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Career Planning: The NASA way [Career Advisor]

May 16, 2025 by Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti

“Every semester, more than 40 graduate students from various science, technology, engineering, and mathematics backgrounds attend our Spacecraft Technology and Space Systems Design Management courses to learn the skills that are necessary to become technical managers in the space industry. As an instructor, one of the most rewarding aspects of this program for me is the … [Read more...] about Career Planning: The NASA way [Career Advisor]

Redefining What’s Possible at NASA: Gizzi Revels in Defying The Odds

May 15, 2023 by Katianne Williams

Artificial intelligence (AI) and NASA may not have been on Dr. Evana Gizzi’s mind when she was a math major at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell, but she’s an example of how you don’t have to have your career path figured out when you’re an undergraduate. For more about this article see link below. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10113486 For the … [Read more...] about Redefining What’s Possible at NASA: Gizzi Revels in Defying The Odds

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.

Ramya Thiagarajan: Helping Public Health Officials Track Mosquitoes

When the Zika virus reached Florida in 2015, public health teams faced a big challenge: more than fifty species of mosquitoes live in the state, but only a few, especially Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, spread Zika. Public health officials employed the traditional monitoring methods: placing traps at select locations overnight and catching hundreds of mosquitoes. The next day, teams picked up the traps and identified a small sample under a microscope, searching for the subtle and unique morphological markers that distinguished dangerous species.

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