Rochester Section May 2025 Newsletter

Poster Session Winners Eli Powell & Karla Van Aardt

Revised: Report on the Joint Chapters Meeting, the Engineering Symposium, and recent awards.

Image to the left: Poster Session Winners Eli Powell & Karla Van Aardt

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Newsletter submitted by: Mark Schrader on 04/14/2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early Registration for the 2025 Rochester JCM Ends Soon!

The IEEE Rochester NY Section Joint Chapter Meeting is Tuesday, March 25th, from 4 to 9 PM at the RIT Inn and Conference Center.

Don’t miss this excellent opportunity to meet and network with people from all engineering disciplines and learn more about the activities of the different IEEE Society Chapters in the Rochester area.

Keynote Speaker: John Hamer
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, OLED Works
MTT/AP Speaker: Subbaiah Pemmaiah
Director of Technical Solutions,
Copper Mountain Technologies
Signal Processing Speaker: Flip Phillips
Professor, School of Film and Animation,
RIT
AES/COM Speaker: Nirmala Shenoy
Professor, School of Information,
RIT
Raffaella Borasi
C/CIS Speaker: Raffaella Borasi
Frederica Warner Professor, Director Center for Learning in the Digital Age,
University of Rochester

The IEEE Rochester Joint Chapters Meeting (JCM) features:

  • 4 technical presentations from IEEE Society Chapters (in 2 parallel tracks)
    • 1-A) MTT/AP: Subbaiah Pemmaiah (Copper Mountain), “Capabilities of a Vector Network Analyzer”
    • 1-B) SP: Flip Phillips (RIT), “AI in Motion Picture Production: Tomorrows Cameras”
    • 2-C) AES/COM: Nirmala Shenoy (RIT), “Rethinking the Internet”
    • 2-D) C/CIS: Rafaella Borasi (U of R), “How may AI Transform Education?
  • A Student poster session with Best Grad and Best Undergrad Poster prizes!!!
    • 1st Place = $200
    • 2nd Place = $100
  • Professional networking with crudités and a cash bar,
  • An “ALL-AMERICAN BUFFET” dinner featuring Roasted Salmon, Chicken French, Grilled Vegetable Napoleon (vegan), and more.
  • Keynote presentation “From Invention to Innovation: The Evolution of OLED Technology and OLEDWorks” by Dr. John Hamer, Co-founder and CEO of OLED Works.

Registration is required!

Register by March 7th and save up to 33%!

For more information, visit the 2025 Rochester JCM vTools Event page.

Rochester Section March 2025 Newsletter

IEEE

This month is about the Joint Chapters Meeting, which includes technical talks, a networking reception, student posters, a banquet with a keynote speaker.

Image to the left: IEEE

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Newsletter submitted by: Mark Schrader on 02/17/2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rochester Section February 2025 Newsletter

Awards and Recognition Dinner

Reports about Santosh Kurinec’s trip to Taiwan and photos from the 2024 Awards and Volunteer Appreciation Dinner.

Image to the left: Awards and Recognition Dinner

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Newsletter submitted by: Mark Schrader on 01/18/2025.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rochester Section January 2025 Newsletter

Dr. Ram Dhurjaty R1-2 collaborator

This discusses the collaboration between Region 1-2 and Region 10 on a low cost fully functional defibrillator.

Image to the left: Dr. Ram Dhurjaty R1-2 collaboratorhttps://r1.ieee.org/rochester/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2024/12/Picture2.jpg

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Newsletter submitted by: Mark Schrader on 12/13/2024.

 

 

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Rochester Section October 2024 Newsletter

U of R Student Recruitment

This month: news from the U of R Student Branch, WIE activities in early October, an Eta Kappa Nu inductee, an SSCN Workshop, and the details of the WNYISPW Agenda.

Image to the left: U of R Student Recruitment

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Newsletter submitted by: Mark Schrader on 09/13/2024.