This article discusses the significance of incorporating global challenges, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), into STEM education and its positive influence on creativity, innovation, and 21st century skill development for K–12 students. Through the IEEE STEAM for Social Good program, we motivated students from diverse backgrounds to start … [Read more...] about Experiential learning in K–12 schools through social innovation projects [STEM Education]
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IEEE Puzzlers—Behind the award-winning brainteaser community
IEEE Puzzlers is an online community within IEEE that offers challenging mathematical brainteasers to engage and inspire researchers, engineers, and other professionals. The community aims to develop critical thinking, foster creativity, and strengthen the sense of community among IEEE members. Activities include puzzle creation, solving events, and competitions, with badges … [Read more...] about IEEE Puzzlers—Behind the award-winning brainteaser community
Reshaping engineered clinical decision support systems
The continuous innovation and development of sensing technologies, image processing techniques, and deep learning frameworks have caught the attention of many researchers, who are developing cutting-edge systems for medical applications. This article talks about the recent usage of camera-based biomedical signal processing and the basic concepts you should understand or … [Read more...] about Reshaping engineered clinical decision support systems
Digital transformation, Industry 4.0, and extended reality
Digital transformation has been a very popular topic in the last decade. Every major technology provider and consultancy firm worldwide has its definition for it; however, for many, it has become a buzzword that has been used and abused to sell every possible service or gadget, without helping companies build a clear path for successful adoption that will turn the new … [Read more...] about Digital transformation, Industry 4.0, and extended reality
Network as a service: A new vista of opportunities
The networking industry, compared to the computer industry, has been slow in evolving from a closed ecosystem with limited abstractions to a more open ecosystem with well-defined, sophisticated, high-level abstractions. This has resulted in an ossified Internet architecture that inhibits innovation and is unnecessarily complex. Fortunately, there has been an exciting flux of … [Read more...] about Network as a service: A new vista of opportunities