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IEEE-HKN President Letter
and Purdue North West University into our global
HKN family!
We received fantastic member engagement in our
conference programs. The HKN Tech-X conference
received participation from 30 countries, with nearly
300 participants. Similarly, the Pathways to Industry
conference received 500 participants globally. I deeply
appreciate and thank our speakers, organizing teams,
and sponsors from industry and academia for investing
in and supporting our conferences.
I'm thrilled to announce the HKN eminent membership
elevation to Dr. Sandra Magnus, Ming Hsieh, and Dr.
Frank Chang. Congrats to them on this global honor,
which is the highest member grade elevation in HKN.
This is an outstanding achievement, and it's a reflection
of their excellent leadership and significant contributions
to the engineering field. I thank the eminent member
recognition committee for their excellent work this year.
Our awards committee did a great job this year. We
are proud to recognize the 2023 HKN award winners
for their outstanding achievements. Please join me in
congratulating the 2023 HKN eminent members and
the 2023 HKN award winners.
I'm happy to share that the IEEE-HKN THE BRIDGE
has won the 2023 APEX Grand Award for Publication
Excellence in Electronic Media for the October 2022
" Engineering Space Exploration " issue. This global honor
reflects the outstanding contributions and leadership
of our editorial team and HKN staff team in delivering
high-quality content.
Finally, I invite you all to join us at the flagship Student
Leadership Conference (SLC) scheduled between
November 3rd and 5th, 2023 in Houston, Texas. Also, I
request that all chapters actively participate in the 2023
HKN election to select future leaders of the HKN Board
of Governors. I look forward to hearing about the HKN
Founder's Day activities planned by your chapters.
As your 2023 HKN president, I'm here to serve
our members and chapters. Together as a team,
I'm confident in building a vibrant life-long global
community that will inspire, connect, and engage IEEEHKN
members to advance technology for the benefit
of humanity and deliver an inclusive and prosperous
future for everyone.
I appreciate and thank all the HKN volunteers, chapter
leaders, advisors, alumni, and our staff team for
enabling us to deliver a strong bar-raising performance
this year. Please contact us for any support.
Wishing you all the best!
Sincerely,
THE BRIDGE is recognized by APEX
for the 10th year in a row
IEEE-HKN is pleased to announce it has received an APEX Award for Publication Excellence
2023. THE BRIDGE, October 2022, has won a Grand Award in the Electronic Media category
for the issue " Engineering Space Exploration " https://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ieee/bridge_
issue3_2022/ and an Award for Excellence in the category Websites: WordPress Sites for our
website, www.hkn.org. To see the list of all winners, go to: https://apexawards.com/winners-2023
This is the 10th consecutive year IEEE-HKN and THE BRIDGE has been recognized with an APEX
Award. Congratulations to Editors-in-Chief Steve Watkins and Sahra Sedigh Sarvestani for THE
BRIDGE and to Katie Brinker and Jason Hui for their work on the IEEE-HKN website redesign.
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