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The Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society is a conduit to the world’s top technical information covering the organization, systems engineering, design, development, integration, and operation of complex systems for space, air, ocean, or ground environments. AESS members have pioneered large-scale integrated interoperable systems. AESS connects its members with the three pillars of the Aerospace, Electronic and Defense sector: Industry, Institutions and Research Centers. The effective interaction among these pillars is key to the organization, design, development and operation of successful Complex Systems.
AESS Conferences, Workshops, Transactions, Magazine and Educational tools enhance and disseminate the culture of Complex Systems through the global AESS community, bringing a beneficial exchange of experience and achievements among our members.
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The organization, systems engineering, design, development, integration, and operation of complex systems for space, air, ocean, or ground environments. These systems include but are not limited to navigation, avionics, mobile electric power and electronics, radar, sonar, telemetry, military, law-enforcement, automatic test, simulators, and command and control.
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Chair: Francesca Scire Scappuzzo
The IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) focuses on the activities, research, and development of systems for the space, air, ocean and ground environments, including hardware, software, integration and many other aspects of the Engineering job.
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The Antennas and Propagation Society is a community comprised of a diverse group of industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies. The Society has a long and storied history and a membership that has been responsible for a wide variety of innovations, from radar to antennas to metamaterials. Members of the Society have access to the most cutting-edge technical information covering antenna systems and electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering in complex media for wireless communication, sensing, medical, and other applications.
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Antenna systems and electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering in complex media for wireless communication, sensing, medical, and other applications.
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Chair: Cara Kataria
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Founded in 1952 with the formation of IRE’s (the Institute of Radio Engineers) Professional Group on Communications Systems (PGCS), IEEE Communications Society has evolved into a diverse group of global industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies. Members interact across international and technological borders to:
- produce publications
- organize conferences
- foster educational programs
- promote local activities
- work on technical committees
Since the Communications Society began operations in January 1972 as an independent Society of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) with over 8,800 members, ComSoc has become the premier international forum for the exchange of ideas on communications technologies and information networking.
IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, and other conferences have earned international reputations. Publications increasingly support local and international coverage of important issues, and the Board of Governors reflects the changing direction of global communications technology.
Volunteer members of the Society shape the course of ComSoc, its publications, technical activities, and conferences while the Society’s strength comes from the vision and dedication of its members and staff.
ComSoc members stay on top of the world of communications technology by accessing up-to-the-minute technical information, networking with other experts in the field, and leveraging many other exclusive benefits.
Today, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) is a leading global community.
The IEEE Communications Society is community comprised of a diverse group of industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies. To that end, the Society sponsors publications, conferences, educational programs, local activities, and technical committees that:
Foster original work in all aspects of communications science, engineering, and technology.
Encourage the development of applications that use signals to transfer voice, data, image, and/or video information between locations.
Promote the theory and use of systems involving all types of terminals, computers, and information processors; all pertinent systems and operations that facilitate transfer; all transmission media; switched and unswitched networks; and network layouts, protocols, architectures, and implementations.
And strongly advance developments toward meeting new market demands in systems, products, and technologies such as personal communications services, multimedia communications systems, enterprise networks, and optical communications systems.
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The IEEE CPMT Society’s mission is to “provide a forum for the dissemination of technical information within its assigned areas. CPMT’s fields of interest encompass the materials science, chemical processes, reliability technology, mathematical modelling, education and training utilized in the design and production of discretes, hybrids, and electronic packaging”
The Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society addresses the scientific, engineering, packaging, and production aspects of materials and component part for all electronics applications. This includes the technology, selection, modeling and simulation, characterization, application, assembly, reliability, testing and control of the above as they apply in design and manufacturing. The Society sponsors the annual Electronic Components and Technology Conference, as well as nearly 20 other conferences and workshops .
The IEEE Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technology Society was created from a merger between the IEEE Parts, Hybrids, and Packaging Group and the IEEE Manufacturing Technology Group in 1978. The IEEE Parts, Hybrids, and Packaging Group was originally formed in September 28, 1954 as the IRE Professional Group on Production Techniques, which changed its name several times. The evolution of the group’s names is as follows: the IRE Professional Group on Product Engineering and Production (1960), the Professional Technical Group on Product Engineering and Production (1963), IEEE Product Engineering and Production Group (1964), Parts, Materials, and Packaging Group (1965), and the IEEE Parts, Hybrids, and Packaging Group (1971).
