Pía Torres is a role model in every sense of the word. The electronics engineer, teacher, founder, certified project manager and scrum master, and previous IEEE Women in Engineering Inspiring Member Award recipient has seen more than her fair share of obstacles, but not only did she never give up, Torres has worked to create opportunities for others so that they don’t struggle … [Read more...] about Pía Torres: Helping Others Forge Their Paths
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Setting It Off: Destefano gets a charge from her work
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
The Samburu Girls Foundation
It happens again and again: teams put together innovative solutions aimed at helping communities in underdeveloped areas with problems, and those thoughtful recommendations are rejected. Or they are accepted “in theory” but not maintained once the technologists go back home. Instead, engineers are confused, community liaisons are disappointed, and progress stalls. For more … [Read more...] about The Samburu Girls Foundation
The Educating Apple: Wozniak Supports Innovative Global Technology Projects
Janet Wozniak is enamored with the natural world, be it the small animals in her California backyard or the birds she tagged and studied in Mexico when she traveled there from Baldwin City, Kansas, while an undergraduate at Baker University. The daughter of a teacher and a school superintendent, she possesses a passion for the biological sciences and a love of learning in … [Read more...] about The Educating Apple: Wozniak Supports Innovative Global Technology Projects
