We are excited to announce there is going to be a networking event called the Industry Mentorship Night on April 3rd which will start at 6:30 pm in the North Creek Event Center. We are collaborating with Career Services and ASME. This event provides a great opportunity to connect with alumni, professors, industry people, and fellow students. Employers emphasize on hiring people based on who they know despite of their credentials. Having more industry connections will help improve your chances in getting hired for internships and jobs after graduation. This event is open to all majors. Enjoy some food and enjoy fun playing some games at the event! Bldg: North Creek Event Center, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, Washington, United States, 98011

WSU Everett Student Branch will be going on a tour to the Snohomish County PUD Microgrid. Co-sponsored by: Snohomish County PUD 915 N BROADWAY, EVERETT, Washington, United States, 98201-1409

EXCOM Meeting Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/399080

Join us for a session on the Mars Rover. What is the status of the Mars Rover? What do we expect to learn from the Rover? How are we using what we are learning from the Mars Rover to plan our trip to Mars in 2039? Find out from NASA scientists and Engineers on what break throughs they are making with the Rover. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Power and Energy Society Speaker(s): Justin Darnall, Agenda: 07:00 am PDT IEEE Announcements 07:02 am PDT IEEE Introduction of the speaker 07:04 am PDT Presentation 07:45 am PDT Q&A Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/408358

You are invited to an important event – an opportunity to attend the information session & apply for the IEEE Senior Member grade elevation and network with industry experts, IEEE Members, and Seattle Section Officers. IEEE Senior Members are not only highly regarded within our own organization, but by technological industries and companies around the world. Senior Membership is a mark of career achievement and distinction. You’ll also need three references from qualified IEEE Senior Members, Fellows, or Honorary Members. Your nomination by this Section/Society counts as one reference when endorsed by a qualified Senior Member, Fellow, or Honorary Member. All IEEE members who meet the qualifications below are encouraged to attend and meet with Senior Members, Fellows, and Honorary Members. Understand the application process, obtain Senior Member references by networking, and learn more about Senior Membership. Refreshments are complimentary. Do you qualify as a Senior Member? 1) Candidates shall be an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive, or originator in IEEE-designated fields (Bylaw 1-104.11) 2) Candidates shall have been in professional practice for at least ten years 3) Candidates shall have shown “significant performance” over a period of at least five of those years in professional practice. For all information and the application form https://www.ieee.org/membership/senior/senior-requirements.html#examples Please bring copies of your detailed resume or CV, complete with full details and a strict timeline of dates, to the Event. IEEE Senior Members Make a Difference! Co-sponsored by: Seattle University Student Chapter Speaker(s): Dragos Margineantu, PhD Agenda: Date: April 9th 2024 Time: 5.30 P.M. to 6.30 P.M. Where: Seattle University, Room # 210 Student Center. 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 (This is an In Person Event only) Who: All IEEE Members who qualify for Senior Membership Please Register for the Event Room: Room #: 210, Bldg: Student Center, Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122

You are invited to an important event – an opportunity to attend the information session & apply for the IEEE Senior Member grade elevation and network with industry experts, IEEE Members, and Seattle Section Officers. IEEE Senior Members are not only highly regarded within our own organization, but by technological industries and companies around the world. Senior Membership is a mark of career achievement and distinction. You’ll also need three references from qualified IEEE Senior Members, Fellows, or Honorary Members. Your nomination by this Section/Society counts as one reference when endorsed by a qualified Senior Member, Fellow, or Honorary Member. All IEEE members who meet the qualifications below are encouraged to attend and meet with Senior Members, Fellows, and Honorary Members. Understand the application process, obtain Senior Member references by networking, and learn more about Senior Membership. Refreshments are complimentary. Do you qualify as a Senior Member? 1) Candidates shall be an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive, or originator in IEEE-designated fields (Bylaw 1-104.11) 2) Candidates shall have been in professional practice for at least ten years 3) Candidates shall have shown “significant performance” over a period of at least five of those years in professional practice. For all information and the application form https://www.ieee.org/membership/senior/senior-requirements.html#examples Please bring copies of your detailed resume or CV, complete with full details and a strict timeline of dates, to the Event. IEEE Senior Members Make a Difference! Co-sponsored by: Seattle University Student Chapter Speaker(s): Dragos Margineantu, PhD Agenda: Date: April 9th 2024 Time: 5.30 P.M. to 6.30 P.M. Where: Seattle University, Room # 210 Student Center. 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 (This is an In Person Event only) Who: All IEEE Members who qualify for Senior Membership Please Register for the Event Room: Room #: 210, Bldg: Student Center, Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122

