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Partner Spotlight
Texas Instruments' Mark Easley Jr.
shows off the two products students
built as part of hands-on workshops.
Texas Instruments and IEEE-HKN Workshops
Engage with Remote Engineering Students
By Mark Easley Jr., University Program Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments
The world changed in the first months of
2020 as news of the global COVID-19
pandemic spread to all corners of the world.
Fear and uncertainty rocked all aspects
of life. Fundamental questions of how
will everyone go to work or school safely,
what equipment and provisions would be
required to endure the global crisis were
being asked, but answers were not easy to
find. These challenges in industry required
rapid change to remote work to keep
operations running, but also to maintain the
foundations and systems for future growth
when the crisis is overcome.
Texas Instruments (TI) has a long tradition of
student engagement through live workshops and
technology lectures. This specialized engagement is
a key facet to the TI University Program, contributing
to stronger engineering student experiences that
benefit customers when students enter industry,
as well as future TI employees.
Through a partnership with IEEE-HKN, TI worked
quickly to establish opportunities for students who
were affected across the board with how and where
they study. The collaboration centered around the
delivery of virtual workshops, and took advantage of
a variety of logistics that would enable personalized
technical content at any location the student resides.
Delivering the workshop with electronics hardware
and collaboration technology is one thing, but
developing engaging content that would interest
students in a remote context is another difficult task.
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