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      “I’ve never seen an engineer dismissed for incompetence, but I’ve seen many careers ruined because an engineer could not speak and write well,” Harry T. Roman likes to say. In his valuable new e-book, Pitching Your Ideas […]
      
      My Year on The Hill as an IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow
      
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