The IEC Brief: March 19, 2021
iMasons Sponsored HBCU/HSI Capstone Design Projects
Hampton University engineering and architecture students are wrapping up a yearlong capstone design project that was sponsored by an association of people in the digital infrastructure industry called Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) – “the builders of the digital age.” 

The student final presentations to a panel of iMasons executives, with an audience of iMasons members, will be held over Zoom on April 14 at 11:00 and 12:30 EDT. IEC members are invited to observe.

To join contact Claire Seifert at cseifert@ecedha.org.

For more information about the program please visit:

With the success of this pilot program, iMasons is poised to sponsor similar projects at other IEC member institutions next year. Please join us for the third workshop on April 15 at 12pm ET to learn how iMasons can support your university.
Register for the Anti-Racism Practice in Engineering Session
Introduction to Anti-Racism Practice in Engineering (An Overview)
Delia Saenz
Chief Diversity Officer for The College
Arizona State University
We invite you to a session that provides an overview of training to enhance equity and inclusion in STEM. The session will include an introduction to an NSF-funded capacity-building workshop for STEM constituents that will be made available to ACEDHA members in April and will also include a reporting out by a panel of academic and industry engineers who participated in the training last month. Come learn about the broader framework being utilized, which incorporates an Anti-Racist lens, and the upcoming workshop that will incorporate includes skill-building exercises.

Introduction to Anti-Racism Practice in Engineering (An Overview)
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
1pm – 2:30pm CT
This session is open to everyone
Part of the ECEDHA Summit Series

Digital Systems Working Group Meeting
Committed to collaborating as members of the IEC Virtual Department
John Kelly 
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University

Vice President
IEC Board
The first Digital Systems meeting was held on February 26th. A dozen IEC colleagues had a great exchange of ideas, helped one another begin building a solid working group and are looking forward to our next meeting on Friday, March 26th at 12pm ET/11am CT

To sign up for this working group and participate in the next meeting, please email Claire Seifert, cseifert@iec.org


Planned Activities: 
We will hold regular meetings to accomplish the following:

  1. Build Community: Learn what each other is doing, develop relationships
  2. Develop Tools: Create solutions that meet the needs of our departments
  3. Learn: Discover or modify existing tools, techniques
  4. Share: Publish the results of our work to benefit the community

IEC Working Groups and Committees
Join a *NEW* IEC Working Group or Committee
Interested in getting more involved? please email Claire Seifert at cseifert@iec.org to join or learn more about any of our working groups and committees below:
  • Communications Working Group
  • Branding Working Group
  • Industry Working Group
  • Membership Committee
  • Strategic Planning Committee
  • Women in ECE Committee
  • Community of Practice Working Group
  • Electromagnetics
  • Digital Systems (see above)
  • Circuit Analysis
  • Communications and Networking
If you would like more information on any of these programs or have topic suggestions for future Briefs, Newsletters, or Emails, please let us know at info@iec.org
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