August 2015

The IEEE MGA vTools team is happy to announce successful new releases for the following vTools applications:

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is pleased to announce some exciting upcoming events and opportunities:

International Leadership Conference

The 2016 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (2016 WIE-ILC) will take place 23-24 May 2016, in San Jose, CA, USA. Connect with over 1,100 mid-to-senior female engineers and technologists in attendance. The call for speakers is open and partnership opportunities are now available.

Virtual Career

Informed by discussions at IEEE Sections Congress 2014, customer surveys, and ongoing feedback, the global IEEE Meetings, Conferences and Events (MCE) management staff has been working on ways to better support the full scope of your conference needs. Recently, they focused on providing data that you can use to drive decisions and communication, understanding that you value transparency into conferences and events occurring within your Section.

This information can be used as a tool for you to:

Daali, Amy Wafa. (The University of Texas at San Antonio), “PCA based algorithm for longitudinal brain tumor stage classification and dynamical modeling of tumor decay in response to VB-111 virotherapy”, Advisor: Jamshidi, Mo

Are you a practicing engineer who would like to attend GlobalSIP 2015? Talk to your local Chapter Chair about how you can qualify for travel support to attend the conference in Orlando, Florida, USA this December!

The SPS Executive Committee recently approved an initiative that would provide limited Society support for SPS Chapters to send up to two members each to the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) from 14-16 December 2015.

Kumar, Shamanth. (Arizona State University) “Social Media Analytics for Crisis Response”, Advisor: Liu, Huan.