8:05 pm Roundtable Open Discussion. Followed by Wrap up & conclusion of conference. (We look forward to seeing you all here at the next documentary to expand the discussion.) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565840