The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association |
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A Letter from the Executive Director |
Dear ECEDHA friends and family,
Welcome back! We appreciate the continued commitment of the ECEDHA community. This last year saw a growth in academic and corporate membership, which is unprecedented during challenging times.
As our community returns to campus, the ECEDHA staff stands ready to support and serve. We look forward to your continued participation and engagement in the year to come.
All the best,
John R. Janowiak
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October 12 & 14, 2021 | 10am CT
ECEDHA Lab Pros & Makers Summit
October 20, 2021 | 10am CT
ECEDHA Educators Summit
March 25-28, 2022
2022 ECEDHA Annual Conference & ECExpo - New Orleans, LA
March 25, 2022
ECEDHA New Chairs Workshop
New Orleans, LA
New Programs added daily!
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Research. Technology. The Future of ECE.
Stream the new podcast series now!
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Join us for the new ECE TECH TALKS Podcast Series!
Throughout this series, host Barry Sullivan sits down for casual conversations with thought leaders in ECE – across both academia and industry – to hear their perspectives on the latest in research, technology, and their vision of the future of ECE.
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Episode 4: A Conversation with Martin Cooper |
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Martin Cooper
"Father of the Cell Phone"
Dyna LLC
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Lessons Learned in Adopting a Multi-Site Combined REU/RET Program for Exclusive Remote Participation Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Kofi Nyarko, Associate Professor, Morgan State University
The Smart City Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) (SCR2) Mega-Site program, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (#1849454), was formed in 2018 to address the low participation and graduation rates of post-secondary students belonging to underrepresented minority groups in the engineering field. The participating schools in the program are all minority serving and members of a consortium consisting of 14 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and 1 Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), where Morgan State University (MSU) serves as the lead institution. The program targets lower division underperforming REU students who are less likely to have the opportunity to participate in research as undergraduates. Participation in this type of experience has been demonstrated to be transformative and to have the potential to increase retention and graduation rates at these institutions.
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Diversity in Engineering: A Student Perspective
By: Fisayo Sangoleye, PhD Student, ECE, University of New Mexico & Leena Aggad, Master's Student, ME, University of New Mexico
Being culturally diverse, can you discuss some of the challenges you identify with?
Cultural diversity, although something that is necessary to create a thriving environment, presents challenges to those that wish to uphold its benefits. The challenges our organization identifies with are creating a fitting environment for all, attracting new cultures, as well as dealing with the ignorance of those not commonly immersed into culturally diverse settings.
Every different background comes with a completely unique set of cultural norms and traditions. Because of this, it is generally hard to create a setting that adheres to everyone’s culture preference. Therefore, it becomes a responsibility of organizational leadership to ensure that at least, key aspects of everyone’s culture are integrated enough to make them feel welcome. An example of this might perhaps be as simple as creating an international playlist of music to play as background noise in an event. Also, perhaps most importantly, it is critical that cultures are not distastefully represented.
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Sponsored Article: Digi-Key Academic Program Highlights
By: YC Wang, Director, Global Academic Program, Digi-Key Electronics
It is now the “Back To School” season for the 2021 to 2022 academic year!
An unprecedented academic year has come and gone. During that time, we have seen universities worldwide send their students home and conduct courses virtually. As the world emerged from lockdown, demand for electronics components surged and resulted in a (temporary) shortage of components. With this chaotic backdrop, Digi-Key serves as your ever reliable distribution partner.
When students were sent home, Digi-Key worked to make sure remote hands-on coursework could commence. Employing kitting and fast shopping cart add solutions, Digi-Key worked with multiple universities to build custom lists and collections of tools and hardware. Diligent Digi-Key employees worked hard to ensure the shipments of hardware continued unabated. When a lab kit finally reaches the welcome mat of a student’s house, the countless hours of work behind the scenes by Digi-Key employees and university lab managers were all but invisible to them.
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Association Announcements |
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Now Available On-Demand!
Virtual Programming from the ECEDHA Lab Pros & Corporate Technology Summit
This summer, ECEDHA members gathered for another installment of the ECEDHA Summit Series. Led by Hayne Shumate (Mouser Electronics) the July Summit gathered peers to discuss technology bandwidth, lifelong learning, student engineer experiences and more!
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Previously recorded webinars are now available for your on-demand viewing!
Sponsored by Texas Instruments
Sponsored by Coursera
Sponsored by MathWorks
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ECEDHA Member and Partner News |
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Rising Stars in EECS: A Virtual Event
October 14-15, 2021
This intensive workshop at MIT brings together top graduate and postdoc women in EECS for scientific interactions and discussions about navigating the early stages of careers in academia.
The program includes invited presentations on targeting the academic search process, giving effective job talks, and developing and refining research and teaching statements. Panel discussions will focus on the first years of an academic career. There will be time for participants to get to know each other and form lasting connections.
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A Little Engineering Humor |
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Why did the diode kiss the capacitor?
He couldn't resistor.
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