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IEEE CANADA Technology Leadership Webinar Series – I

IEEE Canada is hosting a webinar series on Technology Leadership. We are inviting professional associations, learnt societies, think tanks, governmental agencies, and other institutions to participate and contribute speakers. This webinar series is a platform bringing our thought leaders from different stakeholders, from all walks of life to present their views and advocate their positions on science, technology, society, and future economy. We invite you to join our Webinar on April 27, 2020. It will be open and free to the general public.

Date: April 27, 2020
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM (ET)
Speaker: Jeff Kinder of Institute on Governance
Topic: Science and Society
For more information, please visit: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/228287

IEEE Educational Resources

IEEE educational activities continue to offer online instruction and IEEE’s pre-university educational resources may be of assistance to families of students whose classroom activities have been disrupted.

For home-schooling parents and students:
Are you looking for simple and engaging activities these days of social distancing and self-isolation?
Explore the IEEE TryEngineering database to learn about a wide variety of concepts at:
https://tryengineering.org/teachers/lesson-plans/
More than 130 peer-reviewed lesson plans are easy to use with hand-outs and worksheets for students aged 4 to 18. Most have hands-on activities using common materials. For example, you can package a potato chip using card stock (flattened cereal box) and do drop and crush tests to validate your design.
There are also several on-line games for the same age group. Please share this resource information with friends and family.
Stay safe and keep learning!

Member benefit: IEEE Car Rental Discount Program

The IEEE Car Rental Discount Program is available worldwide to members and employees of the IEEE. You may book directly with the preferred car rental provider through the online booking tool.

Please visit https://www.ieee.org/membership/services/travel/car-rental.html to learn more.

Upcoming Standards Meetings

Below is a list of upcoming IEEE Standards Meetings:

802 Plenary – LAN/MAN including Ethernet & WiFi
July 11-18 – Montreal
http://ieee802.org/

P1708 WG – Blood Pressure Wearables
July 20-24 - Montreal (during EMB conference - https://embc.embs.org/2020/) https://site.ieee.org/sagroups-1708/

Meetings during PES general meeting - https://pes-gm.org/2020/
August 2-6 - Montreal
Substations Committee - https://cmte.ieee.org/pes-substations/
Transmission & Distribution Committee - https://site.ieee.org/pes-td/
Power Generation Committee - https://site.ieee.org/pes-edpgcom/
AMPS (Analytics) Committee - https://site.ieee.org/amps/