Join us for the IEEE Boston Tech Conference and Expo. Find out the latest trends in artificial intelligence, AI, ML, Machine Learning, Space Exploration Lunar Landing Artemis, fusion, RF, Microgrids and Utilities, Health and Electronics and Smart Cities Boston. (https://60c89b22-fa84-4f7f-9915-ca0ea9310154.usrfiles.com/ugd/60c89b_c77b6ebaedad4b958df6637928333738.pdf) (https://60c89b22-fa84-4f7f-9915-ca0ea9310154.usrfiles.com/ugd/60c89b_d6f852d0896f453d9afbad06985484aa.pdf) (https://60c89b22-fa84-4f7f-9915-ca0ea9310154.usrfiles.com/ugd/60c89b_38f5d389d96a47f0a92a89b446c5ef61.pdf) (https://www.register-ieee.com/event-details-registration/ieee-boston-tech-conference-and-expo) (https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c89b_726bab3e332443b1877be1b515a05892~mv2.jpg) (https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c89b_69b1202f224c4755a692b4c7d10261e7~mv2.jpg) We thank our sponsors: IEEE Consultant Network (https://ieee-seattle.org/cnt/) Raimundo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/raimundorodulfo/), PE MSEM, PMP, CSSBB Dr. Mansoor Khan, (https://www.landheartenergy.com/) Fred Ferguson, (https://waterotor.com/) Energy Technologies Inc. Bob Frankston, (http://frankston.com/) Earl McDonald, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/earl-macdonald-5852122b/) Raul Ortega, (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/175457) IEEE Consultant Network Eltijani Elrayah, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/axis-communications/) Naga Simhadri (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naga-Simhadri-Apparao-Polireddi)Polireddi, Co-sponsored by: IEEE Power and Energy Society Agenda: Boston Tech Conference and Expo April 12, 2024, 8 am Speaker Line up 7:30 am Boston Style Breakfast Buffet – All day beverage service 8:00 am IEEE Announcements 8:05 am Introduction of all the speakers 8:10 am Kickoff Mayor 8:25 am Yuri Quintana, Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Harvard Medical 8:50 am Clark Wiedetz Chief Sales Officer at GreenStruxure, ‘Green Energy Case Studies’. 9:15 am Pranav Chaudhary Senior Software Engineer at Amazon 9:40 am Ernesto Vega Janica Senior Fire Protection Engineer Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 10:05 am Dr. Torbjørn Lembke, Chief Maglev Scientist, MagLev Aero 10:30 am Ding Han, Clean Energy Professional Leading Digital Transformation,'' 10:55 am Abir Chermiti, CEO Coach 11:20 am Tim Callahan, Engineering Manager, Eversource, ‘Generation/Load Decoupling Standard’ 11:45 am Marie Tupaj and Peter Shea How Schools and Colleges are Adopting AI & ML- STEM Classroom 12:10 pm Special Guest Prize Pack Giveaway 12:15 pm Lunch The Cape Cod Buffet 12:45 pm Bob Frankston, IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Consumer Technology Society, 'Connectivity Networking as a service' 1:10 pm Frank B. DeFina, Business Development Manager Vaisala ‘Extreme Weather in the Urban Environment’ 1:35 pm Joseph Redmond, PE, Electrical Team Leader at B2Q 2:00 pm Adam Gutbezahl, associate at Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, ‘Balancing AI Benefits & Workplace Challenges.’ 2:25 pm Mahdi Haghzadeh, PhD, RF Engineering, Founder, Cognitave, Inc., Radar for Advanced Vehicular Systems 2:50 pm Maria Palombini, Global Practice Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences 3:15 pm Mansoor Khan, Virtual Power Plants, Land Heart Energy, 'from the Big Apple to the Green Apple' 3:40 pm Saurav Bhattacharya, Researcher, Engineer, Author, Speaker, Founder, Mentor in Digital Authentication Microsoft 4:05 pm Samuel Li, Building Digital Twin Metaverse Cities-Accelerating Urban Digital Transformation thru Emerging Tech 4:30 pm Phil Teague, ‘DC is the Future’, CEO and Founder Rectify Solar 4:55 pm Salute to the Speakers 5:00 pm Special Guest – Happy Hour - Networking Paul Revere Room 9:00 am Astha Kukreja, ‘Robotics Autonomous Driving’, Technical Lead Systems Engineer 9:25 am Saad Thabit, Founder and Principal DRF Engineering Services 9:50 am Xinsheng Lou, Ph D, ISA Fellow, Director of ISA POWID, AI 10:15 am Anthony Romano, Dr. Hedge Fund 10:40 am Jeff Steffensen, Commissioning Market Leader, Affiliated Engineers 11:05 am Youcef Abdelli, Founder and CEO ZT1 Technology, Power Electronics dominate Sustainability Transition 11:30 am Phil Teague, ‘DC is the Future’, CEO and Founder Rectify Solar 11:55 am Olaoluwa Adeleke, Investment Banking, Private Equity and Venture Capital 12:55 pm Dr. Raj Vayyavur, Director Enterprise Architecture Data Governance at Public Consulting Group 1:20 pm Laiz Souto, Senior Research Associate Future Energy Networks, University of Bristol 100 Boardman Street, Boston , Massachusetts, United States, 02128