IEEE Societies provide access to current information, opportunities to network with peers, and enhancement of the worldwide value of your profession. IEEE members receive special prices for Society memberships. If you are not an IEEE member, you may wish to join as an Affiliate.
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Chair: Open
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From its institution as the Neural Networks Council in the early 1990s, the Computational Intelligence Society has rapidly grown into a robust community with a vision for addressing real-world issues with biologically-motivated computational paradigms. The Society offers leading research in nature-inspired problem solving, including neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. Members contribute to the theory, design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms, emphasizing neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.
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Biological and linguistic computational paradigms: neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems.
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Chair: Prof. Ming Shao
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With nearly 85,000 members, the 64-year-old Computer Society is the largest society within IEEE and the world’s premier organization of computing professionals. The Society serves the information and career-development needs of today’s computing researchers and professionals with books, conferences, conference publications, magazines, online courses, software development certifications, standards, and technical journals. Known worldwide for its computer-standards activities, the Computer Society promotes an active exchange of ideas and technological innovation among members and technology companies producing today’s innovative products and services.
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All major areas of computing and information technology: computer hardware, software, multimedia, IT, security, networking, mobile computing, and more.
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Chair: Peter Mager
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Welcome to the Boston Section of the IEEE Consultants’ Network. Our diverse membership provides specialist expertise in electrical engineering, software development, systems engineering, project management and many application areas. Wide-ranging experience extends across domestic and international industries of all sizes, academia and the public sector. The IEEE Consultants Network serves three constituencies:
- consulting members of the IEEE
- business and industry
- the greater public
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Chair: Saad Thabit
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The Consumer Technology Society (CT-S) is an organization within the IEEE that strives for the advancement of the theory and practice of Electronic Engineering and of the allied arts and sciences with respect to the field of Consumer Technology and the maintenance of a high professional standing among its members, which now number over 5000. The society has long been the premier technical association in the Consumer Technology Industry. The Consumer Technology Society is truly international; its publications and presentations are authored by researchers from countries throughout the world. Activities of the CT Society are directed by the society’s administrative committee (Board of Governors), whose members represent the technical and commercial breadth of the organization.
The scope of technologies embraced by the CT Society, which was once limited to television, home hi-fi, and home appliances, has expanded to reflect the vast influence of modern technology on consumer products. Indeed many emerging technologies in the field of consumer electronics are tied to the challenges being addressed by the CT Society community, ranging from the devices and networks that facilitate electronic distribution of information to technologies that will make our lives safer and easier, such as intelligent automotive navigation and control systems.
Members of the society are interested in the consumer related aspects of leisure, video, and audio entertainment technologies; home information and communications systems; and interactive information and display systems. Products in these categories include video receivers, video signal generation, processing, and distribution equipment; projection TV; still and motion electronic cameras; HDTV and other advanced TV systems; personal computer hardware and software; home automation and security systems; telephones and accessories; electronic games and toys; digital audio systems; audio and video recording devices; home, mobile, and portable audio systems; cellular telephones and personal communications devices; music electronics; and home health care electronic devices.
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Chair: Aakash Deliwala
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Founded in 1954, the Control Systems Society is an international scientific, engineering, and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of research, development, and practice in automation and control systems. Control systems are ubiquitous and largely invisible to the general public—yet are essential to the production of products as diverse as paper, water, and pharmaceuticals. The Society and its members are involved in a number of activities, including publishing journals and a magazine, holding a number of conferences, and sponsoring committees in various areas of technical specialization.
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Advancing control science and technology—from theoretical advances in systems and control to applications in diverse areas of societal and economic importance.
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The IEEE Education Society is an international organization that promotes, advances, and disseminates state-of-the-art scientific information and resources related to the Society’s field of interest and provides professional development opportunities for academic and industry professionals.
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The theory and practice of education and educational technology involved in the effective delivery of domain knowledge of all fields within the scope of interest of IEEE
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Chair: Karen Panetta
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The IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society is the world’s largest organization dedicated to the development and distribution of information, tools and techniques for reducing electromagnetic interference.
