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Sail to Alaska with IEEE-USA! IEEE-USA's cruising saga continues in 2024 to the magnificent, wild Alaskan frontier. Building off of the success of IEEE-USA’s 50th Anniversary Cruise, IEEE-USA will be hosting a 7-night Alaska Cruise 9-16 September 2024. We’ll be cruising in style aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas from Seattle to stops in Sitka, Skagway, Juneau, and Victoria, BC, before concluding our cruise back in Seattle. Please remember that to participate in the IEEE-USA Alaska Cruise activities, you must book through the (https://cruise.ieeeusa.org). Details: (https://cruise.ieeeusa.org/) Bldg: Smith Cove Cruise Terminal at Pier 91, Port of Seattle, 2001 West Garfield Street, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98119

You are cordially invited to attend SMTA Boston chapter, IEEE Boston Reliability, iMAPS NE, joint evening meeting/Facility Tours on Tuesday, Sept 10, 2024 at Nano Dimension, Waltham, MA. Topic 1: Advantages of Solder Jetting in Modern SMT Presented by: Eric Wolf - Application Engineer - Nano Dimension Topic 2: Additive Manufacturing Presented by: Dr. Ryan Bahr – Electronic Additive Mfg Manager - Nano Dimension Date: Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024 Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Location: Nano Dimension 300 5th Ave Suite 1010 Waltham, MA 02451 Dinner Cost: Pre-registered: $25 Members (SMTA, IEEE, iMAPS) $30 Non-Members $10 Retirees & Students Walkins: $35 iMAPS and IEEE Members: Please contact Joe Kwong at [email protected] [email protected] to obtain a promotion code to use for member discount pricing. Attendees must be 18+ years of age, unless pre-approved. Co-sponsored by: SMTA -Boston Chapter, iMAPS NE Speaker(s): Eric Wolf, Dr. Ryan Bahr Agenda: Agenda: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Registration, DragonFly and Fox Tour, Networking/Dinner 6:30 PM – 6:45 PM Greetings, Announcements 6:45 PM – 7:00 PM Host Introduction – Nano Dimension 7:00 PM – 7:05 PM Speaker Intro 7:05 PM – 7:35 PM Technical Presentation 1 7:35 PM – 7:45 PM Q&A / coffee 7:45 PM – 7:50 PM Speaker Intro 7:50 PM – 8:20 PM Technical Presentation 2 8:20 PM – 8:30 PM Q&A 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM Closing Announcements, Tours, and Networking 9:00 PM Adjourn Room: Suite 1010, Nano Dimension, 300 5th Ave, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States, 02451

Prof Andrew McStay (Bangor University, UK) will present “Automating Empathy in Human-AI Partnerships: Issues, Ethics and Governance” at 6pm (UTC+1) / 1pm EDT on 10 September ’24. Click (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=IEEE+SSIT+Lecture%3A+Automating+Empathy+in+Human-AI+Partnerships%3A+Issues%2C+Ethics+and+Governance&iso=20240910T18&p1=78&ah=1). (https://www.ieee-ukandireland.org/chapters/society-on-social-implications-of-technology/) and SSIT IST-Africa SIGHT are cooperating with a number of IEEE OUs including: North Jersey Section SSIT Chapter; Northern Virginia/Baltimore/Washington SSIT Chapter; Bahrain Section SSIT Chapter; Vancouver Section Jt. Chapter,TEM14/PC26/E25/SIT30; New Jersey Coast Section SIGHT; New Jersey Coast Section Jt. IM/Computer Society Chapter; Southeastern Michigan Section Computer Chapter; North Jersey Section: TEMS Chapter, Computer Chapter, Jt APS/MTT Chapter, WIE AG and SIGHT; (https://www.ieee-ukandireland.org/chapters/computer-society/); Columbia Section, Columbia Section Life Member Affinity Group; Long Island SSIT Chapter and Systems Council Chapter, Phoenix Computer Society Chapter, Maine Section Joint ComSoc/Computer Society Chapter and Chicago Section Computer Society Chapter to organise this SSIT Lecture as a joint Webinar on 10 September ’24. Registration IEEE and SSIT Members as well as non-IEEE Members are invited to (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/415613) and participate. IEEE Members should include their IEEE Membership Number when registering. Access to online Meeting (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/415613) will be provided with the link prior to the event. Guest Lecture Focus This lecture considers General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) products marketed as ‘empathic partners’, ‘personal AI’, ‘co-pilots’, ‘assistants’, and related phrasing for ‘human-AI partnering’. Open AI, Inflection, Google, Microsoft, and others, all promise empathic capacities. Current and nascent domains of use include work, therapy, education, life coaching, legal problems, fitness, and entertainment. The lecture focuses on the risks and opportunities of empathic human-AI partnering, what new governance (if any) is required, and the role that soft law standards may play in leading in supporting hard law. To explore empathic human-AI partnering, the lecture will initially provide historical context to these technologies, case examples, and a sense of current governance for technologies used to empathise. With this understanding in place, the lecture will progress to consider need to contrast upstream and downstream understandings of GPAI, complexities of this separation for governance, balancing of short and long-term risks, social and ethical questions unique to empathic human-AI partnering, issues of global cultural variation regarding empathic human-AI partnering, balancing of interests of ethical diversity and unity in creation of soft law and standards, and lessons that can be learned from existing and nascent P7000 standards. Speaker(s): Prof. Andrew McStay, Agenda: 18:00 (UTC+1) / 13:00 (EDT) Welcome and Introduction to Guest Speaker 18:05 Lecture 18:45 Questions and Discussions Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/415613

