The Southeastern Michigan Section Conference Committee is pleased to announce the Spring March 2023 section conference which will be held at Lawrence Technological University, the first time after the covid pandemic. The aim is to bring together leading experts in the field of engineering to discuss the latest advancements and developments in the industry. The... Read more
SEM Robotics and Automation Society Planning Meeting Agenda: Introduction of members and officicers Planning technical meetings: - Wanted: Speakers for technical events - Automate Expo in Detroit - Etc. Wanted: Treasurer Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/353536
Join us to hear from Tameka McNair in our first Region 4 WIE Quarterly event. Region 4 will be hosting quarterly WIE events this year as well as a WIE Summit watch for more information in our Newsletter. Speaker(s): Tameka McNair, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/347025
The (https://r4.ieee.org/sem/) will host another tour of the Fairlane Estate (3rd one!) — (http://www.henryfordfairlane.org/) — where Henry and Thomas Edison built a hydropower plant on the Rouge River across the street from the University of Michigan Dearborn. This is among the first residential direct current hydropower microgrids ever built in the United States. To learn... Read more
TEMS EXCOM Meeting Tuesday, April 4 · 12:00 – 12:30pm Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/dag-bqea-scx Agenda: Technical meeting format proposal. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/354345
IEEE Southeastern Michigan Spring 2023 SECTION CONFERENCE Post Planning Meeting Co-sponsored by: [email protected] Agenda: Spring 2023 - Conference Planning Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355485
Wayne State ECE Dept. Seminar Series on Technology - Winter Semester April 05, 2023 Speaker(s): Dr lawad April, Agenda: Seminar Series on Technology by Dr lawad April Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351689
There has been quite a buzz about Chat-GPT. In this engaging talk, Yiğit Konur will shed light on two lesser-known but highly significant APIs offered by OpenAI: Embeddings and Whisper. He will provide an overview of these technologies, discussing their importance and potential applications in the context of artificial intelligence. Designed with engineers, students, and... Read more
Dream Big: Engineering Our World is a 2017 American documentary short about modern engineering and its significance. The film was shown at the California Science Center on February 17, 2017. Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges, DREAM BIG: Engineering Our World is a film that will transform how we think about engineering. From the... Read more
Southeastern Michigan Computer Society Chapter Administrative planning meeting Open Agenda All ideas welcome! Agenda: Open Agenda All ideas welcome! Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/356303
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... Read more
Medical imaging has benefited tremendously from the recent surge in data-driven approaches to image formation and analysis. Ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging are two related medical imaging modalities that transmit sound and light, respectively, into the body and measure signals representing the acoustic response from tissue. Images are created from these acoustic signals through the beamforming... Read more
IEEE VTS Chicago is pleased to welcome back Barrie Kirk who gave a talk in March 2020 and will be talking on the update on Canada's activities in the connected and autonomous vehicles ecosystem. Please register for this webinar on Zoom at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MvVQ-EX4QjiEw0GDhYbnLw. Co-sponsored by: IEEE VTS Southeastern Michigan Section Chapter Speaker(s): Barrie Kirk, Agenda:... Read more
SEM Chapter 8 Officers AdCom meeting: Contact Scott Lytle: [email protected] for details and Teleconference phone information. Co-sponsored by: Scott Lytle Agenda: Agenda on-line: Contact Steve Tomba [email protected] for details. Bldg: Yazaki North America, 6800 N Haggerty Rd, Canton, Michigan, United States, 48187-3577
The IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section Monthly ExCom (Executive Committee) Meeting (every 2nd Thursdayof the month) same time 6:30 PM EST/EDT (This is a virtual meeting, unless stated otherwise). We will discuss Section mission objectives, guidenace, direction, as well as all the chapter/affinity groups/student branches and section committe reports, events, plans, opportunities to assist each other... Read more
Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious, and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized mathematics came to be – not just once, but over and over again as different cultures invented and re-invented them across thousands of years. Speaker(s): Sharan Kalwani, Agenda: 5:00... Read more
Wayne State ECE Dept. Seminar Series on Technology - Winter Semester April 19, 2023 Speaker(s): Dr Sounas April, Agenda: Seminar Series on Technology by Dr Sounas April Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/351691
This presentation will cover publicly known information on the 200 kW 1050 VDC silicon carbide (SiC) inverter technology development project in John Deere. The SiC inverter converts vehicle engine power into electrical power needed for the permanent-magnet-motor based electric powertrain used in heavy-duty construction and mining vehicles. The presentation will cover design, development, and test... Read more
In police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be sentenced, and who gets parole. But is it actually making our law enforcement and court systems fairer and more just? This timely investigation digs into the hidden biases, privacy... Read more
Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation:... Read more
Software-in-the-loop (SIL) is a method of testing and validating code in a simulation environment in order to quickly and cost-effectively catch bugs and improve the quality of the code. Typically, SIL testing is conducted in the early stages of the (https://www.aptiv.com/en/insights/article/what-the-next-phase-of-automotive-software-development-looks-like), while the more complex, costlier (https://www.aptiv.com/en/insights/article/what-is-hardware-in-the-loop-testing) testing is done in later stages. SIL is... Read more
Admin planning meeting for 2023 Agenda: - Picnic at Rochester Park at 11:30 am on July 2. - Items to bring etc - Technical meetings in May and June and July - Hands on Workshop at Infineon office, on DATE? - Survey of Members and lucky draw for the person who fills the survey 49087... Read more
As the quantity of solar and battery storage plants connected to the distribution system grows the need to fair and efficient procedures for interconnection testing of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) will increase. These tests have the potential to be an adversarial experience, pitting the interest of the utility against the Independent Power Producer (IPP). This... Read more
As servers that were designed using x86-based architectures started becoming the norm in the early 2000s, there was a huge sea-change toward using these commodity-based systems. Supercomputers started being constructed using these systems instead of proprietary systems like POWER and SPARC for example. Those early designs, along with the emergence of the "free" Linux OS,... Read more
Join us to hear from Jenfier Castillo Rodriguez in our next Region 4 WIE Quarterly event. Region 4 will be hosting quarterly WIE events this year as well as a WIE Summit watch for more information in our Newsletter. IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is a global network of IEEE members and volunteers dedicated to... Read more
With the growing advent of massive cloud adoption and progress in optical fiber and electronics, both very small scale integration and lower costs, the era of very fast networks has arrived. This talk will focus on Infiniband, originally planned as a server to server fibre channel specification, to now grow into the network fabric of... Read more
Based on the book The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies, The Codebreaker reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government. She has been called "America's first female... Read more