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The society’s field of interest includes standards, measurement techniques and test procedures, instrumentation, equipment and systems characteristics, interference control techniques and components, education, computational analysis, and spectrum management, along with scientific, technical, industrial, professional or other activities that contribute to this field.
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Chair: Patrick DeRoy
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From its beginnings in 1952 as a committee of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the Electron Devices Society has expanded its scope to encompass all aspects of engineering, physics, theory, experiment and simulation of electron and ion devices involving insulators, metals, organic materials, plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect materials, vacuum, and emerging materials. There are many applications for these innovative technologies, including bioelectronics, biomedical, computation, communications, displays, electro and micro mechanics, imaging, micro actuators, optical, photovoltaics, power, sensors and signal processing.
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Engineering, physics, theory, experiment and simulation of electron and ion devices and their applications to engineering, medicine and sciences.
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Chair: Open
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The world’s largest international society of biomedical engineers, the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society advances the application of engineering sciences and technology to medicine and biology. From formalized mathematical theory through experimental science, from technological development to practical clinical applications, EMBS members support scientific, technological, and educational activities as they apply to the concepts and methods of the physical and engineering sciences in biology and medicine.
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The application of the concepts and methods of the physical and engineering sciences to biology and to medicine.
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ENET is a winner of the IEEE-USA Regional Professional Leadership Award. Founded in 1991, ENET is focused on supporting aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs by connecting them with people and information needed to transform great ideas into successful businesses. ENET is where tech and life science entrepreneurs can network, learn and grow their businesses.
ENET organizes 19 evening meetings per year, split between Waltham and Cambridge. Every meeting is designed to be a learning experience in a nurturing environment during which 3 or 4 experts speak on a variety of subjects that are essential to new company founders. The ENET event season starts in September and ends each year with a July sunset networking cruise of Boston Harbor – the “EntrepreneurShip.”
The registration fee to attend all meetings is included in the cost of membership: $75 for general public, $65 for IEEE members, $45 for students and veterans.
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Chair: Millie Kwan
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The Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society is a conduit to cutting-edge technical information in the science and engineering for remote sensing of the earth, oceans, atmosphere, and space. Members of GRSS come from both engineering and scientific disciplinary backgrounds. Engineers with familiarity in areas such as geophysics, geology, hydrology, and meteorology often support geoscientific investigations with the design and development of hardware and data-processing techniques. Scientists in the discipline find in GRSS a forum for the dissemination and evaluation of remote sensing related work in these areas.
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Science and engineering for remote sensing of the Earth, oceans, atmosphere, and space; the processing, interpretation, and dissemination of this information.
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Chair: Chris Gittins
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If your engineering interests are the needs of the industrial or commercial sector, the Industry Applications Society (IAS) will be a valuable professional connection.
One of the largest special interest societies within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IAS focuses specifically on the unique needs of industry and commerce. IAS is a source of professional power to its nearly 10,000 worldwide members.
Through a network of over 100 chapters globally, regional events and national and international conferences, the society keeps members abreast of current developments in the area of technology in electricity and electronics.
IAS enriches both its individual members and the industry as a whole through the sharing of specific industry-related solutions.
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Chair: Ozgur Cosar
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The Instrumentation and Measurement Society is dedicated to the development and use of electrical and electronic instruments and equipment to measure, monitor and/or record physical phenomena. The Society provides its membership with timely access to the latest research concerning the theory, methodology, and practice of measurement, and in the design, development, and evaluation of instrumentation and associated measurement systems. With scientific, literary, and educational concerns, the Society sponsors and supports conferences and publications, and through its committees, responds to the needs of the membership.
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Advance knowledge in the theory, methodology and practice of measurement, and in the design, development and evaluation of measurement systems.
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Life members represent an invaluable repository of personal experiences involving the history of areas of interest to IEEE. The IEEE Life Members Committee believes that keeping Life members active and engaged is a key component of the success of IEEE in local IEEE activities. In 2013, IEEE Life Members Affinity Groups conducted over 94 events, which included more than 2,600 participants.
Life members must be at least 65 years of age and have been a member of IEEE or one of its predecessor societies for such a period that the sum of his/her age and his/her years of membership equals or exceeds 100 years. When an individual achieves Life member (LM) status, their basic membership dues and Region assessments are waived on 1 January of the year following attainment of LM status.
