BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230710T181516Z UID:771A2D2A-94CA-43B2-A1AD-E090FEE28949 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T200000 DESCRIPTION:The last decade has witnessed rapid progress in science and tec hnology and several breakthroughs that have resulted in the shifting of th e human-technology frontier. The global pandemic generated a large perturb ation with long term implications in both technological and societal realm s. In this context\, I argue that engineering careers should include not o nly technical fields but also science and technology management and admini stration\, education\, communication\, ethics\, and policy/diplomacy at lo cal\, national\, and international levels. Adopting such a broad viewpoint will open many interesting and highly satisfactory career paths for our c ommunity and may bring personal and professional fulfillment in unexpected ways.\n\nFahmida N Chowdhury\n\nBiography:\n\nDr. Fahmida Chowdhury is a Program Director in the NSF Office of International Science and Engineerin g (OISE). She has served at the National Science Foundation since February 2008. Prior to joining OISE\, she was a Program Director in the Directora te for Social\, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) and ran programs in the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA). Besides her core pr ogram responsibilities\, she has served on Foundation-wide Working Groups for Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)\, the SEES Fellows progra m\, as well as the multi-directorate (and jointly with the National Instit utes of Health) Working Group on Smart and Connected Health (SCH).\n\nBefo re joining NSF in 2008\, she was a Professor of Electrical and Computer En gineering at the University of Louisiana\, Lafayette\, LA\, where she held the W. Hansen Hall and Mary O. Hall Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering . She has also held academic positions at Michigan Technological Universit y\, Southern University (Baton Rouge)\, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Dhaka\, Ba ngladesh).\n\nFahmida was born in Bangladesh. After receiving her Higher S econdary Certificate (equivalent to High School Graduation in the U.S.) fr om Holy Cross College\, Dhaka\, she won a scholarship to study in the Sovi et Union in 1974. She received a combined BSc/MSc degree (with High Honors \, MSc thesis written in Russian) in electromechanical engineering from Mo scow Power Engineering Institute\, Moscow\, Russia\, in 1980. She obtained her PhD in electrical engineering (major: system theory\; minor: mathemat ics)\, from Louisiana State University\, Baton Rouge\, Louisiana in 1988.\ n\nHer research interests include complex systems modeling and analysis\, non-traditional applications of dynamic systems theory\, and detection of abnormal conditions (faults) in dynamic systems. She is interested in robu st system design via active detection and adaptation\, as opposed to simpl e redundancy or other passive techniques\, because passive robustness freq uently results in reduced optimality.\n\nDr. Chowdhury is an Associate Edi tor for the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Trans actions on Artificial Intelligence\, and for the IEEE Transactions on Tech nology and Society. In the past\, she has served as Associate Editor of tw o other IEEE Transactions: on Control Systems Technology and on Neural Net works\, as well as the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Co mputer Science. She has served as elected member of the IEEE Control Syste m Society's Board of Governors\, and the IEEE Computational Intelligence S ociety's AdCOM. She is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).\n\nIn addition to her techni cal interests and contributions\, she has worked throughout her career for STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics) workforce devel opment and broadening participation of under-represented groups in STEM fi elds. She was a Fulbright Fellow (2001) and an Embassy Science Fellow (201 3). She has deep interest in science and technology policy for both resear ch and education at national and international levels.\n\nVirtual: https:/ /events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360923 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360923 ORGANIZER:kdixit@ieee.org SEQUENCE:44 SUMMARY:Careers at the Rapidly Shifting Human-Technology Frontier By Dr. Fa hmida N. Choudhary URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/360923 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The last decade has witnessed rapid progre ss in science and technology and several breakthroughs that have resulted in the shifting of the human-technology frontier. The global pandemic gene rated a large perturbation with long term implications in both technologic al and societal realms. In this context\, I argue that engineering careers should include not only technical fields but also science and technology management and administration\, education\, communication\, ethics\, and p olicy/diplomacy at local\, national\, and international levels. Adopting s uch a broad viewpoint will open many interesting and highly satisfactory c areer paths for our community and may bring personal and professional fulf illment in unexpected ways.</p>\n<p><strong>Fahmida&nbsp\;N&nbsp\;Chowdhur y</strong><br /><br /></p>\n<p><strong>Biography:</strong><br /><br /></p> \n<p>Dr. Fahmida Chowdhury is a Program Director in the NSF Office of Inte rnational Science and Engineering (OISE). She has served at the National S cience Foundation since February 2008. Prior to joining OISE\, she was a P rogram Director in the Directorate for Social\, Behavioral and Economic Sc iences (SBE) and ran programs in the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activ ities (SMA). Besides her core program responsibilities\, she has served on Foundation-wide Working Groups for Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)\, the SEES Fellows program\, as well as the multi-directorate (and jointly with the National Institutes of Health) Working Group on Smart and Connected Health (SCH).</p>\n<p>Before joining NSF in 2008\, she was a Pr ofessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisi ana\, Lafayette\, LA\, where she held the W. Hansen Hall and Mary O. Hall Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering. She has also held academic position s at Michigan Technological University\, Southern University (Baton Rouge) \, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) and Bangladesh University of E ngineering and Technology (Dhaka\, Bangladesh).</p>\n<p>Fahmida was born i n Bangladesh. After receiving her Higher Secondary Certificate (equivalent to High School Graduation in the U.S.) from Holy Cross College\, Dhaka\, she won a scholarship to study in the Soviet Union in 1974. She received a combined BSc/MSc degree (with High Honors\, MSc thesis written in Russian ) in electromechanical engineering from Moscow Power Engineering Institute \, Moscow\, Russia\, in 1980. She obtained her PhD in electrical engineeri ng (major: system theory\; minor: mathematics)\, from Louisiana State Univ ersity\, Baton Rouge\, Louisiana in 1988.</p>\n<p>Her research interests i nclude complex systems modeling and analysis\, non-traditional application s of dynamic systems theory\, and detection of abnormal conditions (faults ) in dynamic systems. She is interested in robust system design via active detection and adaptation\, as opposed to simple redundancy or other passi ve techniques\, because passive robustness frequently results in reduced o ptimality.</p>\n<p>Dr. Chowdhury is an Associate Editor for the IEEE (Inst itute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Artificial Intelligence\, and for the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. In the past\, she has served as Associate Editor of two other IEEE Transacti ons: on Control Systems Technology and on Neural Networks\, as well as the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. She ha s served as elected member of the IEEE Control System Society's Board of G overnors\, and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's AdCOM. She is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Social Implication s of Technology (SSIT).</p>\n<p>In addition to her technical interests and contributions\, she has worked throughout her career for STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics) workforce development and broade ning participation of under-represented groups in STEM fields. She was a F ulbright Fellow (2001) and an Embassy Science Fellow (2013). She has deep interest in science and technology policy for both research and education at national and international levels.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR