Please join the Columbus Section Executive Committee and meet your fellow section members and guests. Meeting discussion includes administrative business, Technical/Affinity Society current and future events status. Society and Affinity chairs, if you are unable to attend the meeting, please send your section activities updates to Helen Winfrey [email protected] Student chapters are welcome to attend and network with the section members and officers. Co-sponsored by: [email protected] Agenda: Agenda: Virtual ExCom Meeting 6:00 Welcome/Call Meeting to Order 6:15 Secretary’s Report: Approval of ExCom Minute Chair’s Report Vice Chair’s Report Treasurer Report 6:30 Professional, Society, Affinity, and Student Branch Reports 6:45 Old and New Business Discussions 7:30 Adjourn Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/411479

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that enables secure, transparent, and immutable recording of transactions across a network of computers. At its core, a blockchain consists of a chain of blocks, where each block contains a list of transactions. It requires network consensus to ensure validity. Once consensus is met, a block can be added to the ledger as an immutable record of transaction. This rather simple concept has already changed our transactional landscape a great deal since it emerged in popularity. Conceptually, blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt traditional systems, increase efficiency, transparency, and trust, and empower individuals and organizations across various domains. But, how did we get here? How is the history of Blockchain tied to Engineering and Technology? Is Blockchain only significant in the Data sciences and Computer Sciences Industries? Speaker(s): Amber Orr, P.E., SMIEEE Agenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession. For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: (https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/) Thank you to IEEE Blockchain Technical Community for supporting this event! (https://newsletter.smartbrief.com/rest/sign-up/2479DAB0-4089-43E7-925D-86AE0C1E6244?campaign=e0d52cef) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409058

This is a high school engineering expo to introduce students to engineering career opportunities. Volunteer organizations will have tables to provide information on engineering opportunities. IEEE will also have hands-on activities demonstrating magnetic and electric fields. We will also be demonstrating RF techniques with the help of ham radio. We need more students interested in RF Engineering. Co-sponsored by: Highland School System, Medina Ohio Highland High School, 3880 Ridge Rd., Medina, Ohio, United States, 44256

DeVry University Online Student Branch & CompTIA student club Presents “AI Complexity Paradox...and How Practitioners Tame GenAI Unreliability” By: Noble Ackerson Thursday, March 21st 2024 (6:00 pm EST/5:00 pm CST) To Join: Click the following link: https://devry.engageli.com/devry/current/kgo-124-ymd/? In this talk Noble will unpack the hidden costs of bringing Generative AI products to market while sharing solutions for balancing reliability with simplicity. Speaker’s Short Bio: Noble focuses on Applied AI Risk Management, Data ethics, for emergent technologies. He empowers enterprises to implement responsible AI solutions. He has years of expertise in shipping NLP models and developing award-winning mobile and spatial computing applications spanning industries like Health, Edtech, International Development, and Consumer products. Co-sponsored by: CompTIA student club Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/411239

The modern electronic components are rigid, solid, and stiff – a terrible match for soft, squishy, and deformable tissue such as human skin or inner organs such as the brain. The material mismatch results in the conceptual incompatibility of modern electronics with biological tissue. Nanoscale materials, such as graphene and other 2D materials, on the other hand, are unique constructs: in addition to their apparent unobtrusive atomic thickness, they are flexible, transparent, and biocompatible, matching perfectly with biological tissue. Using atomically thin and electrically conductive graphene electronic tattoos (GETs), we developed imperceptible monitoring technologies for measuring blood pressure with an unprecedented accuracy. Unlike other wearables, GETs are lightweight and skin-conformable, eliminating discomfort during long-term monitoring. Recently, we also translated this technology into implantable sensors, demonstrating the sensing and stimulation of the mammalian heart, including treatment of arrhythmia with graphene pacemakers. The arrays show superior electrochemical properties, while the transparency of the graphene structures allows for simultaneous optical mapping of cardiac action potentials and optogenetic stimulation. Additionally, we advanced in creating tissue-integratable bioelectronic systems resembling biological neurons using soft, flexible, and biocompatible artificial synaptic neuromorphic transistors based on graphene and Nafion, boosting superior energy efficiency. Taken together, these breakthroughs on wearable, implantable, and neuromorphic frontiers open up new possibilities for wearable and implantable graphene (and other 2D Materials like MoS2, PtSe2, PtTe2, and others) bioelectronics to transform healthcare. Speaker(s): Prof. Dmitry Kireev Agenda: 6:30 pm Introduction of speaker 6:35 pm Technical presentation Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409274

Mr. John Wadolowski (Hardware Engineering Manager at Tektronix) will deliver a talk about Tektronix and his professional development, at Case Western Reserve University. Room: 349, Bldg: AW Smith, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States