{"id":56176,"date":"2017-05-15T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=56176"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:46:20","slug":"bu-ece-honor-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2017\/05\/15\/bu-ece-honor-society\/","title":{"rendered":"BU ECE Honor Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56208\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/eng\/files\/2022\/09\/groupnarrowbanner-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"group photo of 2017 ECE Honor Society \" width=\"800\" height=\"282\" class=\"wp-image-56208\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ECE students honored at the 2017 IEEE HKN Induction Award Ceremony on April 13, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Amy Pollard (GRS \u201919)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) announces the reinstatement of the Kappa Sigma chapter of international honor society IEEE-HKN. Kappa Sigma demonstrates ECE students\u2019 high level of achievement and affirms ECE\u2019s commitment to student success.<\/p>\n<p>ECE gains access to a large network of industry leaders and potential employers for students through this chapter, which is advised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/min-chang-lee\/\">Professor Min-Chang Lee<\/a>. IEEE-HKN has 250 chapters with approximately 100,000 members worldwide and offers educational resources and opportunities that can enhance the ECE department\u2019s visibility, including an annual Student Leadership Conference. This year\u2019s conference was held at Purdue University and was sponsored by General Motors, Northrop Grumman, Orbital ATK and EPICS in IEEE.<\/p>\n<p>Kappa Sigma offers student members a wide range of professional opportunities. In addition to the Student Leadership Conference, student members gain access to seminars by established engineers and scientists, networking socials and prestigious scholarships and awards. They are awarded certificates of membership and a free two-year subscription to IEEE-HKN\u2019s The Bridge digital magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The BU ECE honor society was launched in 2001 by Professor Lee as BU HKN. The reinstatement of the society in 2016 was again initiated by Professor Lee and entitled Kappa Sigma. This year, 24 ECE students were inducted. The students were selected based on academic achievement.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations to the 2017\u00a0IEEE-HKN inductees!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Barton (EE),\u00a0Artem Bidnichenko (EE),\u00a0Alex Bleda (EE),\u00a0Nicholas Boukis (CE),\u00a0Zachary Chapasko (CE),\u00a0Jacob Dansey (CE),\u00a0Michael Ethier (EE),\u00a0Tess Gauthier (EE),\u00a0Makenna Hart (EE),\u00a0Cole Johnson (CE),\u00a0Caroline Jones (CE),\u00a0Kevin Kasper (EE),\u00a0Joshua Klein (CE),\u00a0Zachary Lasiuk (EE),\u00a0Katie Lewis,\u00a0Cryil Saade (CE),\u00a0Panagis Samolis (EE),\u00a0Gregory Starr (EE),\u00a0Anna Stuhlmacher (EE),\u00a0Athanasios Tsiligkaridis (EE),\u00a0Inna Turshudzhyan (CE),\u00a0Ami Vyas (EE),\u00a0Ethan Wayda (CE), &amp;\u00a0Zhechen Xu (EE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amy Pollard (GRS \u201919) The Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) announces the reinstatement of the Kappa Sigma chapter of international honor society IEEE-HKN. Kappa Sigma demonstrates ECE students\u2019 high level of achievement and affirms ECE\u2019s commitment to student success. ECE gains access to a large network of industry leaders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,907],"tags":[260,262,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127378,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions\/127378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}