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Setting It Off: Destefano gets a charge from her work

November 15, 2022 by Katianne Williams

Every Saturday from Memorial Day through Labor Day, visitors to New Jersey’s Atlantic City Boardwalk gather for the fireworks. Pyrotechnician Jolene Destefano is on the beach, sitting with her laptop, ensuring that the show goes off as planned. For more about this article see link below. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9940508 For the open access PDF link of … [Read more...] about Setting It Off: Destefano gets a charge from her work

Joyce Weisbecker: The first indie game developer

November 15, 2022 by Katianne Williams

Joyce Weisbecker was always interested in her father Joseph’s work. What child wouldn’t be? Joseph was the inventor of the Think-a-Dot and other games, a writer, and a magician who loved learning and teaching. But that’s not all. Joseph was also the engineer who led RCA into a new technological era with his 8-bit microprocessor architecture. Throughout the 1970s, he prototyped … [Read more...] about Joyce Weisbecker: The first indie game developer

The Great Animal Orchestra: The sounds of the natural world are krause’s canvas

November 15, 2022 by Katianne Williams

Visitors to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, lie back on low-slung couches and sprawl on the deep pile carpet. The theatrical space they are in is slightly larger than a volleyball court. A screen surrounds the audience on three sides, a 2-m-wide reflecting pool below it. The walls, ceilings, and floor are acoustically treated, and no outside sound or light … [Read more...] about The Great Animal Orchestra: The sounds of the natural world are krause’s canvas

IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine is the first magazine to focus on issues facing women who study or work in IEEE’s fields of interest.

IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine strives to recognize women’s outstanding achievements in electrical and electronics engineering as well as enhance networking and to promote membership in IEEE Women in Engineering.

The publication also advocates for women in leadership roles and career advancement for women in STEM professions, and it facilitates the development of programs and activities that promote the entry into and retention of women in engineering programs.

Engineering the Magic

When the Enchanted Tiki Room opened at Disney-land in Anaheim, Calif., in 1963, it was, by all accounts, thrilling. Inside were dozens of talking flowers, totem poles, and birds-colorful macaws, toucans, and cockatoos-and together they per-formed a musical show by dancing and singing along to tunes like the “Hawaiian War Chant.” Huge crowds visited the attraction, excited to get a look at these early Audio-Animatronics-“audio” meaning that sound triggered a series of mechanisms, like cams and levers, that caused a pneumatic valve to open and close, moving an eye, a beak, or part of the body in time with the music. People loved them.

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