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Chair: Lori Jeromin
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The Magnetics Society is the premiere organization for professionals in magnetics research and technology. Members of the Society are involved in cutting-edge research in the development, design, and application of magnetic devices, including magnetic materials and phenomena. The Society promotes the study and application of magnetics through publications, conferences, and educational outreach—including distinguished lecturers, tutorials, and a summer school program designed for graduate students studying magnetism and related areas.
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The fundamental development, design, and application of magnetic devices including magnetic materials and phenomena.
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Chair: Nian Xiang Sun
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The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) is a transnational society with more than 11,000 members and 150 chapters worldwide. Our Society promotes the advancement of microwave theory and its applications, including RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz technologies.
For more than 60 years the MTT-S has worked to advance the professional standing of its members and enhance the quality of life for all people through the development and application of microwave technology. As we enter into an exciting future, our mission is to continue to understand and influence microwave technology, and to provide a forum for all microwave engineers. The MTT-S will continue to be the global focus for promotion of the RF and microwave engineering profession, by advancing and distributing knowledge and supporting professional development.
This is an all- volunteer society, driven to excellence by its leadership, with the active participation of all its world-wide members. The activities sponsored by the MTT-S include a broad spectrum of conferences, workshops, tutorials, technical committees, chapter meetings, publications and professional education programs.
Our principal publications and conferences are world class, peer reviewed and recognized as top of class. Our professional venues provide a great opportunity for networking with experienced innovators, experts, and practitioners. Our volunteer programs provide for development of critical, non-technical skills that enable you to be more effective professionally.
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Chair: Jennifer Byford
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The Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society is a transnational group of about 3000 professional engineers and scientists working in the fields of radiation instrumentation, medical imaging sciences, radiation effects, plasma sciences, fusion technology, pulsed power, particle accelerators, nuclear power and technology, and computer applications. The Society sponsors five annual and six biennial conferences and symposia, as well as peer-reviewed academic journals. Members of the Society have access to cutting-edge technical information in nuclear and plasma sciences, engineering/applications, and instrumentation, detection/measurement, particle accelerators, and medical imaging technology.
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Nuclear and plasma sciences, engineering/applications; instrumentation, detection/ measurement, particle accelerators, and medical imaging technology.
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Chair: Prof. Min-Chang Lee
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The Photonics Society’s Field of Interest is lasers, optical and photonic devices, optical fibers, and associated lightwave technology and their systems and applications. The society is concerned with transforming the science of materials, optical phenomena, and quantum electronic devices into the design, development, and manufacture of photonic technologies. The Society promotes and cooperates in the educational and technical activities which contribute to the useful expansion of the field of quantum opto-electronics and applications.
The Society shall aid in promoting close cooperation with other IEEE societies and councils in the form of joint publications, sponsorships of meetings, and other forms of information exchange. Appropriate cooperative efforts will also be undertaken with non-IEEE societies.
Mission Statement
The Photonics Society shall advance the interests of its members and the laser, optoelectronics, and photonics professional community by:
- providing opportunities for information exchange, continuing education, and professional growth
- publishing journals, sponsoring conferences, and supporting local chapter and student activities
- formally recognizing the professional contributions of members
representing the laser, optoelectronics, and photonics community and serving as its advocate within the IEEE, the broader scientific and technical community, and society at large.
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Chair: Keisuke Kojima
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Welcome to Boston’s Power & Energy Society, winners of the PES 2010 and 2013 Outstanding Large Chapter Award!
The mission of the Power & Energy Society as a whole is to be the leading provider of scientific and engineering information on electric power and energy for the betterment of society, and the preferred professional development source for our members. As the Boston Chapter, we adopt this statement as our mission, and strive to tailor it to serve the Eastern Massachusetts community.
We currently have over 550 members, including students and associates, in and around the Boston area and an active Technical Meeting program. Some of the topics covered recently include Wholesale Energy Markets, Energy System Integration, Substation Automation and Grid Modernization in Massachusetts. We also offer courses for continuing education in a number of topics such as Microgrids and Energy Storage. The highlight of each year occurs in May, when we hold our annual banquet with a distinguished speaker and honor our Outstanding Engineer Award winners.