Unlock the potential of scientific entrepreneurship with Senior IEEE member Marc Perron as he bridges the gap between academia research and industry. In this succinct 30-minute presentation, Marc delves into the essentials of navigating the technology transfer and deep tech entrepreneurship landscape, comprising three key components: Process: Understand and sidestep common obstacles hindering technology transfer success. Marc provides actionable strategies to navigate through these challenges effectively. Assessing Market Viability: Gain insights into evaluating the market potential of your ideas. Marc equips you with discerning methodologies to determine the feasibility and success of your business projects in real-world scenarios Securing Funding: Explore the critical connection between research innovation and funding business opportunities. Marc illuminates pathways to secure essential financial support for your endeavors. Concluding the presentation is a 15-minute Q&A session, offering a platform to clarify concepts and glean additional insights into the reality of creating a business from technologies coming from a R&D lab. By the end of this session, attendees will be well-prepared to consider scientific entrepreneurship as a viable alternative to traditional career paths, armed with more knowledge and confidence to embark on their entrepreneurial journey successfully. [] Speaker(s): Marc Perron, ing., Ph.D., senior IEEE Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409143

Please join us for an evening of connecting with company representatives and industry professionals to allow opportunities to network and grow your professional development. [] For Industry professionals: (https://forms.office.com/r/HPii1a5wsU?origin=lprLink) For Students registration: (https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ceQrtfH3tEeoeQx5m7U9tWpEJnfcRUZArwNaRNZaK5NUNTZKSlpaNERPQVkxVTBaNEE5VDIwVUhFNy4u&origin=QRCode) Host: IEEE Women in Engineering Seattle Section Affinity Group Co-host: IEEE Seattle Section Education Chapter Room: 101, 915 N Broadway, Everett, Washington, United States, 98201

[] Dive into the exciting world of holographic-type communications with Prof. Filip De Turck, an expert in network management and holographic-type technologies. This talk will explore the evolution of video streaming and the shift towards network softwarization, highlighting volumetric media's potential through practical examples. With his extensive background and over 750 publications, Prof. De Turck will address the challenges and opportunities in this field, aiming to inspire collaborative research. Join us for insights into the next-gen communication technologies. Abstract: This talk will give an overview of video streaming technologies over telecommunication networks while also taking the important evolution towards network softwarizaton into account. The importance and the opportunities provided by volumetric media delivery will be outlined by means of several examples. The most appropriate approach for volumetric media delivery and the various challenges and techniques will be highlighted next. Finally, an overview of research challenges and opportunities will be presented to stimulate further collaborative research. Short bio: Dr. Filip De Turck is a professor at the Department of Information Technology (Intec) of Ghent University and Imec, Belgium, with expertise in communication software, network resource management, adaptive multimedia service delivery, and next-generation video delivery platforms. In this research area, he is involved in and successfully completed many research projects with industry and academia, served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM), former chair of the Future Internet Cluster of the European Commission, is on the TPC of many international network and service management conferences and workshops and serves in the Editorial Board of several network and service management journals. Prof. Filip De Turck regularly organizes international workshops on the above-mentioned topics, served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), and steering committee member of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management (IM) Symposium, the IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft) and the IFIP/IEEE Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). He also served as chair of the IEEE SDN Initiative Conference Committee, which coordinates initiative IEEE events and conferences on Softwarized Networks. Prof. Filip De Turck was named a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for outstanding technical contributions to network resource management and adaptive service delivery and serves as a ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. He is currently (co-)author of over 750 publications. He received the IEEE ComSoc Dan Stokesberry Award 2021 for particularly distinguished technical contributions to the growth of the network operations and service management field. At the time of the meeting, join us at https://simnet.zoom.us/j/98358057643?pwd=MjloQnBONWdtR1BiZVMwNU9DLzBPZz09 Or on the Zoom App Meeting ID: 98358057643 Passcode: MjloQnBONWdtR1BiZVMwNU9DLzBPZz09 Co-sponsored by: Pradeep Kumar Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/406600

Join us for a session on Smart Cities Copenhagen. Find out why Copenhagen is one of the top Smart Cities on the planet. Smart water, smart mobility, smart medicine, and Smart Buildings. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Power and Energy Agenda: 07:00 am PDT IEEE Introductions 07:02 am PDT Introduction of the Speakers 07:04 am PDT Presentation 07:45 am PDT Q&A Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/414860

Albert Lin, PE, PMP has been a SATCOM consultant since retired from Boeing Satellites in 2017. He has 30 years of experience working in all levels of communication payloads of system engineering including requirement definitions, link budgets, integration and test of payloads as well as in-orbit testing. Albert holds a BSEE from UCSB and an MSEE from USC. He is a Registered Engineer in the State of California and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is the current Vice Chair and Treasurer of the IEEE SFV section. His other volunteer activities are Chief Judge for Speech Contests in District 52 of Toastmasters International and university engineering program evaluator for ABET. Title: Satcom System Overview An overview of the role satellites play in our communication systems today. We will review different technologies in operation today and walk through satellite subsystems with a closer look at various communication system architectures. Speaker(s): Albert Lin, Bldg: JD 1602, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge , California, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/417360