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      IEEE-USA’s December Free E-Book for Members Offers Third, Final E-Book in the Thomas Edison E-Book Series
      
      As its December free e-book selection, IEEE-USA is offering the third and final volume of author Harry T. Roman’s trilogy, Thomas Edison, Man of the Millennium, Vol. 3: Observations to IEEE members, free. In this last book of the Edison […]
      
      The Importance of Being Good Management Material
      
      “I’m so much smarter than my manager,” my Tinder date complained. “I don’t understand why I’m not leading the team. My ideas are better than anyone else’s in the department.” While I hadn’t […]
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      Pictured: Senator Maria Cantwell (Wash.) and 2019 IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow Ethan Keeler. As an IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow, I worked in the office of Senator Maria Cantwell (Washington State) and for the Committee on Commerce, Science, and […]
      
      Invention to Impact – NSF’s Technology Translation Programs
      
      Pictured: One of the VocaliD team, recording her voice, or voicebanking, on VocaliD's Human Voicebank. VocaliD is an NSF-funded small business. Photo credit: VocaliD. The National Science Foundation (NSF) issues hundreds of grants every year to […]
      
      Women in Engineering AI Leadership Summit
      
      Pictured (left to right): Nina Rouhanizadeh, Chair, WIE Chicago; Congressman Bill Foster; Maria Rios, CEO, Nation Waste Inc.; Laura Ellman, Member of Illinois State Senate; Anne Lee, CTO, Nokia Bell Lab; Congressman Sean Casten; and Liang Downey, […]
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      The physicist and 2015 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient Mildred Dresselhaus once described mentoring as “Listening to people, helping them go over the issues, and clarifying how to deal with any problems that might arise.” In a nutshell, […]
      
      2019 IEEE-USA Consultants Fee Survey: Average Age Continues to Rise, Consulting Experience Declines
      
      Growing numbers of mid- to late-career engineering professionals are continuing to move into consulting. According to the 2019 IEEE-USA Consultants Fee Survey, this year’s respondents have an average of 17 years of consulting experience. This […]
      
      2019 IEEE-USA Salary Survey: Great for Many, But Room for Improvement
      
      The latest results from the engineering world’s largest salary survey demonstrate a troublesome reality: For many, the profession is a fine way to make a living, but in several notable areas, such as salary parity for women and minority […]
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      It can be hard to buy thoughtful gifts for the engineers on your list. So you put things off and end up grabbing some mug or tie at the last minute that screams “low effort.” Well, IEEE-USA is here to help keep you out of the doghouse […]
      
      Your Engineering Heritage: Antoinette and Early Flight Simulation
      
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