The Bridge - Issue 3, 2020 - Cover3

In Memoriam

IEEE Members: You can download Critical Thinking
Skills for Engineers-Book 3: On Creativity for free.
Nonmembers pay $4.99.
Go to: https://ieeeusa.org/shop/careers/careerresources/critical-thinkingfor-engineers-book-3-oncreativity/;
Log in to your IEEE Web
Account; add the book to
your cart-and checkout!
Ramanathan is planning
one more volume in this
e-series on critical thinking
for engineers. The next
one will be about problem
solving. Take advantage of all IEEE-USA e-books now
being free for IEEE members -and collect all five in the
series for your professional resource library. You can
find all of the first four books now at https://ieeeusa.
org.shop.
Sridhar Ramanathan has 30 years of experience in
technology companies, ranging from startups to bluechip firms. As managing director and co-founder of
Aventi Group, he has been instrumental in leading
many high-tech organizations through high-growth
phases.
All IEEE-USA E-Books and Audio Books are Now
Free to Members!
IEEE Members - Visit IEEE-USA E-BOOKS and IEEEUSA Audio Books today, and download all the e-books
and audio books you want-for free! Go to:
https://ieeeusa.org.shop and https://ieeeusa.org/shop/
audiobooks/.
Choose from many great titles-new and old-to
enhance your career skills and upgrade your personal
career reference library.
Georgia C. Stelluto is IEEE-USA's Publishing Manager;
Manager/Editor of IEEE-USA E-BOOKS; InFocus Department
Editor for IEEE-USA InSight; and Co-Editor of the IEEE-USA
Conference Brief.

In Memory:
Irving Engelson, HKN Board
Member 1988-1990
As reported in The Institute
* Served as Former managing
director of IEEE Corporate and
Technical Activities
* Life Fellow
* Died 21 April at the age of 90

Irving Engelson was an active volunteer. He became a
member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Society almost 40 years ago. He served as chairman
of the society's Strategic Planning Task Force, was
a member of the board of governors, and was vice
president of the long-range planning committee. He
served on the Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Board of Governors
from 1988-1990, before the honor society's merger
with IEEE.
He also was an IEEE employee. He was managing
director of the Corporate Activities and Technical
Activities groups. He also served on the IEEE Board of
Directors, both as division and region director. He was
elected IEEE parliamentarian, and he is the only person
to have held the position of IEEE presidential advisor.
Before working for IEEE, Engelson held senior executive
positions at RCA in Camden, N.J. He also was an
electrical engineering professor at the University of
Nebraska, in Lincoln and the New Jersey Institute of
Technology, in Newark. He was a National Science
Foundation faculty research Fellow at the Princeton
Neuropsychiatric Institute, in New Jersey.
Engelson received a bachelor's degree in electrical
engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn,
now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He earned
a master's degree in EE from Rutgers University in
New Brunswick, N.J., and a Ph.D. in EE from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts.

HKN.ORG

The Bridge - Issue 3, 2020

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The Bridge - Issue 3, 2020