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IEEE Women in Engineering news: 2016 leadership conference, virtual career fair, awards program, summits

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.

Conference activity is now available on the Section Vitality Dashboard

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” (2015)

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 In this dissertation, the author proposes the first, to the best of our knowledge, PCA based algorithm to noninvasively recognize and classify different temporal stages of brain tumors given a large time series of MRI images.

Attend GlobalSIP 2015 With SPS Travel Support

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” (2015)

Kumar, Shamanth. (Arizona State University) “Social Media Analytics for Crisis Response”, Advisor: Liu, Huan. Crises or large-scale emergencies such as earthquakes and hurricanes cause massive damage to lives and property. Crisis response is an essential task to mitigate the impact of a crisis. An effective response to a crisis necessitates information gathering and analysis.

Member Discounts: Learn About Risk Management

Section officers can spread the word that IEEE offers a FREE online course especially designed for entrepreneurs and independent consultants. The course, called IEEE Risk Management for Engineers, examines the risk-management process including defining and measuring risk, exposure identification and risk analysis, risk responses, risk mitigation, and the value of contracts and professional liability insurance. Learn more and/or take the risk-management course

IEEE Meetings, Conferences & Events (MCE) Conference Education Program Webinars

Marketing your conference, global hotel partnership program

The IEEE Meetings, Conferences & Events (MCE) Conference Education Program is offering the following upcoming webinars: Marketing Your Conference: Better Event E-mail Invites in 7 Easy Steps

Date: Thursday, 21 May 2015
Time: 10:00 a.m. ET
Description: A great event needs great marketing to get the word out, build excitement, and ultimately drive registrations.

IEEE Member Discounts Benefit Everyone

Here are three facts to tell members about the IEEE Member Discounts Program:

Discounted products and services and insurance are not just in the US anymore.
IEEE members can buy at better rates than the public any day, not just when there is a sale.
When you get benefits from Member Discounts, they are yours even when you change jobs.

In addition, when IEEE members participate in Member Discounts, IEEE earns royalties.

IEEE-USA Offers Free e-Books to Members in April and May

As a special benefit to IEEE members for the month of May, IEEE-USA will offer "Doing Innovation – Book 4: What It Takes To Be an Innovator" -- by Gerard H. “Gus” Gaynor. This e-book focuses on a critical element of innovation -- the Innovator. What do innovators bring to an organization? What characteristics and attitudes do they display?

SPS TC Job Marketplace

Now IEEE SPS has built a streamlined mechanism for employers to add a job announcement by simply filling in a simple job opportunity submission Web form at the related TC section pages. To submit job announcements for a particular Technical Committee, the submission form can be found by visiting the page below and clicking on a particular TC. A link for the form can be found in the sidebar menu of the TC pages.

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