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Chapter News
New Asad, Gowhartaj, and Jamal Madni Family
Scholarship Announced
Thanks to the generosity of the Madni family, a newlyestablished
scholarship will help support three qualified
undergraduate student recipients and up to two qualified
graduate student recipients pursuing a degree in the fields
represented by IEEE-HKN, from an active IEEE-HKN Chapter.
The scholarship is another manifestation of the Madni family's
commitment to education having already established a
scholarship at UCLA. Asad Madni is an Eminent Member
of HKN and winner of the Vladimir Karapetoff Outstanding
Technical Achievement Award in recognition of his illustrious
career as the President of BEI Technologies where he led the
development and commercialization of intelligent sensors,
systems and instrumentation including the control system for
the Hubble Space Telescope's Star Selector.
To qualify for the Madni Scholarship, a student must be a U.S.
citizen enrolled as a full-time student in electrical engineering
or related fields at an accredited U.S. university or college.
Further qualifications include being an inducted member of
IEEE-HKN having completed
his or her third year in an
IEEE-HKN field of interest.
The award will be $1,000
per student to cover school
expenses such as tuition,
books, and fees.
The scholarship will be
launched at the upcoming
Student Leadership
Conference. Applications will
be accepted from December
until April 1. Recipients will
be announced by July 30,
2024. The annual selection of
scholarship recipients will be administered by IEEE-HKN.
We are grateful for this gift that will help so many students!
Twenty-three Professional Members Inducted
at IEEE Sections Congress
On 12 August 2023, in front of nearly 100 guests and attendees, 23 newly-inducted IEEE-HKN Eta Chapter
Professional Members promised to uphold the tenets of HKN, Scholarship, Character, and Attitude at a special
ceremony held in Ottawa, Canada, as part of IEEE Sections Congress 2023. The energy was palpable as each new
member was called up to be recognized and sign the membership book. The following outstanding members were
nominated by their peers in recognition of their contributions to the electrical and electronic engineering fields:
Abdullateef Aliyu
Ravikiran Annaswamy
Esteban Arias-Mendez
Brandy Armstrong
Barbara Bancroft
Robert Becnel
Marc Beebe
Fawzi Behmann
Hadi Kanaan
Constance Kelly
Luis Kun
Srikanth Chandrasekaran
Filomena Citarella
Samarth Deo
Sheikh Anowarul Fattah
Maira Marques Samary
Dennis Michaelson
Peter Nagy
Glenn Parsons
Jeewika Ranaweera
Jawed Siddiqui
Christopher Udeagha
Ahmed Yousef
Seven Professional Member inductions have been held so
far this year, inducting over 60 new HKN members into
the Eta Chapter of the IEEE-HKN Board of Governors, with
two additional ceremonies planned for 2023, including
one at the November IEEE Meeting Series in Washington,
D.C. Professional members play a key role as volunteers
on committees, mentoring students, and speaking at HKN
events. Congratulations to all!
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