News Category: Students

Celebrating Students & Young Professionals this IEEE Foundation Day
The IEEE Foundation’s work is profound: to expand the IEEE charitable body of work by inspiring philanthropic engagement that ignites a donor’s innermost interests and values. This year on 16…

Building Relationships for Professional Success
Building productive business relationships is often a key to professional success, but many students and young professionals need guidance to develop these crucial skills. To facilitate the ability of these…

Direct Philanthropy and Scholarships: A Virtuous Cycle
By John D. McDonaldIEEE Foundation Vice President for Development, IEEE Life Fellow,Member National Academy of Engineering, CIGRE Honorary Member,Founder/CEO, JDM Associates, LLC, Duluth, GA, USA As an IEEE Foundation Director…

Students Demonstrate Their Ingenuity
IEEE Foundation Supports the Brown Bag Competition at the 2024 IEEE Region 1 and 2 Joint Student Activities Conference On 6 April, Regions 1 and 2 jointly held their annual…

New IEEE-HKN Chapter Leverages Support Grant to Get Established
The Nu Theta Chapter of Purdue University Northwest wasted no time in taking advantage of all the support IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), IEEE’s honor society, provides to help Chapters…

EPICS in IEEE Celebrates 15 Years of Impact
Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University, the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology solutions to improve and deliver services to…

Students Showcase Impact during 2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference
By: Eileen R. Heltzer, CFRE; Senior Development Officer, IEEE Foundation The 2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference was 5-7 January in Las Vegas, NV, USA at the Tropicana Hotel. A record…

Fueling the Next Generation of Power & Energy Engineers
Eighty-two students from 58 universities across USA and Canada were selected by the IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative (PES S+ ) as the 2023-24 class IEEE PES Scholars. PES S+…