Abstract: The transportation industry is facing challenges in terms of improving emissions and fuel economy, and at the same time reducing the overall cost. The trend is towards replacing mechanical and pneumatic systems with electrical systems, thus transitioning toward “more electric” architectures and electric/hybrid propulsion systems. To meet these challenges in the automotive industry, significant work has been done in the areas of electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles. In the case of airplanes, more electric architecture , fuel cell, and hybrid propulsion strategies are the emerging trends. Recently, there is also an increasing interest in flying cars, and Electrical vertical take- off and landing vehicles (eVTOL) to be used as air taxis. Similar strategies have been adopted in Marine propulsion systems also. This presentation examines present trends and advancements in electric/hybrid vehicles, electric and hybrid aircrafts, hydrogen- based systems, and flying cars/VTOL vehicles. In addition, recent trends in the enabling technologies, power electronics and electric motors, for the advancement of the electrified transportation will be briefly presented. Bio: Kaushik Rajashekara (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. In 1989, he joined the Delphi division of General Motors Corporation in Indianapolis, USA, as a Staff Project Engineer. In Delphi and General Motors, he held various lead technical and managerial positions, and was a Technical Fellow and the Chief Scientist for developing propulsion and power electronics systems for electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicle systems. In 2006, he joined Rolls-Royce Corporation, as a Chief Technologist for electric systems for electric and hybrid aircraft systems. In August 2012, he joined as a Distinguished Professor of Engineering with the University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA. Since September 2016, he has been a Distinguished Professor of engineering in University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. He has authored or coauthored over 300 papers in international journals and conferences, has 37 US and 15 foreign patents, and has written one book. He has given over 200 invited presentations in international conferences and universities. He has received a number of awards including the 2022 Global Energy Prize, 2021 IEEE Medal on Environment & Safety Technologies, and 2013 IEEE Richard Harold Kaufmann Award for his contributions to electrification of transportation and renewable energy. He was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2012, , a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015, and an International Fellow of Indian (2013), Chinese (2021), and Japanese (2024) Academies of Engineering. His research interests include power/energy conversion, transportation electrification, renewable energy, and microgrid systems. Webex link and details Webinar topic: Present and future trends in electrification of transportation Date and time: Tuesday, September 10, 2024 6:30 PM | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Join link: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/j.php?MTID=me23e2326f422a2b3529ed9bdfbf37971 Webinar number: 2535 884 7472 Webinar password: mxMZP6X6yd7 (69697696 when dialing from a phone or video system) Join by phone +1-415-655-0002 United States Toll 1-855-282-6330 United States Toll Free Access code: 253 588 47472 Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/431938

Section Activities Agenda: Room: 315, Bldg: AIH, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, Connecticut, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/432127

In-band full-duplex Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems provide an opportunity for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems to realize spectrum-efficient simultaneous information transmission and environmental awareness. This line of research is typically referred to as FD-ISAC. This talk will review the unique characteristics and challenges of mono-static FD-ISAC, show simulation results (considering 6G Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms), and outline several directions of future research. Co-sponsored by: Ali Daneshmand Speaker(s): Besma, Agenda: Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/428288