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March 17, 2017

Whew! What a Year : December 2016 Digital Reflector

This month’s editorial is from yours truly, Kevin Flavin. It was quite a year. We moved to a fully digital reflector, expanding our reach, our capabilities to publish, and reduced our mailing and printing costs. In addition, we’ll be able to have an archive of past Reflectors for members and non-members alike at the touch of a button, or on an iPad. This is also good for our prospective members, to see what we are doing as a Section as well as IEEE in this area. We have received substantive positive reaction, however a couple of disappointing reactions, but we got through them together.

Women in Engineering Forum

We want to draw attention to the informal Holiday Luncheon sponsored by the Women in Engineering group of the Boston Section.

Practical Radio Frequency Printed Circuit Board Design

We’re highlighting this course this month because we are getting a lot of interest in this course as well as our Embedded Linux courses.

Call for Instructors

If you think you have an idea for a course, or would like to teach one that you’ve done before, let’s talk about it. We may be the platform for you! We offer live and online courses for technologists and management. We can help you put your course together or put the structure around it so you can easily teach it to the public.

Call for Technical Articles

The Digital Reflector is, of course, all digital, which means that we have an opportunity to include technical articles for publication that would be of interest to our members and local technology community. Read the Call for Technical Articles on Page 18 of this issue, and start writing!

Read the December 2016 Digital Reflector

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2018 Security Roundup

February 1, 2018 No Comments

Update: In an effort to consolidate all the posts throughout the year into topics, we’ll simply update the post with new information. This will help you by creating one page of content for the year, simply bookmark the page and you can check it periodically. Much easier. We are kicking

Laser Exfoliation Removal of Conformal Coatings – BOSTON R07 JT. BOSTON/PROV/N.HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER on 01-November-2017

October 10, 2017 No Comments

The IEEE Boston Reliability Chapter cordially invites you to attend a joint meeting and plant tour with SMTA Boston Chapter and iMAPs organizations on Nov. 1st, 2017: Laser Exfoliation Removal of Conformal Coatings From CCA PCB Pad Surfaces and Design for Rinsability Wednesday evening, November 1st, 2017, Raytheon, Andover, MA Circuit

Trends and Prospective in Risk and Reliability Engineering Research – BOSTON R07 JT. BOSTON/PROV/N.HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER on 13-December-2017

October 6, 2017 No Comments

This talk will highlight current and promising directions in the fields of Reliability Engineering and Risk Assessment. Leading topics such as research on the fundamental sciences that underpin risk and reliability technologies, challenges in reliability of ultra-complex systems of interacting hardware and software, utilization and processing of large data and

SMART Power Flow Controllers for Smart Grid Applications – BOSTON PEL35 CHAPTER on 12-October-2017

September 25, 2017 No Comments

Increasing transmission capacity is essential to meet an increased demand of electricity, integration of renewable generation and so on. The power industry’s pressing need for the most economical ways to transfer bulk power along a desired path may be met by building new transmission lines, which is a long and

HPEC 2017

September 11, 2017 No Comments

We’ll be at the HPEC 2017 Conference for the next few days, and will be posting from there on all social media platforms as well as here on the blog. Look for HPEC tags to follow the proceedings. Thanks for joining us!

The Genesis of Reliability Engineering aka "Certainty of Operations” – BOSTON R07 JT. BOSTON/PROV/N.HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER on 11-October-2017

August 14, 2017 No Comments

The first two individuals to introduce reliability engineering in their work were: Dr. William Channing (1820 -1901), inventor of Boston’s fire alarm system over 160 years ago, and Fred Stark Pearson (1861-1915), chief engineer of the world’s first and largest public transit system of Boston. Channing had carefully examined and