All these events need volunteers to make them happen. We are always looking for new people to help out. If you would like to help us make our Chapter even more successful please let us know.
All of our technical meetings, with the exception of May’s Annual Banquet, are free and open to the public. Please do join us at any time; the meetings are normally held on the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM, preceded by refreshments and networking at 6:00 PM. Our website will have more information regarding the topic and location for each meeting.
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Chair: Susan Soergel
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The Power Electronics Society is a gateway to technical information covering the development and practical application of power electronics technology, including electronic components, circuit theory techniques, and use of analytical tools. Power electronics is used in computers, automobiles, telecommunications, space systems, motors, lighting, and alternative energy, to name a just a few applications. The Society promotes research and innovation in power electronic devices such as diodes and transistors, controls and regulators, power converter circuit design, magnetic components such as transformers and inductors, electronic circuit packaging and manufacturing, and the control of electrical motors.
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Development and practical application of power electronics technology; electronic components, circuit theory techniques, and use of analytical tools.
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Chair: Open
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The Product Safety Engineering Society is a global community focused on product safety and regulatory engineering in the medical, scientific, engineering, industrial, commercial and residential sectors. The Society affords engineers and other technical professionals an opportunity to discuss and disseminate technical information, to enhance professional skills, and to provide outreach to engineers, students and others with an interest in the field. Its mission is to strive for the advancement of the theory and practice of applied electrical and electronic engineering as applied to product safety and of the allied arts and sciences.
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Theory, design, development, implementation of product safety engineering.
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Chair: Steve Brody
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Welcome to the Boston Chapter of the Reliability Society.
The Reliability Society is focused on the broad aspects of reliability, allowing us to be seen as the IEEE Specialty Engineering organization. We are concerned with attaining and sustaining these design attributes throughout the total life cycle. We have the management, resources, and administrative and technical structures to develop and to provide technical information via publications, training, conferences, and technical library (IEEE Xplore) data to both our members and to the Specialty Engineering community.
As the voice of the IEEE Reliability Society in Central New England, the website at http://www.ieee.org/bostonrel is a useful source of information about our community, activities, and events.
For our members, the Boston Reliability Chapter web site is the focal point of interaction among the membership and the Advisory Committee, providing updates and interconnectivity. Members and guests may use the web site to get periodic news, read publications from our monthly meetings, conduct research and register for events. Whether you are a Reliability Society member, potential member, or student, we hope that you find the Boston Reliability Chapter web site to be a useful tool.
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The Robotics and Automation Society promotes the advancement of the theory and practice of robotics and automation engineering and science and of the allied arts and sciences. Members of the Society contribute to both applied and theoretical issues in robotics—including intelligent machines and systems used, for example, in space exploration, human services, or manufacturing and automation—and automation, which includes the use of automated methods in various applications, for example, factory, office, home, or transportation systems to improve performance and productivity.
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Applied and theoretical issues in robotics, intelligent machines and automation, emphasizing efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability.
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The Signal Processing Society is an international organization whose purpose is to: advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scientific information and resources; educate the signal processing community; and provide a venue for people to interact and exchange ideas.
Signal processing is the enabling technology for the generation, transformation, and interpretation of information. It comprises the theory, algorithms, architecture, implementation, and applications related to processing information contained in many different formats broadly designated as signals. Signal refers to any abstract, symbolic, or physical manifestation of information with examples that include: audio, music, speech, language, text, image, graphics, video, multimedia, sensor, communication, geophysical, sonar, radar, biological, chemical, molecular, genomic, medical, data, or sequences of symbols, attributes, or numerical quantities.
Signal processing uses mathematical, statistical, computational, heuristic, and/or linguistic representations, formalisms, modeling techniques and algorithms for generating, transforming, transmitting, and learning from analog or digital signals, which may be performed in hardware or software. Signal generation includes sensing, acquisition, extraction, synthesis, rendering, reproduction and display. Signal transformations may involve filtering, recovery, enhancement, translation, detection, and decomposition. The transmission or transfer of information includes coding, compression, securing, detection, and authentication. Learning can involve analysis, estimation, recognition, inference, discovery and/or interpretation.
