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Build Your Career Webinar Series What Every - "Body" Is Saying Thursday, 18 June 2020 • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET by Elsa Velasco Paul; Founder, The M&E Group People make the decision whether they like you or not within the first 5 seconds of seeing you. Our body [...]

Submission Deadline extended: 30 September 2020 One of the purposes of a professional society is to recognize the accomplishments of their community.  This year, Region 6 has available 15 awards – for corporations, individuals or organizational units.  The Region 6 awards portal is now open (June 1) via Open Water [...]

Three IEEE technical Societies (Electronic Packaging, Electron Devices, Photonics) have released a new IEEE Roadmap for Heterogeneous Integration, intended to leverage advancing technologies to keep system-level improvements progressing according to Moore's Law.  We're seeing these advances in high-performance computing, mobile, 5G, aero/defense, and elsewhere, and they're all covered in this [...]

Candidates have been selected for the 2020 IEEE Elections. The IEEE Elections is where all R6 members vote for: IEEE President-elect, IEEE-USA President-elect and Region 6 Director-elect. Plus, if you are in one or more IEEE Technical Societies, you vote for the VP Technical Activities and Division Directors-elect. IEEE President-elect [...]

Students’ Engineering Projects for Community Service During the Second Annual EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) Expo, held on March 4, 2020 at Santa Clara University, students from San Jose State University and Santa Clara University showcased their engineering projects created to solve environmental and social problems in Silicon Valley [...]

IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Awards recognize and honor major contributions to engineering and technical education. IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Awards, the Honor Society of IEEE, has numerous award programs designed to promote and encourage educational excellence in electrical and computer engineering. IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Awards recognize and honor [...]

Below are the R6 Awards presented at the 2020 OpCom meeting on Feb. 8 in Los Angeles, CA Individual Awardees Award Awardee Section Outstanding Educator Hen-Geul (Henry) Yeh Coastal LA Large Section of the Year IEEE Phoenix Section Phoenix Large Student Branch of the Year University of California, San Diego [...]

Excerpted from IEEE-USA Insight: THE SECURE ACT AND YOUR RETIREMENT SECURITY by IEEE-USA Staff Feb 2020 The shift away from company defined-benefit pensions to portable tax-deferred retirement savings plans fundamentally shifted responsibility from employers to employees to ensure their financial security in retirement. That systemic change, coupled with longer expected life spans, has [...]