Signal processing is essential to integrating the contributions of other engineering and scientific disciplines in the design of complex systems that interact with humans and the environment, both as a fundamental tool due to the signals involved and as a driver of new design methodologies. As such, signal processing is a core technology for addressing critical societal challenges that include healthcare, energy systems, sustainability, transportation, entertainment, education, communication, collaboration, defense, and security.
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The Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) is concerned with how technology impacts the world, and with how the application of technology can improve the world. The Society focuses on issues such as: humanitarian engineering; environmental issues including climate change, green technologies, and sustainable design; privacy and security; other economic, health, and safety implications of technology; engineering ethics and professional responsibility; engineering education including k-12 and engineering education in social implications of technology; history of technology; public policy related to engineering, technology and science; health and healthcare technologies and impact; reliable energy and social issues related to energy, and social issues of information technology and telecommunications.
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Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to consider the social implications, both positive and negative, of technology and innovation on society; history of societal aspects of electrotechnology; useful public roles for technologists; and ethical, social and economic issues associated with professional practice. The society sponsors the annual International Symposium on Technology and Society.
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Chair: Prof. Min-Chang Lee
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With over 9,000 members around the world, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society focuses on fabricated integrated circuit designs — in contrast to simulated circuits and analyzed models– for all applications using relevant materials and interconnections.
The Society produces the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), the most downloaded technical journal in IEEE Xplore, and sponsors the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the world’s premier circuits realization conference.
The roots of the Society go back to the launch of the ISSCC in 1955, and the debut of the JSSC in 1966 as an archive of major presentations from conferences, expanded into journal length papers. Soon afterward, the leadership of the ISSC and JSSC formally became a Council comprised of all IEEE societies contributing to the field of integrated circuits.
As the field grew in the 1980s, two more solid-state circuits conferences were launched — the VLSI Symposia, a sister conference with the Electron Devices Society, and the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). In addition, the Council established a signficant relationship with the European Solid-State Device Electronics Conference and the European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC/ESSDERC).
To gain more control over its own work, the Council became the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society in 1997. SSCS established the Asian Solid-Solid State Circuits Conference (ASSCC) in 2003 and the Solid-State Circuits Magazine in 2009.
Today SSCS is a member of six Councils to leverage interdisciplinary technologies.
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IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Society (TEM) encompasses the management sciences and practices required for defining, implementing, and managing engineering and technology.
A good overview of the new Society can be found here: The New IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society
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Encompasses the management sciences and practices required for defining, implementing, and managing engineering and technology. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: technology policy development, assessment, and transfer; research; product design and development; manufacturing operations; innovation and entrepreneurship; program and project management; strategy; education and training; organizational development and human behavior; transitioning to management; and the socioeconomic impact of engineering and technology management.
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Chair: Karthik Ganeson
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IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists.
Mission and Vision of IEEE WIE
The mission of IEEE WIE is to facilitate the recruitment and retention of women in technical disciplines globally.
IEEE WIE envisions a vibrant community of IEEE women and men collectively using their diverse talents to innovate for the benefit of humanity.
IEEE WIE strives to:
- recognize women’s outstanding achievements in electrical and electronics engineering through IEEE Awards nominations;
- organize receptions at major technical conferences to enhance networking and to promote membership in WIE;
- advocate women in leadership roles in IEEE governance and career advancement for women in the profession;
- provide assistance with the formation of new WIE Affinity Groups and support ongoing activities;
- promote IEEE member grade advancement for women to the membership grades of Senior member and Fellow;
- facilitate the development of programs and activities that promote the entry into and retention of women in engineering programs;
- administer the IEEE Student-Teacher and Research Engineer/Scientist (STAR) Program to mentor young women in junior and high schools.
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Chair: Maira Samary
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IEEE Young Professionals is an international community of enthusiastic, dynamic, and innovative members and volunteers. IEEE is committed to helping young professionals evaluate their career goals, polish their professional image, and create the building blocks of a lifelong and diverse professional network.
The IEEE Young Professionals Chapter of the Boston Section is the strongest in the world. We host fun and professional events that provide opportunities to meet industry associates and entrepreneurs from around the Boston area and the Northeast and encourage members to participate in IEEE activities. For more information on activities or volunteering e-mail this affinity group from the Boston Section Contact Page or from the direct contact page.
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Chair: Open